Concert A CHORAL TAPESTRY for Norham Parish Church

3:00pm, Sun, 11 Oct 2026

  • Event Details
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  • Type of event: CONCERT - CHOIR
    Start time: 3:00pm
    Duration: 90 mins
    Venue: St Cuthbert's Parish Church, Norham, Berwick-upon-Tweed TD15 2LF
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    Ticket pricing/options: Donations in Support of Norham Church's Concert and Charities Fund
    Description: Picture, if you will, a large wall-hung tapestry consisting of various pictured scenes - working weavers and a blacksmith, a wide river, the countryside and a country fair. The pictures are surrounded by multi-coloured patterns of flowers, birds, and vegetation.
                Our Choral Tapestry this afternoon paints those pictures in music - mainly the stories told in folksong or by Rabbie Burns and Billy Joel, alongside the patterned surrounds in threads and patches of many colours - gold & silver, blue, black & yellow, lilac & red. 
                A feast for the eyes becomes one for the ears. Then we add words, written especially for this programme by our resident poet Arthur.
    We hope you enjoy the concert.  

    A CHORAL TAPESTRY

    PART ONE
    • ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL [2026 Andante Commission] by Karin Scott
    • THE GALLANT WEAVER (1997) by James MacMillan
    • THE SILVER SWAN (1612) by Orlando Gibbons
    • Poem THE OLD WOMAN and the SWAN
    • BUSHES & BRIARS (1908) by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    • BRIGG FAIR (1905) arranged by Percy Grainger
    • Poem THE FLODDEN RIDEOUT
    • THE SONG OF THE BLACKSMITH (1917) arranged by Gustav Holst
    INTERVAL 

    PART TWO
    • THE BLUE BIRD (1910) by Charles Villiers Stanford
    • SHENANDOAH (2012) arranged by Thomas Hewitt Jones
    • LULLABYE [Goodnight, My Angel] (1993) by Billy Joel arranged by Kirby Shaw
    • Poem LULLABY
    • WE'LL GATHER LILACS (1945) by Ivor Novello arranged by Geoffrey Emerson
    • GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD (1973) by Elton John / Bernie Taupin arranged by Wendy Sergeant
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