As Torrents in Summer – Words and Music for a Summer’s Afternoon
A Concert on Sunday afternoon, 8th July, at 3.30pm, with The Elgar Chorale in St. James Church, Chipping Campden.

In aid of two local charities, Campden Edge and Campden Home Nursing together with The Elgar Chorale, the concert will consist of music from the 19th and 20th centuries, with readings from the same period.
Ranging from Parry to Copland and verse from Lewis Carroll to Matt Harvey, there is something for everyone. Something old and something new, (even something blue!). There will be different genres, such as spirituals and English choral music from the last 150 years. From Shakespearean songs set to music by Hubert Parry to American spirituals handed down through the generations, . There be some old favourites such and The Pink Panther and Moon River. The music will be interspersed with readings both light and slightly more thought provoking by writers such as Lewis Carroll and Walt Whitman. Please see the programme below.
Entry to the concert is FREE and there will be a retiring collection in aid of Campden Edge, Campden Home Nursing and The Elgar Chorale.
As Torrents in Summer
Music and words for a Summer’s Afternoon
Three Shakespeare Songs C.H.H. Parry (1848–1918)arr. Piers Maxim
Spring Song – It was a lover and his lass
Willow, willow, willow
Blow, blow thou winter wind
Reading
The white Fury of the Spring Lizette Woodworth Reese (1856-1935)
Summer Night Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
Four American Songs Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Boatmen’s Dance
Simple Gifts
At the River
Ching-a-ring-chaw
Reading
I hear America Singing Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
The More Loving One W.H. Auden (1907–1973)
Two Part Songs Elgar (1857-1934)
My love dwelt in a northern land
As torrents in summer
Reading
Adlestrop Edward Thomas (1878-1917)
The Road Not Taken Robert Frost (!878-1917)
Three American Spirituals (arr. P. Maxim)
Wade in the Water
Steal Away
Go down Moses
Reading
Little Orphant Annie James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)
A Thunderstorm in Town Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
Songs of Farewell C.H.H. Parry
My soul, there is a country
I know my soul hath power
Never weather-beaten sail
There is an old belief
Reading
She said to him Matt Harvey (?)
You are old, father William Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
Three Letters to the Editor Compiled by TW
They are at rest Elgar
The Blue Bird C.V. Stanford (1852-1924)