Halesworth Community Choir
with Crossing
The Border
led by Janet Koralambe
Notes From The Land
The Choir invites you to an evening of
music and poetry, exploring our
relationship with nature and the environment
Guest appearance from local storyteller
Stephen Bayfield
Saturday 16th May 2015
Summer 2015 Concert:
Notes From The Land
Welcome to the Halesworth Community Choir Summer concert.
Once again we are joined by Crossing The Border under the musical
direction of Janet Koralambe.
This evening’s concert is inspired by the land, and our relationship
with the natural environment.
Complementing the music will be readings of poetry and prose, on
the same theme, selected by Janet and members of the choir .
The readings will be performed by Eileen Ryan and Robert Walker.
Tonight the choir is pleased to welcome - Stephen Bayfield
Stephen will be making a special guest appearance in part two of the
concert. He will be donating his fee for this evening’s performance to
the charity ‘Suffolk Family Carers’.
Stephen Bayfield, the son of a
gamekeeper and raised on the
Cobbold estate at Little Glemham
in Suffolk is a comedian and entertainer. His stories are filled
with the colourful characters of
his childhood and will have you
shedding tears of nostalgia and
unrestrained hilarity. Through his
stories and anecdotes, Stephen is
keeping alive the Oral tradition of
archiving the past.
PART ONE
Yonder Come Day
Georgia Sea Islands Spiritual
Close To This Weather
Lyrics Joanna Guthrie Music Karen Wimhurst
Green Grows The Barley
Traditional arr. Bridget Cousins
Wangari
Polly Bolton
The Slave’s Lament
Lyrics Robert Burns Music Alison Burns
When The World Comes To An End
Melody from the singing of Maggie Hammons, arr. Brendan Taaffe
Mrs Whitmore
Tenor tune J Robertson. Carden’s The Missouri Harmony 1840 Fiducia.
Arrangement Alison Burns. Words (from the diary of Mrs Whitmore)
by Carole Moody Crompton
Reading:
Extract from ‘Cider With Rosie’
by Laurie Lee
I walked To The End Of The Road
Becky Owen
Reading:
‘Walks’
by WH Auden
Reading:
‘The Road Not Taken‘
by Robert Frost
The Road Less Travelled
Lyrics Kirsty Martin/Robert Frost Music Kirsty Martin
Reading:
‘All Nature Has A Feeling’
by John Clare
In Green By Day
Alison Burns
—————— INTERVAL ——————
PART TWO
Oats And Beans And Barley Grow
Traditional
Lavender’s Blue Dilly Dilly
Traditional
Guest appearance:
Stephen Bayfield – Stories Of Childhood
Sam The Carters’ Lad
Traditional tune as sung by Tony Harvey of Tannington, from Songs
Sung in Suffolk
Reading:
Extract from ‘Toil And Plenty – Images Of The Agricultural
Landscape 1780 – 1890’
by Christiana Payne
Our Sky Bound Moors
Words John Clare, music Chris Wood
Winter Song
Lyrics Bill Herbert, music Keith Morris
Reading:
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
by Robert Frost
Winter Solstice
Words and Music Katherine Lucas, arr. Peter Hunt
I Heard A Bird Sing
Dave Camlin
Cuckoo In April
Traditional arr. Sarah Morgan
You Are The New Day
John David arr. Peter Knight
Reading:
Summer from ‘A Countryman’s Year ‘
by John Humphreys
Sumer Is I-Cumen In
John of Fonsete c.1225 possibly of Reading Abbey
Now Is The Month Of Maying
Thomas Morley
Reading:
Summer Moods
by John Clare
Spacious Firmament
Words Joseph Addison, music Jon Baker
Janet Koralambe has been making music
most of her life. She has worked in schools
and theatres, run pre-school music groups
and led singing sessions in residential
homes. She started running community
choirs about six years ago and now runs
three groups - Halesworth Community
Choir; Village Voices, based in Hoxne; and
Crossing The Border. Each choir is open
access, no previous experience needed, just
a desire to sing with others.
Halesworth Community Choir
Halesworth Community Choir is open to people of all ages and abilities. Music is
taught by ear so you don't have to be able to read it. Recruitment is open and without audition, and we rehearse at The Cut on Sundays. Please visit:

Our web site (http://hcc1.no-ip.info/), or

Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/HalesworthCommunityChoir)
for more information about the choir.
Crossing The Border
Crossing The Border is a small group for more confident singers that like singing
with just two or three people to a part. We like tackling more complex harmonies
but everything is still taught by ear for those that don't read music.
We meet at The Bank Community Arts Centre in Eye on Wednesday evenings from
7.30 - 9.15. For more information email [email protected]
Halesworth Community Choir and Crossing The Border
Those singing tonight are:
HALESWORTH COMMUNITY CHOIR
Soprano: Susie Bailey, Pippa Church, Juliet Corbett, Eileen Coxon Turner,
Stephanie Hammond, Margot Noyes, Jane Parker, Pat Townsend
Alto: Jo Budd, Dorothy Casey, Jenny Gray, Tamsyn Imison, Jenny Knight,
Evelyn Lindqvist, Steph Minns, Jane Parry, Shirley Prior, Ruth Walker
Tenor: Hazel Allchin, Glenys Brooks, Arlene Roberts, Liz Wooster, Robert Walker
Bass: Richard Chamberlain, Charles Clutterbuck, Robert Le Rougetel, Clive Lovelock,
Andrew Paige, Simon Parker
CROSSING THE BORDER
Soprano: Sheila Cohen, Sophie Maguire, Emily Mills, Rachael Pickess
Alto: Bev Adams, Robyn Challis, Kay Edwards, Judy O’Keefe, Margaret Roubicek
Tenor: Karen Absolon, Emma Goddard, Sue Hudson
Acknowledgements
The choirs would like to thank the following people, without whom this project
would not have been possible:

Musical Direction — Janet Koralambe.

Lighting — Trevor Allchin.

Poster Design, Advertising, and Programme Design — Robert Walker
COME AND JOIN US
The choir is always pleased to welcome new singers.
No previous experience necessary, no requirement
to read music — just a love of singing.
We are a community choir so our doors are open
to one and all.
Interested? Then speak with one of us this evening,
or for further information contact:
Liz Wooster, HCC Membership Sec
Tel: 01986 875496.
email: [email protected]