Saturday 25th June: Songs and Strawberries – Leake Church YO7 4BN

Leake Church is the lonely looking church which you may have driven past at speed on the A19.  But at one time  the lovely church of St. Mary the Virgin was the centre of a thriving and populous village.  A map can be found here.

The programme included:

• The Heavens are telling – from The Creation  ……Haydn
• Beati Quorum Via …….Stanford
• Justorum Animae ….    Stanford
• Locus Iste   ……               Bruckner
• Christus Factus Est   …. Bruckner
• The Lord is my shepherd (the “Vicar of Dibley” theme)   .. Howard Goodall
• Jesu, joy of man’s desiring     …. JS Bach
• Ave Verum Corpus  …   Mozart
• Sleep    …………………..  Eric Whitacre
• The Turtle Dove   – Ralph Vaughan Williams
• Linden Lea  …..   Ralph Vaughan Williams
• The Bluebird   ……    Stanford
• Bushes and Briars  …   RVW arr Donald James
• Greensleeves  … RVW
• O waly waly … arr John Rutter
• Sourwood Mountain   … arr John Rutter
• Black sheep   … arr John Rutter
• Brother James Air — arr Gordon Jacob
• Blue Moon
• Let’s do it
• Over the rainbow