Indicative Repertoire
Light Music (Madrigals, folk songs, ballads, modern popular songs):
A little night music (based on Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart)
ABBA smash hits (Andersson, Anderson & Ulvaeus)
Ain’t misbehavin’ (Fats Waller & Harry Brooks/Razaf)
All in the April evening
All things bright and beautiful
All through the night
Autumn Leaves (Kosma/Mercer & Parsons)
Banaha (Congolese folksong)
Barcarolle
Begone dull care
Best of Bond
Best of the Beach Boys
Bobby Shaftoe
Christopher Robin is saying his prayers (H. Fraser-Simson)
Dance the cachucha
Diaphenia (C.V. Stanford)
Down by the riverside
Duncan Gray (Robert Burns)
For the beauty of the earth
Funiculi Funicula
Goin’ home (Dvorak)
Hi ho nobody home
Ho-la-hi
I do like to be beside the seaside (John A. Glover-Kind)
I know where I’m goin’
Irish Blessing (Bob Chilcott)
(Is this the way to) Amarillo? (Sedaka & Greenfield)
It’s a grand night for singing
Jerusalem
Land of hope and glory
Let’s begin again (John Rutter)
Little Jack Horner (Diack)
Londonderry Air
Love walked in
Michael row the boat ashore
Now on land and sea descending
O when the saints go marching in
Old McDonald had a farm
Old Mother Hubbard (Hely-Hutchinson)
On Love (John Lennon and Paul McCartney)
Pick a bale of cotton
Seek sweet content (Wilbye)
Serenade (Bizet)
So deep is the night (Chopin)
Songs of a Rainbow Nation (four songs from South Africa)
Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel (Paul Simon)
Speed your journey
Swing low, sweet chariot
The Ash Grove
The drunken sailor
The Entertainer
The Goslings (Frederick Bridge)
The long day closes
The Lord is my shepherd (Goodall)
The Mermaid
The Mexican Hat Dance
The music of life (Lin Marsh)
The rhythm of life (Coleman)
The sailor and young Nancy
The skylark
The Teddy Bears’ Picnic
The Whistling Gypsy
The wraggle taggle gypsies
Three Hungarian folk songs (Lloyd and Seiber)
Tumbalalaika
Two for the price of one
We’re gonna make music for you
When I’m 64 (John Lennon and Paul McCartney)
Songs from the shows:
Andrew Lloyd Webber medley
Blood Brothers medley
Getting to know you
I whistle a happy tune
Joseph and the amazing Technicolor dreamcoat (Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber)
June is bustin’ out all over
Les Misérables (Kretzmer & Schonberg)
Oh what a beautiful morning
South Pacific (Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers)
The Lion King
The Sound of Music (Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers)
Trial by Jury (Gilbert & Sullivan)
West Side Story
Major Classical Choral Works:
Gloria (Antonio Vivaldi)
Questo è il cielo (Handel)
Speed your journey (G. Verdi)
The Messiah (Handel)
Christmas Music:
Traditional Carols
A maiden most gentle
Angels’ Carol (John Rutter)
Christmas Lullaby (John Rutter)
Come and worship! (John Rutter)
Come to the manger © Jad Winfield, written 13.01.90
Cow boy carol
De Virgin Mary
En! Natus est Emanuel (Michael Praetorius)
Gaudete! Gaudete! Christus est natus
Gold for a manger bed (John Rutter)
He smiles within his cradle
Infant holy
Kings came riding (Kevin Stannard)
Mary had a baby
Masters in the hall
Ring out the bells (Roger Emerson)
Ring the bells (Libby Larsen)
See the baby Jesus
Stille Nacht
Tell out the news
When the sun’s reborn (Nasrudin)
White Christmas
Winter Solstice (Katherine Lucas)
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Version: 02
23 March 2010 updated by John Wilcock