The Charles Church Camberley Band is performing a concert with special guests The Abbey Junior School Choir. The concert will feature performances by both the band and choir, including pieces by composers like Sibelius, Britten, and Lloyd Webber. The Abbey Junior School Choir has been successful in several competitions and performances. The Camberley Band was founded in 1960 and continues to perform regularly in the community while also raising funds for charity.

1. Charles Church Camberley Band
The Abbey Junior School Choir
Charles Church Camberley Band
In Concert
Director of Music – Ruth Adams
Musical Director Robert Cherry
The Abbey Junior School is part of The
Abbey School Reading, an independent
school for girls from the ages of 3 – 18.
The Upper Junior (Years 5 & 6) Choir is
one of four choirs at The Abbey Junior
School. They meet once a week to
rehearse music in a variety of styles.
Throughout the year, the choir sings at
various festivals, concerts and school
events. Over the last eighteen months this
choir has won Woodley Festival,
performed in Symphony Hall Birmingham
in the National Festival of Music for Youth
and 30 members from Year Five sang at
The Royal Albert Hall at the beginning of
November in the Barnardo’s Young
Supporters’ Concert.
The Choir is
currently taking part in the ‘Britten and
Beyond Project’, which is being run by the
British Council and Music for Youth.
Through this we will develop a link with
the National Music School of Bulgaria.
Founded in 1960 the band flourishes today with around
30 members of all ages. Since 1983 we have enjoyed
sponsorship from Charles Church Developments Plc and
their continued support is greatly appreciated.
Throughout the summer we also play at paid engagements
to help cover the costs of running the band. Over the
years, the band has raised a considerable for Frimley Park
Hospital by carolling at The Meadows, and this year will
be no exception!
With special guests The Abbey Junior
School Choir
In 2007 the band commissioned a new composition called
Welsh Echoes to celebrate Geralt (Gerry) Hughes’ 90th
birthday. Gerry had led the band since it was formed until
2003, when he handed the baton over to Robert Cherry.
In 2010, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary with
several events, one of which was a trip to the Whit Friday
Marches. This experience was repeated two years later in
2012, and plans are afoot to make this a biennial
experience for the band.
In 2011, the band commissioned another new piece
entitled Cranborne Chase in memory of Libby Godden, a
long-serving solo horn player and training ensemble
leader. Today the training ensemble is ably led by our
assistant musical director Bob Pitts.
7.30 pm
Saturday 23rd November 2013
High Cross Church
Programme 50p

2. Part One
Charles Church Camberley Band
Castell Caerffili – T J Powell
Demelza – Hugh Nash
Soloist: Catharine Baxter
The Journeymen – Ray SteadmanAllen
The Abbey Junior School Choir
Skipping Stones – Andy Beck
Whales – Swimming Free – Douglas
Coombes
Listen to my Song – Andy Beck
Cuckoo! – Benjamin Britten
Joyful, Joyful – Andy Beck
Charles Church Camberley Band
Serenade – Derek Bourgeois
Catari Catari – Salvatore Cardillo arr.
George Thompson
Soloist: John Roberts
Finlandia – Jean Sibelius
There will be a 15 minute interval
with refreshments and raffle
Please join us on the ground floor
reception area for a cup of tea, coffee or
squash with a biscuit —
50p
Raffle Tickets are on sale before the start
and during the interval, £1 for 5 tickets.
The winning numbers will be on display at
the raffle table at the end and prizes can
be collected on departure.
We would like to thank the friends and
family of the band who have volunteered
their help to run these services tonight.
We do hope that you have enjoyed
tonight’s entertainment as much as we
have enjoyed performing. We don’t
charge an entrance fee but do have to
meet the costs of hiring the hall etc., so if
you would like to help by making a
donation as you leave, there is a retiring
collection plate situated by the door. Your
support is greatly appreciated and we
wish you a safe journey home.
Secretary Robert Godden 01252 872503
Charles Church Camberley Band
www.camberleyband.org.uk
Part Two
Charles Church Camberley Band
Bohemian Rhapsody – Freddie Mercury arr. Darrol Barry
Tuba Smarties – Herbie Flowers arr.
Denzil Stephens
Soloist: Bryan Walker
The Old Gumbie Cat – Andrew Lloyd
Webber arr. Goff Richards
The Abbey Junior School Choir
World of My Tomorrow – Lin Marsh
Busy Bee – Greg Gilpin
Maybe – Lin Marsh
Charles Church Camberley Band
Ticket to Ride - John Lennon & Paul
McCartney arr. Alan Fernie
The Last Rose of Summer – Sir John
Stevenson arr. Matt Kingston
Pirates of the Caribbean – Klaus
Badelt arr. Ted Ricketts, brass band
arrangement: John Blanken