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Three concerts in Cambridge will be featuring Fand composers Philip Mead and Peter Thompson.

As well as more traditional fayre, St Augustine’s Singers with Cambridge Brass will be performing Mead’s Christmas Bells and Thompson’s Carol. In addition, in two of the concerts the Singers will be performing Philip Mead’s newly composed A Child is Born (2017).

8th December, 6:30 pm

Addenbrooke’s Dialysis Centre, 113 Ditton Walk, Cambridge CB5 8QE

Christmas Songs and Carols, including Mead’s Christmas Bells and Thompson’s Carol.

St Augustine’s Singers with Philip Mead, keyboard.

9th December, 6 pm

St Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Fen Ditton, Cambridge CB5 8ST

800th anniversary celebrations; see below for programme information.

16th December, 1 pm

St Michael’s Church, Trinity Street, Cambridge CB2 1SU

Michaelhouse Lunchtime Carol Concert

The concerts on 9th and 16th December share the same programme:

Mead  A Child is Born (new work, 2017)
Purcell  Man that is born of a woman
Handl  Resonet in Laudibus
Thompson  Carol
Prætorius  In dulci jubilo
Ives  Carol
Mead  Christmas Bells
Trad.  Ding Dong Merrily on High
Brandvick  A Yorkshire Wassail

St Augustine’s Singers conducted by Philip Mead with Cambridge Brass and a peal of bells.


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