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CHORAL CLASSICS
a concert of popular sacred choruses and tenor arias
Organ – Alex Davies
Tenor – Jonathan Pugsley
Trumpet – Winston Leese
Programme:
Handel: ‘Hallelujah’, ‘Every Valley’ ( from ‘Messiah’); ‘Zadok the Priest’.
Parry: ‘I was Glad’; ‘Jerusalem’
Mozart: ‘Ave Verum; ‘ Lacrymosa’ (from Requiem)
Mendlessohn: ‘Be not Afraid’ , ‘If with all your Hearts’ (from ‘Elijah’)
Haydn: ‘The Heavens are Telling’ (from ‘The Creation’)
Vaughan Williams: ‘The Old 100th’
Brahms: ‘How Lovely are thy Dwellings Fair’ (from ‘A German Requiem’)
Bach: ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’; ‘Ave Maria’ (Bach/Gounod)
Rutter: ‘The Lord Bless you and Keep you’
Jacob: ‘Brother James’ Air’
Vivaldi: ‘Gloria’ (from ‘Gloria’)
Faure: ‘Cantique de Jean Racine’
Franck: ‘Panis Angelicus’
Goodall: ‘Lacrymosa’ (from ‘Eternal Light’)
Clarke: ‘Prince of Denmark’s March’
Purcell: ‘Trumpet Tune’
31 March 2012
Excerpts from our Messiah concert
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15 November 2011
Julia's House
Weymouth Choral welcomes any help or aid that can be given to this very worthwile charity. Please read their very own words of day to day life carrying out their extraordinary and invaluable work.
Care for the child, there for the family
At Julia’s House, the Dorset children’s hospice, we look after children who will die young.
It is our job to provide care and comfort, in our hospice and in their own homes, to children who have a serious or terminal illness.
We get less than 10% of our funds from the government, so we are pretty much on our own in the struggle to provide local care for these children.
We do it because children, even when they are ill, want to have fun, and we never miss an opportunity to celebrate a child’s birthday or to fill each day with play and laughter. A lot of people think of hospice care as being about a good death. We think of it as being about a good life.
We currently help care for 94 children. We are there for them and their families, year-round and in a crisis.
Nationally, 66% of parents of a terminally ill child will split up, which tells you a great deal about the stress of their daily lives, and so much of our care is not just at the end of the child’s life, but week to week throughout their lives, often for many years, giving regular respite to the parents, to help keep the whole family together.
We organise social events for parent and siblings to relieve some of this unremitting pressure
Brothers and sisters of the ill child, with the best will in the world often don’t get as much of their parents’ time and attention, so we run regular siblings days – trips and outings where they can have fun and get to know each other – to say to them ‘you matter too.’
But all this care comes at a cost. Julia’s House is really struggling as people feel the pinch in these cash-strapped times and there are so many charitable causes deserving of the public’s donations. But what we do is local and necessary. We simply must not let these Dorset families down when they have nowhere else to turn.
As one parent explained: “When nobody else cared, at least not enough to help, Julia’s House was there. We were drowning and they simply rescued us.”
Of course we are not truly alone in our struggle to provide this care. Because we have you - the Dorset public - supporting and encouraging us, urging us on, and helping to fund this vital work.
So please spare a few moments to visit our website, join us on 
facebook/juliashousedorset or give us a call on 01202 607400.
08 October 2011
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01 January 1970