Kapiti Chorale Concerts and Choral Federation Workshops

1983 Lois McNeill - Music Director and Founder

Our first concert ~ 19-October

The Waikanae Chorale ( 20 members) sang at Our Lady of Fatima’s Church Hall, Parata

Street, Waikanae. Concert cost $3.

Ascot Gavotte, Tonight (Bernstein), Pata Pan, Coventry Carol, Three Great Kings,

Down by the Sally Gardens, English Country Garden, Best of all Possible Worlds,

The Snow (Elgar), Done made my Vow to the Lord, Bahama Lullaby, Sing we and Chant it,

David and the White Rock, Hi ho nobody home.

1984

Winter Concert 24-June

Sabbath Prayer (Bock), Hello Dolly, Happy, O Happy He! Mozart, Jesu joy of Man’s desiring,

Songs from West Side Story, Hungarian folk songs (Seibel), Si je Tombais,

Tulips and Heather, Jamaica Farewell.

Spring Concert 14-October

St. Anthony Chorale, Bahama Lullaby, I got a Robe, Gilbert & Sullivan Selections,

Spring Folk song, David of the White Rock, If I fell in love with you, Kalinka.

1985

Festival Concert for Amnesty International 3-November

There’s no business like show business, Joy to the World, World Temple Prayer,

The Holy Child, Nostalgia songs, March of the Kings, O Holy Night, Silent Night.

1986

Easter Concert 23-March

Blessings on the King, Trotting, An Upper Room, This Blessing Cup, God so Loved the World,

Crew the Cock, Stabat Mater (Rossini), Cujus Animam (Pergolesi), O Quam Tristis (Pergolesi),

Easter Hymn (Mascagni).

A Concert of Sacred and Seasonal Music 30-November

Locus Iste (Bruckner), What is that Fragrance? Blessed Son of God (Vaughan Williams),

Dawn of Promise, Nuns’ Chorus, Casanova (Strauss), The Holy City (Adam),

Go Tell it on the Mountain, Away in a Manger, Silent Night.

1987

Variety Concert 16-August

We love the place wherein Thine Honour Dwells, The Bluebird, Like to the Damask Rose.

1988

NZCF Choir conducted by Sir David Willcocks

Gabrieli; Angelus ad Pastores Ait Motet a 12 and Hodie Christus Natus Est Motet a 10;

Sheidt; In Dulci Jubilo Motet a 8.

Music for Easter 27-March

Handel, Dvorak, Fauré, Gounod.

A Concert of Orchestral and Choral Music 27-November

With the Upper Hutt Choral Society, Wainuiomata Choir and the Wellington Regional

Orchestra. Vaughan Williams “Hodie” conducted by Peter Godfrey.

1989

NZCF Choir conducted by Professor Peter Godfrey

Elijah (Mendelssohn).

Messiah 19-November

1990

NZCF Choir conducted by Peter Godfrey

St Matthew Passion (Bach).

Christmas Music 25-November

Fantasia by Vaughan Williams and Messiah extracts.

1991

NZCF Choir conducted by Peter Godfrey

The Creation (Haydn).

A Taste of Opera 9-June

Lohengrin Wedding March, Spring Chorus (Smetana), Cavalleria Rusticana, Easter Hymn and

Opening Chorus, Anvil Chorus, Carmen Habanera, Bell Chorus, Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves.

Philip Liner’s Roundabout 1-December

The angel Gabriel from Heaven Came, Shepherds shake off your drowsy sleep, Polish Lullaby,

El Rorro, The Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy, O Holy Night, Carol of the Bells,

March of the Kings, O Come all ye Faithful, Antipodean Carol.

1992

NZCF Choir conducted by Peter Godfrey

Judas Maccabeus (Handel).

Offerings from Opera May

Waltz from Faust, Peasants Chorus L’Arlesienne, Finale Magic Flute, Polovtsian Dances,

Our life is free (Carmen), Clara Clara from Porgy and Bess, La Vergine Degli Angeli (Force of

Destiny), Chorus of Hebrew Slaves (Nabucco).

Messiah 6 and 9-December

Conducted by Peter Godfrey

Community Choir and Kapiti Orchestra. At El Rancho and Otaki College.

1993

Alleluia! 24 and 25-April

The Joy of Eastertide.

Let the song be begun (Piae Cantiones), Regina Coeli (O’Gorman), Tristis ist anima mea,

Victory (Alsatian Carol), Easter song of Little Russia, Easter song (Herring),

O Morn of Beauty (Finlandia), The Holy Women before the Apostles (Gounod),

Excerpts from Mozart’s 12th Mass.

NZCF Choir conducted by Peter Godfrey 1-May

Requiem (Brahms).

An Afternoon of Popular Opera 15-August

Finale Magic Flute, So your Life of Pleasure is over (Mozart), Spring Chorus Bartered Bride,

Aida selections, Barcarolle Tales of Hoffman, One hand, one heart (West Side Story), Do you

hear the people sing? (Les Miserables), Anvil Chorus.

Celebrating Christmas 28-November and 5-December

Carols and Britten’s St. Nicolas.

Conducted by Lois McNeill, Peter Godfrey and Sue Robinson.

With the Upper Hutt Choral Society, Kapiti the Chamber Choir and the Wellington Music

Centre Children’s Choir.

1994 Professor Peter Godfrey CBE – Music Director

Acis and Galatea 24-April

With orchestra at El Rancho.

NZCF Choir conducted by Peter Godfrey 28-May

Movements from Samson (Handel) and songs from the Wellington Youth Choir.

Around the World in 80 Minutes 30-October

With Philip Liner. Hoki hoki, Pokarekare, Flies in the Buttermilk, Early one Morning,

Eriskay Love Lilt, Down by the Sally Gardens, In Stille Nacht, The Handsome Butcher,

Pusci me, Apple Apple, The Old woman, Simi Jadech, Waltzing Mathilda, Hine e hine.

Roundabout Christmas 4 and 8-December

At El Rancho and Otaki College.

Narrated by Philip Liner with the Kapiti Chamber Choir and the Kapiti Brass band.

Congregational carols, Lo, how a rose ere blooming, A maiden most gentle, What child is this?

Child of Joy and Peace, Lullaby (Lesser), The Oxen, Sussex Carol, Twelve Days of Christmas.

1995

St. Matthew Passion 9-April

Community Choir and orchestra at El Rancho.

NZCF Choir conducted by Peter Godfrey 16-July

Israel in Egypt (Handel). 10th anniversary of New Zealand Choral Federation.

Held at the Wellington Town Hall with the Wellington Sinfonia.

From Earth to Heaven 13-August

Let all the world, God so Loved the World, Vonm Himmel hoch da kommich her, And I saw a

New Heaven, Blue Bird, Bushes and Briars, For the Beauty of the Earth, Turn Back o man

(Holst), I want to go to Heaven and Goin’ to Heaven anyhow, A Sound Came from Heaven, My

soul there is a country, How lovely are thy dwellings (Brahms), The Heavens are telling

(Haydn).

Christmas is Coming 19-November

In aid of Mary Potter Hospice.

Christmas is coming and the geese are getting fat, Behold the Great Creator, Barcarolle,

Dido’s Lament and Farewell, Final Chorus Magic Flute, Vaughan Williams Fantasia,

And the glory and O thou that tellest (Messiah), Lo! He comes with clouds descending.

1996

Stainer’s Crucifixion and Messiah, part II 31-March and 2-April

NZCF Choir conducted by Michael Leighton Jones 18-May

Great Anthems

I was Glad (Parry), My Heart is Inditing (Handel), Te Deum Laudamus (Bartholdy), The King

shall rejoice (Handel), Zadok the Priest (Handel).

Music for a Royal Occasion 26-May

With the Kapiti Chamber Choir.

I was Glad (Parry), My Heart is Inditing (Handel), Te Deum Laudamus (Bartholdy),

The King shall rejoice (Handel), Zadok the Priest (Handel).

Mainly Opera 19 and 20-October

With the Wainuiomata Choir and Kapiti Childrens Choir.

Held at the Lower Hutt Town Hall and El Rancho.

Anvil Chorus, Spinning Chorus, Habanera, March of the Toreadors, Bridal Chorus,

Chorus of the Wedding Guests, Easter Hymn, Down by the Sally Gardens, Asikateli, Brindisi,

The Huntsmen, Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves.

All the World Sings Christmas 7-December

Christmas movements from Messiah, Carols from around the World – Pohutukawa carol,

I wonder as I wander, Mary had a Baby, Shepherds run to Bethlehem, Hark to the angels,

He smiles from his cradle, King Jesus had a garden, A maiden most gentle, Sussex Carol.

1997

Messiah 23-March

Community Choir. At El Rancho.

NZCF Choir conducted by Philip Walsh 17-May

St. Paul (Mendelssohn).

Gloria 24 and 29-June

Gloria - Rutter and Vivaldi.

Elijah 16-November

At El Rancho.

1998

Brahms Requiem (with the Kapiti Chamber Choir) 10-May

NZCF Choir conducted by Philip Walsh 23-May

Joshua (Handel).

Coronation Mass (Mozart) and Opera Excerpts 14-November

Coronation Mass (Mozart), Laudate Dominum (Mozart), Ave Verum (Mozart), Dido’s Lament

(Purcell), Hebrew Slaves (Verdi), Habanera (Bizet), Gilbert and Sullivan three choruses,

Polovtsian Dances (Borodin), Chorus of Wedding Guests (Donizetti).

Coronation Mass (Mozart) in the Wellington Cathedral 15-November

1999

Praise Be 13-February

Filmed in the grounds of Southwards Museum, Paraparaumu.

Best of British May 1999

Zadok the Priest (Handel), I was glad (Parry), The Music Makers (Elgar),

Five negro spirituals (Tippett).

St. John Passion 28 and 30-March

With the Kapiti Chamber Choir.

NZCF Choir conducted by Rita Paczian 22-May

Requiem (Mozart).

Celebration of Spring – directed by Peter Averi 12-September

Trial by Jury (Gilbert and Sullivan), Come Gentle Spring (Haydn), As Torrents in Summer

(Elgar), Like to the Damask Rose (Elgar), In Silent Night (Brahms), Love Fare thee well

(Brahms), When Johnnie Sings (Evans), Sing a song of sixpence and Old Mother Hubbard in

the style of Handel (Diack).

Celebration of Spring – directed by Peter Averi September

Above concert without Trial by Jury sung in the Botanical Gardens, Wellington.

Messiah 28-November

Community Choir at El Rancho with orchestra.

2000

Crucifixion (Stainer) and Messiah part 2 (Handel) 8-April

With the Kapiti Chamber Choir at Southwards Theatre, Paraparaumu.

Lunchtime at St. Andrews with the Kapiti Chamber Choir 11-April

Stainer’s Crucifixion.

This Joyful Eastertide 7-May

This Joyful Eastertide (Wood), God liveth still (Bach), Christ, our Helper (Bach), O How

Glorious is the Kingdom (Harwood), Jesu, joy of man’s desiring (Bach), Alleluia (Thompson),

Blessed be God the Father (Wesley), Up, up my heart (Bach), The day draws on with golden

light (Bairstow), Come, ye Faithful (Thatcher), Christ the Lord is risen again (Rutter), Five

Mystical songs (Vaughan Williams), Easter Hymn (Mascagni).

NZCF Choir conducted by Andrew Cantrill 20-May

Gloria (Vivaldi), Zadok the Priest (Handel), Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (J S Bach).

The Sprig of Thyme 20-August

Songs of the Fleet (Stanford), Folksongs set by John Rutter (Bold Grenadier, Keel Row,

The Willow Tree, The Sprig of Thyme, Down by the Sally Gardens, I know where I’m going,

Willow song, O can ye sew cushions, Miller of Dee, Afton Water), The Cuckoo, Sing! (Widor),

Chorus of Enchanted Islanders (Handel), Villagers Chorus (Rossini), A Sound came from

Heaven (Mews),

St Paul (Mendelssohn) 21 and 26-November

2001

Crucifixion (Stainer) and Messiah part 2 (Handel) 8-April

With the Kapiti Chamber Choir at Southwards Theatre, Paraparaumu.

NZCF Choir conducted by Andrew Cantrill 5-May

Te Deum (Haydn) and Requiem (Fauré).

Mostly Mozart 31-July and 5-August

Requiem, Insanae et Vanae Curae, Laudate Dominum, Ave Verum, Regina Coeli.

Noël 25-November

Music for Christmas

With the Choristers of Wellington Cathedral conducted by Andrew Cantrill.

Hodie (Vaughan Williams), Five NZ Carols, Fantasia (Vaughan Williams).

Carols at the Manakau Hotel 22-December

2002

A Celebration for Peter Godfrey April

On his 80th birthday.

NZCF Choir conducted by Peter Godfrey 18-May

Requiem (Verdi).

The Creation (Haydn) 21 and 26-May

A Royal Occasion 12 and 17-November

A Celebration of the Golden Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II

I was Glad, Mozart Coronation Mass, Thou wilt keep Him, O Taste and See,

How lovely are Thy Dwellings, Let the Bright Seraphim, Let their Celestial Concerts all Unite,

Zadok the Priest, God Save the Queen.

Requiem (Mozart) 11-November

A small group went to Wellington to sing in the Round the World Requiem to commemorate

the Twin Towers tragedy in New York 2001.

2003

Requiem (Verdi) 27-April

Community Choir with singers from the Napier Civic Choir. Held at El Rancho.

Organ, piano, trumpets, timpani and percussion.

NZCF Choir conducted by Nigel Williams 10-May

Carmina Burana (Carl Orff).

A joint concert with the Kapiti Chamber Choir 22-June

St. Nicholas Mass (Haydn), Blest Pair of Sirens (Parry),

Requiem (Fauré) – Kapiti Chamber Choir.

Christmas in New Zealand 3-December

20th birthday concert with orchestra.

Messiah part I, replacing number 21 with Break Forth into Joy, Hallelujah Chorus,

Look toward Christmas, Pohutukawa carol, Child of Joy and Peace, I sing of a Maiden,

O Little love, O sing we a song, Lullaby Carol, Over the Peaks, The stars danced.

2004 Stuart Douglas – Music Director

Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast and Other Celebrations 2-May

Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast (Coleridge-Taylor), O Taste and See (Vaughan Williams),

Ave Verum (Mozart), Chorus of the Wedding Guests (Donizetti), Lohengrin Bridal March

(Wagner), The Heavens are Telling (Haydn), Laudate Dominum (Mozart), Sing! (Widor).

NZCF Choir conducted by Nigel Williams 15-May

German Requiem (Brahms).

Sounds Glorious 25-July

With trumpets and timpani.

The King shall Rejoice (Handel), Mass in G (Schubert), Gloria (Vivaldi).

Praise Be 5-September

Filmed at St. Paul’s Church, Paraparaumu.

Choral Contrasts 14-November

Newborn Child (Buxtehude), Alleluia (Randall Thompson), Song of Miriam (Schubert),

Benedicite (Vaughan Williams).

2005 Marie Brown – Music Director

Elijah (Kapiti Community Choir) 17-April

Conducted by Peter Godfrey with the Kapiti Concert Orchestra at El Rancho.

NZCF Choir conducted by Michael Fulcher 14-May

Mass no 1 (Hummel) and Gloria (Rutter).

A French Connection 31-July

St Cecilia Mass (Gounod), Insanae et vanae curae (Haydn), Chorale no. 3 (Franck),

Requiem (Fauré).

Afternoon at the Proms 20-November

Peasant Cantata, Hebrew Slaves, Dido’s Lament, Pomp and Circumstance no. 4, Yesterday,

Jerusalem, Rule Britannia, I vow to Thee my Country, Auld Lang Syne.

2006

War, Peace and Glory (with the Kapiti Chamber Choir) 29 and 30-April

With instrumental ensemble.

Gloria (Vivaldi) and The Armed Man (Jenkins).

NZCF Choir conducted by Michael Fulcher 20-May

Mostly Mozart: Requiem, Vespers and opera choruses.

From Age to Age Endure 6-August

Messiah choruses (Handel), Qui Sedes (Bach), Requiem excerpts (Mozart),

Psalm 150 (Dienes), Laudate Dominum (Mozart), Leichte Tanze (Seiber), Sing! (Weber).

The Austrian Connection 26-November

Mass in B♭ (Hummel), Kyrie K.341 (Mozart), Salve Regina (Schubert), Te Deum Laudamus

(Haydn), The Heavens are Telling (Haydn).

Carols conducted by Peter Godfrey 18-December

Paraparaumu College Auditorium. Carol concert for friends and family with supper afterwards.

2007

NZCF Choir conducted by Michael Fulcher 5-May

Nelson Mass (Haydn).

Rutter Requiem 27-May

With instrumental ensemble.

Requiem (Rutter), Te Deum and Benedictus (Elgar), Hear my Prayer (Mendelssohn).

Joyful, Joyful - Music for Special Occasions 2-September

Wedding March Lohengrin (Wagner), Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring (Bach), Let the Bright

Seraphim/ Let their Celestial Concerts all Unite (Handel), Let thy hand be strengthened

(Handel), Wedding March (Mendelssohn), Exulte Jubilate (Mozart), Te Deum (Stanford),

Joyful, joyful we adore thee (Beethoven), Trumpet Voluntary (Purcell), The King shall rejoice

(Handel), I vow to Thee my Country (Holst), Eternal source of light divine (Handel),

Jerusalem (Parry), Zadok the Priest (Handel).

Messiah 9-December

Community Choir with the Kapiti Concert orchestra. Held at El Rancho.

2008

NZCF Choir conducted by Michael Fulcher 3-May

Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem.

Coronation Mass - Mozart 11-May

Excerpts from Cherubini’s requiem.

Quartet Recordare, from Mozart Requiem.

Organ interludes Andante and Variations in D (Mendelssohn),

Adagio in F (Beethoven),

Adagio from the Adagio and Allegro in F (Mozart).

The Face of Peace 17-August

Six Choral Songs to be sung in time of War (Vaughan Williams),

Lament for Children in time of War (Faulknor/McCallum), O lovely Peace (Handel),

Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart), A Gaelic Blessing (Rutter), Festival Te Deum (Vaughan Williams),

Five Mystical Songs (Vaughan Williams), The Face of Peace (Chilcott).

Organ solos Extract from Combat de la Mort et de la Vie (Messiaen),

Triumphal March – Now thank we all our God (Karg-Elert).

Baritone solo Silent Noon (Vaughan Williams).

Silver Jubilee Gala Concert 30-November

A selection of favourites from the last 25 years.

2009

NZCF Choir conducted by Michael Fulcher 2-May

Elijah (Mendelssohn).

1809 – a year of note 10-May

To celebrate the birth of Mendelssohn and commemorate the death of Haydn.

Excerpts from Elijah (Mendelssohn).

Missa Sancti Nicolai (Haydn).

Organ solos Allegro movement from Sonata No.1 in D (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach)

Voluntary No.10 (George Frideric Handel)

The Creation - Haydn 16-August

With orchestra

A Celebration of Christmas 6-December

Karl Jenkins - NZ première. Organ, piano and recorder.

Weihnachtslieder (soprano soloist), A NZ Christmas, A Kapiti Christmas, NZ poetry.

And the Glory/I know that my Redeemer Liveth (Messiah), Traditional carols.

Organ solos Divinum mysterium (Rawsthorne)

Meditation on Maria zu leben (Griffiths)

Offertory on French Carol tunes (Guilmant)

2010

NZCF Choir conducted by Michael Fulcher 1-May

Mass in A -flat (Schubert).

Te Deum and Mass in D - Dvorak 9-May

Love, Honour, Betrayal - Choruses from Opera 15 August

Chorale preludes Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele (Brahms)

(Brahms) O Welt, ich muss dich lassen (Brahms)