REVIEW: Christmas Concert, Sheffield City Hall
OPPOSITE Boots they were giving it their all for Fargate's shoppers.
Outside Somerfield at Broomhill the Silent Night was also competing with the traffic.
But it was inside the cherished confines of the Oval Hall that the true spirit of Christmas was unwrapped later in the day by the tonsil power of 140 singers accompanied by orchestra and audience for a Sheffield annual favourite.
A combination of carols – in traditional and less familiar arrangements – classical music with a seasonal tilt and anecdotes, poetry and stories courtesy of broadcaster and former Kings Singer Brian Kay made for a warming experience.
While the smartly turned out ladies and gents of the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus near enough lifted the roof off with Oh Holy Night as one of their performance highlights the audience was called upon to join in with spirit-raising belters such as Hark The Herald Angels Sing.
With a radical arrangement of The Holly And The Ivy and Corelli's delightful Christmas Concerto giving the season an alternative soundtrack this was a programme as innovative as it was effective even for those of us still sucking on that humbug a fortnight shy of C-day.
For anyone who didn't come back down those stone steps to Barkers Pool feeling a tad festive there was surely no hope. They should prescribe this stuff on the NHS.
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Wednesday 08 February 2012
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