Graham Bell and Adelaide Harmony Choir Continue 'Concerts at Kent Town' Series Today

The second community concert in the popular Concerts at Kent Town series commences 2pm today 21 August and presents a varied program of organ music from Graham Bell, organist at Wesley Church Kent Town, and the voices of the celebrated Adelaide Harmony Choir under the direction of Rosemary Nairn OAM.

The Adelaide Harmony Choir will perform:
- Zadok The Priest G.F. Handel
- Look To The Day John Rutter
- Love Divine Wesley arr. Howard Goodall
- Santus from The Armed Man Karl Jenkins
- Distant Land John Rutter

The choir will be accompanied by Graham Bell on piano and organ.

Program of organ music performed by Graham Bell will be:

Bracket 1:

Fugue in D minor, BWV 680 "The Giant" (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)
Elevazione (Domenico Zipoli, 1688-1726)
Chorale Partita "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" (Johann Pachelbel, 1653-1706) [Theme and 9 variations, based on the German hymn "What God does is rightly done"]

Bracket 2:

Rhapsody Op. 17, No. 1 (HerBert Howells, 1892-1983)
Chant du Soir (Enrico Bossi, 1861-1925)
Fiat Lux (Théodore Dubois, 1837-1924) [Let there be light]

A well-known name in Adelaide music circles, Graham Bell, was born in Adelaide in 1959. Although employed as a professional botanist, music has always been "the other life" for Graham, having sung in choirs since childhood and been drawn by the pipe organ from around that time.

Over the last 35 years Graham has been involved in a wide variety of performances for many groups as organ soloist, conductor, singer or accompanist, and was Organist and Choirmaster at North Adelaide Baptist Church for 30 years. He was appointed Organist and Choirmaster at Wesley Uniting Church in January 2011.

Rosemary Nairn OAM, Director of Music of Adelaide Harmony Choir: Rosemary has been associated with choirs of all age groups for nearly 50 years and still looks forward to new challenges associated with music and people.

Adelaide Harmony Choir: is a SATB choir of 80 singers, with a repertoire which includes many of the major oratorios as well as popular music from opera, operetta and musicals. The choir was founded in 1947 by Lewis Dawe MBE who remained its conductor until 1981 when he was succeeded by John Hall OAM, followed by Richard Chew in 2008. The present Music Director, Rosemary Nairn OAM was appointed in 2011.

To join our mailing list and receive more information about the 2013 season, contact Sheila Bryce on sbrycepublicity@hotmail.com or sheilabsteved@msn.com or telephone 8322 4581.

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