Fakenham Choral Society - When Icicles Hang Christmas Concert

Fakenham Choral Society will perform John Rutter’s When Icicles Hang and Bob Chilcott’s Christmas Night at its Christmas Concert on Saturday 12th December at 5.30 pm in Fakenham Parish Church. The concert will also include carols from the choir and some for audience participation.

Rosemary Dear, chair of the Society, said: ‘The two short works were chosen as both are seasonal but contrasting in content and style. Bob Chilcott's, ‘On Christmas Night’, written in 2010, is very Christmassy, being a delightful compilation of well known carols and will complement other carols the choir will perform.

‘John Rutter's When Icicles Hang, written in 1975, is a very seasonal but a more secular work, reflecting winter themes rather than Christmas itself. Rutter has set to music a variety of poems from some 14th to 16th century poets, including Shakespeare, ( 'Icicles' and Blow, blow thou winter wind), Campion (Winter Nights) and seve…