Stage & Screen
- Date
- Saturday 4 July 2026, 7pm
- Venue
- Beckenham Methodist Church
- Conductor
- Christopher Braime
- Accompanist
- Jack Stone
- Tickets
- £15, under 18s free
We rounded off the season with a celebration of stage and screen: opera choruses from Carmen, Il Trovatore, Madama Butterfly, Nabucco and Cavalleria Rusticana, and medleys from The Sound of Music, West Side Story and Oliver!, finishing with Somewhere Over the Rainbow.
Jack Stone raised the curtain with Sousa’s The Liberty Bell, and the second half opened with the overture to Strauss’s Die Fledermaus.
Repertoire
- Richard Rodgers The Sound of Music (medley arr. Clay Warnick)
- Pietro Mascagni Easter Hymn (Cavalleria Rusticana)
- Giuseppe Verdi Anvil Chorus (Il Trovatore)
- Giacomo Puccini Humming Chorus (Madama Butterfly)
- Leonard Bernstein West Side Story (medley arr. William Stickles)
- Lionel Bart Oliver! (medley arr. Roger Emerson)
- Georges Bizet March of the Toreadors (Carmen)
- Georges Bizet Habanera (Carmen)
- Giuseppe Verdi Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Nabucco)
- Harold Arlen Somewhere Over the Rainbow (arr. Mark Hayes)