Rutter Folk Songs Feature in Group's Summer Concert

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THE Derwent Singers return to St Alkmund's Church, Duffield, for their summer concert this year.

The main work on the programme is The Sprig of Thyme, a sequence of folksong arrangements by John Rutter. In all, 11, mainly English, folk songs get the full Rutter treatment, including The Keel Row, O Can Ye Sew Cushions and The Miller of Dee. Side by side with this the choir has programmed Vaughan Williams's arrangment of Loch Lomond, and an arrangement of the Londonderry Air.

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Rutter Folk Songs Feature in Group's Summer Concert

Gerald Finzi had a profound love and understanding of English literature and it shows in the sensiti...

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