They will have a little help: around 100 of the many children involved with Sheffield Cathedral's Sing! project who themselves have a little help from the cathedral choristers in the first part of the concert.

In it, the youngsters are performing a Beatles medley, some Britten folksong arrangements and taking part in an arrangement by Anthony Gowing for children's choir and orchestra of the Concert Fantasia Op 91 for organ by Edwin Lemare that he played in his recent Lemare concert at the cathedral.

At one point, Lemare combines three well-known tunes, Sailor's Hornpipe, British Grenadiers, Rule Britannia, and adds for good measure the refrain of Auld Lang Syne – played with the pedals in the organ piece.

Carmina Burana, which hardly needs any introduction, welcomes countertenor Daniel Keating-Roberts back to his old stomping ground as a Sheffield University graduate and cathedral Songman. He hasn't got much to do, just that fiendishly difficult, ludicrous wail of the roasting swan.

Debra Morley, fairly well known to Oratorio Chorus audiences, is the soprano soloist, but the baritone, Terence Ayebare, is a new name to Sheffield.

His first singing lessons were in 2002 at Kampala Music School in Uganda and he now has Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Royal Northern College of Music connections.

He is said to have a highly impressive voice and has given concerts and recitals and appeared in opera in the UK, Germany, France, Kenya and Uganda.


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