Features and Reviews
The Town and Schools
Carol Service 2009
With
the road closed at St Mary's Square, Higher Brixham and staging
filled with children from local schools, the Revd Ian Blyde,
hosted the outdoor event where everyone was invited to join
in carols accompanied by the Brixham Town Band and listen
to songs performed by each of the school choirs.
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Opening
with ‘Hark the Herald Angels sing', it took a while for the
large audience including families supporting the singers to
get their voices warmed up.
It was a cold night
so singing in the ‘Bleak Mid Winter' was appropriate, but by
the last handful of carols including ‘Silent Night' and ‘The
First Nowell', everyone had gotten into the spirit of the event
and the volume increased dramatically to finish with a rousing
‘O Come all ye Faithful'. |
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The Carols were cleverly interspersed
with the performances by the schools, allowing them time to
move on and off the stage, starting with Furzeham Primary School
performing ‘The Calypso Carol'; ‘See Him Lying on a bed of straw,
draughty stable with an open door, Mary cradling the babe she
bore; the Prince of Glory is his name.'
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as singing, they followed this with the first reading from Isaiah
chapter 9 verse6-7, telling of how God would send a great leader
into the world, to lead people out of darkness and the government
of the world would be upon his shoulders. |
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Chestnut Primary School introduced a song encouraging everyone
all around the world to lift up their hearts and sing together,
with every nation, every tribe and every tongue praising God,
and for there to be ‘peace on earth and goodwill to all men'. |
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Their reading explained how the Angel Gabriel visited Mary
and told her that she was going to bear a son and that she should
call him Jesus. |
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Whilst Margaret Clitherow Primary School sang a song from their
Christmas Production ‘Christmas with the Aliens' their reading
was Luke 2 verses 1-7 telling how Mary and Joseph travelled to
Bethlehem and there in the stable their firstborn child arrived.
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Adapting an Abba
Song ‘Thank You for the Music', Brixham Church of England Primary
School brought an interesting twist to this well know tune and
creating a chorus for everyone to join in.
‘So I say thank you
now for Jesus, that's why I'm singing, thanks for all the joy
he's bringing, who can live without him I ask in all honesty,
what would life be without his love and his care who are we? |
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So I say thank you
now for Jesus for giving him to me.'
Their reading told
of shepherds abiding in the fields, where they were visited
by the angels telling them of the birth of Jesus. |
| Unfortunately due to illness Galmpton
Primary School were not able to make an appearance but Eden Park
Primary School came on to the platform to perform their song,
‘Christmas Rock', from their end of term production and read about
the wise men from the East, who after visiting King Herod, went
on to find Jesus. |
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Having worshiped him and given gifts of gold, frankincense
and myrrh, they headed home avoiding having to return to Herod
to tell him where Jesus was. |
| Bringing the service to a close The
Revd Ian Blyde thanked the Brixham Town Band and the Team from
Eden Park, who had set up the sound and lighting system, was also
thanked. He also complimented the singers, who thoroughly deserved
his praise with the quality of their performances. |
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Then all the schools came together to sing ‘Rocking around
the Christmas tree' and ‘So it is Merry Christmas', as everyone
enjoyed a festive end to this year's performances. |
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