Among the numbers will be favourites the audience will even be invited to join in, including the choruses in The White Cliffs of Dover, It’s a Long Way to Tipperary and Land of Hope and Glory.
Other standards being sung include Now is the Hour, A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square and We’ll Meet Again.
Under the baton of Richard Madden, the accompanists include Peter Doyle (drums), Ariana Knudson-Hollebon (double bass) and Alison Frude (piano).
Also appearing are two talented young artists Orla Dunlop (violin), who’ll play a movement from Saint-Saens’ Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor, and Erin Connelly-Whyte (soprano), last year’s ODT Aria Competition winner, who’ll sing Franz Lehar’s aria, My lips kiss with such heat.
Both will be accompanied by pianist Cameron Monteath.
Tickets for Saturday’s concert, 7.30pm at the Arrowtown Athenaeum Hall, are $30 from undertheradar.co.nz, choir members, Arrowtown’s Lakes District Museum, Arrowtown Pharmacy, Queenstown’s Life Pharmacy Wilkinsons and Frankton’s Summerfield’s Pharmacy.
