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Virtual Christmas Concert

Hosted by Jim Carter OBE
Monday 7 December, 7pm

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Welcome

I am very grateful to Dinah for all her help and
advice as I took over as Chair of the committee
and on behalf of Marie Curie, I would like to
thank the Carols in the City committee for
all they have done giving time, effort and
generosity:

Kate Cotton Jenny Jasper
James Cunliffe Katharine Langham
Chris Elliot John Latham
Paul Evans Ann Tully
Carolyn Jones
Welcome to Marie Curie’s Carols in the City
at home. Normally we would have been in the My particular thanks to Susan Boissier, Head of
beautiful and majestic setting of Southwark Special Events and Ilona Beiboer, Special Events
Cathedral with over 600 supporters. The Manager and their team for their amazing
coronavirus pandemic put a stop to that but tenacity working remotely to keep everything
has given us the opportunity to invite all of you going to enable this event to take place.
from all over the UK and Northern Ireland to
join us to celebrate Marie Curie and start the We would like to thank all our sponsors,
Christmas celebrations. So Carols in the City advertisers and supporters and are delighted
concert this year is a truly national event. and particularly grateful that Rathbone
Investment Management have provided
When my predecessor, Dinah Garrett, said in generous sponsorship so that all the money we
her final Welcome note last year that “Now raise tonight will be profit to go directly to the
more than ever we need to look forwards and work of Marie Curie.
adapt to our ever-changing world”, little did
she know what was to come. This year has Our thanks to Rathbones CEO Paul Stockton
been like no other in living memory. It has for reading our first lesson and to Asima
challenged us all in different ways and the Qayyum, Rathbones Folio Prize administrator
pandemic has dramatically changed all our who has written a special poem for this concert
lives, directly or indirectly. It has put extreme which she is reading herself this evening.
pressure on the NHS and Marie Curie strove to
do as much as possible to support the NHS and A special thank you to our wonderful
the social care sector during this critical time. performers who have all provided special
But primarily tonight we will be thinking of the recordings for tonight: Pippa Bennett-Warner,
immensely important work of Marie Curie and Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Rosamund Pike
the fantastic work of the nursing and hospice and Imelda Staunton and we are hugely
staff who have been very much on the front indebted to Mark Forkgen and Canticum
line right across the country. chamber choir, organist Stephen Disley and
saxophonist Rob Burton for their flexibility and
Marie Curie’s Chief Executive, Matthew Reed, working within the Government’s coronavirus
will talk about the pressures on fundraising this regulations to record the carols. Our thanks
year, and Dr Sarah Holmes, Medical Director also to St Saviour’s Pimlico for allowing us to
at the Marie Curie Hospice, Bradford will tell record the concert in their beautiful church.
us about the challenges faced in maintaining
Marie Curie services during the pandemic. And finally, a big thank you to you all for joining
I am conscious that some of you may be us from your homes tonight and for your
grieving the loss of a relative and our special continuing support for Marie Curie. We hope
thoughts go out to all of you. you enjoy the evening and wish you a very
Happy Christmas.
I am privileged to have been involved in
organising this virtual event to raise much Heather Johnson OBE
needed funds for Marie Curie. Watching is free Chairman and Concert Producer
but if you can give a donation tonight please Marie Curie Carols in the City Committee
do, remembering that £20 provides one hour
of nursing care, £44 pays for 15 respirator
masks and £75 pays for a physiotherapist to
treat a patient for three hours.

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Christmas stars

Thank you to our supporters who have made a
donation to celebrate the life of someone special.

Audrey Bryan Dickens Richard Jenner Rory Reilly
Bex’s dad Lynne Dickson Alan Jones Tony Richmond
Diane John Dixon Joan Jones Maggie Rule
Elizabeth David Durell Baroness Tessa Jowell Pamela Savage
Grandmop Max Edelshain Gerry Kunz OBE Maggie Seymour-Griffin
Heather Maya Edelshain Roger Latham Henry Sharpley OBE
Philip Alexander Mary Elliott Adam Leigh Maureen Singer
John Benedict Allen Harry Elliott Cecil Leigh Gareth (Smudger) Smith
Marie Ambrose Alwyn Elston John Leigh Richard Gwynne Smith
Howard Anderson John Entract Martin Leigh Norman Smith
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Mary Ball Eden Evans Alistair Macdonald Charlotte Spearing
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Carols and Readings

Welcome Reading by Rosamund Pike

Jim Carter OBE Nursery School Nativity Play
Joyce Grenfell (1910-1979)
Once in Royal David’s City
This reading has been kindly
Words: C. F. Alexander (1818-1895) sponsored by Kate Cotton
Music: H. J. Gauntlett (1805-1876)
Arr: A. H. Mann (1850-1929) Thank you

Once in Royal David’s city Matthew Reed
Stood a lowly cattle shed, Chief Executive, Marie Curie
Where a mother laid her baby
In a manger for His bed; Canticum and Rob Burton
Mary was that mother mild,
Jesus Christ her little child. The Sussex Carol
Words: Luke Wadding OFM (1588-1657)
He came down to earth from heaven, in the collection of Cecil Sharp
Who is God and Lord of all, (1858-1924) and Ralph Vaughan Williams
And His shelter was a stable, Music: English Traditional Carol arr David Willcocks
And His cradle was a stall;
With the poor and mean and lowly, Reading by Hugh Bonneville
Lived on earth our Saviour holy.
1914, The Christmas Truce, an extract from
Not in that poor lowly stable, A Letter Home by Captain R. J. Armes,
With the oxen standing by, 1st Battalion, North Staffordshire Regiment
We shall see Him; but in Heaven,
Set at God’s right hand on high; This reading has been kindly sponsored
Where like stars His children crowned, by The Stock Exchange Veterans
All in white shall wait around.
Canticum
This carol has been kindly
sponsored by India Sargent Silent Night
Words: Joseph Mohr (1792-1848)
Reading by Paul Stockton Music: Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)
arr David de Warrenne (1946-2014)
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Canticum Dr Sarah Homes
Medical Director of the
Adam Lay Ybounden Marie Curie Hospice, Bradford
Words: Anon, 15th Century
Music: Boris Ord

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Reading by Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Pippa Bennett-Warner
Words: Charles Wesley (1707-1788)
Journey of the Magi (contd) Music: Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
© Godfrey Rust, wordsout.co.uk,
all rights reserved Hark! the herald angels sing,
“Glory to the newborn King;
Canticum Peace on earth and mercy mild
God and sinners reconciled!”
Three Kings from Persian Lands Afar
Words: Herbert Newell Bate (1871-1941) Joyful, all ye nations rise
Music: Peter Cornelius (1824-1874) Join the triumph of the skies;
and Philipp Nicolai (1556-1608) With the angelic host proclaim,
“Christ is born in Bethlehem!”
Reading by Asima Qayyum Hark! The herald angels sing
“Glory to the newborn King!”
Pakistani Praise Song for an
English Christmas Christ, by highest Heav’n adored;
By Asima Qayyum, Rathbones Christ the everlasting Lord;
Folio Prize administrator Late in time behold Him come
Offspring of a Virgin’s womb.
Canticum and Rob Burton Veiled in flesh the Godhead see;
Hail the incarnate Deity!
Walking in the air Pleased as man with man to dwell,
Words and Music: Howard Blake (b.1938) Jesus, our Emmanuel.

This carol has been kindly sponsored Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace!
by Charlotte Evans-Flagg Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and life to all He brings,
Reading by Imelda Staunton CBE Risen with healing in His wings.
Mild He lays His glory by,
The Twelve Days of Christmas Born that man no more may die.
John Julius Norwich (1929-2018) Born to raise the sons of earth,
Born to give them second birth.
This reading has been kindly
sponsored by Heather Johnson This carol has been kindly
sponsored by Carolyn Jones

Closing words

Jim Carter OBE

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Concert host
Jim Carter OBE

Jim Carter is perhaps best known to today‘s
audiences for his portrayal of Mr Carson, the
butler, in ITV’s hit drama Downton Abbey, for
which he has received four nominations as
Best Supporting Actor at the Emmy Awards.
Jim’s career spans 50 years starting out in
fringe theatre, progressing to seasons at
the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal
National Theatre, London’s West End and
also circus skills and a comedy magic act
which he performed for over 30 years.
Jim has also worked extensively in film and
television - A Private Function, Brassed Off,
Shakespeare in Love, The Singing Detective
and Cranford being amongst his personal
favourites.
Jim is proud to be a Marie Curie Celebrity
Ambassador.
Kindly sponsored by Chris and Jenny Elliott

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Rebecca Miller Celebrity readers
Rosamund Pike

Emmy Award-winner, BAFTA and Academy
Award-nominee Rosamund Pike has earned
international acclaim for her film, television
and stage roles.

Rosamund’s most recent project, J Blakeson’s
dark comedy I Care a Lot, recently premiered
at Toronto International Film Festival and has
been acquired by Netflix.

Earlier this year, Rosamund starred in the
lead role of Radioactive, a film which focuses
on the life of the two-time Nobel Prize
winning scientist Marie Curie as she makes
her ground-breaking discoveries. She
also recently won an Emmy Award for the
television comedy series State of the Union,
written by Nick Hornby.

Rosamund is currently filming The Wheel of
Time and will also be seen starring in Andrea
Di Stefano’s The Informer, a crime thriller
based on the novel Three Seconds by Roslund
& Hellström.

Her previous film credits include A Private
War, Hostiles, Gone Girl, A Long Way Down, The
World’s End, Jack Reacher, Wrath of the Titans,
An Education and Made in Dagenham. Other
projects have included Johnny English Reborn,
The Big Year, Women in Love, The Libertine,
Pride and Prejudice, Fracture, Fugitive Pieces,
Surrogates, Burning Palms and Die Another Day.

Aside from her cinematic roles, Rosamund
has continued to return to her roots with
theatre performances on the London stage.
She has starred in Gaslight, Patrick Hamilton’s
Victorian thriller, at the Old Vic Theatre,
The Donmar Warehouse Production of
Madame De Sade in The West End, opposite
Judi Dench, and The Royal Court Theatre
production of Hitchcock Blonde.

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Lou BoileauHugh Bonneville

Hugh Bonneville’s film credits include
Notting Hill, Iris, The Monuments Men,
Viceroy’s House, the two Paddington
movies and Downton Abbey. To Olivia,
about the author Roald Dahl and his first
wife, Patricia Neal (Keeley Hawes), will be
released in 2021.

His television roles include Ian Fletcher
in the BAFTA-winning Twenty Twelve and
W1A (BBC) and Robert Crawley in ITV’s
global hit, Downton Abbey, for which
he received nominations for a Golden
Globe, two Emmys and along with his
fellow cast members won three SAG
Awards for Outstanding Performance by
an Ensemble in a Drama Series.

Hugh’s stage career spans more than
three decades and includes seasons with
the National Theatre and the RSC.
His most recent appearance was as
C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands, at Chichester
Festival Theatre.

Hugh is a Deputy Lieutenant of West
Sussex and is a patron of the National
Youth Theatre of Great Britain, The
National Youth Arts Trust, Scene &
Heard, The Primary Shakespeare
Company and the South Downs National
Park Trust. Hugh says:

“I’m delighted to be joining friends and
colleagues for a celebration of Christmas in
support of the Marie Curie charity.”

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Paul Smith Pippa Bennett-Warner

Pippa can currently be seen playing
leading roles in Roadkill in which she stars
opposite Hugh Laurie, in the timely and
poignant Sitting in Limbo (both BBC) and
in OT Fagbenle’s hugely popular comedy
series MAXXX. Pippa’s other recent television
credits include Gangs of London for Sky and
Motherfatherson for the BBC opposite
Richard Gere.
Pippa’s feature film credits include 2019
festival favourite Real, Wakefield alongside
Bryan Cranston and Jennifer Garner, and
Netflix movie The Foreigner. Pippa’s other
television credits include the series regular
role of Becca in Sky Atlantic comedy
Sick Note opposite Rupert Grint, The Smoke,
Dominic Savage’s The Secret, The Trials of
Jimmy Rose and BBC One’s River alongside
Stellan Skarsgaard.

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Imelda Staunton CBE

Imelda Staunton is an English stage and
screen actress perhaps best known for
playing the title role in Vera Drake for which
she won a BAFTA Award and the Volpi Cup for
Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival. It also
earned her an Academy Award nomination
for Best Actress.
Since Vera Drake, Imelda has starred in the
Harry Potter series, as the gently sadistic
Professor Umbridge, as well as Another Year
(2010), Maleficent (2014), Pride (2014), both
Paddington films (2014 & 2017) and Downton
Abbey (2019). But it is on stage that she
has climbed to the very highest echelons,
winning multiple Olivier Awards for musicals
such as Into The Woods, Guys and Dolls,
Sweeney Todd, Gypsy and, most recently, for
her heart-breaking turn in Follies.
Earlier this year, Imelda starred as Irene
Ruddock in BBC One’s revival of Alan
Bennett’s Talking Heads monologue series,
filmed in lockdown. Next up, she is set to
take over from Oliva Colman as the third
iteration of the Queen in the fifth series of
Netflix’s The Crown.

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Mark Forkgen

His wide range of conducting also includes
performances with Deep Purple leading a
project for the Chelsea Festival based on
Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother. He has also
conducted a number of productions in the
last few years including Sweeney Todd, Cabaret,
The Threepenny Opera, Oh! What a Lovely War,
The Boyfriend, Into the Woods and Chess!

Susan Porter Thomas Highlights last year included Purcell’s semi-
opera, King Arthur, at the Cadogan Hall and
Vienna: Tradition & Innovation, a series of
concerts featuring music by Haydn, Mozart,
Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, Mahler,
Schönberg and Webern.

Mark Forkgen has been Music Director Mark’s recordings with Canticum and
of Canticum since 1995. He is also Music Kokoro have been highly recommended by
Director of the London Concert Choir and BBC Radio 3 and in both the musical and
Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor national press. Outside the UK he has given
of Kokoro (the Bournemouth Symphony performances of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
Orchestra’s contemporary music group). in Denmark, Handel’s Messiah in Siena and
He has worked with many leading orchestras, Handel’s Israel in Egypt at the Viterbo Early
including the Royal Philharmonic, the Music Festival in Italy, Schubert and Bach in
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Hong Kong and Haydn’s The Seasons in Assisi.
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the City
of London Sinfonia, the English Chamber Mark is a champion of youth music. He has
Orchestra and the Orchestra of Opera North been Director of Music at Tonbridge School
appearing at all London’s major venues since 2006, having previously held posts as
including the Royal Festival Hall, the Barbican, Music Director of the Ealing Youth Orchestra
the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Opera and Conductor of the Scottish Schools’
House. Orchestra and Dorset Youth Orchestra.

Kindly sponsored by William and Vivien
Blackburne

A specialist in the field of choral and
contemporary music, he has given first
performances of over 150 works, while also
acting as Conductor and Artistic Advisor for
highly acclaimed festivals, including Sir Peter
Maxwell Davies’ 70th Birthday, Stravinsky
Rite On, A Festival of Britten, Music of the
Americas, Britain after Britten and East Meets
West.

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Canticum

By way of contrast, the choir opened the
2008 Chelsea Festival, providing choral voices
for Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother alongside
soloist David Gilmour.

The choir stages regular trips abroad, with
Italy a favourite destination. Canticum has
toured with works including Purcell’s Dido and
Aeneas, Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, a
performance which opened the Viterbo Early
Music Festival to a packed audience. The
choir toured Bulgaria in 2013, performing in
Sofia and Plovdiv for Bulgarian TV and radio,
and Krakow in 2017.

Susan Porter Thomas Recording also has an important place in
Canticum’s schedule. The existing catalogue
Canticum is one of the most musically includes A Hymn to the Virgin, with works by
versatile chamber choirs in the country. Victoria, Poulenc and Panufnik, and two
Now in its 27th season, it has been praised for Christmas discs: A Christmas Carol and
accomplished performances of major works The Christmas Story. Another disc, In the
and for exploring contemporary repertoire. Gloom of Whiteness with Craft Music, features
The choir has also commissioned new writing work by Colin Riley, Fraser Trainer and
and gives regular first performances. Keith Roberts. The choir’s discography also
includes live recordings of work by
Recent season’s highlights have included Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and will soon
performances of Hywel Davies’ War Songs at include a new disc of Christopher Wright’s
the Cheltenham Festival and Kings Place, choral works.
new works by Roderick Williams and
Stephen McNeff at the Barbican and St Kindly sponsored by John Latham
Martin-in-the-Fields and works by Victoria,
Pärt and Tavener for Greenwich Performs at
the Queen’s House.

Canticum has also performed BBC Radio 4’s
Christmas Morning Service, Bach’s Mass
in B Minor with the Orchestra of The Age of
Enlightenment at St John’s, Smith Square and
the première of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’
Step by Circle, dedicated to Mark Forkgen and
the choir.

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Stephen Disley

Stephen Disley won a joint Foundation
Scholarship to the Royal College of Music and
London’s Temple Church.

As a recitalist and accompanist, Stephen
appears frequently at the Royal Albert
Hall and has played at all of the UK’s major
venues. He has performed and broadcast
with ensembles such as the Budapest Radio
Choir, and the BBC Singers – including
a recording of Choir Book for The Queen,
conducted by Stephen Cleobury. Other
performances include Poulenc’s Organ
Concerto with the London Mozart Players,
Janacek’s Glagolitic Mass in the Montepulciano
Festival, and regular Organ Galas with the
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO). He has
performed with the Mexico State Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by Enrico Batiz, and
the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra,
conducted by Alessandro d’Agostini, also
performing as a soloist in Warsaw, Cologne,
and at the Royal Festival Hall with the RPO,
conducted by Charles Dutoit.

Stephen is Organist at Southwark Cathedral
and Founding Director of its Girls’ Choir
which, in addition to its weekly commitments
at the cathedral, has undertaken tours to
Bergen, Rouen, the Czech Republic, Rome,
Belfast, Krakow and Paris. The Choir has
made three CD recordings, all of which have
received excellent reviews, including works
commissioned for the Girls’ Choir.

He has also performed and recorded premiers
of music by Sir Peter Maxwell-Davies, Judith
Bingham, Bob Chilcott, Gabriel Jackson,
Tarick O’Regan, Philip Moore and others.
Stephen is also involved with the JAM (John
Armitage Memorial) Trust.

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Rob Burton

Award-winning classical saxophonist Rob
Burton won the Woodwind Category Final
and was a Grand Finalist in BBC Young
Musician 2018. Rob currently studies on a full
scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music
with Huw Wiggin and privately in Zürich
with Lars Mlekusch. He previously studied
as Sax.co.uk Scholarship holder at the Junior
Guildhall School of Music.

Performance highlights include recitals at the
Cheltenham Festival, Oundle International
Festival, Charles Wood Festival (Northern
Ireland), and concertos with Silk Street
Sinfonia and City of Birmingham Symphony
Orchestra. He has also performed in
prestigious London venues including
St. John’s Smith Square, St. James’ Piccadilly,
Buckingham Palace, and Windsor Castle.

A winner of the 2019 Hans Schaeuble Award
in Switzerland, as well as winner of the ‘Sussex
Prize for Woodwind’ in the Royal Overseas
League Annual Music Competition Final,
Rob is a ‘Making Music UK’s Selected Artist’
2020/21 and a Vandoren UK artist.

Kindly sponsored by Chris and Jenny Elliott

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Thank you

Marie Curie would like to thank the following individuals and companies for their support
and generosity for this evening’s event.

Special thanks go to this evening’s headline sponsor - Rathbone Investment Management

And thank you also to
AGM Group
Asima Qayyum
Buckingham & Lloyds
Canticum
Carolyn Jones
Charlotte Evans-Flagg
Chris and Jenny Elliott
Dobbies Garden Centres
Hugh Bonneville
Imelda Staunton CBE
India Sargent
Jim Carter OBE
John Latham
Kate Cotton
Mark Forkgen
Paul Evans
Paul Stockton
Pippa Bennett-Warner
Rob Burton
Rosamund Pike
Sarah Holmes
Stephen Disley
St Saviours Church, Pimlico
The Stock Exchange Veterans
William and Vivien Blackburne

Special thanks go to the Marie Curie Carols
in the City Committee and especially Heather
Johnson, Carols in the City Committee
Chairman and concert producer.

Thank you to all those who have so
generously donated in support of this event.

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