Spring 2020 concert - Cuts

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Laurence has sent details as follows:

Oratorio: St Paul
We will not be singing everything!  But it’s not all cuts.
The full choir will be singing 3 choruses set for soli.
The changes are as follows:
 
Cut 13 Recit. (Alto solo) and 14 Arioso (Alto solo)
Cut 15 Chorus (Rise! Up! Arise!)
Cut 20 Bass solo (I praise thee) and Chorus (The Lord, He is good)
Part cut: 23 Chorus (The nations) Stop at top of p109
Cut 27 Recit and Arioso (Sop solo)
TUTTI Chorus (not soli) 29 (Is this he? and O Thou, the true)
Cut 32 – 40  en block (including 4 choruses: 33, 35, 36d and 38)
TUTTI Chorus (not soli) 42 (Far be it)

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Stands and sits

Part 1
	STAND when conductor and soloists enter, then SIT.
p.9	STAND when organ introduction begins.
p.30	SIT at the end of the chorus.
p.34	Follow the organ part from ‘a tempo’ and STAND as the tenor sings “Ye have received the Law”.
p.36	SIT at the end of the Recit (i.e. just before “Jerusalem thou that killest the prophets).
p.39	STAND exactly at the beginning of the bottom line.
p.44	REMAIN STANDING.
p.55	SIT at the end of the page (after the organ finishes).
p.60	ALL STAND and turn to page 63 (NB pages 61 and 62 are CUT); Also prepare to jump from p.64 to p.79 to start SLEEPERS WAKE without an introduction or new chord (NB p.65 to p.78 are CUT).
p.81	SIT
p.86	CUT to p.95
p.96	4th system, “Moderato” STAND
p.106	INTERVAL
Part 2
p.107	Mark
	STAND when conductor and soloists enter, open book on gesture, then ready to sing straight away.
p.109	CUT to p.122 and SIT.
p.124	STAND at the start of the 4th system.
p.129	REMAIN STANDING at the end of the chorus, CUT to p.132
p.143	SIT at the end of the chorus.
p.148	CUT to p.180
p.180	STAND at the beginning of the 4th system until the end of the piece.