A DATE WITH THE DINNER SET

Описание: WELCOME to 'A DATE WITH THE DINNER SET' broadcast #283 on 21 DEC 2025 @ 1830 GMT...Tonight's programme was recorded LIVE as I am playing the organ for a 9 x lessons and carols service, but we hope you will enjoy the brightness, warmth, and cheer our weekly Piano show of jazz standards, Latin, show tunes, film music, topical music, quirks and classical favourites can bring.

This evening's programme has 7 rather than the usual 6 pieces and ALL have been requested by YT listeners over the past few weeks. It is quite an assortment with some seasonal and many well known. It has been huge fun to prepare and piece together so...Sit back and enjoy 45 mins with Gareth and join in the chat, press LIKE and leave a comment - Pull up a pew, or recline in relaxation with your beverage of choice as we enjoy the music together. We hope our music brings lots of happiness. Please enjoy this evening's selection 😃

The upload on FRI 21 DEC was a new arrangement of WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS from 'Mame' by Jerry Herman which I recorded live during a concert. It was lots of fun to do and you can enjoy it with this link:

   • 🎄We need a little Christmas🎄 - Christmas h...  

If ADWTDS is new to you, this is the current format of the programme: In our 45-min session together we begin with a short 30-sec piece of opening music (usually TV or film and very often rather niche and obscure for my enjoyment!) followed by 6 x standards/ballads/show tunes/film music/quirks/Latin etc. We also like making links and connections between the music/writers/performers/context as we enjoy our music together, as well as looking to the world calendar for a topicality check, and to see what people are celebrating on this day. Please also join us in the chat room to talk either about the music or, as is more usual....what you are eating & the weather! Each week we finish with a wildcard piece, which could be any of: 1) new to the show 2) a request from you [email to make a request to: [email protected]] 3) something classical 4) something quirky 5) something pertinent to the day.

I hope you will be with us live, but you can also watch any time, of course - so please spread the word and remember to have notifications ON so you know when things happen on the channel. If you would like to buy Gareth a coffee in support of this channel, you can do so safely with any card, with this link:

www.paypal.me/ggthepianoman.

Many thanks - Gareth 🎹🙌

THE SET LIST WAS:

00:25 Only Fools and Horses (Opening music) - JOHN SULLIVAN
07:50 JESUS CHILD - John Rutter
14:50 IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER - Harold Darke
22:35 TOM TRAUBERT'S BLUES - Tom Waits
29:55 MACARTHUR PARK - Jimmy Webb
39:00 SHINING LIGHT - Tim Wheeler
46:53 STOP THE CAVALRY - Jona Lewis
51:45 THE CHRISTMASTIME OF OLD - Gareth Giles