On Saturday 18th April, once again we were priviledged to be asked to perform a concert at the Berkshire Masonic Centre on behalf of The Association Of Friends of Lord Harris Court.

For this performance we treated the audience to a varied programme that included our second outing for the four items we intend to be singing for the competition at the Cornwall International Male Choral Festival at the beginning of May. These are "Pueri Hebraeorum" , a rather difficult polyphonic number by Palestrina; a Hampshire folk song, "The Willow Tree", which has been specially arranged for us by local musician Simon Hancock in memory of the late Brian Carter who was a long term choir member; " the well known male voice standard "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes";  and "Soon Ah Will Be Done",  an African American Spiritual arranged by William Dawson who was the first African American Doctor of Music.
As well as the competition pieces, we performed renditions of Broadway and West End numbers ("Cole Porter Medley", "On The Street Where You Live" and "Bring Him Home"); songs from round the world ("Aberystwyth", "Kalinka", "What Would I Do Without My Music ", "Londonderry Air", "Wellerman" , "The Wild Rover"), Music of Faith ("With A Voice Of Singing " and "My Lord What A Mornin' " ). Further variety was provided by our very own talented singer/songwriter David Doddington who accompanied himself on the guitar singing a piece of his own composition.

The concert succesfully raised about £1,000 for charity.

Image courtesy of  Steve Gotting.