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Thread #101683   Message #2053522
Posted By: sian, west wales
16-May-07 - 09:59 AM
Thread Name: What did you sing in the school choir ?
Subject: RE: What did you sing in the school choir ?
Crikey moses, George. That's a hard act to follow.

The good old Port Colborne High School Glee Club used to do quite an amazing range of stuff ... and I seem to recall winning various Ontario Provincial Kiwanis Club competitions, so I guess we were good. And we had a great choir master - Bob Wood. I still make sure I say hello to him when I visit 'home'.

I liked Healy Willan stuff (O Sacred Head was one of them), also Handel, and ilk. Don't know who wrote "With a Voice of Singing" and "O King All Glorious" but I loved singing those. I liked "Who is at my Window Who" as well.

But we also did a LOT of arranged traditional songs: Lonesome Valley, Sourwood Mountain, We'll Rant and We'll Roar, Black is the Colour, etc.

And, as this was in the 60s, we did Sound of Silence, Age of Aquarius, etc.

As to the 'flip side' of this, was there ever a high school choir which DIDN'T sing No Nobis Domine???? There was a school choir performing in the foyer of Cardiff's Millennium Centre (concert hall) a few months ago and it seemed that half of the passers-by (including myself) were singing along ...

sian