Our annual concert was held again at All Saints Church, Oystermouth on 6th June. We opened with a new piece to our repertoire O Gymru, which is a very patriotic Welsh song and the first section finished with Gordon Langford’s arrangement of The Lost Chord. This featured Steve on the organ and the piece built to an amazing climax.
Our soloists this year were Eirlys Myfanwy Davies and Jonathan Lycett. Eirlys has just performed in the Royal Albert Hall, London, with the Joint Festival of Welsh Massed Voices and regularly appears on S4C. She sang a variety of pieces including Mozart’s Un moto di joia and Jason Howard’s arrangement of Cymru Fach. Jonathan was highly entertaining, as usual, singing mainly songs from the shows and finishing with Adolphe Adam’s famous The Holy City.
We completed the programme with a number of lighter items including Robbie Williams’ Angels and a medley of songs by Abba.
When Nick took over as musical director over 2 years ago, we had to recruit new members and it was pleasing to see that we had 46 choristers on stage. This was, therefore, the largest number that we have ever assembled at a concert.
Many thanks must go to Nick, Rhian and Steve for all their hard work in putting the programme together and also to the committee for making the evening such a success. We must also thank the ‘ladies’ for supplying a buffet for the choir and guests after the concert which was held in the church hall.
