Lunchtime Recital - September 20th

Date: Thursday 20 September 2007

Normal lunchtime routine is regularly punctuated throughout the year by the opportunity to hear our young musicians play to a public audience - often for the first time - and gain confidence and experience from it.

Today's concert featured members of the Middle Fifth, and one new Lower Fifth, and it fully entertained an audience of staff, parents, and pupils with its programme spanning the centuries from Mozart to John Barry.

Fred White played the Rachmaninov Prelude in Csharp minor with real power and precision - he thanked the Steinway for enhancing his performance! Alice Obee and Gabby Hodnett then challenged Celine Dion with their rendition of 'My Heart will go on' from 'Titanic'. Tim Edlin gave us the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata in G, before Thaddeus Bebb, on his debut on French Horn, presented the contrasting styles of a Romanze from Mozart, and Mancini's 'The Pink Panther'. Last up was Tom Vafidis and his alto sax, and 'Blues for Marguerite', incorporating his own variations on the main theme.

Well done, all you performers, for braving what by nature is a critically supportive audience, and earning warm applause in every case.