St Helen’s Church, Abingdon was packed for our Carol Concert under the directorship of new Head of Music, Debbie Rose, (who also composed some of the carols). The programme included a rich variety of congregational carols, Christmas songs, seasonal readings and instrumental pieces for groups and soloists. As always, we started with Once in Royal David’s City<\/em>, Dominic sang the solo. Other soloists performed the violing piece Czardas<\/em> and a vocal quartet sang words by G.K. Chesterton set to music by Debbie.<\/p>\n The different sections and choirs each sang several songs including I wish I was a shepherd<\/em> from Y3-4, Winter Wonderland from Y5-6; Y7-8 sang Gaudete<\/em>, a French carol (dir. Lynne) and White Christmas to which the congregation all joined in. Junior Choir sang out in Ring Out the Bells<\/em>, the Seniors performed It happened long ago in Bethlehem<\/em> and Chamber Choir harmonised beautifully in Carol of the Bells<\/em>. Orchestra, Jazz Band, Brass and Guitar groups all performed enthusiastically, and the Staff Choir sang John Lennon’s Happy Xmas, War is Over<\/em> to popular acclaim.<\/p>\n Thank you to all the peris and staff who took part and worked tirelessly behind the scenes rehearsing the boys, and also accompanist Chris Fletcher-Campbell from Abingdon School and Bethan Rose.<\/p>\n The retiring collection was made in aid of RDA. Thank you for your generosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 8 December 2015 St Helen’s Church, Abingdon was packed for our Carol Concert under the directorship of new Head of Music, Debbie…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,65],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n