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January 2015
| No. 37
The School’s new piano makes its debut at the prestigious Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.
The beautiful, 25 year old Yamaha grand, generously funded by sales
from the Second-hand Uniform Shop, took centre stage and featured
from the very first item – the accompaniment of the First Year in
The
Virgin Mary had a Baby Boy
and
Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree
,
under the direction of Mr Cotton.
The Music Department was delighted when its bid to The Annual
Fund for a piano was successful. The Piano Gallery of Faringdon
kindly agreed to supply the piano to the Sheldonian Theatre for its
first ever Abingdon performance in front of a capacity audience,
before being delivered back to Abingdon the following day.
Three of our senior pianists, Leon Wu, Anthony Bracey and Daniel
Tong, played a movement each of Beethoven’s magnificent
Piano
Concerto No 3 in Cminor
as the key work of the first half of the concert.
The second half featured Chamber Orchestra, Joint Chamber Choir,
Wind Band and Big Band. With some 250 performers, in a stunning
venue and with our new piano taking pride of place it was a very
successful and enjoyable evening.
Sheldonian is stunning venue for Christmas Concert
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Out of the Past
03
News
06
Sport
08
Arts
12
Prep
Pupils, staff, parents and friends from Abingdon
and St Helen’s joined together at St Helen’s School
to sing the Messiah.
Celebration of Messiah
A GRAND FIRST
PERFORMANCE
