The 2024 Beaconsfield Festival of Choirs was a memorable event. Seer Green Singers performed three songs as well as a joint song with all the other choirs. And for the first time our Music Director, Jane Smith, took part in a choir formed of all the music directors; the Choir Leaders' Choir performance was truly inspiring.
And here are a couple of the performances. First, Seer Green Singers performing "The Duke of Northumberland".
The Duke of Northumberland was a steam-powered lifeboat propelled by water jets rather than propellers. The song is about a real-life rescue which took place off Holyhead in 1908, when the SS Harold, a clay-laden steamer from Teignmouth bound for Liverpool got into trouble in a storm. The Holyhead lifeboat, The Duke of Northumberland, was called out to rescue the crew of nine. Coxswain William Owen was awarded the RNLI’s Gold Medal and the rest of the crew were awarded Silver Medals.
The Duke of Northumberland was a steam-powered lifeboat propelled by water jets rather than propellers. The song is about a real-life rescue which took place off Holyhead in 1908, when the SS Harold, a clay-laden steamer from Teignmouth bound for Liverpool got into trouble in a storm. The Holyhead lifeboat, The Duke of Northumberland, was called out to rescue the crew of nine. Coxswain William Owen was awarded the RNLI’s Gold Medal and the rest of the crew were awarded Silver Medals.
And second the Choir Leaders' Choir singing Stardust.
Seer Green Singers were originally planning to sing this, but Jane took it out of our repertoire, and subsequently admitted it was because it had been included in that of the Choir Leaders. I think you'll agree this was a beautiful performance (but they did have the music - we'd have had to memorise it!)
Seer Green Singers were originally planning to sing this, but Jane took it out of our repertoire, and subsequently admitted it was because it had been included in that of the Choir Leaders. I think you'll agree this was a beautiful performance (but they did have the music - we'd have had to memorise it!)