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Monday, 08 December 2008
Bolton School is taking part in a Carol Concert on 8 December at
7.00pm at Manchester Cathedral, with all proceeds going to
MacMillan Cancer Support. The evening is being hosted by DJ Andy
Peebles and promises inspired performances from the Boys'
Division's Advanced Guitar Group and the School's Joint Chamber
Choir.
The guitar group will play Eleanor Rigby and Volare as well as
Esquizofrenico, written by a past student. Chung Chan Tham will
play a classical guitar solo, Villa Lobos - prelude no.1.
The Chamber Choir are singing two items: a glorious arrangement
of Jerome Kern's 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes' and Harold Darke's
beautiful 'In the Bleak Mid-winter'.
The Advanced Guitar Group is one of five currently active in
Bolton School Boys' Division. In recent years the guitarists have
been very successful in the National Guitar Orchestra competition
winning the best youth group in 2000, and coming runners-up in the
whole competition in 2002 and 2004.
They have taken part in master-classes with Craig Ogden who
visited the school in 2003 and again in 2007. At the end of his
visit he stated that guitar ensemble work at Bolton School was
'setting international standards'.
Having completed successful tours of Belgium in July 2006 and
Prague in July 2008, they are now busy preparing for their next
European tour which will take place in 2010.
The Joint Chamber Choir consists of boys and girls from ages 14
- 18 and their repertoire ranges from Renaissance motets and
madrigals, through major choral works including masses and requiems
to modern classics and part songs. The Chamber Choir has also
performed in a number of European cities including Prague, Paris
and Chartres and has broadcast for BBC National Radio 4's 'Morning
Service'. In the summer they enjoyed a very successful concert tour
of Vienna performing in a number of major venues.
The boys and girls' music departments are busy preparing for the
School's summer concert which will take place at the Bridgewater
Hall on 24 June 2009.
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