Head's Newsletter 14 September 2018

Following fantastic performances at the Choir Concert and Founder’s Day at the end of the Summer term, Tiffin Boys’ Choir finished their year with a trip to Norfolk and Ely, where they performed alongside the Gabrieli Consort in a CD recording and an enormous concert in Ely Cathedral.

will be released at some point over the coming year. On Saturday the Oratorio Choir, alongside the Boys’ Choir and the Children’s Chorus, ran a Come & Sing event, directed by Ralph Allwood. An extremely exciting performance of Faure’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s Gloria was put together in a very short space of time and performed to an exceptionally generous audience. This event was held in aid of the Choir Tour Fund, which will go towards the Boys’ Choir’s tour of Croatia in July. This will be one of a number of tours this year, with boys from the Boys’ Choir also visiting Berlin in November. This Sunday several of the Year 7s will perform with the Boys’ Choir for the first time. Alongside children from Tiffin Children’s Chorus and Tiffin Girls’ School, the will be part of a chorus of 100 children singing in a performance of Britten’s Spring Symphony with the London Symphony Orchestra and London Symphony Chorus, directed by Sir Simon Rattle. Performances take place at the Barbican on Sunday 16 th , 7pm, and Tuesday 18 th , 7.30pm. Instrumental lessons and ensemble rehearsals have now begun, and all children are encouraged to get involved with an ensemble, or come and try and instrument during our Introduction to Musical Instruments week next week. Parents and staff are also welcome to come and join in with school music, by joining the Oratorio Choir, which rehearses 7-9pm on Wednesdays in school, and is this term working towards a performance of Verdi’s Requiem on 25 th November.

The sound was absolutely incredible, made up of 200 young singers, a 50-strong professional choir, a large orchestra, and a band of military brass who performed from halfway down the nave. Led by conductor Paul McCreesh and narrator Simon Russell Beale, the musicians strung together a recreation of a coronation, complete with music performed at the four twentieth century coronations and a spellbound audience taking the part of the Westminster Abbey congregation. The CD