Head's Newsletter 16 December 2022

MUSIC PERFORMANCES

Concert Band at North Kingston Christmas Fair The Concert Band was delighted to be invited to support the North Kingston community and traders ’ association at their Christmas event, which included the switching on of the Christmas lights in the School ’ s local neighbourhood along with craft stalls, carol singing and other live music. Welcomed by L ’ Assaggino restaurant to perform in their courtyard on Park Road, the band played music by Gershwin and Bernstein along with seasonal favourites including Jingle Bell Rock, Rocking Around The Christmas Tree and Winter Wonderland. Fuelled in the cool crisp weather by generous hot chocolates and enthusiastic passers by, the band made a great contribution to the festive mood that Saturday morning.

Chamber Choir Alumni Carol Service St. Andrew ’ s Church Holborn was a delightful venue for the Chamber Choir ’ s first Alumni Carol Service, with its generous acoustic, impressive pipe organ and central location welcoming alumni from around London and further afield. Formed only a few years earlier with the admission of female students to the sixth form, the Chamber Choir showed impressive poise and musicianship as they sang carols which included many contemporary arrangements, such

as Mack Wilberg ’ s Ding Dong Merrily and In The Bleak, along with Melissa Dunphy ’ s Halcyon Days and In The Stillness by Sally Beamish, a counterpoint to more familiar seasonal music featured in the Tiffin Boys ’ Choir ’ s Kingston carol service the following week. The congregational carols were something to

behold, as the organist engaged the instrument ’ s thundering bombarde division to match the powerful singing of the assembly, reflecting the many former Tiffin choristers present.