Issue 5 - April 2011 - Ampleforth College

Year 7
Concert
On Saturday 22nd January, Year 7 rounded
off their Parents’ Day with a concert of
varied vocal and instrumental items in the
Blackden Hall. Highlights included the
vocal item beginning the concert, Give ear
unto me by Benedetto Marcello, sung by
Rupert Waley and Henry Laird.
Our cellists were well represented and
there were items played together as well
as solos. Archie Campbell played us a
rousing piece on the trumpet,
appropriately titled Ready, Aim, Fire!
followed by Christopher Tang playing us
Hungarian Dance No 2 by Brahms on the
violin. Set 1 sang items from Gilbert and
Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance and Princess
Ida, with solos by Edmund Hirst, Rupert
Waley and Raphael Gould. Peter Black, in
one of his two appearances, played a
Spanish Ballad on the guitar, a most
sensitive performance which made the
audience listen closely. Rupert Waley
closed the solo section with a fine vocal
rendition of Handel’s Silent Worship.
This was followed by the entire year group
singing a varied programme, with audience
participation. The evening’s entertainment
closed with the famous You’ll never walk
alone from Rogers and Hamerstein’s
musical Carousel. Parents seemed delighted
with the programme and the efforts of their
children in performing a quite challenging
repertoire for young boys and girls.
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YEAR 7 CONCERT