COMPETITIVE
FESTIVAL
Prizewinners'
Concert at Hylands School
25.11.11
This
annual festival of music and drama has now clocked up fifty-one years
in the County Town, and this sampler concert gave some flavour of the
breadth and quality of the entries.
Max
Saunders gave a strikingly emotional monologue –
a young American making an impassioned, frustrated phone call home to
Mum. And Lucy Aitchison contributed an amusing recital of an Ahlberg
poem.
Musically,
the highlights included Emma Harris, a tiny violinist playing Bach
with amazing tone and confidence, and Anthony Williams' toe-tapping
Cream Soda piano solo.
The
young vocalist Abbie Ward sang, unamplified, with a simple piano
accompaniment, the Alan Menken Disney classic Colours of the Wind.
Pure magic.
The
evening began with Chelmsford Young Strings –
a training orchestra for primary age performers –
and ended with Elm Green School choir with the Snoopy anthem Just One
Person.
The
guest speaker was Peter Cross, whose long career has been built on
inspiring young musicians. He reminded winners, performers and
supporters of the importance of celebrating live music, and urged
everyone to get practising for 2012 !
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