DID WE MAKE ST DAVID PROUD - WE DO HOPE SO - I March 2024
We may be an English Choir, but there’s no doubt we can sing in Welsh, we have some Welsh members, and we’ve have sung with Welsh Male Choirs, so for RMVC celebrating St David’s Day was, as they say, a must!
The venue for our concert was the lovely St Michael’s Church in the heart of Southampton, and the Choir really did what our poster promised, bringing to the audience a multi-lingual, multi-genre medley of marvellous music. Directed as always by our wonderful Musical Director, Marion Maxey, with the super talented Brian Budden as the evening’s accompanist, we performed throughout with choir members usual passion and love of singing.
Joining us on the night was Katie Salomon a wonderful harpist, whose exquisite playing gave us a series of Welsh pieces very warmly received, not just by the audience, but also by those of us in the choir.
Aside from the highlight of Katie’s performance, RMVC once more sang the poignant Prayer of the Children, and the impact of the emotive messages and singing rendered the audience momentarily silent as it ended before offering the choir its heartfelt applause. Not to be forgotten in the highlights were a solo by David Grey in Working Man, and a duet featuring Choir President Keith Lawrenson and Choir Chairman Kevin Cleary in O Gymru.
The traditional, and much enjoyed, afterglow on this occasion was held in the nearby Masonic Hall before the adrenalin filled singers went home to sleep and then prepare for a second concert in Romsey Abbey the next day.
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Singing with Passion
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Harpist Katie Salomon
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Always enjoyable the Afterglow with Kevin at the helm of singing.
