75th Anniversary Celebrations
- Wickersley String Quartet
A group of our students were invited to perform at St. James Church, Clifton as part of their 75th Anniversary celebrations on Sunday 15th November. The celebration was organised and led by Graeme Simpson. The concert billed as a ‘Festival of Schools’ Music’, contained musical items from Aston Lodge Primary School, East Dene Primary school and Wickersley School and Sports College. Both primary school choirs sang wonderfully and received great applause from the large audience.
Our spot started off with the newly formed vocal group, Vox Humana, singing a Finnish Oik called ‘Ole featuring soloist Gemma Taylor. Vox Humana was created from the current Y10 GCSE Music group who have really taken to the idea of part singing. This was their first public performance as a vocal group and they performed extremely well to set the tone for the rest of our musical items.
Emma Jack, the winner of ‘Wickersley Young Musician of the Year 2009′ performed next. She gave a spellbinding performance of ‘Alabaster box’ and ‘Redeemer’ that left the audience mesmerized by her emotionally charged voice. Before each song she gave the audience an insight into the meaning of the songs, which was a really nice touch. Megh Taafe then sang and played guitar, in contrast. Heather Rose followed playing a haunting rendition of Lara’s Theme (from the film Dr. Zhivago) on her clarinet.
Daniel Waite (violin), his brother Richard (viola) together with sisters Rachael (violin) and Rebecca Evans (cello) make up the ‘Wickersley String Quartet‘. They have been playing together now for just over a year and are well established as an ensemble. They finished our spot off with a thoughtful performance of the Pachelbel Canon in D and a lively performance of the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba.
We were very happy to be invited to share in the 75th Anniversary celebrations at St James Church. It made for a lovely Sunday afternoon of music making.
