Aylesbury Choral Society joined with Aylesbury Festival Choir for concert at a sold out Aylesbury Waterside Theatre on Saturday 29th November in remembrance of the start of the First World War. They were accompanied by the sixty piece Oxford Festival Orchestra in performing Dona Nobis Pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams and The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace by Karl Jenkins.
The choirs had been rehearsing very hard and Alison had been to rehearse with both choirs, it was that important. All the hard work paid off as we were treated to an excellent performance, both with the singing and the orchestra. The big surprise of the evening were the two pieces performed by Aylesbury Youth Orchestra, William Walton's Crown Imperial and Edward Elgar's Nimrod from his Enigma Variations. The orchestra was far better than I had imagined from a local youth orchestra. A very successful evening.
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