Canford perform Carmina Burana at Lighthouse, Poole
15 weeks of rehearsal culminated on Sunday 5th February in the combined forces of Canford's Chapel Choir, Junior Choirs, Shell Musicians and Choral Society performing Carl Orff's Carmina Burana at Lighthouse, Poole Centre for the Arts.
The choir (numbering nearly 150 singers) was joined by the Senior Choir from Dumpton School who took the part of the Ragazzi Choir. An appreciative audience of about 600 recalled the conductor, David Warwick, three times at the end of the exciting performance. Earlier in the programme, the school's orchestra played Bizet's Carmen Suite no 2, with some accomplished solo playing from some of our senior musicians. Matthew Hopkins played the violin solo with considerable elegance, while our flautists, Gemma Doherty and Charlotte Rottenburg, navigated the many seme-quavers in the solo flute parts with dexterity.
The wind band played a complex arrangement of the well-known Shaker hymn tune, co-ordinating their contrapuntal entries skilfully under the baton of Andrew Barnes. All of the performers thoroughly enjoyed the experience of playing in the Lighthouse's Concert Hall, home of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
