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| It's amazing who turns up at the Esk Community Choir Concerts! |
If music be the
food of life, then the ESK COMMUNITY CHOIR'S
Fun and Family Concert at the Somerset Civic Centre on Sunday May 5th
was an all-you-can-eat buffet nourishing the spirit of all who came to be
entertained.
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The Semitones start the show with the National Anthem.
Mr Brian Crichton (Merlin of Mongolia) the emcee for the concert. |
This was a 35th birthday celebration of a Choir which
has been entertaining audiences continuously for all of those years. It was emceed by the always eloquent and ever
popular "Mr Crichton" but
bees could not have been busier than Choir Director, Alexis FitzGerald as she subtly steered, conducted and
co-ordinated the performers on and off the stage. With the spirited sound of The Semitones now becoming Concert 'regulars', their heartfelt entreé of the Anthem preceded
the colourful greeting by the Choir reminding everyone that " It's May" and the scene was set... On with the show!!
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| Classic Clarinets |
Guest artists, 'Classic
Clarinets'...30 of them there were, with beautiful instruments of varying sizes
and pitch, were led by their Director Graham Evans. They were the personification of their name
giving a first class performance of some enduring classics including "
Puttin' on the Ritz" which set many
feet a'tapping and didn't stop through the Choir's rendition of Irving Berlin's
"
Let Yourself Go". To complete first course, the Choir,
accompanied by both clarinets and piano, truly did "
Sing Like There's No Tomorrow"!!
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| Swinging on a Star - The Semitones |
A trio of sparkling songs by The Semitones
then lit up the stage with their boundless energy and talents on a par with
their beautiful costuming.
Enter...Story Teller extraordinaire, Patrina McLeod with her Nursery Rhyme Medley.
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| Story Teller - Patrina McLeod |
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| Big Bad Wolf |
It was here where Little Boy Blue met Old
Mother Hubbard and a very cute, tail wagging, Big Bad Wolf was seen to be in
hot pursuit of an even cuter Little Red Riding Hood.
Humpty Dumpty, all were told numerous times,
had a great fall but still managed to keep smiling at the front of the stage
when along came a rather large spider which scared the living daylights out of
Little Miss Muffet as she sat on her tuffet!!
Mary, Mary told how to make a pie
out of apples and rice...who wouldn't be contrary?
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Little Tommy Thin
and the Pussy from the well. |
...And finally... mystery solved...It
was little Tommy (Joshua FitzGerald) Thin who was last seen departing the well
with a rather bedraggled pussycat in tow!!!
The interval over,
it was over to the special guest artist, Jessica Berwick aka "Jess" whose self-accompanied trio of songs including the irrepressible
James Cohen classic "Hallelujah" left no doubt as to the reasons she was
chosen for her role in the recent successful Toowoomba season of "Hairspray".
Corked hats and bodies went bobbing through
a collaboration of Choir, Clarinets and Conductor with "Click Go the Shears". Then with Semitones, Choir, Clarinets, Piano
and some brilliant conducting, Rodgers & Hammerstein's evocative "You'll Never Walk Alone" not only
brought goosebumps to an appreciative audience but the concert to a close.
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| Esk Community Choir |
Having served up an
afternoon of some sublime singing, the culinary reputation of the Choir will
also remain intact following the exquisite mosaic display of cupcakes as it was
presented on tables at the conclusion of the day and which had concert goers heading home replete as
well as thoroughly entertained.
By Susan Walker
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| Cupcakes galore! |
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Chris and Annissa Watts dance
into the hall to the song "It's May" |
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| Humpty Dumpty - keeping an eye on proceedings |
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| Esk Community Choir and Classic Clarinets - "Sing Like There's No Tomorrow" |
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| John Caffin and Bob Hardy tell the story of Humpty Dumpty |
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| Clarinet player extraordinaire taking a well earned rest |
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