No,
not a recipe for his usual martini but
the effect he created as this dashing "James Bond" made his
"007" signature by-your-leave from the Stage at the ESK COMMUNITY
CHOIR'S "Our Gift to the
Outback" Pre-Tour Concert on Sunday September 9th.
This inaugural Concert in the new Somerset Civic Centre took a wrapt audience on a musical journey as
diverse as some of the places at which the Esk Community Choir will be
performing during their 11 day concert tour of Central Queensland in just over
one week's time.
What more
fitting than a rousing Aussie Anthem opening by nine of the cutest little
half-notes around, the
"Semitones", as they performed
the first item of the first Concert at the oh so impressive new Somerset Civic
Centre... the next generation who hold in their hands the continuum of the
wonderful music culture now legendary in
the Somerset Region and beyond, created
by the Esk Community Choir. From Opera
excerpts to an oxo cube of "Paint Your Wagon". From Broadway
to some 1920's bawdy Scherzi ballyhoo and some uncloistered irreverence
when Mother Mary Nag-a-Lot and her saucy Sisters took to the stage, this was a
concert which had the near capacity audience applauding for more. And more they got with a lively
interpretation of the Italian song "Zing Zing" as an encore. Like a great bottle of red, this Choir just
seems to get better with age!!!
Following a
cuppa and an afternoon tea that tasted as tantalising as it appeared in the
Somerset Civic Centre's sumptuous foyer,
the satisfied audience made their way home with, as one of closing
numbers suggested, a song in their
hearts, excited by the prospect of the
Choir's upcoming Christmas Concert on December 2nd, and more and more amazing musical moments
this Civic Centre and this wonderful Esk Community Choir will have in store.
For the
next page of the journey.... "Our Gift to the Outback" Concert Tour..... Watch this space!!!
By Susan Walker. (see our Preparation Story Click Here)
