(Noel Coward, 16.12.1889 – 26.3.1973) This tune means so much to me. Almost my earliest musical memory is of my mother playing it on the parlour…
Browsing: Dacorum Community Choir
Monthly news column from Dacorum Community Choir published in the Boxmoor Direct magazine
(Howard Jones, b. 23rd February 1955) My life seems full of coincidences. The copy date for this month’s Boxmoor Direct fell on Wednesday 23rd February, Howard…
(music by Allan E Naplan, b.1972) is a lyrical setting of an essential maxim from Jewish morality laws, translated to mean: ‘The world is sustained by…
(Ogden Nash, 1902 – 1971) Two amazing and momentous events began our Christmas celebrations in December. On the 3rd, we sang outdoors for the first time…
(1944, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane) This is one of the numbers in the Choir’s Christmas songbook that we use when we perform in the community.…
(“Hannibal” Smith, The ‘A’ Team) October marks the choir’s AGM and last year our chair, Caroline Lees ended her report with three wishes – that we…
(Earl Nightingale, 12.03.1921 – 25.03.1989) … and that’s how it started. In the end we also travelled with three gazebos, a tuba, a flute, four guitars,…
Jolly Good Company, Raymond Wallace, 1931 … or so we hope! The rollercoaster which is Covid and the lockdowns keeps rolling on. Last month, I told…
(‘Feel Good’, Trad. American folk song) On Saturday 17th July, we sang at the St John’s Summer Fete in Boxmoor. We finished with what might…
‘Into each life some rain must fall….’ The Rainy Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 27.2.1807 – 24.3.1882 On 22nd June, at a cold and overcast outdoor…