Tracks of My Years - 1998
I just realised that I hadn't put up my Tracks of My Years post, for this week, as part of Mum In The Mad House's weekly meme. So I put the first song I thought of up, which actually turned out to be a proper memory and part of my history that I think that not only my family but everyone else would like to read too!
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I was part of Choir at the schools I attended. In the "old days" in the UK a Choir wasn't like the ones now made famous by the programme Glee (which I love), but a "proper" choir where you sang choral music and put concerts on in churches and the school hall. I don't know if our choir was usual in upper school (ages 13-18) but as well as the students being part of the choir there were also staff members who joined in. I loved this as it gave our sound depth and also helped some students to see that there were more to teachers than erm, teaching.
The choir was run by the two music teachers, Mr W and Mr P both of whom had great passion for music and tried to help me understand more than I liked to sing and could read sheet music... it didn't really work, but I passed my Music GCSE by the skin of my teeth thanks to them. I don't really remember a lot of the music we sang in choir, I remember there was a concert in a church which I didn't go to and missed out on singing my solo which I had rehearsed for weeks for and I think we did some Christmas Carols but it's hard to separate the memories of all the choirs I have been in up!
There is one song that I remember us singing very clearly and I know that it was in 1998 that we sang it. I loved it so much and I will quite often think of us performing this song. The song was had been released twice in the past and I have no idea why they decided we should sing this but I loved that we were singing as a choir a rock song. The song was of course Bohemian Rhapsody and although I don't have a recording of us singing it, I do have the memories and one particular memorable occasion when Mr W played the guitar solo in the middle of the song on the piano and a couple of the older students pulled out lighters and waved them in the air...
Here is a UK choir singing the same song... but they aren't half as good as we were.
I was part of Choir at the schools I attended. In the "old days" in the UK a Choir wasn't like the ones now made famous by the programme Glee (which I love), but a "proper" choir where you sang choral music and put concerts on in churches and the school hall. I don't know if our choir was usual in upper school (ages 13-18) but as well as the students being part of the choir there were also staff members who joined in. I loved this as it gave our sound depth and also helped some students to see that there were more to teachers than erm, teaching.
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There is one song that I remember us singing very clearly and I know that it was in 1998 that we sang it. I loved it so much and I will quite often think of us performing this song. The song was had been released twice in the past and I have no idea why they decided we should sing this but I loved that we were singing as a choir a rock song. The song was of course Bohemian Rhapsody and although I don't have a recording of us singing it, I do have the memories and one particular memorable occasion when Mr W played the guitar solo in the middle of the song on the piano and a couple of the older students pulled out lighters and waved them in the air...
Here is a UK choir singing the same song... but they aren't half as good as we were.