Telford School Band Attend Schools Prom
Concert
Members of the
award wining Abraham Darby School Showband (sponsored by
Newport Chiropractic), Madeley, Telford left school early on
Wednesday 9th November to travel to attend their prestigious
headlining concert performance at the Royal Albert Hall, London
where they played on the last night of the Annual Schools Prom
Concerts organised by Music for Youth. The Showband were
privileged to have been invited to play the National Anthem to
open their performance and concluded with Global Variations
written by the British Composer, Nigel Hess.
The School
have received this invitation to attend this concert four times
in the last six years and this year’s appearance follows on from
the Showband’s fourth consecutive Outstanding Performance that
they were awarded at the Music for Youth National Festival that
was held in the Symphony Hall, Birmingham earlier in July this
year. This appearance at the Royal Albert Hall will be the third
occasion that the Showband have participated at this prestigious
annual event, with an appearance by the School’s Jazz Band in
2003. Indeed the School is perhaps honoured to be possibly the
only single school in recent years that has attended the Schools
Prom concert in consecutive years having achieved this
particular feat in 2002 and 2003.
The Schools Proms took place over three nights on 7, 8 and 9
November 2005 with a total audience of over 14,000 over the
three nights and are treated to every kind of music ranging from
boy-bands to near professional orchestras. The exuberance,
skills and talent of these gifted young performers reached a
climax each evening with a spine-tingling finale of fireworks,
balloons and the traditional and well known Pomp and
Circumstance March No. 1. The School Proms Concerts were hosted
by Richard Stilgoe, the composer Howard Goodall and Classic FM
presenter Lisa Duncombe.
Simon Platford, the School’s Director of Performing Arts at the
School said “that all the band members were extremely
pleased and honoured to have attended the Schools Prom Concert
series again and were looking forward to their performance on
the stage of the well known international famous concert venue –
I am also delighted that over 150 parents and supporters
travelled down to London to support the Showband and that this
continued support was greatly appreciated not only by me but by
all the band members”. |