Hungerford Memory Choir – in fine voice!
The Hungerford Memory Choir were in fine voice at St Lawrence’s Church in Hungerford on Thursday. More a demonstration of how the choir works together, rather than a concert, the 50-strong choir (about half of whom are living with dementia) began by showing their Pilates-style warm-up exercises to relax voice, face and lungs plus some scales before lifting the church with glorious sound.
The large audience had a part to play, too, from the very first number. So, having demonstrated the French nursery song Frere Jacques in medley, the choir sang one part while the audience sang the other. There followed a glorious mixture of carols (with an excellent rendition of Good King Wenceslas) and songs from the shows (I could have danced all night from My Fair Lady was brilliantly exuberant), and the simply wonderful Graeme Broadbent leant his scrummy bass voice to a spine-tingling rendition of Silent Night. The afternoon was wrapped up with everyone singing the full Twelve Days of Christmas. Happy Christmas!
Photo by kind permission of Hungerford Memory Choir