| | | Penicuik Community Choir - 4th March |
Music
once again filled the church hall on Monday 4th March as the Penicuik
Community Choir sang a great selection of songs from past and present
to entertain us.
The Guild coffee evening attracted over 70
guests from across the Penicuik churches and farther afield, along with
their friends, to enjoy coffee and home baking before sitting back to
enjoy the entertainment.
 Led
by Elizabeth McEwan the choir opened up with selection from the Rogers
and Hammerstein South Pacific which included numbers like Happy
Talk, and There Is Nothin Like A Dame. A change of tempo as the
choir sang Hallelujia, made famous on X-Factor by Carly Rose
Sonenclar. A bit of classical as we moved to the Puccini variation of
'Ave Maria' completed this selection.
Moving into 'disco'
territory must mean Abba music and we were taken right back to the
seventies with songs like Super Trouper, Money Money Money, and Mamma
Mia, that had the audience feet tapping. The choir cooled things down
with the Bachelors version of 'I Believe', and then a Bill Withers song
'Lean on Me' , inspired by his childhood in the coal mining town
of Slab Fork, West Virginia, and written after he had moved to Los
Angeles and found himself missing the strong community ethic of his
hometown. To finish this collection was the Eric Clapton song 'Tears in
Heaven'. written about the pain and loss Clapton felt following the
death of his four-year-old son, Conor, who fell from the
53rd-floor window of a New York apartment on March 20, 1991.
 Back
to Scotland for a Scottish medley with songs from the islands,
including 'Over the Sea to Skye', leading us into Offenbach 'Tales of
Hoffman' opera, which tested the choirs French as they sang Belle
nuit d'amour.
The penultimate song from the choir was John
Rutters' 'The Lord Bless You and Keep You', before finishing with 'You
Raise me Up' , recently made popular by Westlife.
In the closing thanks by Sheila Haig, everyone agreed that the evening had been a great success.
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