St Joan's Concert
St Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Farnham was the setting for a glorious concert last Thursday evening. Almost 180 girls and boys from the school filled the church with a wonderful mixture of modern, traditional and classical music which thrilled a packed audience.
Full choirs from the prep and senior schools were in magnificent voice for a number of items and the smaller Chamber Choir of the senior school and Chanteurs group of the prep school enchanted St Joan's parishioners with some quieter songs. There were splendid duets featuring Olivia with Kate and Eleanor and musical pieces from Hannah on recorder and a violin quartet from teacher Pam Edwards with Erin, Kate and Elisabeth. Georgia, Imogen and Allison stepped from the choir to perform beautiful solo pieces.
St Joan's parishioners have been tremendously generous in recent years in helping the school's sixth form girls to raise funds to enable them to take and care for handicapped children on their annual visit to Lourdes. The concert was a thank you to the parishioners and raised over £2200 towards the cost of the new parish centre.
The beaming smiles of all the performers were a testament to how much they had enjoyed themselves as Canon Tony Whale thanked the staff and pupils for a wonderful evening. He paid particular tribute to Mrs Louise Douglas and Mrs Elizabeth Ongley who had prepared the choirs so well and to Mrs Hiroko Banks who accompanied them.
