Treorchy Male Choir

Last night Trish and I went to the Llewellyn  Hall at the Canberra School of Music to see and listen to the Treorchy Male Choir. It was a belated wedding anniversary event for us but well worth the night out—something we ought to do more often. We had a fantastic night and the opening brought tears to my eyes as the choir sang “With a Voice of Singing”, a choral item that I have conducted many times over the years, but nowhere like the sound that this choir produced.

The music was wide ranging from opera to an Abba medley as well as soloists and a magnificent organist and pianist to accompany them.

It was the best night out we’ve had in years, in spite of the Canberra cold winter’s night.

The Treorchy Male Choir is still touring Australia and New Zealand and worth seeing.

I had first joined a choir as a boy at Canterbury Boys High School in Sydney. We had a superb choir there under the direction of James Gormley, the school’s music master. The choir was so good that it was selected to sing at the Anzac Concert each year in the Sydney Town Hall. Below is a photograph taken at the concert in 1955.

Later I was to sing in various church choirs and also to conduct on many occasions, which was a tremendous experience. Seeing the Treorchy choir brought back many magnificent memories.

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