 After the wettest April for 100 years and the coldest for over 20, it seemed optimistic to have a spring concert, let alone a summer one, on Wednesday 2nd May. But perhaps that was known... Music | Thursday, 3 May 2012
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 Sad news reached the School a few days before the competition that Mr Cyril Dashwood, benefactor of the Dashwood Piano Prize had passed away, only a few weeks after presenting the 2012 junior prize. He... Music | Tuesday, 1 May 2012
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 It is testament to the high level of vocal skills of Cranleigh Voices, the School’s premier vocal ensemble, that not only was the choir of twenty-four pupils and staff invited to deputise for the Canterbury... Music | Wednesday, 25 April 2012
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 Mr Cyril Dashwood, the benefactor of these piano competition prizes (now under the banner of the Helen Wareham Competition), has been attending the competition for many years but understandably praised this year’s 20 pianists as... Music | Thursday, 15 March 2012
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 Once again by popular request the school Big Band performed to a packed hall at Elmbridge Village last Thursday afternoon. As we arrived immediately after lessons the audience were all sat in their places... Music | Monday, 5 March 2012
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 Once each year the seventy-five singers who make up Cranleigh's illustrious Chapel Choir are invited to sing the service of Choral Evensong at one of the great cathedrals in the south of England. Visits in... Music | Thursday, 1 March 2012
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 The fourth round of the Helen Wareham Competition on February 24th saw three senior singers go through to the next round. Such was the quality of the nine vocalists that the chair of the adjudicators,... Music | Monday, 27 February 2012
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 As well as being a programme with a cross-over feel (jazz even meeting Schumann in one number) the Concert Series event on Wednesday 22nd February was one of those wonderful Cranleigh School evenings where pupil... Music | Thursday, 23 February 2012
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 This year’s string section of the Helen Wareham competition was the first to bear the name of Jack Cook, a regular attender of School concerts for many years from his home in the Elmbridge retirement... Music | Monday, 6 February 2012
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 On 31st January, Philip Scriven was joined by Cranleigh Voices for an evening performance to mark the midpoint of his epic survey of J. S. Bach's complete organ works. Given his own meticulous architectural craftsmanship,... Music | Thursday, 2 February 2012
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 Friday 20th January in the Devonport Speech Hall saw the annual Merriman Concert Orchestra concert that showcases one of the School’s finest musicians in a concerto. Not since Tony Ho in the 90s (who played... Music | Monday, 23 January 2012
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 It seems especially appropriate that in a year in which the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible has been celebrated that Cranleigh School put on its latest performance of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ with Charles Jennens’s... Music | Tuesday, 6 December 2011
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