Heriot-Watt University Choir
The Heriot-Watt University Choir presented a superb concert on Saturday May 26th to an audience of some ninety folk. The choir had performed earlier in the day at Stirling Castle and then travelled to be with us for a 7.30pm performance. However, they had a short practice in the church first before taking some refreshments organised by Juniper Green Parish Church's Social committee led that night by Maureen Heathwood and Shena Blair with earlier input from Sandy Watt.
The mixed choir is composed of students and staff.
As you would expect of a university choir with a dynamic conductor like Steve King MBE would be a well researched, word perfect and polished performance and this is what we got. Steve had sought interesting pieces of Scottish music that took the audience from 1707 on a musical tour ending with two modern songs.
The concert opened with a delightful piece performed on hand bells taken from music commissioned at the joining of the English and Scottish Parliaments in 1707.
The choir then performed songs over the last three hundred years at intervals of approximately fifty year periods.
The evening ended with a version of Psalm 25 beautifully sung by the choir. As has become traditional on these evenings in our year of celebration many people stayed on to chat, have a cup of tea and talk about the next event in the calendar.
The full set of programme notes can be downloaded from this site. (pdf)