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It was a typically English evening.
Music by the River was a concert performed by the Waynflete Singers as part of the Winchester Festival.
It performance was directed by David Norris, in the Watermeadows beside the ancient Hospital of St Cross.
The rain was pouring down, it was going to be a very English evening!
Those who did brave the weather were treated to a feast of music by Elgar, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams and others.
The Waynflete Singers' captured the Bavarian feeling of "From the Bavarian Highlands" so well that you could almost hear the Bavarian band that might have been backing them.
Then on to Mendelssohn, "An Old Romance", which so beautifully evoked a sun-lit afternoon.
Sterndale Bennett's folk songs took us to the Interval.
Then it was Vaughan Williams' turn at folk songs; then Parry and Sullivan; and the evening closed with Hatton's "Stars of the Summer Night".
A beautiful finish, even if there were few real stars to be seen that evening.
All in all, a very English evening given by the Waynflete Singers in magnificent voice.
11:39am Tuesday 15th July 2008
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