More School Music

 This is not about the fabulous choral and orchestral music at Fairfield Grammar School under W.J. "Dickie" Richards.   I will write about that at length in due course.

Today I write about the great choir music at Eastville Junior Mixed School under another Richards (Sydney).


Here we are at the local Eastville Park in 1954.  I am third from the left in the second row. Bright eyed Fairfieldians will spot Clive Hargett, third from left in the third row. Two from me is the Headmaster Mr. Lews? who in his spare time was an amateur boxing referee, Next to him is Syd Richard's wife, our choir pianist. There there is Syd himself.


We were good.  So good that we recorded for the BBC at the old Empire Theatre in Old Market (torn down in that blight called urban renewal).

We were prepped about the Green Room etc.  I encountered a Men's Urinal for the first time -  Dad explained it to me when I got home.


I can't remember what we sang.  

I do remember that in school we learned and sang the leider which  based on Schubert's Trout Quintet.  I imagine that I can still see Mrs. Richards' hands as they ran across the piano keys.

Good and heady stuff for a ten year old!


Here it is, sung in German.

https://youtu.be/bt49fudwTuk





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