The International Choir Teulada played to a sell-out audience at the BO Moraira bar last month, in a relaxed environment with the audience sitting at tables and enjoying a drink and snack as part of the ticket price.
The concert, appropriately entitled Love and Peace, featured songs such as ‘Seasons of love’ from the musical Rent, Elton John’s ‘Can you feel the love tonight’ and ‘A little peace’, which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982 for Germany. Choir member Donna Lawson also sang a powerful solo version of the 1970s hit ‘Love will keep us together’ and the choir’s youngest member from the bass section, Alessandro, conducted the choir singing John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’.
The second half of the concert featured more popular songs on the love and peace theme, all of which were enthusiastically received by the audience, including an amusing solo by the choir’s Musical Director and baritone John Edwards of the Cole Porter song ‘Where is the life that late I led’. The choir’s finale was a Gershwin medley entitled ‘Who could ask for anything more’. The audience did – and were treated to an encore of ‘I’d like to teach the world to sing.’
Pianist Kirsty Glen showed her prowess at the keyboard and also joined the choir in singing the acapella Swahili song ‘Sis ni moja’ (We are one), which is appropriately about human unity and peace across cultures and languages.
June Concert
The International Choir under the excellent baton of Musical Director John Edwards will be singing at another concert in Moraira church on June 8 at 8 o’clock as part of the Moors & Christians Festival. Entrance is free but there will be a retiring collection for the choir’s charities.