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Week 13 Unlucky for me

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Hi All

Yes week 13 and Chris and I should have gone on holiday on Monday for a month after the Concert.  Oh well at least the weather is as bad over in France as it is here at the moment.  
I hope you all managed to see the revisited Concert on YouTube.  Thank you for all of the kind messages on Whatsapp and emails that people sent. I woke up one morning about five weeks ago and asked Chris if he thought it was possible.  He was less than enthusiastic but said he would see.  Well he did get into and enjoyed doing it in the end.  We were only able to use the material that we had at home as we hadn’t had  all of Martins  videos that he has left to NMM in his will.  But Chris did find some videos that Mon’s son had given us (I thought I had taken them up the lock up) and Doreen Macklin had sent me lots of programmes that were very useful to find peoples names so it was great that we could find some of the old songs.  I was delighted that we found ‘Pick a Bale of Cotton”.  
I sent the link out to everyone that I had emails for that had been in the choir and were in the Concert and have had replies from several of them saying how much they had enjoyed their time with the NMM.  We have had 123 hits so far.
We have one birthday this week Michael Ward is on the 13th.  For a very tall man he makes himself very small when people are taking photographs but here is one that he managed to poke  his head into at last years concert and one of him playing that stupid frog game (my opinion – some people liked it). 
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I think you are winning mike!!!   Or is it dead??  Happy Birthday Mike.
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Thanks everyone who joined last week zoom especially the ones dressed in gold and did my Quiz I never had any emails back so I quess nobody beat Maggie and Chris’s score.
This week we are going to go into the locked room not sure if that is what it is called and then we will have a bit of a sing song.
At the end of last week we asked you to sing along to GOLD and Chris made a youtube of it to watch we called it ‘Hideous but Great” which was the last thing that Marg said after we had finished it.  Even more funny my Chris has just heard that the recording it has been rejected by YouTube because of “inappropriate content”.  I didn’t think our singing was quite that bad – actually it probably was.  He is trying to appeal it.  Maybe they don’t like you killing a song

Hopefully see you Thursday night 7.15pm


Do have a try if you haven’t done it before it is good fun and lovely to see new people.  Just click on the link just before 7.15pm enter the password Gold and you should be in.  If I can do it anyone can.

Don’t forget the Password ‘Gold’

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Meeting ID: 667 379 474

Chatanooga Choo-Choo

Pardon me boy is that the Chattanooga Choo Choo

Track twenty nine

Boy you can gimme a shine

I can afford to board the Chatanooga Choo choo

I’ve got my fare and just a trifle to spare

You leave the Pennsylvania Station bout a quarter to four

Read a magazine and then you’re in Baltimore

Dinner in the diner – nothing could be finer

Than to have your ham n eggs in Carolina

When you hear the whistle blowin eight to the bar

Then you know that Tennessee is not very far

Shovel all the coal in – gotta keep it rollin‘

Woo Woo Chattanooga there you are

There’s gonna be a certain party at the station

Satin and lace – I used to call funny face

She’s gonna cry until I tell her that I’ll never roam

So Chatanooga Choo Choo – won’t you choo choo me hom

A Million Dreams

I close my eyes and I can see
A world that’s waiting up for me
That I call my own
Through the dark, through the door
Through where no one’s been before
But it feels like home

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say I’ve lost my mind
I don’t care, I don’t care, so call me crazy
We can live in a world that we design

‘Cause every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make

There’s a house we can build
Every room inside is filled
With things from far away
The special things I compile
Each one there to make you smile
On a rainy day

They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say we’ve lost our minds
I don’t care, I don’t care if they call us crazy
Runaway to a world that we design

Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make

However big, however small
Let me be part of it all
Share your dreams with me
You may be right, you may be wrong
But say that you’ll bring me along
To the world you see
To the world I close my eyes to see
I close my eyes to see

Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colours fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it’s gonna take
A million dreams for the world we’re gonna make

For the world we’re gonna make

You Raise Me Up

When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;

When troubles come and my heart burdened be;

Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,

Until you come and sit awhile with me.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;

You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;

I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;

You raise me up’ to more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;

You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;

I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;

You raise me up’ to more than I can be.

There is no life ‘ no life without its hunger;

Each restless heart beats so imperfectly;

But when you come and I am filled with wonder,

Sometimes, I think I glimpse eternity.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;

You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;

I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;

You raise me up’ to more than I can be.

You raise me up’ to more than I can be.


Lin

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‘Concerts Revisited GOLD’ Programme

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Nearly Time

Here is the programme.  It lasts about and hour.  You can use the pdf if you want to print the programme off, but the film will show you what is coming up next.

I hope you enjoy it, remember it is live recordings and some have been taken off of a VHS cassette, so we are not going to win any oscars but it is wonderful memories of the New Music Makers making music.









AFRICA 

2019 –‘Time For Singing’ – KCC 

Conductor: Lillian Sediles

Accompanist: Chris Allison 

ALL I ASK OF YOU 

2006 – ‘The Rhythm Of Life’ – St Andrews URC

Conductor: Mariane Temperley

Accompanist: Vanessa Williams

CAN CAN 

2008 – ‘A Pocketful of Songs’ – Turner Sims

Conductor: Mariane Temperley

Accompanist: Carita Challands

SKYFALL 

2017 – ‘Free Fall Into Summer’ – The Berry

Conductor: Lillian Sediles

Accompanist: Chris Allison

ONE MOMENT IN TIME 

2008 -‘A Pocketful of Songs’ – Turner Sims 

Conductor: David Farnell

Accompanist: Carita Challands

PINBALL WIZARD 

2019 – Time for Singing – KCC

Conductor: Lilian Sediles

Accompanist: Chris Allison

LES MISERABLES MEDLEY, MEDLEY

2017 – Free Fall Into Summer – The Berry

Conductor: Lillian Sediles 

Accompanist: Chris Allison

2008 –  A Pocket full of Songs – Turner Sims

Conductor: Mariane Temperley 

Accompanist: Carita Challands

THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT 

2006 – The Rhythm Of Life –  St Andrews URC

Conductor: David Farnell

Accompanist: Vanessa Williams

PICK A BALE OF COTTON 

2003 – Sounds Of Summer – Hedge End Village Hall

Conductor: Olivia Lee

Accompanist: Ruth Cox

CANTATE DOMINO 

2015 – Hedge End Methodist Church

Conductor: Michael Goldthorpe 

Accompanist: Chris Allison

A MILLION DREAMS 

2017 – Time for Singing – KCC

Conductor: Lillian Sediles

Accompanist: Chris Allison

I BELIEVE/AVE MARIA 

2019 – Free Fall Into Summer – The Berry

Conductor: Lillian Sediles

Accompanist: Chris Allison

YOU RAISE ME UP 

2008 – A Pocketful of Songs – Turner Sims

Conductor: Mariane Temperley

Accompanist: Carita Challands

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‘From Concerts Revisited GOLD’ – The Cast

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Conductors: Olivia Lee

Mariane Temperley

Michael Goldthorpe 

Lillian Sediles 

David Farnell

Accompanists Ruth Cox 

Vanessa Williams

Carita Challands

Chris Allison

Film Makers       Martin Small

      Michael Goldthorpe

Adam Jones

Felipe Sediles

Edited by Chris Kellaway  

Current Choir Members

Soprano:  

Audrey Brown; Beccy Coppen; Jane Courteney; 

Marg Dunne; Eileen Eyers; Sandie Farnell; 

Hilary Green; Mary Gunn; Patricia Jenkins; 

Lin Kellaway; Liz Kemp; Ann Lee; Elizabeth Manser;

Louse Staniforth; Deborah Swan; Sarah Turl; 

Rebecca Williams; Sandra Williams.

Alto:

Rosie Adams; Alison Baker; Margaret Ballard; 

Lesley Cother; Eunice Deuchar; Beryl Gerrey;

Natalie Heppel; Maggie Jacobs; Gilly Jefferey; 

Gen Marsh; Ros Plain; Jill Parkinson; Maureen Pay; 

Diane Rodaway; Sharon Thomas; Margaret Whale.

Tenor:

David Farnell; Jerry Gamble; Terry Harland; 

Keith Henry; Margaret Hockey; Tony Jardine; 

Percy Knight; Steve Swan; Michael Ward.

Bass:

Peter Blake; Richard Close; Roger Estcourt; 

Michael Fisher; Eric Gerrey; Roy Hogben; 

Philip Hounslow; David Jupp; Pete Kilby; 

Tom Rodaway.

Past Members Performing:

Mon Beale, Margaret Bowditch, Martin Bridges,

Jason Brown, Jenny Collins,  Eric Crockford, 

Joyce Crockford, Alison Currie,  Amy Currie,

Dave Curtis, Emma Dawson, Georgia Ferguson,  

Rita Duell, Nora Farrow, David Garland, 

Brian Garner, Brian Huppler Galia Harrison, 

Les Harrison, Natalie Harrison, Chris Kellaway, 

Brenda Lambert,  Kim Loader, Doreen Macklin, 

Janet Moody, John Moody,  Danny Moon, 

Steve Marsh,  Mary Read, Denise Rose,  

Nikki Ross, Marion Saunders, Ron Scorey,  

Bernadette Smith, Jan Shiers, Pat Smart,  

Mirella Spalluto,  Rhona Shawyer, Colin Wilkinson.

Please let us remember those that are sadly no longer with us

but added to the history of the New Music Makers and this 

Revisited Concert.

Mon Beale, Ruth Cox, Olivia Curtis nee Lee, 

Galia Harrison, Jan Shiers, Martin Small, John Smart, 

Pat Smart, Colin Wilkinson.

All of these details are to the best of my knowledge and I apologise for any errors.

REVISITED CONCERT ‘GOLD’

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Hi Everyone

Yes today would have been our Golden Concert.  Quite a different day for all of us as we would have been setting up the hall, getting the decorations up, having our hair done, (especially the men). Ironing those shirts and pressing our trousers.  The Gold tops would have been worn at last, and we would have been panicking checking up on those words, especially GOLD after the zoom call!!!

I just thought it would be nice to do something to celebrate the day so as I said in my last email Chris and I have put together a Revisited Concert of some of the songs that we would have sung tonight from past Concerts. I could only use what I had in the house but we did find quite a few.

I will be sending it out at around 7.00pm as a link on YouTube,  the time that we would have had our Concert.  You don’t have to watch it then it can be watched at any time and as many times as you like.  

Please don’t share it at the moment and please don’t put it on social media.

Further Details to follow.  Programme etc. 

Lin

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GOLDEN CONCERT DAY

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Hi All


Well who would have thought this would happen in our Golden Year?  All of our plans, KCC booked. The survey to find our favourite songs programme sorted, music bought, we had permission to sing GOLD at our concert and we found a version of Joseph the first thing that the New Music Makers had sung.  Jerry had produced our learning CD’s and made them available on Onedrive.   After a lot of hassle we eventually received gold tops for the ladies and had chosen gold bow ties for the men.  Material was purchased to make gold bunting, and the programme was beginning to be designed.  Ten weeks in, sectionals over,  rehearsals going well, and ……… Then it all went wrong!!!

Lock Down, no rehearsals, no singing, no meeting with choir friends,  but most importantly NO CONCERTS.   With no end in sight I thought that I would try and  put on a ‘Revisited Concert’ from recordings that I had at home choosing songs that we would have sung at our Summer  Concerts.  We, yes, of course I couldn’t do this on my own, my wonderful husband Chris and I managed to find quite a few of the Concert Songs.  

So watch out for your next Email 


Lin

ANSWERS FOR THE GOLD QUIZ

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Hi All

Here are the answers for the quiz that I sent out yesterday and we did on the ZOOM call.  Apparently the highest score was 20 by Chris Alison  and Maggie.  This quiz has 3 questions short.  There is a potential high score of 25 with extra points for the correct names for question 16. 
Let me know if anyone beat Chris and Maggie.

1.

2 POINTS

The LES MIS film was made in 2012,  and two locations in Hampshire were used for filming, can you name them.

ANSWER Portsmouth Historic Dockyard and Naval Base – 

Winchester College.

2.

1 POINT

Who sang PINBALL WIZARD in the film Tommy?

Elton John 

3.

2 POINTS

Who sang  SINGIN IN THE RAIN in the film and what decade was it released.

Answer. Gene Kelly  and the decade is  the fifties it was 1952.

4.

2 POINTS

Who’s wedding did we sing CAN CAN at on 3RD JANUARY 2009.  Name the Husband and Wife

Answers: Beccy and Matt Coppen

5.

1 POINT

What is the actual song that  “AND THEN THE THIN COWS ATE THE FAT COWS WHICH I THOUGHT WOULD DO THEM GOOD” Appear in?

Answer: Song of The Kings from Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. 

6.

1 POINT

A Performance of Handel’s “Messiah” lasts about two and a half hours.  Amazingly Handel composed the entire piece in  a) 47 days   b) 3 months.  c) 24 days.  d) 1 week?

Answer c) 24 days

7.

2  POINTS

What is the name of the  song  that in one of the verses had something  kicked off of the roof and what was that? 

Answer  The song is YOUR SONG and they kicked of THE MOSS

8.

3 POINTS

We use a lot of MAC HUFF arrangements we have THREE in this programme one point for each correct song.

Answer  1. Pinball Wizard   2.   Your Song.   3.  A Million Dream

9.

1 POINT

What television Advertisement has recently been  using the GOLD tune?

Answer BOLD

10.

2 POINTS

We have two songs in our gold programme that can be sung with out accompaniment can you name what they are.  Clue they both start with the same letter

Answer   1. Can Can  2. Cantate Domino

11.

1 POINTS 

The song PICK A BALE OF COTTON has many repeated words which word was used the most.   If the word was sung in all of the parts at the same time this is only one.  If different voices are singing the word at different times then they count. Which was used most:-

             JUMP   –  COTTON  –  – PICK –   LORDY  do you think is used most?

Answer.    PICK

12.

1 POINT

How many times to you think it was used?   A)  30-45 B) 46-50 C) 51-56 D) 57-61 ?

Answer C. 56   Jump 25 Cotton 16 Lordy 16 Turn was also 16

13.

1 POINT

We are singing several James Bond  Songs in our Medley.  The first bond film was made in 1962 do you  know how many James Bond Films were made including unofficial ones?

A). 23. B) 26). C)29

Answer b 26 – 24 Official, and 2 unofficial Casino Royale and Never Say Never Again were

14.

I POINT

FIELDS OF GOLD We always have problems in singing the right words at the ending of  this  song.   It is repeated three times and everyone sings it at some point. Can you remember what the last line is?  The Tune goes like this do do do do do do do.

Answer  WHEN we walked in fields of gold.

15.

1 POINT

What song was our highest scorer when we did the pole for choosing the programme?

ANSWER.  You Raise Me Up

16.

3 POINTS PLUS

In our rendition of AFRICA what percussion instruments were used.  Extra points for the correct names

ANSWER Correct names.   Bucara Djembe (Drum) Beccy, Woodblock (Hilary) Shekere (Cabassa or one point maracas) Margaret Ballard


Lin

GOLD QUIZ

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HI ALL

Thanks to those that joined the zoom call tonight and especially those that dressed in GOLD.  They did pretty well the top score was 21 out of 28 which was Chris A  – I think.  There are three questions that are not in this quiz they had introductions with music which I did not know how to send so if anyone can get 18 or above you could be the winner.


No extra points for finding spelling mistakes etc.


I will send out the answers tomorrow. 


Look out for other emails over the weekend.






This Quiz is loosely based on the songs that we will sing in our GOLD Concert.  Not all of the songs have been used and some have been used more than once!

1.

2 POINTS

The LES MIS film was made in 2012,  and two locations in Hampshire were used for filming, can you name them.

2.

1 POINT

Who sang PINBALL WIZARD in the film Tommy?

3.

2 POINTS

Who sang  SINGIN IN THE RAIN in the film and what decade was it released.

4.

2 POINTS

Who’s wedding did we sing CAN CAN at ON 3RD JANUARY 2009.  Name the Husband and Wife

5.

1 POINT

What is the actual song that  “AND THEN THE THIN COWS ATE THE FAT COWS WHICH I THOUGHT WOULD DO THEM GOOD” Appear in?

6.

1 POINT

A Performance of Handel’s “Messiah” lasts about two and a half hours.  Amazingly Handel composed the entire piece in  a) 47 days   b) 3 months.  c) 24 days.  d) 1 week?

7.

2  POINTS

What is the name of the  song  that in one of the verses had something  kicked off of the roof and what was that? 

8.

3 POINTS

We use a lot of MAC HUFF arrangements we have THREE in this programme one point for each correct song.

9.

1 POINT

What television Advertisement has recently been  using the GOLD tune?

Answer BOLD

10.

2 POINTS

We have two songs in our gold programme that can be sung with out accompaniment can you name what they are.  Clue they both start with the same letter

Answer   1. Can Can  2. Cantate Domino

11.

1 POINT

The song PICK A BALE OF COTTON has many repeated words which word was used the most.   If the word was sung in all of the parts at the same time this is only one.  If different voices are singing the word at different times then they count. Which was used most:-

             JUMP   –  COTTON  –  – PICK –   LORDY  do you think is used most?

12.

1 POINT

How many times to you think it was used?   A)  30-45 B) 46-50 C) 51-56 D) 57-61 ?

13.

1 POINT

We are singing several James Bond  Songs in our Medley.  The first bond film was made in 1962 do you  know how many James Bond Films were made including unofficial ones?

A). 23. B) 26). C)29

14.

I POINT

FIELDS OF GOLD We always have problems in singing the right words at the ending of  this  song.   It is repeated three times and everyone sings it at some point. Can you remember what the last line is?  The Tune goes like this do do do do do do do.

15.

1 POINT

What song was our highest scorer when we did the pole for choosing the programme?

16.

3 POINTS PLUS

In our rendition of AFRICA what percussion instruments were used.  Extra points for the correct names.




Lin

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Week 12 Last Rehearsal before our GOLD concert

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Hi All
Hope all is well with everyone.  Sending best wishes to Lesley who is in hospital with a broken shoulder, she fell while watering the garden.  She is in a lot of pain and they are deciding if they are going to operate or not.  I am sure we will hope they sort her out soon and she can return home.  Beryl and Maureen are keeping in touch with her.
Yes that’s right this would have been our last rehearsal before our Concert on Saturday.  We would have been working hard learning words and music,  getting those new gold tops and bow ties on, having our nails painted gold (maybe not the men ….. or maybe).  We would have had a full house, lots of old choir members in the audience glass of bubbly and nibbles in the foyer with them.  A fantastic Concert and lots of fun, instead we are stuck at home 😞.
Never mind when we do get to do it, it will be twice as good, just hope my gold top fits!  
We have one birthday this week Gen Marsh is on the 9th June, I am sure you will have a great day despite the lock down. Gen is an Alto and has been with the choir for quite a few years.


Happy Birthday Gen ………

What do you mean you saw this last week?  Do you mean that I got it wrong?  Sorry about that Gen just had you a week early in my list I  hope you celebrated on the 2nd as well and have a great day on the 9th.
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A bit of a disaster last week, I forgot to tell you about the change of time, then Chris’s internet went off, Jerry didn’t get the email about cancelling and did manage to get a link but by then I had sent out that it was cancelled, we also changed the time to coincide with clapping for the NHS and then they tell us it was the last one last week!
Anyway we have decided that we would still leave it at 7.15 just in case anyone does want to still clap for the NHS. 
So this week a special week because of our Concert I have done a quiz loosely on the songs that we would have been doing in the Concert.  To help I have given you the list, you may look at this when you are doing the quiz to help, but no notes on them please.  The questions will not be in the order of the list, can’t make it that simple.  
As it would have been our dress rehearsal why don’t you dress up in something gold, unfortunately we don’t have the tops apart from Marg Sandie and Pat?  Why don’t you wear yours?  Everyone else try and find something that is gold, not obligatory. If we have time we will go in the breakout rooms and finally those that were at the dinner dance and the last song that was played was GOLD so lets all singalong to it and recreate that evening.  As we didn’t get any pictures on the night I might take some on Thursday.  

Gold     Joseph     A Million Dreams.   Africa    Les Mis Medley   Can Can. Cantate Domino

Fields of Gold.      I Believe/Ave Maria      Pinball Wizard.     Singin in the Rain

You Raise Me Up         Your Song.         The Best of Bond         Hallelujah Chorus

The Music of he Night         One Moment in Time.         Pick a Bale Of Cotton 



So don’t forget 7.15pm.  Wear something GOLD  Quiz    Singalong to GOLD


If you haven’t tried before just click on the link it will take you straight through to ZOOM you can go in about 5 mins before turn on you video and all is fine.  If you have tried before and had difficulties send me an email and I will TRY and sort it out.  



Don’t forget the password Gold


Meeting ID: 667 379 474

ROYS SONG.  Jerry has very cleverly put Roys song to music.  Hopefully you will be able to download the link and singalong with it.  The words are below for you to have a go.  Thanks Jerry.  

https://onedrive.live.com/?authkey=%21AIpNuX6F7q6T9%2D0&cid=0903945010DA4497&id=903945010DA4497%2137426&parId=903945010DA4497%2137420&o=OneUp

A lockdown lament 

‘WE SHALL SING AGAIN’ (copyright!)

to be sung to the tune of Danny Boy  (not too slowly)


This desperate time.. while Covid still is wi-th us,

and vic-tory.. seems very far away..

yet deep inside.. we know that we shall sing again

and we look for-ward to that wonderous day.


Let souls and voi-ces waft toward the hea-ven 

in triumph, know that we shall overcome..

yes, we shall sing – again when Covid’s beaten.

And at that ti-me.., we’ll sing again as one.


But we are sa…d, we cannot have our summer show..

to cel-e-brate our fifty years of song..

The 8th of June.., like other days will come and go..

but in our hearts.. we’ll sing again, erelong.


Those times will come.. when once more we shall sing again

with hearts and vo-ices tuned, and thus renewed.

Our mel-o-dies, some old, some new resounding

Those joyful so-ngs.., with which we are imbued…


Let sadness flee.. – for yes, we all shall sing again.

Our sounds will soar… to heights yet unexplor-ed..

The au-di-ence will shout, and clap enra-ptured

the N M M – now once again restored. 

So don’t despair.. those Thursday nights could soon be here

friends old and new.. we’ll greet with smiles and tears

a future, glo-rious lays itself before us

and we shall sing again for many happy years.



See you tomorrow.



Lin