Schools’ choir to sing for Jubilee

A choir of 120 secondary school children will be joined by the East Riding Youth Orchestra for the East Riding Schools’ Music Service’s Jubilation Gala Concert on Monday, July 16. To mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, the orchestra and the East Riding Schools’ Choir will celebrate some of the landmark moments of her reign. The concert will open with Walton’s Coronation March, Crown Imperial, and includes Handel’s Coronation Anthem, Zadok the Priest. The theme from Chariots of Fire will celebrate the London Olympics, and the Royal tributes will be rounded off with Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance Marches 1 and 4, as well as Parry’s Jerusalem. The occasion will also mark the final concert in the UK by musical director Robert Mitchell, who began conducting the youth orchestra in 1988 and will retire as head of the music service in August. He said he was “truly grateful” for the support he and the service had received.