One year on from the inaugural concert of The Space, Sevenoaks School held its 44th annual Alan Adler concert in the Pamoja Hall on Friday 15 April. In contrast to recent years, where this has been a showcase of senior groups performing at St John’s, Smith Square, this was primarily a concert featuring all the large instrumental ensembles from the Foundation Orchestra to the senior Symphony Orchestra. In addition, we heard the Sennocke Consort in fine voice with Howells deeply-moving ‘Take him, earth, for cherishing’, a hugely demanding work for a school choir to undertake. This was followed by Pia Lai and Elspeth Newey’s stylish rendition of Vivaldi’s Concerto for two violins in D minor.

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