Скачать или смотреть School Song Selhurst Grammar School for Boys

Music by C W Scott, words (in latin) by J A Wright

This piece was composed by two of the masters at Selhurst Grammar School for Boys and the recording was made in 1954 in the school hall in Croydon, on a 78 rpm. gramophone record to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the school. The choir of about three hundred boys was selected from a total of about eight hundred in the school.I have managed to remove most of the hisses and pops from the performance, but was unable to correct the distortion on the loud passages. Enjoy!

On the same day that the school song was recorded, we also recorded a performance of the Hallelujah chorus. I regret I did not get a copy of this. If anyone does have a recording of this performance, I would be grateful if it was also put on YouTube.