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Thomas Jesty |
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Choir Boy of the Year 2004 |
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Dr Tolley encouraged me to enter the Choirboy of the Year Competition. I was doubtful at first because Harry Sever had won the year before but everyone told me just to have a go and see what would happen. I went to Music School and recorded ‘The Birds’ and ‘Be Thou my |
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Henry Darch |
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Quiristers at The Royal Albert Hall, 2003 |
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On Tuesday 29 July 2003 at 1:00 pm, Winchester's Choristers and Quiristers met by King Alfred's Statue to wait for a coach. Eventually it came and Dr Brian Rees, our headmaster, counted us on to the vehicle. After a few minutes of waiting for latecomers, we were on our way to London to rehearse our |
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Carl Oberman |
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Reminiscences of an Old Quirister - 1955-56 |
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Looking back 63/64 Kingsgate Street seemed spartan, but it didn't occur to us that it could be anything different, as the same conditions applied to us all, and I for one held the whole atmosphere of the Quirister School and Winchester College in total awe.Quiristers were expected to look |
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Nick Stenning |
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BBC Chorister of the Year 2001 |
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For all those of you who might think that certain people are destined for certain things, think again. I was most certainly not destined to be the Chorister of the Year from year five. It was a long and winding path that took me to what was certainly the peak of my singing career (If it can be |
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Peter Stuart |
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My life as a Quirister (1998-2002) |
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The four years during which I have been a Quirister have definitely been some of the busiest in my life so far. Even so, it seems only yesterday that my career as a Quirister began, but an enormous number of services, concerts and other performances have taken place since |
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Henry Hadyn Longbottom |
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Reminiscences of a Quirister, 1905-08 |
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In 1903, my mother having died, I was living with my aunt at Curdridge, near Botley. She received from a cousin who was a miller at Durngate Mill, Winchester, an advertisement stating that there would shortly be a trial of boys' voices for entry into the choir of Winchester College. The choristers, |
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Dr. David Longbourne |
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Memories of Quirister School, 1937-40 |
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Quiristers, numbering 14 or 16 boys, having passed a written and oral entrance exam, were housed and taught at 68, Kingsgate Street. The Quirister Master was H.J.H.Weekes ("Wally Weekes") who had been appointed only about a year previously. He was rather a forbidding looking man with a |
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Andrew Purkiss |
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Memories of Quirister School - 1938-40 |
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First, the layout of 64 Kingsgate Street, as it was then. From the hall, you turned right into the common room. You had to skirt round a table tennis table, a popular pastime, to reach the main part of the common room, at the end of which burnt a coal fire, with an honours board above the mantle |
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