GAZETTE & HERALD: Musical recollections of the last war filled the Neeld Hall, Chippenham on Sunday afternoon, when the WCO formerly Westinghouse Concert Orchestra staged its most ambitious concert yet.
It was a multi-media production, with a screen running wartime images throughout the concert, a display of newspaper cuttings of VE celebrations, plus contemporary poems and some of Winston Churchill's most famous invocations, spoken by broadcaster Erik Burnett-Godfree.
Sutton Benger-based soprano Linda Thomas enchanted with songs of the era, from Lilli Marlene to Gracie Fields' The Thing-ummy-bob and led a patriotic flag waving audience in There'll Always Be An England.
Budding young pianist Rob Ashby from Bath, triumphed with the theme from the Warsaw Concerto.
Musical director Andrew Baatz also included music that had entertained prisoners of war, and a piece played by Westinghouse Orchestra on the BBC radio show Works Wonders in 1945.
They swung though Glenn Miller, the theme from the popular radio show ITMA and Colonel Bogey, but the best was saved to last with a moving performance of Hymn to the Fallen, John Williams' film music for Saving Private Ryan.
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