Jubilate!

5/27/2012

Great concert last night: "Jubilate", with music from coronations through the centuries. "Zadok the Priest", of course, and "I was glad when they said unto me", with the "Vivats!" that Parry added for the coronation of Elizabeth II. Also some less well known but lovely Elizabethan pieces including "Fair Oriana" by Robert Jones and "Come, Blessed Bird" by Edward Johnson. And a Byrd piece, "O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our queen".

Plus "Jubilate Deo" by Walton. All finished with a rousing chorus of Jerusalem and two verses of the National Anthem for the audience, with a bit of mumbling going on in the second verse.

My second concert with the Beaumaris, and most enjoyable. Not a lot on over the summer, apart from a concert for forces veterans at Cosford airbase on 30th June, but then a very full autumn.

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Peter Wiles

Peter has been writing software since going up to Manchester University in 1965, the first year that the University offered Computer Science as a B.Sc course. After gaining a B.Sc and M.Sc in Computer Science, he joined the British company ICL (later renamed Fujitsu Services) and worked there for 36 years, initially as a designer working on the development of the VME mainframe operating system. Later years were spent as a Systems Architect specialising in large Government and private sector customers including the DTI, European Commission, MAV (Hungarian Railways), the UK Post Office and HM Revenue & Customs. He retired from Fujitsu in 2007 and has devoted much of his time since to developing software for his own use and, more recently, to make available via the Android marketplace. Some of this software is aimed at supporting his other principal interest, sailing and maintaining his Westerly Seahawk yacht which he has recently moved to Troon in the Firth of Clyde, Scotland.

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