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On 21 May 1965, there took place at New College School ‘A Concert Given by Parents and Friends’ of the school. It comprised a variety of performances, ranging from three pianists playing Percy Grainger’s Zanzibar Boat Song at the same piano, to Mozart, Schubert, and Hopkins songs sung by Mrs Pickard, to an apparently hilarious finale of Leopold Mozart’s Toy Symphony featuring ‘Mr Helsby’s gentle cuckoo and Mrs Hedges’ watery nightingale’. This concert by parents and friends may have seemed at the time to have been a one-off, yet it is an antecedent of the current New College School Choral Society in involving and making use of the tremendous talent pool of this constituency of the school.

New College Archives, Oxford, NCA NCS/E3/3
Poster [detail] for a 2023 concert

New College Library and Archives, Oxford