HARTSFEST RGSMUSIC
MONDAY 24 JUNE 2024
17:30 FOR18:00
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Welcome to HartsFest 2024! As you read this, I hope you're enjoying a sunny evening and a delicious picnic, eagerly awaiting the evening's festivities. (If the weather isn't cooperating, have your blankets and umbrellas at the ready!).
Tonight marks the grand finale of a year full of music from our talented students. We'll be treating you to performances school ensembles, featuring students in every year from First Form to Upper Sixth playing a diverse range of Velvet Underground to Henry Mancini, Elgar to Herbie We are thrilled to welcome back the Corps of Drums, who will once again join forces with Symphony Orchestra, and our Music Partnership Choir, comprised this year of students from Reigate St Mary's Prep School and Lime Tree Primary School. The ever-growing RGS Parent Choir return too for their second HartsFest performance, ensuring this really is a family affair.
I am incredibly proud to share this rich musical experience with you tonight and hope you enjoy it as much as we do!
Thank you for the unwavering support you have shown RGS Music this year. It means a great deal to us, and as we wrap up this year, we're already looking forward to another exciting and fulfilling year of music ahead.
Joanna Korzinek – Director of MusicLeavers’ Session 1 – Dry Wall Main Stage
Heart Shaped Box Nirvana
Fire Hendrix
Leavers’ Session 2 – Jake Harper & Henry Forton Main Stage
Rock & Roll Velvet Underground
Corps of Drums Parade Grass
Symphony Orchestra and Corps of Drums
Main Stage
Where Eagles Dare Ron Goodwin arr. Riley
Concert Band Main Stage
Bruno Mars Greatest Hits Mars arr. López
Music from Slumdog Millionaire Various arr. Bocook
Horn Ensemble
Bandstand
Pirates of the Caribbean Zimmer arr. Verhaert
Bring Him Home Schoenberg
Junior Girls’ Voices Main Stage
Fernando Andersson/Anderson/Ulvaeus
Brass Ensemble
Bandstand
Colonel Bogey Alford arr. Kingston
The Lost Chord Sullivan arr. Kingston
Sinfonia Strings Main Stage
What Makes You Beautiful Kotecha/Yacoub
Sinfonia Main Stage
Moana Highlights arr. Vinson
I Gotta Feeling Adams/Ferguson arr. Brown
Leavers’ Session 3 – Jemima Collins Bandstand
Can’t Catch Me Now Rodrigo
Senior Girls’ Voices
Main Stage
I’ll Stand By You Hynde arr. Kelly/Steinberg
Saxophone Ensemble Bandstand
Bohemian Rhapsody Mercury arr. Verhaert
Glen Miller Medley Miller arr. Thorne
Guitar Ensemble Main Stage
Perfect Sheeran arr. Legg
Apache Lordan arr. Bruinsma
Junior Polyphony Main Stage
Something Stupid Parks
Leavers’ Session 4 – Caitlyn Fraser Bandstand
What Do I Know Sheeran
Boys’ Choir
Main Stage
Long Time Running Johnston arr. Moore
Stuck In The Middle With You Rafferty
Leavers’ Session 5 – Eloise Hamilton Bandstand
Don’t Know Why Jones
Symphony Orchestra Main Stage
Overture to the Marriage of Figaro Mozart
Partnership Choirs & Symphony Orchestra Main Stage
Reigate St Mary’s School – Shenandoah Traditional
Lime Tree Primary School – It’s The Hard Knock Life Strouse arr. Zegree
Partnership Choir - Tragedy Gibb arr. Beale
Leavers’ Session 6 – Emma Tansley Bandstand
Payphone Maroon 5
Swing Band 2
Main Stage
Skyfall Adkins/Epworth arr. Berry
Watermelon Man Hancock arr. Kamuf
Clarinet Ensemble
Bandstand
Charade Mancini arr. Fairhead
Red Valley Rock Fairhead
Percussion Ensemble Main Stage
The Three Amigos arr. Osborn
Memory Lane Muddly Various arr. Osborn
Leavers’ Session 7 – Thomas Norton Bandstand
Love Yourself Bieber
Polyphony Main Stage
God Only Knows Wilson/Asher
That Lonesome Road Taylor arr. Carrington
Parent Choir Main Stage
Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me Taupin arr. Hussey
RGS Community Chorus Main Stage
Bridge Over Troubled Water Simon arr. Sechler
Leavers’ Session 8 – Nithya Sangampalayam Bandstand
Both Sides Now Jones
Swing Band Main Stage
Freedom Jazz Dance Harris
Time After Time Schamber
Samba Band Grass
Symphony Orchestra Main Stage
Pomp and Circumstance Elgar
RGSMUSIC PRESENTS
YOUNG MUSICIAN OF THE YEAR
PIANO & STRINGS - 2 OCTOBER
WOODWIND & BRASS - 14 NOVEMBER
PERCUSSION – NOVEMBER (TBC)
FINALE - 28 APRIL
Land of hope and glory
Mother of the free
How shall we extol thee
Who are born of thee
Wider still and wider
Shall thy bounds be set
God who made thee mighty
Make thee mightier yet God who made thee mighty
Make thee mightier yet
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