The choir enjoyed a period of stability in its seventh decade under the expert eye and directorship of Jane Elton Brown, who had also at this time taken on the role of Music Director at MacRobertson Girls’ High School. Seventy-five choristers sang in the 60th Anniversary Concert at the Glen Eira Town Hall auditorium on July 9, 2006, performing eighteen separate items, the composers ranging from Thomas Morley, through Mozart, Sibelius, Carl Orff and César Franck, to John Rutter. Nine choir members sang solos. The concert was divided into three sections, each encompassing twenty-years of choir history and presented by John Dunham, Stuart Allen and Joanna Leslie in turn. The performance had opened with Parry’s ‘Jerusalem’ and finished with John Rutter’s arrangement of ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’. It was followed by afternoon tea where choristers mingled with audience members….

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