25th June 2026 • The HERALD • Page 27 v INDEPENDENT, LOCAL AND PROUD v SP DECORATING Painting & Decorating Specialist Simon Perks Tel: 07889 091420 Email: simonperks@rocketmail.com • Interior & Exteriors • Wallpaper Hanging • Prompt & Reliable Service • Free Quotations & Expert Advice • Fully Insured S H PLASTERING Contact Sam on 07896 830160 No Job is Too Small! Local • Reliable Service Playing Among The Marchwood Musical Stars e theme for Marchwood Prelude’s spring concert was ‘Out of this world’, and the packed village hall audience were certainly taken to in nity and beyond by the various musical groupings who performed. e Marchwood Prelude Orchestra, which includes saxophones, drums and guitars, as well as more traditional orchestral instruments started with Fly me to the Moon, and Moondance, moving on to Star Wars, Stars and Castle on a Cloud from Les Miserables, and pinned the audience to their seats with an excellent adaptation of Je Wayne’s War of the Worlds - a highlight of the evening as Edgar Ruddock narrated the Eve of the War – far more convincingly than Richard Burton! – over a stirring orchestral adaptation by orchestra violinist Ki Yap. e theme was given another dimension – life and death - as the Marchwood Clarinotes played the Dance of the Blessed Spirits by Gluck and Danse Macabre, but brought the audience back to earth, almost, with Jupiter from the Planet Suite, which had also been the basis of the theme tune of the Rugby World Cup since 1991. Funnily enough, a er England’s e orts in the Six Nations, there was no mention of rugby in the introduction to Swing Low, Sweet Chariot, played by the Flutes of the Forest. e song is a spiritual and hymn rooted in slavery, with Elijah’s ascent to heaven symbolising the desire for freedom. e Marchwood WI Singers gave a debut performance at the concert, with renditions including Aquarius from Hair, and Catch a Falling Star, a er Saxophonous took everyone down Tin Pan Ally with My Blue Heaven and Glen Miller’s Moonlight Serenade. Proceeds and donations from the concert totalled a magni cent £567.07 which will go to Tourettes Action, welcomed her saxplaying grandson to sit in with them. He has been diagnosed with Tourette’s, it coming to light as a neurological coughing tic during the Covid epidemic. More information about Tourette’s can be found at www.tourettes-action. org.uk The orchestra hit a poignant moment with the moving Ukrainian folk song One Moonlit Night which was dedicated to Ukrainians caught up in the war, whether at home or those in this country wishing to return. e concert ended with conductor Bernard Chinonso, who had also arranged Fly me to the Moon and Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, leading the orchestra through a second spirited rendition of Telstar. Marchwood Prelude a charity that supports people living with this o en poorly understood neurological condition that causes involuntary movements and sounds called tics. Annette Ruddock spoke on behalf of the charity, encouraging people to watch the BAFTA-winning “I Swear” about the life of Tourette’s su erer John Davidson, which goes a long way to increase understanding of the condition. Later the orchestra Southampton & District Beekeepers Association are running Beekeeping Experiences at an apiary in Ashurst, with dates available in June and July. Learn about beekeeping and how bees live/work and how to handle honeybees safely. e experiences are £80 per person and include lunch and a free jar of local honey. Beekeeping Experience
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