As promised I am pleased to submit my report on my first "Harmony College".

One would imagine that after 27 years, there is not left to learn about our hobby - how wrong !! I learned more over the weekend than I would normally learn in a year.

I discovered that at least 4 songs were totally different than our own 'wrong rendition' !

It was good to learn so much from Mike O'Neill, good advice to take back to my chorus.

I was pleased to be in the "Chorus Stream" with the ever efficient Mike Taylor, my old MD from Portsmouth.

It was also good to attend Bob Walker's Woodshed session - another 'blast from the past' but still very good. And Jon Conway who never fails to impress with his speciality classes - magic.

I found the entire weekend very hard work but so rewarding. I have never been so moved emotionally as I was singing with the other 120 members of the big chorus, many of whom have been friends for several years.

I look back with pride as a past chairman of Preston AND former member of Bolton, Portsmouth, Southampton and currently of Monmouth.

My sincere thanks to Harmony Foundation who afforded me the chance to attend by way of a grant, without which it would have been impossible.

I will certainly try and be at HC 30 next year, and as the newly elected PRO of Monmouth will do all in my power to bully the rest of the chorus to attend.

We are all I am sure very grateful to the teaching faculty and the campus and technical crews who made my first Harmony College so enjoyable and educational. I look forward to meeting up again at Cheltenham, just up the road.

Yours in Harmony

Stan Strange