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retirement from full-time teaching, They play works as ambitious as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and ONE of Scarborough’s best-known he formed a choir and orchestra. musicians attended a garden party at “It started as the Can’t Sing Choir”, the great piano concertos by Grieg, recalls Bill with a laugh. “It grew Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. The Buckingham House on 31 May. concerts have “The invitation came out of the into the Graham Choir and Bill Scott raised several blue,” said thousand pounds Sunderlandfor local charities. born Bill Scott, The choir raised who has lived £1,000 at a concert in Scarborough on 3 March. It was since 1975. shared equally “I’ve no idea between the how I came FirstLight Trust to be invited, and Scarborough but it’s very & District exciting and Mencap. I feel very Over the honoured to years, Bill has be invited”. composed many Bill, who was musicals which joined by his have been staged wife Anita, has locally, including contributed Barnaby Rudge, enormously The Inn of to the town’s Happiness and musical and Jenny Stamford of Mencap accepts a £500 cheque from Sandy McKeown Rock on Henry, theatrical life. and other choir committee members (to order photos ring 353597) which was He trained as a teacher at Leeds University then is now the 85-strong Scarborough revived earlier this year. North Riding College, which is now Community Choir, rehearsing weekly A keen Gilbert & Sullivan at South Cliff Methodist Church and enthusiast, Bill directed semi-staged Scarborough Tec in Filey Road. He went on to teach music at performing in care homes, local halls performances of Trial by Jury Graham School and Scarborough and even at the Spa Grand Hall once, and The Mikado with the choir, orchestra and Sandside Players and, College. Bill worked as a musical backing Russell Watson”. director for the Stephen Joseph At the same time, Bill has brought in partnership with UK Foundation Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse and together local musicians in his for Dance, Scarborough & District Light Opera Sandside Orchestra for occasional on Page 2... concerts, often with the choir Continued Society. When arthritis forced his early and guest pianist Frank James.
“The invitation came out of the blue”