250 youngsters took part in the Didcot and district junior schools’ music festival in March 1987
FLYING was the theme of the Didcot and district junior schools’ music festival in March 1987.
Two hundred and fifty youngsters, aged nine to 11, including an 80-strong orchestra, put on a programme of music and songs, with each piece reflecting some aspect of flying.
Nine schools – four from Didcot and five from neighbouring villages – took part in the concert at Didcot Civic Hall, at which the conductor was Olga Latham and the pianist, Mary Parfitt.
Some of the schools taking part had been doing a science project on flying, and there was an exhibition on the subject in the foyer of the civic hall.
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