Glamorgan Youth Choir and Orchestra
St Elvan's Church, Aberdare
September 3rd, 1963
(photo contributed by Susan Dennis , additional notes by John Samuel)

This picture shows the Glamorgan Youth Choir and Orchestra on the day of their concert at St Elvan's Church in Aberdare. The programme for this concert is on the site. It shows that the main works performed by the choir were
Vaughan Williams' Toward the Unknown Region
and Handel's Dettingen Te Deum

There are several Aberdarians in the choir. Here are their names:
Susan Dennis, Pamela Field, Rhian Samuel
Annette Merriman, Pamela Mann
Hywel Davies, Peter Ballinger
David Martin Burridge, Roger Humphreys and John Samuel
Gethin Evans is in the central area together with
Russell Sheppard (conductor)
(please let us know if we have missed anybody or incorrectly identified someone)

Hover your mouse pointer over the faces in the picture. If you get to one of the Aberdarians
their names should appear

Russell Sheppard was originally from Mountain Ash. He was a music master at Holyhead before returning to South Wales in 1949 as Music Organiser and Inspector for Glamorgan.
Following Sheppard's death in 1999, John Jenkins, his son in law, published a book in his memory entitled
"Toward the Unknown Region ", (ISBN: 1902709047). Included in the book is a cutting from the Aberdare Leader which was a report of the St Elvan's concert by its correspondent, E. Morley Smith.
Vaughan Williams had himself conducted this work in a concert at the Cwmaman Institute on Boxing Day, 1932.