FIRSTS

• First musical director and founder, Dr. Chris Molyneux, whose vision created an organisation that has brought joy to many thousands of people.

• First practice at St Peter's Church Hall, Mowbray.
  
  
• Founder members still in the Choir - Bernard Collins, Cedric Hess and Keith Mongie.
  
  
• Winning a diploma and the Whitford-Griffiths Cup for the Male Choir at the Cape Town Eisteddfod.
  
  
• Official photograph number 1 in the Company Gardens.
  
  
• Formation of the first quartet with Maurice Pressley, Keith Mongie, Dave Stevenson and Eric Pedersen.
  
  
• Audience performance by the Sea Point Musical Society.
  
  

• Public concert organised by the choir at the Sea Point Civic Centre.
  
  
• Out-of-town Concert at the Hermanus Anglican Church.
  
  
• Grand tour to Clanwilliam.
  
  

• Television recording in St John's Church, Wynberg.
  
  
• Albie Louw commissioned to arrange some Afrikaans songs for the choir.
  
  
• Honorary member - Rev Eric Pedersen.
  
  

• Annual Christmas Concert in the Cape Town City Hall.
  
  
• Appearance at the Good Hope Centre for an International Christian Businessmens' Conference.
  
  

• On-stage appearance at the Nico Malan Opera House providing a live, sung accompaniment to a slide show of Cape Town for WOCO International.
  
  

• Oude Libertas Amphitheatre concert.
  
  

• Organisation of a Cape Town Massed Male Choir Festival - singing Stout-Hearted Men with nine other choirs and singing groups.
  
  
• Performing at the opening of a shopping centre ... the Tyger Valley Centre ... and again at the Atrium in Claremont.
  
  

• Singing with the CAPAB Opera Chorus at the Nico Malan Opera House.
  
  

• Appointment of Bill Holland, as second Musical Director. He lifted the choir up from a temporary doldrum and increased its membership from 7 to 30.
  
  
• Airing a new "jazz orientated" repertoire as guest performers in a Best of Broadway concert with the Cape Town Symphony Choir. The concert and music were arranged and conducted by Bill Holland and Keith Mattison.
  
  

• "Out of the Province" trip to the Roodepoort International Eisteddfod
  
  

• A new experience in entertaining children with a concert called Holiday Concert for Children at the Diocesan College Theatre.
  
  

• The first real jazzy addition to the repertoire: Sweet Georgia Brown
  
  

• The appointment of Margaret Barlow as the third musical director, who, with her vast experience and expertise, has built on a firm foundation and brought the choir to an international standard of performance.
  
  
• A fund-raising concert to help enable James Bhemjee, the "Singing Dustman", to compete in the Roodepoort International Eisteddfod.
  
  
• A gold win at the Roodepoort International Eisteddfod.
  
  
• Carl Orff's Carmina Burana with the Philharmonia Choir at the Nico Malan Opera House.
  
  
• Performance on a World Cruise liner ... the Sagafjord ... and subsequently on the Oriana and the QE2.
  
  

• Participation in the first Caltex Masses Choir Festival in the Good Hope Centre.
  
  

• Participation in the first Voices of the World concert to be held in Africa ... at the Newlands Stadium.
  
  

• Choir reunion at the Twentyfirst Birthday Celebration Concert in the SA Museum Whale Well.
  
  

• Carols with Richard Cock in the Cape Town City Hall.
  
  

• Spring and Christmas concerts in the Baxter Concert Hall and Theatre.
  
  

• A never before digital group photograph of the choir and a CD, to keep up with the times!
  
  
  
  

• Pub singing at The Glen, The Pig, Forries and Pedlars.
  
  
• Rehearsals at St Peter's, Rhodes High School and Herschel Girls School.
  
  
• The many friends of the Choir, the teas after concerts, and enthusiastic reaction from audiences who, until they heard us, thought that choristers were "a stuffy lot".
  
  
• After-parties with singing "duels" between choirs and choristers.