英国哈罗公学音乐总监再度莅临哈罗横琴，共谱校歌之美

Woodcock先生在座无虚席的礼堂中，与大家分享了哈罗校歌的历史与精神。他解释道，哈罗是全世界唯一一所至今仍定期演唱如此多校歌的学校——共有五十余首校歌，创作时间从1872年至2003年。目前，哈罗横琴已有两首校歌被传唱。这些歌曲的灵感来源于校园生活的方方面面——板球、游泳、赛艇、学业、歌唱、温斯顿·丘吉尔以及哈罗的杰出校友，从初入校园的羞涩到毕业告别时的依依不舍。

Woodcock先生现场播放了《愿院舍之光永存》《五百张面孔》《约翰里昂之路》《银剑》等代表性校歌，让旋律诉说故事。更令人难忘的是，他亲自指挥全校师生合唱《五百张面孔》，并带领大家学习了三段全新的歌词，独唱学生在前排领唱。

集会在《四十年后》的合唱中圆满落幕。Woodcock先生由衷表达了赞赏之情，称哈罗横琴对这两首校歌的演唱在所有哈罗学校中一骑绝尘——当然，除了英国哈罗公学！

部分哈罗校歌可在官网聆听：Harrow Songs - Harrow School。

(https://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news-events/explore-harrow/harrow-songs)

Mr Woodcock shared with a full auditorium the history and spirit of the Harrow school songs. He explained that Harrow is the only school in the world with this number of songs regularly sung by the school – there are over fifty songs, written from 1872 to 2003 – and two of these songs, so far, are sung at Harrow Hengqin. They are inspired by many parts of school life — cricket, swimming, rowing, schoolwork, singing songs, Winston Churchill and former Harrow students, joining the school shyly, and saying goodbye when graduating from Harrow.

Mr Woodcock played representative school songs , including “Stet Fortuna Domus”, “Five Hundred Faces”, “The John Lyon’s Road” and “The Silver Arrow”, allowing the melodies to tell their stories. Most memorably, he conducted the whole school in singing “Five Hundred Faces”, learning three new verses with soloists singing at the front.

The assembly concluded with “Forty Years On”. Mr Woodcock expressed heartfelt admiration, praising Harrow Hengqin’s singing of our two songs as unmatched among all the Harrow schools – except at his own! A selection of Harrow songs can be heard at Harrow Songs - Harrow School

（https://www.harrowschool.org.uk/news-events/explore-harrow/harrow-songs）.

During the masterclass, Mr Woodcock taught an organ student with some IGCSE Music students watching and learning too. 

Last academic year, Harrow Hengqin installed a top-of- the-range digital organ, featuring three manuals, pedals, and over 50 stops, located in our school ground-floor atrium — a large space with an attractive acoustics.

Schools in China equipped with an organ are few and far between. We take great pride in offering this unique facility, which is more than an instrument — it is a window through which students glimpse the very soul of Western classical music.

The organ, oboe, and strings played together, weaving the solemnity of Bach, the elegance of Marcello, and the vitality of Lidón and Widor through music and orchestra. 

Performers included not only Mr Woodcock but also Harrow Hengqin’s Head Master Mr Bartlett, music teachers Mr Bulla and Mr Wen, oboist and organ student Brian So, and the school orchestra. The performances were much enjoyed by an audience of 50 parents, students and staff during the lunchtime break.