Music
Downside is also renowned for its music. The Schola Cantorum (Choir) plays a major role in Downside's music. Not only singing for High Mass, the Schola Cantorum also holds public performances on a termly basis. It has recently performed a concert of twentieth century choral music, including music by Britten, Lauridsen and the Chichester Psalms by Bernstein. The summer term is always ended with a musical. Productions in recent years have included Oliver!, Grease, Guys and Dolls, High Society, Anything Goes and most recently the opera of Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell. Jazz in Downside is popular. The jazz band Slaughterhouse Seven has performed in Australia, Fiji, Canada, the United States, Malta, Gibraltar, Hong Kong and other places.
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There is society where none intrudes
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