Where We've Come From

An excerpt from a book of Mrs Heggie’s recollections describes her time establishing the choir:

 

"In time I had the pleasure and responsibility of forming and conducting an a cappella choir. This account is told in a separate article. Our first practice is memorable, being held in an old building, long gone I think, in College Street, during a Convention. We trundled up narrow, rather dark stairways to the seclusion of a small room to practice songs arranged with simple harmonies to Bahá’í words by Dorothy Stoney, a Bahá’í of Mudgee. We duly discovered other songs and must attribute our gratitude to Mary­Ann McLeod for harmonizing "Yá-Bahá'u'l'Abhá", the melody being by Saffa Kinney and still being sung in the Temple.

 

The following nine years we found various venues for practice, of necessity being suitable for meeting at night time: viz. at 20 Milling Street, Hunter's Hill (my home), the National Headquarters at Centennial Park, a home in Cook Road, also a singer's studio in the city, with a rehearsal in the Temple. All this seems a long time ago, being in the 1960's and 1970's. The choir is well established and now sings at every service."