Report by: June Clark

Performer : Daniel Watt

Instruments : Wersi Spectra

Daniel was back with us again after a long (too long) absence and opened his show with “A Taste of Honey”, followed by “Superstar”, one of The Carpenters’ top hits.

“The Shadow of Your Smile” composed by John Williams and recorded by The Boston Pops Orchestra - “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown” and on to a beautiful piece of classical music entitled “Prelude in A”.

“I Left My Heart In San Francisco”, “What Now My Love” and “Jesu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring”.

Raising the tempo - for “Aquarius” from the Musical “Hair“.

West Life - “You Raise Me Up”, followed by a Sammy Davis Jnr version of “The Rhythm Of Life”.

Opening the second half of his Show, Daniel performed:

Henry Mancini’s “It Had Better Be Tonight” from “The Pink Panther”, “Laura”, John Williams’ arrangement from the 50’s and 60’s.

Frank Sinatra’s “You Make Me Feel So Young”, followed by Franz Schubert’s “Ave Maria”.

Compton organ sounds for the 60’s song “If Your Going To San Francisco”.

Ireland’s duo Secret Garden’s composition of “Elan”, a very fast piece of music with “Riverdance” in mind. The co-writer of this piece of music is Anietta, the blonde singer formerly with Abba - and is one of the tracks on her first solo CD which came out several years ago.

Theatre Organ Sounds combined with sounds from the USA’s Great Barton - “Eleanora” and “A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square”.

Hans Zimmer’s Disney theme music “The Pirates Of The Caribbean”.

“Downtown” and big band sounds of Cole Porter’s “I Concentrate On You”, followed by “More”.

For Daniel’s encore he chose the sounds from The Edinburgh Military Tattoo - “Highland Cathedral”.

We look forward to inviting Daniel back to Peterborough in 2010. Why not sooner, we hear you ask? Our Show Programme is now complete for both 2008 and 2009!!

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