\n Weymouth Rock Choir have made local history as they travelled to the capital to take part in a landmark performance at the Natural History Museum in celebration of Sir David Attenborough\u2019s milestone birthday earlier this year.\n<\/p>\n
\n In May, the much-loved documentarist, who has made generations fall in love with wildlife, celebrated his 100th birthday in May.\n<\/p>\n
\n More than 1,000 members of Rock Choir across the country came together to sing Louis Armstrong\u2019s classic, What a Wonderful World, by candlelight in the Hintze Hall, beneath the iconic skeleton of Hope the whale.\n<\/p>\n
\n The event took place across two sessions, with 500 singers in each, and their voices will be joined together to create a special video that will be presented to Sir David as a belated birthday gift.\n<\/p>\n
\n The idea was inspired by Sir David\u2019s now-iconic reading of\u00a0the same song, featured in the BBC\u2019s\u00a0Planet Earth series. The performance celebrates his lifelong dedication to helping people understand, appreciate and protect the natural world.\n<\/p>\n
\n A number of celebrations were held to mark the documentarist\u2019s centenary. \u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n In May, Environment and nature filmmakers came together for a special live event broadcast from London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall.\n<\/p>\n
\n The event is believed to be the first time a choir has recorded a performance at the Natural History Museum, a spokesperson for Weymouth Rock Choir said, as well as the first time a choir of this size has performed at the iconic venue.\n<\/p>\n
\n It brought together singers, known colloquially as rockies, from Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cheshire and greater London, who were joined by the founder of Rock Choir, Caroline Redman Lusher MBE.\n<\/p>\n
\n Weymouth Rock Choir are invited to sing at events across Dorset all year round, and bring together singers from all over the county, known for their uplifting and passionate performances of rock and pop classics.\n<\/p>\n
\n The group recently sang to celebrate the 600th parkrun in Weymouth at Lodmoor Country Park.\n<\/p>\n
\n Rock Choir is the world\u2019s largest contemporary choir, bringing together more than 33,000 members across the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weymouth Rock Choir have made local history as they travelled to the capital to take part in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":817582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-817581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=817581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/817582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=817581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=817581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=817581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}