Auditions for years 7-9 are next Wednesday 27th September. Collect the audition materials from the drama office.
Congratulations to our newly-appointed 2023-2024 Music Leaders
Jeanne – year 8
Bibi, Charlie, Liliana, Katia, Alice, Elliot, James, Lavinia – year 9
Katie, Will – year 10
Emma – year 11
Try playing your part along with these videos:
Congratulations to our students who have been chosen to perform in this production.
Buy tickets here (but if you are going to see a friend who is performing in it, check which of the performances they are going to be in).
GALSI – Gender and the Large and Shiny Instruments – aims to address gender imbalances for instrumentalists. They advocate instruments that have not traditionally been viewed as ‘feminine’ choices in recent historical times.
This two-day course is open to anyone who plays a brass or percussion instrument, is aged eight to 25 years old, and identifies as female or non-binary.
Participants will be split into junior and senior ensembles for workshops, masterclasses and performances.
For more information, please visit the GALSI website.
Run by GALSI and RCM Sparks
Practise your sight-reading
Can you keep up with the cymbal part in this extract from Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4?
And finally…
Listen to this fab fanfare from Mahler 5
The Symphony No. 5 by Gustav Mahler was composed in 1901 and 1902, mostly during the summer months at Mahler’s holiday cottage at Maiernigg. Among its most distinctive features are the trumpet solo that opens the work with a rhythmic motif similar to the opening of Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Symphony No. 5, the horn solos in the third movement and the frequently performed Adagietto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphony_No.5(Mahler)
Hayes Music blog 