Summer Concert

Please encourage family and friends to buy their tickets here

The Summer concert is NEXT WEDNESDAY! All our extra-curricular groups are performing at this event so please make sure you know your part(s) by then.

Please click here to be taken to the Concert Band page. Here you’ll find links to this term’s pieces so you can play along at home when practising.

Please click here to be taken to the Musical Theatre page. Here you’ll find links to this term’s songs so you can sing along at home when practising.

Please click here to be taken to the Choir page. Here you’ll find links to this term’s songs so you can sing along at home when practising.

The rehearsal schedule for the day of the concert (Wed 3rd July) is below. Please make a note of when you are needed and make sure you have your instrument/music in school with you on that day!

Your teachers will know why you are absent from lessons that day, but it is your responsibility to find out what you missed and catch up.

Usual lunch rehearsals will take place up until the concert.

Here are some things you need to know about the concert itself:

The concert is at 6.30pm in the Hall. It will be finished around 9pm.
You need to wear all black. Not blue, not brown, not patterned, and no big logos.
Tickets are £5 via link above.
The music classrooms will be available for coats, instrument cases etc. Please arrive in enough time to warm up and get organised.
When the concert is in progress, you must not hang out in the classrooms or corridors. You need to be in the Hall being a supportive, considerate, appreciative member of the audience who shows awareness of performance etiquette which includes not moving around or making a noise during the music.
Any questions, please ask.

Royal Albert Hall trip

Thank you to those of you who joined us on this trip. We hope you enjoyed it !

Paul McCartney was watching TV, saw a trumpeter playing a Bach Brandenburg Concerto on screen, and next minute invited him to play on one of the Beatles’ biggest hits.

Picture this. Paul McCartney, watching TV in a most ordinary scene, and happening across footage of the English orchestral trumpeter David Mason performing a Bach Brandenburg Concerto. So inspired, he becomes, that he knows he just must invite him to play on a new Beatles song he’s percolating on.

That’s how the story of the notoriously high piccolo trumpet solo on ‘Penny Lane’ starts.

Vocalist McCartney was looking for something to embellish the jaunty 1967 English pop song, so when he heard Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in the hands of the virtuosic Mason, he’d found just the colour the Fab Four didn’t even know they needed.

The next day, the story goes, Beatles producer George Martin (AKA The Fifth Beatle) had called the unsuspecting trumpeter, and invited him to record at Abbey Road Studios with the most famous band in the world.

Find out more here