Well done to everyone who took part in Monday’s Year 7 Concert. Congratulations to the class winners and soloists.
Tallulah F – Son of a Preacher Man
Maya RS – Mamma Mia
7UVC – Spice Up Your Life
7WXC – Proud Mary
HUB
The badges have arrived 🙂
Please collect from my room from Wednesday 16th October.
MusicFest
The next MusicFest is in the first week back after half term so you need to get planning, collaborating and practising!
MusicFests are informal concerts where students from any year group can perform pieces of their own choice to a friendly and supportive audience. We always have a huge range of music, from students’ very first public performance to students who are already hugely experienced musicians. We have all styles of music from classical to rock to musical theatre and students’ own compositions. There are solos, duets and groups. One of the loveliest thngs about these events is when students from different year groups work on something together. MusicFests are always a much loved event on the Hayes Music calendar.
Here is the video from a previous MusicFest so you can get a flavour of what it’s like:
JamSesh and HUB – date for your diary
This is a lovely event that JamSesh and HUB perform at every year. We will meet at 3.30pm in the New Inn car park and perform from 3.50-4.10pm. HUB check Satchel One for more details and JamSesh see your WhatsApp group.
John Williams documentary – coming soon on Disney+
“Music by John Williams” is a refrain that strikes joy into the hearts of all movie lovers. It also forms the title of a new documentary film about the 92-year-old composer.
The documentary features interviews with some of the biggest names in Hollywood, with John Williams himself in front of the camera. A trailer released on Monday features some of the composer’s most iconic scores, from Jaws to Indiana Jones. Watch it above.
Disney+ say the documentary will explore the composer’s life, from his early days as a jazz pianist to his 54 Oscar nominations and five wins, looking at his contribution to the concert stage and impact on popular culture, as well as his deep influence on the big screen.
The Disney+ release is directed by filmmaker and author Laurent Bouzereau, with Williams’ longtime artistic partner Steven Spielberg as part of the production team.
Read the full article here
And finally …
Don’t get it? Listen to the rhythm played by the timpani and strings in the opening of this piece:
The Planets, Op. 32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1917. In the last movement the orchestra is joined by a wordless female chorus. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System and its supposed astrological character.
Gustav Theodore Holst (born Gustavus Theodore von Holst; 21 September 1874 – 25 May 1934) was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for his orchestral suite The Planets, he composed many other works across a range of genres, although none achieved comparable success.
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