Author: Jane Werry

A really good week of rehearsals, but if you’re thinking of joining one of our groups and haven’t yet, it isn’t too late! See the ‘About’ tab for what’s on when.

WELL DONE this week to the following great people:

• Ben F and Harry for leading another really successful Jamsesh
• Music Leaders for helping with the asset register (yawn) and ukulele stickers
• Laura for leading Showsongs

GOOD LUCK to all our lovely ex-Year 13s who are heading off to uni this weekend. You will have an amazing time! We have a record number of ex-Hayes students following music and music tech degree courses now! There will soon be a display board in the corridor so you can see some of the exciting musical things our ex-students are up to.

CHOIR, CHAMBER CHOIR and SHOWSONGS, please visit the ‘Choir’ page (hover over the ‘home’ tab at the top and you’ll see it) and listen to your songs.

MusicFest is coming!

MusicFest is coming up on Wednesday 11th October. This is open to any student in any year group to play/sing whatever music they like. We have solos, duets, bands, classical, rock, pop, and students’ own compositions/arrangements. Get planning what you’re doing – signup will be online (via this blog) and will open in a couple of weeks.

Do your parents want to get involved in doing some music?

BYMT now have a huge range of adult music activities. Here are some details – do make sure your parents see this if they might be interested!

BROMLEY ADULT MUSIC 2017-2018 : GREAT MUSIC FOR ALL!

Bromley Adult Music Music 2017-18 classes now registering! Bromley Adult Music (BAM) is the premier music centre for adults in the borough of Bromley, based at Bromley Youth Music Trust. We offer quality music classes for both beginners and more advanced students. Our classes are welcoming, friendly and lots of fun! BAM classes are as follows: Music Appreciation Interactive music lecture series. Monday 9.30am Ukulele Club For beginners and intermediate players. Monday 10.00am Adult Musicians’ Orchestra Sociable orchestra for all abilities. Monday 7.30pm Learn to Read Music & Put it To Use Practical music theory course. Monday 7.30pm Sing! Bromley Popular music choir for all abilities. Wednesday 10.00am Adult Choir Classical music choir for all abilities. Wednesday 7.30pm Piano for Adult Beginners Small group classes for beginners. Thursday 2.00pm Advanced Piano Maestros Advanced pianist club. Thursday 7.00pm Bromley Male Voices Barbershop style ensemble for all abilities. Thursday 7.30pm Thank Rock It’s Thursday! New rock school for adult rockers! Thursday 7.30pm Jazz School Jazz training for musicians of any age. Thursday 7.30pm Classes take place at BYMT in Bromley and we offer everyone the opportunity to try a class before signing up. Go to our website to find out more: www.bymt.co.uk/bam or contact the BYMT office: T. 020 8467 1566 E. contact@bymt.co.uk

So why not come along and give it a try – we look forward to welcoming you! “I’ve made lots of new friends and felt totally welcomed from the start.” Michelle. “It is such an uplifting experience to share great music with such a friendly group.” Doris. “I hadn’t played properly for more than 30 years but that didn’t matter. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed participating in music.” Joe “I look forward to Monday evenings and spending time in the company of really friendly people who enjoy making music together.” Simon “It has brought the enjoyment of singing back into my life, not explored since school days.” Carole “It’s my Wednesday morning treat!” Jo

Friday video

Well done on everybody on a fantastic first week of rehearsals, and a big welcome to all new members of ensembles. A particular well done to our fantastic Music Leaders who have led rehearsals this week and helped to get everything sorted. And to Alana for having the idea to go out onto Gadsden Lawn and get all the Year 7s honking away on different instruments!

Chamber Choir will start this week. This term, we are just going to have upper voices (soprano and alto) in Chamber Choir. We will review this after Christmas, and see if we have enough tenors and basses!

Guitar group will (I think) also start this week.

If you are in Choir or Showsongs, please visit the Choirs page to listen to your songs. You’ll find this if you hover your mouse over the ‘home’ tab at the top of this page.

Jamsesh #2 check your Shared With me items in OneDrive – I’ve shared Viva la Vida with you, in the right key for you to practise along with.

Music leaders jobs to do next week include: putting stickers on all the ukuleles in CGD, organising display boards in C1U, and getting that pesky asset register sorted…

If you are interested in taking up a new instrument, you might want to go along to BYMT tomorrow to their try-out session:

This guy is a bit fab…

Welcome to the new school year and to the new home of the blog. There is a LOT going on, so read carefully to keep fully informed!

All (well most!) rehearsals will start next week (4th Sept onwards)

See the ‘About’ page for what’s on when and the calendar for this year’s concerts. Note that there are two new things:

1. Samba on Thursday lunchtimes in CGG – no experience required. Even if you don’t know what samba is, if you like drumming, or just fancy making a LOT of noise, come on down!
2. 5-note orchestra on Friday lunchtimes in CGF – this is for ANYONE on ANY instrument – as long as you can play 5 notes, you’re in! An ideal place to get experience of playing in a group. Would also suit more experienced musicians who are trying out a new instrument… we will be learning all the music by rote/magic, so it is also good for your ear/memory!

Note some other things have changed days/rooms.

Chamber Choir – we will need to see how many boys we might have for Chamber Choir before we can decide exactly what format the choir will have this year. If you want to audition for Chamber Choir, we will do this after school on Wednesday 6th. (please bear in mind that Miss W will be coming from a meeting – WAIT if she’s not there at 3pm!!) Be prepared to sing a song of your choice and then do some sight-reading. Chamber Choir rehearsals will start on Thursday 14th.

This Thursday, 7th Sept,  we will be going out on Gadsden Lawn with a load of instruments to let Year 7 have a go and generally tell them how fantastic music is! The Music Leaders will be leading the way here, but if you would like to join in, please do so! If you have an instrument that you don’t mind them having a go on, bring it. Meet in CGD at the start of lunch. 

Concert videos are here!

Thanks SO much to Corinna for sorting these out over the holidays! We now have a video for the Easter Concert as well as the Summer Concert. Here they are:

We want to be a bit more organised with getting quality footage of all our concerts this year, so if you are secretly an expert video-er (or even have a parent who is) then let us know…