Thank you again to Brass Quintet and some of our Music Leaders who are helping at this event.
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Open Day is next Saturday (5th October)
Thank you to Brass Quintet and to some of our Music Leaders who will be there to perform/help out in the Music Department.
New Music Leaders for 2024-2025
Thank you to everyone who applied to be a Music Leader this year. The following students have been chosen:
- Henry y10
- Dolly y10
- Elliot y 10
- Ella y9
- Jeanne y9
- Will y11
- Emma y12
- Tobie y8
- Elinor y10
- Bibi y10
- Lavinia y10
- Ben MB y8
- Liliana y10
- Alice y10
- Charlie y10
- Helena y8
- Katie y11
- Katia y10
- Mia y11
- James y10
Your first job:
We need a team of you to run refreshments for the Year 7 Concert on Monday 7th October from 5.45pm in the school hall. Please can you let Miss Werry know asap if you can be there to help out. Thank you 🙂
Something else to watch:
Musical Theatre news
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.
Please click here to be taken to the Hayes Harmonies page. Here you’ll find links to this term’s songs so you can practise at home.
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Find out more about this concerto here.
Matilda Jnr
Congratulations to those of you who are in the cast of Matilda Jnr. We are looking forward to seeing the show in December.
Music department trip
This trip is for committed members of our music clubs. Thank you to those of you who have signed up for it. More details to follow.
Year 7 concert
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.
Please click here to be taken to the Hayes Harmonies page. Here you’ll find links to this term’s songs so you can practise at home.
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The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718–1720. The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi’s works.
They were a revolution in musical conception: Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters’ and the prey’s point of view, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires.
Find out more here
Full steam ahead!
It’s been great to see so many of you at rehearsals this week. Please keep encouraging your friends to come along so they can see what the music department is all about.
Important dates
Please get these written into your diaries/family calendars NOW!
Music department trip
Our first trip of the school year is to see Back to the Future the Musical on Monday 25th November at 7.30pm. The parents/carers of music club members in years 7-13 should have already received a trip letter via email. Anyone who hasn’t received the email (including anyone new to our clubs), please contact me asap so I can get the letter emailed to you.
The deadline for signing up and paying for this trip is Sunday 22nd September. This is a quick turnaround due to the deadline that we have to meet to pay the theatre invoice.
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.
Please click here to be taken to the Hayes Harmonies page. Here you’ll find links to this term’s songs so you can sing along at home when practising.
BYMT news
Guitarists … do you agree?
James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitarist, songwriter and singer. He is widely regarded as the greatest guitarist in the history of popular music and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.”
Read more about his life here
Read the full article here
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Autumn Term 2024
Music rehearsals:
Music rehearsals will start in the week beginning Monday 9th September – see you there 🙂
School show for years 7-9
Important dates:
TBC – check back soon
Please make a note of all these dates, and make sure they are added to your family calendar too.
Music department trips:
Would you like to be a Music Leader in 2024-2025?
Would you like to be a Music Leader this year? Music Leaders need to be totally committed to supporting the department and spreading the music love. Your jobs will involve helping recruit year 7s to our clubs, helping at school events (e.g. open days), assisting with music trips, helping to keep the music resources tidy and so on.
If you would like to be considered for the role of a Music Leader you will need to complete this quick form. To be eligible, you will need to be a member of at least two music clubs. We are looking for people who are committed and tuned in. By that, we mean people who come to rehearsals really regularly, check the blog, answer their emails and generally know what’s going on. All year groups welcome.
Existing Music Leaders will need to complete the form too.
Deadline for submission is 8am on Friday 13th September.
Any questions, please contact Mrs Foster
** All current music leaders – please see me in my room at lunch on Friday 6th September to discuss something Mr Brett and I need you to do next week. Thank you. **
Congratulations to our GCSE and A Level classes for your music/music tech exam results.
Summer news
We would love to hear about the musical things you did over the summer break. Please send me a quick email to tell me all about it so I can include it on the next blog.
Thank you. From Mrs Foster
Congratulations to Brooke and Emma for being part of the NYO’s fantastic performance at this year’s BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in August. What an incredible experience!
Do you know someone who can help us?
We would really like to have some professional photographs taken at our music events this academic year. Do any of you have any family members/family friends who are keen amateur photographers and who may be able to help us? Please let me know. Thank you. Mrs Foster
BYMT news
For students in years 7 and 8:
Year 7 Concert – Monday 7th October 6pm
All year 7 students will be involved in this event. Your music teacher will tell you all about this in your music lessons over the next couple of weeks.
Which colours are you aiming to get this school year?
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Congratulations …
on another fab year of music-making!
Summer concert video:
Have a look back at the past year here and via the following links:
Twitter: click here
Facebook: click here
Instagram: click here
Have a fabulous summer holiday! Maybe do some really lovely musical things – try a new instrument, learn a new piece, or listen to something different. Go to a Prom! Proms are brilliant – the atmosphere is like nothing else – and the programme of events is huge and varied. U18s go half price on all seated tickets – however, I would absolutely encourage you to actually prom – which means queuing for a ticket on the day, and standing up (there are two queues – one for the Arena, and one for the Gallery – I would strongly recommend the gallery, because the acoustics are better, and if there is room, you can lie on the floor and listen to the music!). See the Proms website for full details.
BBC iPlayer:
Type music into the search box
Disney +
Type music into the search box
For those of you who have been on my trips to the Royal Albert Hall:
More things to watch:
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BYMT Garden Party
Congratulations to all of you who performed brilliantly at the BYMT Garden Party last weekend.
It’s almost the end of an era for some of you 😥
Have a great time on the BYMT tour to Germany
Tidying up the department
Thank you to those of you who have been helping to tidy up in the department. There is always more to do so please come and offer to help out if you haven’t already. Thank you.
Read the full article here
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Summer Concert
Well done to everyone who performed/helped out at this week’s brilliant Summer Concert. Video and photos to come …
Congratulations to Ben in year 13 for being awarded this year’s Eddie Rider shield:
Plan to book your Promming ticket to see Brooke and Emma perform at this year’s NYO Prom
The BBC Proms, what’s it all about?
The BBC Proms is a classical music festival held every summer at the Royal Albert Hall in London, and in recent years has explored an innovative series of Proms around the UK with concerts in all four nations. Its aim: to bring the best in classical music to the widest possible audience, which remains true to founder-conductor Henry Wood’s original vision in 1895.
Whether you are a classical connoisseur or think classical music isn’t for you, there is something for everyone in the eight-week stretch of concerts.
Find out more here
Giuseppe Verdi (born October 9/10, 1813, Roncole, Italy — died January 27, 1901, Milan, Italy) was a leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century, noted for operas such as Rigoletto (1851), Il trovatore (1853), La traviata (1853), Don Carlos (1867), Aida (1871), Otello (1887), and Falstaff (1893) and for his Requiem Mass (1874). Find out more here
Leonard Bernstein (born August 25, 1918, Lawrence, U.S. — died October 14, 1990, New York, U.S.) was an American conductor, composer, and pianist noted for his accomplishments in both classical and popular music, for his flamboyant conducting style, and for his pedagogic flair, especially in concerts for young people. Find out more here
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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
Find out more here
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Summer Concert
It’s now less than two weeks away! Please encourage family and friends to buy their tickets here
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 Royal Albert Hall trip is next Tuesday
The trip information was shared at Wednesday’s trip meeting and can also be found on Satchel One. Please contact me if you have any more questions.
The music for the 2021 American film Dune was composed, conducted, and produced by Hans Zimmer. Zimmer wrote several soundtracks of music for the film, including for its sequel, and heavily utilized choir—specifically female voices—percussion, and strings in the score’s instrumentation, as well as acoustic and wind instruments. New, hybrid instruments were fabricated to conceive the “otherworldly” tonal desert sounds heard in the film. The music has been described as the composer’s most “unorthodox” and experimental yet. In addition, the score for the film earned Zimmer his second Academy Award for Best Original Score. When Dune: Part Two was announced for a 2023 theatrical release, it was revealed that Zimmer had begun work on the film’s music and had over an hour of music to assist the filmmakers in planning the film.
Find out more about the film and Hans Zimmer here
BYMT news
Tickets here
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Hayes Music blog 