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 actuallyprom – 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.
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For those of you who have been on my trips to the Royal Albert Hall:
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Our Principal Horn John Ryan gives us the lowdown on the most epic of horn sounds! 💥 pic.twitter.com/d2nwd35cV1
— London Philharmonic Orchestra (@LPOrchestra) July 11, 2024
Today, we’re launching an opportunity for you to share your sound with the nation. @DaniHoward6 has written a melody for the summer, and we want to hear what you can do with it.
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
There are only a few tickets remaining for the BYMT Musical Theatre production of Whistle Down the Wind, so please book now to avoid disappointment https://t.co/cCz6KKVbNJ and join us for this fantastic show! pic.twitter.com/0Zi2siuCZE
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.
Music is… inspiration, motivation, communication, connection and celebration, all around the world it brings people together; Its emotional, spiritual, empowering and powerful, an eternal evolving movement and the beat goes on forever.
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.
In the grandeur of St. Paul’s Cathedral in 1970, Leonard Bernstein conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Verdi’s Requiem that marks Placido Domingo’s first appearance with the Maestro. In an introductory note, Mr. Bernstein dedicates this performance to victims of war and oppression: “Let us remember them all and meditate on our own salvation, here on Earth.”
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
Verdi
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
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.
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.
Music Department trip to the Royal Albert Hall – Tuesday 25th June
There will be a trip meeting for all those going on this trip in CGG at 3pm on Wednesday 19th June. It will only last for 5-10 minutes. I will put a reminder on Satchel One.
The Summer Concert is only 2 and a half weeks away! Please make sure that you are practising your part(s) at home and that you attend as many rehearsals between now and the concert as possible.
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 Summer Concert is only 3 and a half weeks away! Please make sure that you are practising your part(s) at home and that you attend as many rehearsals between now and the concert as possible.
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.
Music Department trip to the Royal Albert Hall – Tuesday 25th June
There will be a trip meeting for all those going on this trip in CGG at 3pm on Wednesday 19th June. It will only last for 5-10 minutes. I will put a reminder on Satchel One.
Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” / Herbert von Karajan, conductor · Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, January 1966.
Antonín Dvořák (born September 8, 1841, Nelahozeves, Bohemia, Austrian Empire [now in Czech Republic]—died May 1, 1904, Prague) was the first Bohemian composer to achieve worldwide recognition, noted for turning folk material into 19th-century Romantic music.
The Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World”, Op. 95, B. 178 was composed while he was the director of the National Conservatory of Music of America from 1892 to 1895. It premiered in New York City on 16 December 1893. It is one of the most popular of all symphonies. Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a tape recording of the New World Symphony along during the Apollo 11 mission, the first Moon landing, in 1969.
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.
And finally …
“Down in the River to Pray” (also known as “Down to the River to Pray,” “Down in the Valley to Pray,” “The Good Old Way,” and “Come, Let Us All Go Down“) is a traditional American song variously described as a Christian folk hymn, an African-American spiritual, an Appalachian song, and a Southern gospel song. The exact origin of the song is unknown. The most famous version, featured in O Brother Where Art Thou?, uses a pentatonic scale, common in many African American spirituals.
All 3 of our electric pianos have now reached the end of their life 😦
Do any of you have an electric piano that is no longer needed that you would be able to donate to school? Please ask around – family, neighbours, friends etc.
Thank you 🙂
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BYMT JAZZ SCHOOL is currently welcoming new members!
Jazz School is for wind, brass, percussion, keyboard players and singers of grade 3+ standard. Run by Mr Buster Birch, an award-winning Jazz Musician, educator and composer – players can learn to improvise in a relaxing and supportive jazz group.
Jazz School takes place on Thursdays 6.15pm-7.15pm at BYMT, Southborough Lane, Bromley, BR2 8AA.
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