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Jazz Band @ Hayes Fair

Thank you to the members of Jazz Band who performed at the Hayes Fair on Sunday. Thanks also to Miss Narracott for stepping in to help out!

Summer Concert tickets

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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.

Bandle – Guess the song, one instrument at a time

Try the game here

Watch behind-the-scenes video of Muse’s Matt Bellamy recording new ‘1984’ score at Abbey Road

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Summer Concert – 3rd July

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.

BYMT news

Find out more here

Were your parents/guardians part of BYMT?

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Here’s one for concert band 😀

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Have a lovely half term break

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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.

Read more about the composer’s life here and 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.

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Good luck to all of you sitting GCSE and A Level exams.

There are lots of playlists on BBC Sounds to help you keep calm and focussed:

Click on the image to explore the playlists available.

BYMT news

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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.

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“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.

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Electric piano amnesty

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 🙂

HazeFest news

BYMT news

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.

For more information please call 020 8467 1566 or visit BYMT Jazz School and please do check out the YouTube Jazz School

Hip-Hop fans

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Click here to read the article

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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.

**NEW** 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.

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All systems go

It’s been great to see so many of you back at our lunch time music clubs. Try and bring a friend with you next week. The more the merrier!

BYMT news

Meet the Cimbasso, the epic brass contraption heard in ‘Inception’ and ‘Call of Duty’

Find out more here

Try the Bach Google Doodle

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 pieces so you can sing along at home when practising.

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Pachelbel’s Canon is an accompanied canon by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel. The canon was originally scored for three violins and basso continuo and paired with a gigue, known as Canon and Gigue for 3 violins and basso continuo. Both movements are in the key of D major. A canon is a musical texture in which a melody is played and then imitated (one or more times) after a short delay in another part. It is a contrapuntal technique as the melodic lines move independently of one another.

Listen to the bass line and look at the Simpsons cartoon above
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Music tour reviews

Thank you to those of you who wrote a review of music tour. Look out for your reviews in the school newsletter and displayed in the music corridor.

Film music fans

Listen to this podcast episode about the power of classical music in film.

It’s great for GCSE and A Level film music revision too.

Mark Robert Bailey (born 13 January 1965), known professionally as Bill Bailey, is an English musician, comedian, actor and television presenter. He is known for his role as Manny in the sitcom Black Books and for his regular appearances on the panel shows Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, and QI, as well as for his stand-up comedy work. He plays a variety of musical instruments and incorporates music into his performances.

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 pieces so you can sing along at home when practising.

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Year 9s – you should recognise this piece!

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Summer term

All music clubs start up again from Monday 22nd April.

Coming up this term:

And for those of you who have signed up for this trip:

Trip details will be put on Satchel One closer to the time.

NYO news

Congratulations to Brooke and Emma for their part in the NYO’s recent Catalyst tour

The NYO performing in Liverpool, April 2024

Interested in auditioning for the NYO? Listen to Brooke’s fab advice:

Why are the violins always at the front, with winds behind? And why will you almost never find the tubas sat right next to the conductor?

Find out by clicking here

BYMT news

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Congratulations on another fab concert

Did you earn music colours at the concert?

Certificates will be ready after the Easter holiday. Please let us know if you think you might qualify for a colour but were not on the Easter Concert list.

All hands on deck!

During the first week back after the Easter holiday there will be no music clubs.

Instead, we need the Music Leaders and all members of music clubs, to come to the music department at lunch when you would normally be in a club so that you can help us with the following jobs:

  • Unpacking after tour
  • Organising our sheet music and folders
  • Helping to tidy the music office/store etc.
  • Fixing broken keyboards and guitars

All music clubs will then start up again in the week beginning Monday 22nd April.

Impact Trust Piano Concert

Well done to Ben MB, Will, Fabian and Jonny for taking part.

Music exhibition at the British Library

Find out more here

Try to guess, then click here to see how many you guessed correctly

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For those of you coming on tour, see you on Monday!