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Summer Concert and HazeFest are next week

The Summer concert is NEXT WEDNESDAY! All our extra-curricular groups are performing at this event so please practise your parts carefully.

Get your tickets here

Below is the rehearsal schedule for the day of the concert (Wed 5th July ). This is the strike day.

If your year group is at home on that day, please come into school for your rehearsal slots. You DO NOT need to wear school uniform, but you DO need to sign in and out at student reception.

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 by 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.

Other events this term:

HazeFest – Saturday 8th July

Find out more – click here

Tickets on sale now – click here

Musical Theatre Club trip to see Matilda – Wednesday 12th July. Information for those going on this trip will be shared via Satchel One so please keep an eye out for it.

Try playing your part along with these videos:

Read the article here

Don’t miss Prince’s guitar solo at 3:28!

Fab opportunities for brass and percussion players

Find out more here

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Which songs are being referred to here?

Here’s one to get you started:

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Less than 2 weeks until the Summer Concert

Please make sure you are practising your part(s) at home.

Summer Concert – Wednesday 5th July – 6.30 pm

HazeFest – Saturday 8th July

Musical Theatre Club trip to see Matilda – Wednesday 12th July

Summer Concert

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HazeFest 2023

Find out more – click here

Tickets on sale now – click here

Try playing your part along with these videos:

Click here to read the article

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Under 3 weeks till the Summer Concert!

Please make sure you are practising your part(s) at home.

Summer Concert – Wednesday 5th July – 6.30 pm

HazeFest – Saturday 8th July

Musical Theatre Club trip to see Matilda – Wednesday 12th July

Summer Concert

Get your tickets here

HazeFest 2023

Find out more – click here

Tickets on sale now – click here

Try playing your part along with these videos:

Jazz Band

Thank you very much to Jazz Band for giving up their Sunday afternoon to perform at the Hayes Fair in 30 degrees!

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How do you move an orchestra?

Those of you who learnt to pack and move the coffin on tour will be interested in this:

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Summer term events

Jazz Band @ Hayes Fair – Sunday 11th June – afternoon – The Warren

Summer Concert – Wednesday 5th July – 6.30 pm

HazeFest – Saturday 8th July

Musical Theatre Club trip to see Matilda – Wednesday 12th July

Summer Concert

Get your tickets here

HazeFest 2023

Tickets on sale now – click here

Jazz Band

Thank you to Jazz Band for entertaining the guests at last night’s Sports Award Evening.

The Joseph video is here!

Fancy being in a local production of School of Rock?

Something to listen to:

Click here to listen

Try playing your part along with these videos:

Fab summer holiday opportunities

Read the article and listen to the song here

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Have a lovely half term holiday

The colours have arrived. If you are owed one from the Easter Concert, please see Miss W.

Fancy being in a local production of School of Rock?

Thank you to everyone who wrote a Royal Albert Hall trip review for the school newsletter:

Later this term:

Try playing your part along with these videos:

Fab opportunity for singers:

BYMT news

Here’s an amazing example of keeping calm and carrying on! Click on the image to watch the video.

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Click on the image to see the video.

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Trip photos

Thank you to all who came on the Royal Albert Hall trip. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!

Here’s some information about the stroke rehabilitation programme that the RPO players spoke to us about:

STROKESTRA® is a pioneering stroke rehabilitation programme that harnesses the power of group creative music-making alongside professional musicians and clinicians to drive patient-led recovery in stroke patients and their carers.

The programme utilises a range of specially adapted musical techniques to address the complex needs of stroke survivors and their carers. From physical rehabilitation work involving functional movement, grasp and mobility to social integration supporting confidence-building, communication and renewed sense of self, the programme supports patients and their carers to work towards rehabilitation holistically, setting and meeting goals that matter to them.

Coming up this term:

Try playing your part along with these videos:

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“Sweet Caroline” is a song written and performed by American singer Neil Diamond and released in May 1969 as a single with the title “Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good)“. It was arranged by Charles Calello, and recorded at American Sound Studio in Memphis, Tennessee.

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. He has sold more than 130 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time.

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Royal Albert Hall trip

For those of you going on this trip, see you outside school at 9:30 am tomorrow (Saturday 13th May). We will not be able to wait for latecomers! Check your Satchel One for more trip information.

Coming up this term:

Try playing your part along with these videos:

The Ohio State University Marching Band (OSUMB) is a university marching band named for and a part of the Ohio State University. The band, popularly nicknamed The Best Damn Band in the Land (TBDBITL) performs at football games and other events during the fall semester. It is one of the few collegiate all-brass and percussion bands in the country, and sometimes deemed the largest of its type in the world.

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Royal Albert Hall music trip – Saturday 13th May

Coming up this term:

Belgium tour in school newsletter

Thank you to those of you who contributed a review. The posters will go up in the music corridor so keep an eye out for them.

Read the article here

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Try playing your part along with this video:

Here’s a clip from the Hayes School production of Guys and Dolls in 2020:

Fab BYMT opportunities

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Summer Concert date change

Due to the year 8 trip on the 6th, the Summer Concert will now be held on Wednesday 5th July.

Please make sure you have made a note of the dates for the Summer Concert and Hazefest and that you attend rehearsals.

Hazefest 2023 – Saturday 8th July

Trip meeting info

Anna Lapwood (born in 1995) is an organist, conductor and television and radio presenter, currently Director of Music at and Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Because of her popularity on social media, she has occasionally been referred to as the “TikTok Organist” and uses the hashtag #playlikeagirl. Read more about her here.

How does a pipe organ actually work?

More score reading practice

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Summer term music events

Congratulations to Brooke and Emma for being part of the recent NYO Ignite Performances.

Over 160 teenage musicians took to the stage, performing an exciting repertoire of contemporary ensemble pieces alongside Stravinsky’s iconic masterpiece, The Firebird, in its original form.

Click here to read the reviews

Click here tune in on 25 April at 7.30pm or listen later as it will be available for 30 days on BBC Sounds!

 

Try this musical doodle:

Clara Reisenberg Rockmore (1911 – 1998) was a Lithuanian classical violin prodigy and a virtuoso performer of the theremin, an electronic musical instrument.

Philharmonia Fantastique

Try playing your part along with this video:

Royal Albert Hall music trip – Saturday 13th May

We will be having a short meeting straight after school on Wednesday 10th May in CGG to go through the final arrangements and reminders. All students going on the this trip must attend this meeting. It will only take 15 minutes.  Please contact me if there’s a reason why you cannot attend. 

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