October 13th 2017
Plenty of opportunities for making music
The Music department has had an extremely busy Arts Week, kicking off with a trip to Radley College for a Prep Schools Orchestral day on Monday. Brass, woodwind and percussion instrumentalists were joined this year by strings, for a fantastic day of music making. Some challenging music was tackled by each separate group, with everyone coming together for an excellent attempt at Mussorgsky’s ‘Night on Bare Mountain’, an extremely challenging piece!
On Wednesday and Thursday evenings, parents were treated to two Musical Soirées. These started and finished with performances bu the Senior Choir of California Dreamin’ and The World in Union, and in between were many outstanding individual performances across a range of instruments and musical genres. There was also a Pop Choir performance of ‘Somewhere Only We Know’ and a Jazz Ensemble rendition of ‘Cabaret’ by Kander.
Finally, on the music front, the audience at the Pop Vocalist’s concert on Friday enjoyed performances from over thirty individual boys, ranging from Year 4 to Year 8. The concert closed with another performance from the whole Pop Choir.
