Performing Arts!

PA BAND HOMEWORK

2011-10-20T09:31:00.001+02:00

PA BAND HOMEWORK

DUE : 16TH DECEMBER 2011

Present a short piece of work on the background/history of your individual band instrument. You can do this in any format you would like (poster, Powerpoint, Prezzie etc).

I HAVE A DREAM; Martin Luther King Jnr 1963

2011-09-19T13:47:00.002+02:00

I Have a Dream" is the famous name given to the ten minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in human history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations.

A quote from the speech:

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

The Speech

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity.

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. And so we've come here today to dramatize a shameful condition.

In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the "unalienable Rights" of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note, insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. And so, we've come to cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

It would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of the moment. This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. Nineteen sixty-three is not an end, but a beginning. And those who hope that the Negro needed to blow off steam and will now be content will have a rude awakening if the nation returns to business as usual. And there will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the Negro is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.

But there is something that I must say to my people, who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again, we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.

The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny. And they have come to realize that their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

There are those who are asking the devotees of civil rights, "When will you be satisfied?" We can never be satisfied as long as the Negro is the victim of the unspeakable horrors of police brutality. We can never be satisfied as long as our bodies, heavy with the fatigue of travel, cannot gain lodging in the motels of the highways and the hotels of the cities. We cannot be satisfied as long as the negro's basic mobility is from a smaller ghetto to a larger one. We can never be satisfied as long as our children are stripped of their self-hood and robbed of their dignity by signs stating: "For Whites Only." We cannot be satisfied as long as a Negro in Mississippi cannot vote and a Negro in New York believes he has nothing for which to vote. No, no, we are not satisfied, and we will not be satisfied until "justice rolls down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream."¹

I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow jail cells. And some of you have come from areas where your quest -- quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive. Go back to Mississippi, go back to Alabama, go back to South Carolina, go back to Georgia, go back to Louisiana, go back to the slums and ghettos of our northern cities, knowing that somehow this situation can and will be changed.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

I have a dream today!

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."2

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

6i Saxophone Homework

2011-09-15T15:12:00.000+02:00

No 18 and No 31.
No hampster cheeks!

6b Saxophone Homework

2011-09-15T14:36:00.000+02:00

No 18 and for extension work number 31

Saxophone Homework

2011-09-15T13:50:00.001+02:00

6o Saxophone HW
No 18 and No 31
Jazz version of ' Mary had a little song'

Y6 Peace & Conflict Lesson 1 12.09.11.

2011-09-12T14:21:00.003+02:00

What are the major obstacles to peace in our times?

What does peace look like in the resolution of different conflicts?

What does peace mean to the people involved in conflicts?

· What does peace mean to you?

Research………Homework

· How do artists use their art to promote peace?

· Find some examples for next week’s lessons

Year 5 and 6 PA Soiree

2011-06-07T15:26:00.000+02:00

Year 5 and 6 PA Soirée

Tuesday 14th June at 18.00

Click on the music to see a larger size

Another Opening, Another Show

Another opening, another show,

In Geneva or Baltimore,

A chance for stage folk to say ‘Hello’

Another opening of another show!

Another job that you hope at last,

Will make your future forget your past.

Another pain where the ulcers grow,

Another opening of another show.

Four weeks, you rehearse and rehearse,

Three weeks and it couldn’t be worse,

One week, will it ever be right?

Then out of the hat it’s that big first night,

The overture is about to start,

You cross your fingers and hold your heart,

It’s curtain time and away we go,

Another opening of another show.

Can you Feel the Love Tonight

(1st verse: Unison choir voices only)

There’s a calm surrender

To the rush of day;

When the heat of the rolling world can be turned away.

An enchanted moment,

And it sees me through,

It’s enough for this restless warrior just to be with you.

ALL

Chorus

And can you feel the love tonight?

It is where we are (It is where we are).

It’s enough for this wide-eyed wanderer

That we got this far.

And can you feel the love tonight?

How it’s laid to rest (How it’s laid to rest)

It’s enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best.

Verse 2

There’s a time for everyone,

If they only learn that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

There’s a rhyme and reason

To the wild outdoors.

When the heart of this star-crossed voyager

Beats in time with yours.

Chorus

And….

Can you feel the love tonight ….

CODA (Key change/modulation)

And can you feel the love tonight?

It is where we are (It is where we are).

It’s enough for this wide-eyed wanderer

That we got this far.

And can you feel the love tonight?

How it’s laid to rest (How it’s laid to rest)

It’s enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best.

Cherokee Lullaby (Year 5 and Unison voices only)

Part 1 & 2.

On the prairie in the forest with the setting of the sun.

Part 2.

Mothers of the Cherokee are singing to their little ones.

Part 1.

Night is here.

Part 2

Ay ah ah,

Part 1

Stars appear

Part 2

Ay ah ah

Part 1

Close your eyes

Part 2

Ay ah ah

Part 1

Owls you hear

Part 2

Ay ah ah

Part 1

Do not fear

Part 2

Ay ah ah

Part 1

Go to sleep

Part 2

Ay ah ah

Parts 1 & 2

You’ll grow strong, my Cherokee baby,

Fathers will be filled with pride,

So, for now, sleep well, my child

Our newest member of the tribe.

Part 1.

Night is here.

Part 2

Ay ah ah, (etc……..)

Go to sleep,

Go to sleep

Ay ah ah, Ay ah ah

Children are the Future of the World

2011-05-10T14:28:00.000+02:00

Children are the Future of the World

If you listen to the melody we sing,
You will hear the simple message that we
bring.
You can see it in our eyes,
You can hear it in our song,
Children are the future of the world.

We will sing a song of peace,
We will sing it loud and strong.
Children are the future of the world.

A world of peace for every girl and boy.
For parents of the children there can be no
greater joy.
Brothers and sisters in the world, one family.
This is what we bring for you and me.

We will sing a song of peace,
We will sing it loud and strong.
Children are the future of the world.

Girls: If all will sing our song together
Boys: The world will be as one for all to see.

All:
For when we sing this melody of freedom,
The world will live in joy and harmony!

If you listen to the melody we sing
You will hear the simple message that we
bring.
You can see it in our eyes,
You can hear it in our song,
Children are the future of the world.
You can see it in our eyes,
You can hear it in our song,
Children are the future of the world.
We will sing a song of peace,
We will sing it loud and strong,
(slower)

Children are the future of the world.

We are the future of the world.

Be Cool!

2011-05-05T11:59:00.001+02:00

To see this page full size, click on it, and then click again to open a larger version.

Can you Feel the Love Tonight

2011-05-05T11:57:00.000+02:00

Can you Feel the Love Tonight

There’s a calm surrender
To the rush of day;
When the heat of the rolling world can be turned away.
An enchanted moment,
And it sees me through,
It’s enough for this restless warrior just to be with you.
Chorus
And can you feel the love tonight?
It is where we are (It is where we are).
It’s enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we got this far.
And can you feel the love tonight?
How it’s laid to rest (How it’s laid to rest)
It’s enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best.
Verse 2
There’s a time for everyone,
If they only learn that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.
There’s a rhyme and reason
To the wild outdoors.
When the heart of this star-crossed voyager
Beats in time with yours.
Chorus
And….
Can you feel the love tonight ….
CODA (Key change/modulation)
And can you feel the love tonight?
It is where we are (It is where we are).
It’s enough for this wide-eyed wanderer
That we got this far.

And can you feel the love tonight?
How it’s laid to rest (How it’s laid to rest)
It’s enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best.
It’s enough to make kings and vagabonds believe the very best.

The Barber's Shop

2011-01-24T11:54:00.000+01:00

For Year 5:
"The Barber Shop" by Edward Hopper, painted in 1931. The painting is at the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York.

You can play with this picture as a jig-saw puzzle by clicking here.

Top Trumps Art & Artists

2011-01-18T09:42:00.002+01:00

Year 5 Art & Artists Unit of Enquiry
Performing Arts Homework

Make at least one (or more if you would like to) Top Trumps A4 Artists sheets.
You should choose an artist from your home country
You will need to include the following information on each sheet (see template example below) and a picture, either of the artist, or of their work
Spare sheets are available in the PA room, or you can download them from this link. (You'lll see the download link at the top of the page, just below the title.)

We will be making a large display of all the sheets. You have 2 weeks to do this homework.

Here's a sample:

You can see this sample full size by clicking on this link.

in B flat

2010-10-14T12:14:00.001+02:00

Go to the web page http://inbflat.net/, to make music in B flat.

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls, and developed with contributions from users.

The videos can be played simultaneously -- the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.

Have fun - it will never be the same twice!

screen shot of inBflat

Bob Dylan: Blowin' in the Wind

2010-09-20T11:45:00.005+02:00

This song was written by Bob Dylan in 1962 and released in 1963 (the same year as Martin Luther King Jnr's I Have a Dream speech).
It is a protest song, in that it raises awareness and poses a set of questions about peace, war and freedom.
'Blowin' in the Wind' has been described as an anthem of the 1960s civil rights movement

I have a Dream: Martin Luther King Jnr 1963

2010-09-10T14:54:00.003+02:00

I Have a Dream" is the famous name given to the ten minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. King's delivery of the speech on August 28, 1963, from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement. Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters,^[1] the speech is often considered to be one of the greatest and most notable speeches in human history and was ranked the top American speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address.^[2] According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations.

A quote from the speech:

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

The Speech

I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

We cannot walk alone.

And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead.

We cannot turn back.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair, I say to you today, my friends.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today!

This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.

And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:

My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.

Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,

From every mountainside, let freedom ring!

And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.

Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.

Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.

Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.

But not only that:

Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.

Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.

Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

Free at last! Free at last!

Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

"Sweet Dream"

2010-09-09T15:23:00.000+02:00

"Sweet Dream" performed live for audience on 20.08.2010 by "The iPad Orchestra" on 4 iPads running app Seline HD by Amidio. http://ipad-orchestra.com

Fireflies

2010-08-27T11:17:00.002+02:00

Another Favourite Summer Song

2010-08-27T11:15:00.000+02:00

Our Favourite Summer Song

2010-08-27T11:12:00.000+02:00

The iPad As a Musical Instrument

2010-05-20T07:04:00.000+02:00

Monkey Machine

2010-05-17T12:10:00.000+02:00

Click here to go to the Monkey Machine web page, if you like rhythm, drums, or just generally making noise.

"Monkey Machine is a free online drum machine intented for music practice purposes.

To run Monkey Machine, click the green "launch" button above. If the application won't start, check that Javascript is enabled in your browser, and Java Runtime Environment 1.5 or later is installed in your system."

When you click on the green "Launch" Button on the web page, a second window will open, Java will load, and your drum machine will appear. Make that window "full screen", and begin to click on the different squares to turn sounds on and off. You can also define your drum kit with the tool bar at the top of the screen. When you're finished, you can download your work, and edit it in Audacity or Garage Band.

Yellow Jackets

2010-05-17T12:00:00.000+02:00

Did you notice the yellow jackets in school this morning? Did you hear them sing?
We have just this morning heard incredible sounds from this visiting acappella (unaccompanied voices) choir from University of Rochester, New York. The 9 male students dropped into to perform for our year 5 and 6 students and we had such a great time as they entertained us with their fabulous sounds. Lady Gaga will never be the same again!
Check out their website http://www.jackets.org/

Of course, they have a video on YouTube -

"The University of Rochester YellowJackets perform "I Want it That Way" originally by The Backstreet Boys. The performance was on February 14th, 2009 on the University of Rochester campus in Strong Auditorium during the "Harmony for Hope" concert. The concert was held to benefit the Wilmot Cancer Center at the University of Rochester." (link)

"a Whole Lotta Mobile Phones"

2010-05-09T16:11:00.000+02:00

2 Android handsets + 2 Windows Mobile devices 1 1 iPod touch = a banjo?

The Science of Music

2010-05-01T10:42:00.001+02:00

Visit the Exporatorium's webpage about music, called Science of Music, the Accidental Scientist.

"What is music? Is birdsong music? How about the tap-tap-tap of a hammer, or the wail of a creaking door? Is playing a garbage can different than playing a drum?

Explore the science of music with us, through these online exhibits, movies, andquestions. Along the way, you can compose, mix, dance, drum, experiment, and above all…listen."

In particular, explore the Online Exhibits:

"Maybe you’ve never really considered yourself very musical. Maybe you quit the flute three months after you picked it up. That’s okay. Music is in all of us, and even just by popping a CD into the stereo, you’re tapping into its power.

These exhibits will let you mess around with music in ways you probably haven’t before. Headphones are recommended, or at least a decent set of computer speakers."

There are also movies, like this one on Tuning:

Click through to the Exporatorium's webpage, and explore it all!

What to do with an old handheld?

2010-04-29T05:55:00.000+02:00

Reware your PDA from Hans-Christoph Steiner on Vimeo.

This video introduces the Reware project: you can turn an old PDA, Pocket PC, Palm Pilot and the like into a musical device.. Learn about the Reware project, see how to easily install GNU/Linux and Pd on your Palm TX, and see some example projects.

http://dev.eyebeam.org/projects/reware/
Video by Albert Wilking

Toumani Diabate

2010-04-23T22:05:00.000+02:00

The kora is a chordophone string instrument from Mali. Watch this video of Toumani Diabate playing:

March 25, 2008 — This performance of 'Cantelowes' is from the recent live World Premiere of "The Mandé Variations" at the prestigious El Real Alcazar de Sevilla in Spain which left the audience spellbound and was described by the The Independent as "a performance that surpasses anything....for sheer scale of ambition and technical achievement."

Read an interview with Toumani Diabate and see another video at this web page.

Ballet Nacional De España

2010-04-22T09:46:00.000+02:00

"Not ballet, but definitely national, the Ballet Nacional de España aspires to a post-Franco ideal: to be a distinctively Spanish company that can accommodate regional and historical differences, as well as modernise and innovate." (http://guardian.co.uk/)

BALLET NACIONAL DE ESPAÑA (2004-05)

LiceuOperaBarcelona — November 05, 2009 — El loco
Coreografía: Javier Latorre
Música: Manuel de Falla
Escenografía y vestuario: Jesús Ruiz
Iluminación: Nicolás Fischtel (A.A.I)

Cambio de Tercio

Ballet Nacional De Espana

"The company represents all the original dance forms on the Spanish peninsula. They are based on folk and popular dances and also classicalSpanish dance. That's not ballet, by the way. Spanish dance is very rich and, although flamenco is the most well-known, we have other forms of dance."
Elvira Andrés, interview with Stuart Sweeney, 2003

Keeping Score

2010-04-15T09:01:00.000+02:00

Keeping Score is the website of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, and it is a very interesting place! It is an outgrowth of the Symphony's television program on PBS in the US.

"The Keeping Score web site is designed to give people of all musical backgrounds an opportunity to explore signature works by composers Hector Berlioz, Charles Ives, and Dmitri Shostakovich in depth, and at their own pace. www.keepingscore.org offers an interactive area for each composer, with clues and context to illuminate the musical mysteries presented by the television episodes. The interactive audio and video explores the composers’ scores and pertinent musical techniques as well as the personal and historical back stories. The site is designed to particularly appeal to high school, college and university music appreciation students and their teachers, and its interactive learning tools offer a unique and in-depth online learning experience. The site includes groundbreaking and acclaimed interactives on composers Beethoven, Stravinsky, Copland and Tchaikovsky. The site also includes a new historical timeline that takes users deeper into the seven individual composers’ political, social, and cultural milieus as well as downloadable lesson plans created by teachers who have experienced the Keeping Score Education program."

Screen shot from KeepingScore

You can search the website for content by tag or keyword at this page.

Sleep

2010-03-26T17:39:00.000+01:00

This is Eric Whitacre's "Sleep" performed by Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir - 185 voices in 12 countries. You can see/hear more from the choir at their YouTube Channel.

Animaniacs - Yakko's World

2010-02-09T11:39:00.001+01:00

Here's the words:

United States, Canada, Mexico, Panama
Haiti, Jamaica, Peru,
Republic Dominican, Cuba, Caribbean
Greenland, El Salvador too.
Puerto Rico, Columbia, Venezuela
Honduras, Guyana, and still,
Guatemala, Bolivia, then Argentina
And Ecuador, Chile, Brazil.
Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, Bermuda
Bahamas, Tobago, San Juan,
Paraguay, Uruguay, Surinam
And French Guiana, Barbados, and Guam.

Norway, and Sweden, and Iceland, and Finland
And Germany now one piece,
Switzerland, Austria, Czechoslovakia
Italy, Turkey, and Greece.
Poland, Romania, Scotland, Albania
Ireland, Russia, Oman,
Bulgaria, Saudi Arabia
Hungary, Cyprus, Iraq, and Iran.
There's Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan
Both Yemens, Kuwait, and Bahrain,
The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Portugal
France, England, Denmark, and Spain.

India, Pakistan, Burma, Afghanistan
Thailand, Nepal, and Bhutan,
Kampuchea, Malaysia, then Bangladesh (Asia)
And China, Korea, Japan.
Mongolia, Laos, and Tibet, Indonesia
The Philippine Islands, Taiwan,
Sri Lanka, New Guinea, Sumatra, New Zealand
Then Borneo, and Vietnam.
Tunisia, Morocco, Uganda, Angola
Zimbabwe, Djibouti, Botswana,
Mozambique, Zambia, Swaziland, Gambia
Guinea, Algeria, Ghana.

Burundi, Lesotho, and Malawi, Togo
The Spanish Sahara is gone,
Niger, Nigeria, Chad, and Liberia
Egypt, Benin, and Gabon.
Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya, and Mali
Sierra Leone, and Algiers,
Dahomey, Namibia, Senegal, Libya
Cameroon, Congo, Zaire.
Ethiopia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar
Rwanda, Mahore, and Cayman,
Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Yugoslavia...
Crete, Mauritania
Then Transylviania,
Monaco, Liechtenstein
Malta, and Palestine,
Fiji, Australia, Sudan.

"La Mer", by Claude Debussy

2010-01-22T11:20:00.001+01:00

Watch this video of a performance of La Mer by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev, recorded in March, 2007

Compare that version to this one, recorded 29 December 1941, on a Columbia 78rpm Set MM 531 (XCO 32293-32298) by the Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski, conductor. This recording is available at The Internet Archive, under a Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0

Now, listen (and download if you'd like,) to Fred Child, host of American Public Media's Performance Today, and Ted Libbey, author of the NPR Guide to Building a Classical Music Library, discuss, "Debussy's most concentrated and brilliant orchestral work, La Mer," what they deem as, "one of the supreme achievements in the symphonic literature."

This is an animation created by Ali Habashi set to 'Dialogue du vent et de la mer'
(Dialogue of the wind and the sea) from "La Mer" by Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
Thomas M. Sleeper, conductor, University of Miami Symphony Orchestra. It's from the Internet Archive. The film is courtesy of the Edward H Arnold Center for Confluent Media Studies at the University of Miami

If you'd like to compare Debussy with the real thing, listen to the sounds from this video (there is no video)

Tom Lehrer and the Elements

2010-01-22T09:55:00.002+01:00

Watch and listen to Tom Lehrer's famous song about the elements (as known in 1959, when he wrote the song):

"Meet The Elements," is a new animated music video from They Might Be Giants. This animated, upbeat ode to the periodic table of elements and how they form our world, appears on the new TMBG kids' album "Here Comes Science." Video directed by Feel Good Anyway.

Here are the words for the Tom Lehrer song (You can download a copy here)

The Elements
(© 1959, Lehrer Records.)

There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium,
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium,
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium,
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium,
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.
There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium,
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium,
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium, and barium.
There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium,
And phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium,
And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium.
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
And tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.
There's sulfur, californium, and fermium, berkelium,
And also mendelevium, einsteinium, nobelium,
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc, and rhodium,
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, tungsten, tin, and sodium.
These are the only ones of which the news has come to Ha'vard,
And there may be many others, but they haven't been discavard.
www.privatehand.com

There are others! If you want to find out when each element was first observed, and who described, click here to read a "Timeline of chemical elements discoveries"

Click here to listen to (and download as a QuickTime file) The Elements, by Tom Lehrer

Wild Music

2010-01-19T08:00:00.000+01:00

Curious about sounds? animals? Visit the web page, Wild Music, and investigate how animals make sounds,

create your own soundscapes,

play with vibrations and frequencies,

and learn how the natural world influences musicians. (You can listen to soundscapes created by Philip Blackburn here.)

The YouTube Symphony Orchestra

2010-01-17T09:46:00.001+01:00

The world's first collaborative online orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall on April 15, 2009. Selected by the YouTube community and several members of the world's most renowned orchestras, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra is made up of over 96 professional and amateur musicians from 30+ countries and territories on six continents and represents 26 different instruments.

Program on the Act One video:
07:15 Johannes Brahms - Allegro giocoso from Symphony No.4 in E minor, Op. 98
17:15 Lou Harrison - Music from Canticle No. 3
27:45 Antonín Dvořák - Music from Serenade in D minor, Op. 44
32:45 Giovanni Gabrieli - Canzon Septimi toni No. 2
38:15 Johann Sebastian Bach - Sarabande from Suite No. 1 in G major, for Cello Solo, VWV 1007 (performed by Joshua Roman)
43:30 Heitor Villa-Lobos - Bachianas brasileiras No. 9
54:00 Richard Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkuere

Program for the Act Two video:
3:00 Sergei Rachmaninoff - Vase from Two Pieces for Pian, Six Hands (performed by Derek Wang, Charlie Liu, Anna Larsen)
07:45 Tan Dun - Internet Symphony Eroica
16:00 Sergei Prokofiev - Scherzo from Concerto No. 2 in G minor for Piano, Op. 16 (featuring Yuja Wang)
23:00 Claude Debussy - Nuages from Nocturnes
32:15 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Finale from Concerto No. 5 for violin in A major, K. 219 (featuring Gil Shaham)
48:00 John Cage - Aria with Renga (featuring Measha Brueggergosman)
57:15 Mason Bates - Preview of Warehouse Medicine from B-Sides
1:05:30 Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Finale from Symphony No. 4

"The Internet Symphony" Global Mash Up

A book was created with photographs from the event - you can see a preview of it at this web page.

JUNGLE BOOK - Year 5 & 6 Production

2010-01-11T16:24:00.004+01:00

CLICK ON THE ABOVE TITLE FOR MORE INFORMATION

Piano stairs

2009-12-09T08:24:00.002+01:00

Astor Piaszzolla is Composer of the Month

2009-12-08T07:09:00.002+01:00

Astor Piazzolla (1921 – 1992) was an Argentinian composer and bandoneón player. Much of his music was written for tango (the national dance of Argentina). His works revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music. An excellent bandoneonist, he regularly performed his own compositions with different ensembles. He is known in his native land as “El Gran Astor” (“The Great Astor”).

Here's a video of Astor Piazzolla from a live performance of "Adios Nonino"

In this video, Piazzolla plays the bandoneon. The music is "Milonga del Angel" (a Milonga is an Argentine form of music which "modulates from minor to major at certain times and its melody is reminiscent of the Argentinean tango" (link)

This video shows Yo-Yo Ma (Cello) and Nestor Marconi (Bandoneón) playing a tango,"Libertango"

This ist he Tango dance scene from the movie "Scent Of A Woman" (1992) in which Al Pacino plays a blind retired Lieutenant Colonel (for which he won an Oscar).
The music is "Por una cabeza" by Carlos Gardel and the girl dancing is Gabrielle Anwar.

photo of Piazzola from Wikimedia Commons

an iPhone orchestra? Blow into your iPhone???

2009-12-05T17:14:00.000+01:00

"The mobile phone is a very nice platform for exploring new forms of musical performance," Essl said. "We're not tethered to the physics of traditional instruments. We can do interesting, weird, unusual things..." Read more about it at this link.

Here's how they did it:

There's another video at this link.

Make your own music

2009-12-05T16:34:00.002+01:00

Click on the arrow to play my music:

This is from a web site called iNudge, where everyone can create music. You can add to what I made in this little box, or go to the web page and create your own.

Select 1 of 8 different Sound Patterns from the small Matrixes icons
Use your mouse to draw notes on each 16 Step Matrix.
For each Pattern, adjust Volume, Mute, Clear, or set Audio Pan from Left to Right.
Click on the Tempo numbers and click up or down to change the overall Tempo.
Get & Share allows you to Send Mail, Get Link, Get Embed code or Spread in communities.

Early Birds Singing

2009-11-17T08:42:00.002+01:00

Best viewed on a PC (sorry Mac users - it's a swf page)

To go to the web page itself, and play the birds in full screen, paste this link into your web browser:

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/music/early_bird_singers.swf

Master of the Euphonium

2009-11-09T09:16:00.000+01:00

"The euphonium, a tuba-like musical instrument, is rarely heard outside of traditional brass bands. Young euph prodigy Matthew White uses hip-hop rhythms and a wild new vocal technique to bring a fresh sound to this underappreciated horn." link

"White was a finalist in the brass section of the 2008 BBC Young Musicians of the Year competition, and has guested with the legendary Black Dyke Band as the first honoree musician in the band's Young Artist Scheme, a yearlong fellowship. He was Principal Euphonium with the National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain, and also played with the award-winning Leyland Band. He now continues his study of the euphonium at the Royal Northern College of Music." link

Melodica

2009-11-07T09:05:00.000+01:00

If you have an iPhone...

"Melodica presents a 16 by 10 surface where the length represents the 4 bars of a 4/4 beat and the height is a set of 10 notes that all harmonize well together. Interesting if you want to create melodies quickly and simply." Read more about it here.

Composer of the Month - LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

2009-11-01T21:13:00.016+01:00

Beethoven was a German composer. He was born in 1770 and died in 1827. He was a crucial figure in the transitional period between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western classical music, and remains one of the most acclaimed and influential composers of all time.

Beethoven was a prolific composer and wrote music for many different instruments and ensembles.

Did you know that Beethoven suffered from deafness, but still continued to write music and to conduct his pieces.

Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata (first movement) solo piano

Für Elise (Bagatelle in A minor)

Symphony Number 5 in C Minor, Opus 67 (Ist movement)

Practive your Saxophone with Giant Steps

2009-10-14T08:58:00.000+02:00

This is what John Coltrane's landmark tune and solo look like when they come to life on paper.

Back to back Bach?

2009-10-10T06:23:00.002+02:00

Are you interested in Bach? Watch this:

"In the enigmatic Canon 1 a 2 from J. S. Bach’s “Musical Offering” (1747) (also known as “crab canon” or “canon cancrizans”), the manuscript shows a single score, whose beginning joins with the end. This space is topologically equivalent to a bundle of the line segment over the circle, known as a Möbius strip. The simultaneous performance of the deeply related forward and backward paths gives appearance to two voices, whose symmetry determines a reversible evolution. A musical universe is built and then is “unplayed” back into silence." (link)

Thanks to Dan Coleman at Open Culture for helping us find this.

Graphical Score Animations

2009-10-06T12:30:00.012+02:00

Using his Music Animation Machine, Stephen Malinowski has created some intriguing looks at music.

The video below shows an animated score of Beethoven’s 5th, and you can use this chart that explains what the colors in the score mean. Essentially each color represents a particular instrument. Get the chart here,

and Debussy's Claire de la Lune:

Here is the playlist for music by Bach:

Go to the YouTube page (with links to all 63 videos of all kinds of music): http://www.youtube.com/user/smalin and the Musical Animation Machine's web page is here: http://www.musanim.com/. You can read an interview with Stephen Malinowski here.

photo of Stephen Anthony Malinowski from Wikipedia

One Bag of Rice. Playscript

2009-09-28T11:33:00.011+02:00

Year 5 students. Here are the details for your Performing Arts Assessment.

You have 3 weeks to prepare for your performance.

Performances will be in the week week beginning 11th October

LEARNING YOUR PART: Please have a look at the script and learn your part. Scripts will not be allowed for the final performance.

PROPS: Check that your group has the following props (small tin can drum, rucksack, bag of rice, pot, sheets, or something for the washerwoman to wash, coat)

SET: You may wish to build a set. Think carefully about how you will do this. You may use some of the boxes and card in the PA room, or you may wish to do this at home and to bring it into school.

COSTUMES: Please bring in costumes for your character.

REMEMBER - YOU WILL NEED TO BE READY TO PERFORM IN 3 WEEKS TIME.

GOOD LUCK!

(Click on the picture of each page to open it full size)

COMPOSER OF THE MONTH: ARTHUR HONEGGER

2009-09-18T13:55:00.011+02:00

Arthur Honegger (1892 – 1955) was a Swiss composer who was born in France and lived for most of his life in Paris. His most frequently performed work is called Pacific 231, which creates the sounds of a steam locomotive through music. He wrote this piece in 1923. It is written for an orchestra to perform.

You can read more about Arthur Honegger at Artist in Residence.

The Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra

2009-08-06T15:42:00.002+02:00

On the The Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra's web page, you can see and hear about the works they are performing. In this video, conductor Wayne Marshall talks about "L'enfant et les sortileges", describing (in English) how the singers and instrumentalists of the orchestra imitate the characters from the tale and bring a child's fantasies to life trhough Ravel's music. Hay Beurskens (in Dutch) gives guided tour gives along the different instruments and demonstrates the wind machine.…

Click on the arrow to start the video.

The Dutch Philharmonic Orchestra plays L'enfant et les sortileges by Maurice Ravel.

In the column on the right side of the web page, you'll find links to other short videos which talk about works performed by the orchestra: Brahms, Dvorak, Frank, Gershwin, Glinka, Hayden, Khachaturian, Mahler, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Schmidt, Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovitch, Scriabin, and Johann Strauss. All the videos include some English and some Dutch dialogue.

(You can use http://babelfish.yahoo.com to translate the text of the web page.)

Shaun the Sheep

2009-07-29T12:16:00.001+02:00

Summer fun - whily you're waiting to get back to Performing Arts class, you can practice your musical skils at this web site at the BBC.

Recorder Karate

2009-06-23T10:24:00.011+02:00

Recorder Karate is a fun way to learn to play the recorder using some ideas from the martial art of karate. All students in years 4, 5 and 6 will be learning to play the recorder at our school as part of the Performing Arts programme.

Click on this link to listen to the pieces that you'll be learning. You will need a username and password which you will be told about in class. http://www.musick8.com/rkdojo/rksounds.php

If you wan't to practice your fingering, here is a useful chart to show you how! Click on this link to go to the web page.

This video shows Year 4 playing their recorders:

Fantastic Music Machine

2009-06-14T06:34:00.001+02:00

A post over at learningIT , titled "Sound Art", sent me to this video:

"This incredible machine was built as a collaborative effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the
Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa.
Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from
JOHN DEERE Industries and More.. Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa.
YES, farm equipment!

"It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment,calibration, and tuning before filming this video, but as you can see, it was WELL worth the effort.
It is now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the
University and is already slated to be donated to the Smithsonian."

The Typewriter Song

2009-06-05T14:21:00.002+02:00

We've been using GarageBand in ICT...and there are two typewriters in the room....

The Typewriter Song

Interesting Orchestra Instruments

2009-03-28T11:39:00.000+01:00

If you enjoyed the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, you'll be interested in these instruments, created by a musician in Japan:

Heita, who describes himself as a "Vegetable musician, Amateur poet" has posted 31 videos at YouTube of his various vegetable instruments: Burdock, Egg, Ostrich Egg, Carrot, Broccoli, Apple, Pumpkin, and Radish ocarinas, Cucumber trumpet, Carrot slide slide flutes, Radish slide flutes - an amazing variety of instruments!

Here's the Big Broccoli ocarina:

Button Beats

2009-03-14T11:45:00.000+01:00

Visit a very interesting web page if you like to experiment with sound: Button Beats
Here are a few samples:

ButtonBeats.com

ButtonBeats.com

ButtonBeats.com

Click on this link to go to the web page and sample all the fun ways to create sound. (The pages have ads in the margins - be careful.)

Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration, featuring Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, Gabriela Montero and Anthony McGill

2009-02-24T11:28:00.002+01:00

First, watch this interview by Michelle Miller with Yo Yo Ma:

This video is posted on YouTube

Next, listen to John Williams' new "arrangement" for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration, featuring Itzhak Perlman, Yo Yo Ma, Gabriela Montero and Anthony McGill:

This video is on YouTube

String Ensemble

2009-01-30T13:54:00.007+01:00

Listen to the first rehearsal of our new String Ensemble!

Year 5 Unit of Inquiry: Art and Artists

2009-01-16T14:19:00.002+01:00

We have used The Barbers's Shop by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) as a stimulus for our work in PA lessons.

photo from Artnet

More about the Icicle Orchestra

2009-01-12T11:17:00.002+01:00

In November we wrote about the Icicle Orchestra. Here's a slide show of musicians Terje Isungset and Arve Henriksenat in Lake Shikotsu, Hokkaido, Feb 2007, preparing and playing their ice instruments.

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

We also found this picture of Terje Isungset "playing on a trumpetlike instrument made of ice at the official opening of the exhibition "Melting Ice - A Hot Topic" at The Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, Tuesday, June 5,2007". (link)

Photo from AP Photo by ERLEND AAS

On this web page you can listen to sample of music from the new album, Hibernations, just released at the Ice Festival Gello, Norway. Here's 30 seconds from one of the tracks:

(If you like the ice music, you can buy his discs at Amazon.fr, Amazon.co.uk, or online at Listen to Norway.)

This video at the Guardian newspaper's web site shows Terje Isungset playing his instruments, talking about making them out of 2500 year old ice, and excerpts from his concerts.

We have a lot of ice around us right now...can you make an ice instrument? How would you hold it? How would you keep it from melting? Can you imagine what kind of sound will it make before you play it?

Drums

2008-12-15T11:35:00.000+01:00

In October students Students participated in an hour “drumming workshop” with Ayo Nelson Homiah. He is a rhythm and professional percussionist from Gambia, West Africa. Ayo grew up in London and has been living in Berlin, Germany for the past 20 years. He believes that drumming is the most fundamental group activity for celebrating success. Interactive drumming is a cutting edge psychological tool which can be used effectively in the school environment for stress release, team building and group bonding. Many cultures throughout the world have used the ageless forces of rhythm to affect change. Students practiced the fundamental skills of listening, cooperation, counting, following direction, moving to a beat and keeping time during these workshops.

Here's what it looked like:

Interesting Orchestra Collection 2 - The Icicle Orchestra

2008-11-26T08:20:00.003+01:00

Go to this page to see the Icicle Orchestra. Pioneering percussionist Terje Isungset plays instruments made from a 2,500 year old glacier; "the instruments belong to nature".

Yo Yo Ma

2008-11-17T21:08:00.003+01:00

Explore the music and ideas of Yo-Yo Ma with this video, and the podcast

"My Favorite Things" played by Yo-Yo Ma and Chris Botti, trumpet

Artist Site

Interesting Orchestra Collection 1: The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra

2008-11-17T10:57:00.003+01:00

(Photo by Mathias Friedrich, courtesy of the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra)

They are vegetables playing instruments? Or they are musicians playing vegetables?
Read this story about this unusual group, and watch the video from YouTube:

The Orchestra's homepage is http://www.gemueseorchester.org, where you can hear excerpts from their two CDs
gemise: ambiente verde excerpt (mp3) letscho 74 excerpt (mp3)
and
automate: cut1 cut2 cut3

Year 3 makes waves!

2008-10-02T12:09:00.001+02:00

Why would anyone throw out 5 meters of bubble wrap?

The New York Philharmonic for Kids

2008-09-28T11:22:00.006+02:00

We'd like to direct your attention to a great web site for kids - The New York Philharmonic for Kids. The site includes a Composer's Gallery, a Games Room (with a Minuet Mixer, Orchestration Station, Instrument Frenzy, Noterunner, etc.), Musician's Lounge, Instrument StoreRoom, among several other intriguing "rooms" - just like back stage at a concert hall!

There are also videos of orchestra members talking about their instruments. For example, here is the harpist talking to a young visitor:

You may enjoy 2 other videos in which Jon Deak and Bill Gordh from the New York Philharmonic lead kids through the composing process:

This video is on YouTube, so we can't see it in school.

Words for Year 3 - The Little Fish that Got Away

2008-09-24T14:52:00.004+02:00

THE LITTLE FISH THAT GOT AWAY

I have met fish down inside the net fish.
Wet fish, pet fish,
Big as you can get fish.
Fat fish, flat fish
Parrot fish and cat fish
But I’m the little one that got away.

Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee
Can’t catch me in the deep blue sea
Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee
They’ve all had their chips but me.

Jaw fish, craw fish, salmon fish and saw fish,
I’ve seen more fish than you saw before fish.
Old fish, cold fish,
Slippery to hold fish,
But I’m the little one that got away.

Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee
Can’t catch me in the deep blue sea
Ha, ha, ha, hee, hee, hee
They’ve all had their chips but me.

Now they’re fried fish, barbequed and dried fish,
Baked and flaked fish,
Put into a pie dish,
Roasted, toasted,
Gobbled up inside fish,
But I’m the little one that got away.

photo: "Western clown anemonefish" by dachalan

YEAR 5 AND 6 BAND PROGRAMME

2008-09-09T10:00:00.004+02:00

All students in Years 5 (from term 3) and 6 are involved in the Band Programme as part of their Performing Arts curriculum. Students will receive weekly tuition from our group of instrumental teachers. Tuition takes place during the Performing Arts lesson time. Lessons take place on Thursday afternoons. Lessons are 40 minutes long.

The Band Programme is used extensively in many international schools around the world and offers students opportunities to develop a wide range of skills and creative talents. Our scheme is part of the PYP programme at Campus des Nations. Children will take part in group lessons and ensemble work in order to gain experience of playing with other instrumentalists. The students will have the opportunity to choose one of the following instruments:

• Flute
• Clarinet
• Saxophone
• Trumpet
• Trombone

Parents are kindly requested to either hire or buy an instrument for their child to use in the Band Programme. Parents who have previously rented an instrument might now wish to discuss options with the instrumental teacher and their child and to consider either continuing the rental agreement or purchasing an instrument through Servette Music http://www.servette-music.ch. (Tel: 022 733 70 73) or another supplier.

The information pack from Servette Music can be found at this link. This is likely to be of more relevance to parents of new students or students who wish to change their choice of instrument. The contact person at Servette Music is Yves Imer.

We would be grateful if all parents could please arrange for their child's instrument to be hired or bought by the 4th week of term. It is obviously important that students have an instrument by this time.

Please ensure that those students who already have instruments bring them to school on this day, and that they are clearly labeled with their name and homeroom details. Children may keep their instruments in the classroom but should take them home to practice at the end of the day.

In addition to the Band Programme, you may wish to enroll your child in the ECA After School Programme in which individual instrumental tuition is available. Please use the link below for further information and registration.
http://sites.google.com/a/ecolint.ch/beyond-the-classroom/

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you require further assistance regarding the Band Programme.

F Buttle
Performing Arts Teacher

photo: "Jazz Horn" by bobtravis