Since my last post (a very long time ago) lots has happened and there's not enough room in one blog post for all of them. Firstly about a month ago I was part of a week with lots of events dedicated to playing music in them. On the Friday there was a concert called the Live Lounge in which I led the school orchestra playing a selection from Les Miserables including "At the end of the day", "Master of the House", "I Dreamed a Dream", "On My Own" and "Do you hear the people sing" after that I was also the leader of the strings group playing Palladio. To end the first half the wind band played a selection of film tunes including Skyfall, the Simspons, Mission Impossible, Batman and Hawaii Five-O. In the second half there was a rousing start from the choir, which I sing bass in, singing "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got That Swing" and a selection from "Oliver" including "Consider Yourself", "Where is love", "Oom Pah Pah", "I'd do anything" and "Who Will Buy." Following this we had the steel band playing the theme from Doctor Who and "Under the sea" among other pieces and the Funk Band gave a rousing finale with lots of audience interaction and groovy songs.
The next day there was an inter-school competition for small groups of musicians. Our school had entered four groups. The first group was a Woodwind quartet with a clarinet, two alto saxes, and a tenor sax playing Bill Bailey "Won't you please come home" Following this there was a piano trio featuring me at the piano playing "Romance" Frank Bridge and a piano quartet with me playing, performing a piece of Schumann. Lastly there was another String trio playing "Drei Deutscher Lieder" by Glinker who managed to get through to the next round. There were many other groups from other schools playing for the rest of the day.
Finally on Thursday there was a chamber music concert featuring all those who played on Saturday plus many others to create to atmosphere of a civilised relaxed evening with pleasant background music. All in all it was a hectic week in terms of music trying to learn all these pieces whilst juggling it with revising for my GCSEs
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