{"id":2686,"date":"2021-04-18T05:32:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T05:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/?post_type=article&p=2686"},"modified":"2021-04-18T05:35:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T05:35:14","slug":"2686","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/article\/2686\/","title":{"rendered":"IMP 2021\u00a0Camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the wettest weekend in\u00a0IMP memory, 177 students and 24\u00a0school and IMP staff took part in the 2021 IMP Camp. For this camp the students were arranged in completely new ensembles, and worked on completely new repertoire. For three days they took part in intensive rehearsals and tutorials, designed to extend them\u00a0as musicians,\u00a0and give the students the opportunity to make friends with musicians from other year groups. The learning that took place was phenomenal.<\/p>\n

There were three main activities at camp:
\nEnsemble A (the\u00a0large ensemble, either Wind Band, Orchestra, Jazz Band, or Training Band)
\nEnsemble B (students elected to be a part of one of the 11 ensemble B options:\u00a0Vocal Ensemble,\u00a0 String Ensemble,\u00a0Percussion Ensemble,\u00a0Body Percussion,\u00a0Jazz Improv Workshop,\u00a0Horn Ensemble,\u00a0Clarinet Ensemble, Flute Ensemble,\u00a0Trumpet Ensemble,\u00a0Brass Ensemble, and\u00a0Sax Ensemble)
\nCamp Item – this was a whole-camp item, where the camp joined together to sing, accompanied by a staff band.<\/p>\n

Despite the extreme wet weather, nothing could dampen the spirits of the students or the tutor, who were all excited to play together again!!
\n65% of the participants\u00a0had never been on an IMP before, due to the last-minute\u00a0cancellation of the 2020 camp at the start of COVID lockdown but\u00a0they were admirably shown the ropes by the older members of the IMP.
\nAs is customary,\u00a0Year 11s acted as leaders and\u00a0mentors for the camp, running evening concerts and games. They were a wonderful group, and\u00a0The annual Ceilidh (folk dance) also\u00a0made its return, featuring a staff folk band, and an exhausting evening of dancing.
\nThe camp culminated in a virtual camp concert (with our usual enormous audience still not able to gather yet). This included performances by all Ensemble As, and Camp Item, and a montage of clips from Ensemble B, who would normally perform at the Camp Afternoon Tea just before the Concert.<\/p>\n

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Here’s a video of Camp Item (everyone involved)<\/p>\n

Camp Item video<\/a><\/p>\n

Matthew Manchester
\nFort Street High School
\nIMP Coordinator
\nDirector of Bands<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the wettest weekend in\u00a0IMP memory, 177 students and 24\u00a0school and IMP staff took part in the 2021 IMP Camp. For this camp the students were arranged in completely new ensembles, and worked on completely new repertoire. For three days they took part in intensive rehearsals and tutorials, designed to extend them\u00a0as musicians,\u00a0and give the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2690,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","class_list":["post-2686","article","type-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/2686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thebuzz.net.au\/fortstreet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}