Music Matters
Musicale 4
Our final Musicale for 2022 will take place on Thursday 17 November at 6pm in the Great Hall (Week 6). The ensembles featured in this concert are:
- String Power
- Primary String Octet
- Bugles
- Training Band
- Glennie Percussion
- Van Reyk Percussion
- Contemporary Strings
- Clarion Band
Students will receive further information from their Ensemble conductors about this performance. The concert is free, and we invite all parents to come and enjoy the music.
Year 7 Choir – Festival of Lessons and Carols
As part of the Year 7 Class choir, all students have been invited to perform in this year’s Festival of Lessons and Carols. Further information will be sent to Year 7 families outlining the details of the evening service. We look forward to sharing the beautiful music from this ceremony with the school community.
Congratulations Primary Strings Studio Concerts
Congratulations to the students who performed in the Strings studio concerts last week, Monday 24 October, Wednesday 26 October and Friday 28 October, in the Primary Music room. It was wonderful to hear the array of performances from string players of varying stages of their learning journey. Many thanks to Ms Heidi Jones and Ms Stephanie Holmes for their assistance with accompaniment. Big thank you to Mrs Anne Sweeney for her organisation and for her accompaniment for most of the performers. It was a mammoth task! Well done to our budding string players!
Year 5 and 6 Violinists at Week 3’s Assembly
A group of violinists from Year 5 and 6 learnt a wonderfully clever piece called Der Speigel which means “Mirror” in German. The Mirror Duet is a palindromic piece of music by W.A. Mozart. It’s like the word TACOCAT! A palindromic piece means you can play the music both ways and when it comes together as a duet, it has a lovely contrast between the two parts. The girls were amazed to think Mozart how clever Mozart was and that he must have had a lot of spare time on his hands to write this music. Probably because he did not have devices, so there was not much else to do! The music works both ways so when you flip it the right way around, there’s the Violin 1 music, and when you flip it the other way, you get the Violin 2 part. Congratulations to violinists Chelsy Diec, Olivia Chua, Angelina Wang, Anna Slack, Lucinda Morgan and Olivia Flanagan.
Watch the performance of “The Mirror Duet” here.
Mrs Anne Sweeney
Director of Strings
Term 4 Music Calendar
Week 4 |
Vocal Soiree, Thursday 3 November, 3.30pm and 4.45pm (2 sessions), Great Hall Primary Percussion Concert, Friday 4 November, 1pm, Primary Music Room |
Week 5 |
Rock Bands’ Performance “Women in the Workforce”, Thursday 10 November, 1 pm lunchtime concert, near the School Cafeteria (supporting Year 10 Social Justice Week) CVE and LUX Strings Performance at Positive Schools Conference, leave school at 7.50am return to school at approx. 9.15am, Sydney Masonic Centre, 66 Goulburn St – 2 dates: CVE: Thursday 10 November, Lux Strings: Friday 11 November |
Week 6 |
Ms Alex Silver Studio and Secondary Jazz Combo Concert, Wednesday 16 November, 1pm, DB1 Musicale 4, Thursday 17 November, 6pm, Great Hall |
Week 7 |
Festival of Lessons and Carols, Thursday 24 November, 7.30pm, Great Hall (Amati Strings and Year 7 Choir) |
Week 8 |
Years K-11 Christmas Service Great Hall, Monday 28 November (Amati Strings and Year 7 Choir) |
Pauline Chow
Head of Music
