Music Matters

This week’s banner is from the Glennie Percussion Ensemble performance from Monday’s assembly.

Assembly Performance Monday 5 June – Glennie Percussion Ensemble

Congratulations to the students from the Glennie Percussion Ensemble who performed in Monday’s assembly.  Students from the ensemble performed the work Mercury Rising by Nathan Daughtry.  The work features a big line up of percussion instruments with the full range of melodic percussion instruments, drums of various types – Toms, timpani, bass drum and cymbals – suspended cymbal, tam-tam and gong.  The work has a double fugue structure – where all players are given melodic features and have their moment to ‘shine’.  Special thanks to Ms Jayne Groves for her preparation and direction of the ensemble.  Thank you to Mr Michael Tierney who stepped in to conduct for the performance and to the assistance of Ms Alice Kotowicz who filled in for a part.  Well done Glennie Percussion!

Peripatetic Music Program

Music tuitions timetables are created by tutors on a weekly basis and are not easily generated. It requires a great deal of planning to ensure that lessons are rotated, and certain lessons are avoided (e.g. RE, PE, Assembly, Chapel, Year Meetings).  It is the secondary student’s responsibility to check their timetable ahead of time and to let their music tutor know if there is a clash (e.g. in-class assessment tasks or excursions). A minimum of 24 hours’ notice is required to request a change of lesson time, and an alternative time cannot always be offered due to the limitations of the other student’s timetables.

Here is the section from the Peripatetic Guidelines on altering a scheduled music lesson:

• With the assistance of parents, students are encouraged to monitor forthcoming interruptions to music lessons (e.g., camps, excursions, tests).
• The parents of Primary students have the responsibility to notify their daughter’s music tutor if they need to alter a scheduled music lesson.
• It is the Secondary student’s responsibility to notify their music tutor if they need to alter a scheduled music lesson.
• Music tutors are expected to advise parents and students immediately of circumstances which will prevent lessons being given (e.g., illness, planned absences), so that appropriate alternative arrangements can be put in place.
• If a student provides their music tutor with reasonable notice of the need to alter a scheduled music lesson (i.e., at least 24hrs), then an alternate music lesson may be arranged.
• If a student misses a lesson without notification, the music tutor will contact parents immediately to ascertain the reason for the student’s absence.
• Parents should expect to be charged for the missed lesson.

Notification to Class Teachers

It is also a requirement that secondary students let their class teachers know, ahead of time (24-48 hours), that they will be missing for part of a lesson to attend an instrumental or vocal lesson.

Your lesson times should be clearly marked in your school diary.

It would be appreciated by SCEGGS teachers and music tutors if students kept everyone informed of their lessons.

City of Sydney Eisteddfod: Bugles, Clarion and Holst Wind Band

Congratulations to members of Bugles, Clarion and Holst Wind Band who participated in the City of Sydney’s Eisteddfod this week.

This year’s City of Sydney Eisteddfod took place at Chatswood Concourse.  Bugles performed in their heat on Tuesday 6 June while Clarion and Holst Wind Band performed in their respective heats on Wednesday 7 June.  The students did an excellent job in their performances and special thank you to Mr Michael Tierney (Director of Bands) with his work preparing Bugles and Holst Wind Band.  Thank you also to Ms Alison Ryan with her work to prepare and conduct Clarion Band’s performance at the eisteddfod.  Well done to all students!

2024 Combined Music Ensembles Tour to NZ – not too late!

It’s not too late to be a part of the 2024 Combined Music Ensembles Tour to New Zealand.

Please see the information regarding the tour and payment plan via the links.

If you have further questions, please contact Head of Music Pauline Chow paulinechow@sceggs.nsw.edu.au for more information.

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Pauline Chow
Head of Music