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MUSIC NEWS

VOCAL NIGHT

On Thursday 27 April, the first Vocal Night of the year was held. The night kicked off with a great performance from the Choir, who sang 'Alle, Alle, Alle', a Jamaican folk song, and 'The Edge of Glory' by Lady Gaga, with solo sung by Kate Collier. Our MC’s Gabby Etlis and Rony Olesh introduced the array of solos performed by the many talented vocal students. The styles performed ranged from musical theatre to jazz to golden oldies, and even an originally written and composed song (written by Chloe James herself), leaving the audience entranced by the skills the students had showcased.

Just before interval, four Year 9 Girls (Phoebe Lock, Caroline Monroe, Talia Raman and Clare Wever) did an amazing rendition of 'Someone In The Crowd' from La La Land with fabulous choreography by Phoebe. During the interval, the ANTIPODEANS team, led by Ebony Lockton, provided refreshments for the audience and participants. The second half consisted of our Year 11 and 12 Music Student performances, which continued to maintain the high standard. The night closed with a very professional performance from the Senior Singers, who sang 'Over the Rainbow' by Harold Arlen, with solos by Clare Wever and Caroline Monroe, and the rousing 'Amazing Grace' with solo by Chloe James. Yet again, the lighting and sound crew led by Nick Xanthoudakis did a brilliant job, and the stage manager, Mrs Ford kept us on our toes. And of course, the night would not have been possible without the efforts of Ms Papworth and Ms West, to whom all the participants were extremely grateful.              

 

Chloe James

Year 10 Student

BENTLEIGH ROTARY

Congratulations to Jessie Park, Sally Park, Izabel Seo and Yael Zamir who performed at the Bentleigh 40th birthday Market on Sunday 30 April. 

OPEN NIGHT

Thank you to all the students who helped demonstrate the amazing talent that we have in the Music Department on Tuesday 2 May for the Open Night. It was great to hear the Senior Stage Band opening the night, and then to have the Year 9 students demonstrating their compositional capacity in the music tech room, and the VCE Unit 3 students demonstrating individual instrument capacity in the small practice rooms. Thank you for the time and dedication that you showed.

STRING NIGHT

Congratulations to the large number of string students who attended the String Night on Thursday 4 May in the Alan Lawrence Lecture Theatre to a highly appreciative audience. 

The night concluded with an appropriately themed Star Wars piece for May the 4th, after a large number of small groups and soloists performed throughout the evening. Thank you to all including Mr Cook, Ms Kavanagh and Ms Bugeja for their organisation of the evening and the drive they provide for the string students at McKinnon.

MUNCH THEN MUSIC

Congratulations to the students who performed at the Munch then Music concert on Friday 5 May, Harry Mills, Aadi Dapurkar, Madeleine Wong and Mimi Bernstein. Thank you to Tess Hodgson, Maggie Rose Scott-Hill, Maddison Brown-Graham and Lily Tamir-Regev who ran the concert and Jessie Park and Darcy Doherty-Brown who ran the auditions. Well done to all students.

STAGE BANDS - MOUNT GAMBIER

Congratulations to both the Senior and Intermediate Stage Bands who performed at the ‘Generations in Jazz’ Music Festival in Mount Gambier from 5 May – 7 May. The students in both ensembles performed to an extremely high standard and were entertained and taught by national and international jazz artists. Thank you to Mr West and Ms Rogerson for their attendance at this camp and a special thanks to Mr Serebrianik for his organisation of this camp.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

Term 2 has a number of performances where students will be able to demonstrate their developing skills. Students are reminded to keep their attendance at the rehearsals for their ensembles to a high level. These are the dates for important performances and workshops throughout this term (this list will be updated each fortnight):

  • StringFest – Wednesday 17 May
  • Senior Music Concert – Wednesday 17 May
  • VSMF, Orchestra Section – Keenan Strings - Thursday 8 June
  • Year 12 Music Night – Wednesday 14 June
  • Junior Concert – Wednesday 28 June

Megan Papworth

Head of Music