Performing Arts
"You can find me where music meets the Ocean" - Drumming Circle at the Year 9 Camp
DRAMA MATTERS
Our new Intermediate Drama Ensemble (Years 7 & 8) are working hard on their scenes ready to present in Week 3 as part of the Performing Arts Festival. Each pair of actors has been given a ‘neutral scene’ and from this they have created their own context. The scenes can be performed in many different ways and the characters are deliberately ambiguous which means the actor can bring a lot of their own personality to their role. We hope you will join us on Friday 1 November in the Sarto Centre from 5.30pm.
Billy Elliott at the Lyric Theatre: I am really looking forward to seeing the new Billy Elliott musical that comes to Sydney next month. It promises to be a wonderful production. The film of the play is very powerful and I know many people who have also read the novel. There are still tickets available to what will no doubt be a fantastic night out for all of the family.
Ms Penny Lindley - Drama Teacher
MUSIC MATTERS
Where the Music Meets the Ocean
Year 9 Drumming Circles at Wamberal Beach
Our Year 9 students have been privileged to attend camp this term at Workul Koo, Wamberal Beach. In addition to the rigours of surfing, paddle boarding and bush walking, our young men have participated in drumming circles. It is great to see a room full of happy boys being lead through guided drumming class. Playing rhythms in call and response, improvising their own musical phrases and ‘talking’ to one another through their djembes. Drumming is good for everyone and many community and music organisations offer drum circle classes. Playing drums has many neurological and therapeutic benefits. Our College has two wonderful drum teachers in Ian Talati and Pawel Lewandowski. Please don’t hesitate to talk to us about getting your son busy playing.
How Sharp Are My Ears?
Year 12 Music Examinations Reach their Final Cadence
Congratulations to our Music 2 Students who completed the written component of their Higher School Certificates last Friday. This paper requires students to complete a melodic dictation, analyse a range of listening and score excerpts and an extended musicology essay. Our students worked hard to memorise musical excerpts and understand the concepts of music within a range of styles. Well done boys. We wish all of Year 12 the very best for their remaining weeks of examinations.
Come and Join PAPA in 2020!
Performing Arts Parents’ Association Meeting Wednesday 30 October at 7.00pm
We cordially invite parents and friends of the College to join our Performing Arts Parents’ Association in 2020. We have various positions to fill. Being in this wonderful group involves just one meeting per term. The only prerequisite for membership is the desire to help our students flourish. Our next PAPA meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 30 at 7pm in the College Band Room. All welcome, supper provided.
College Auditions
A Successful Opportunity to Share Learning
Our sincere thanks to Mr. Primrose-Heaney, Mr David Sismey, Mr Jonathan Dollin, Mr Power and Mrs Talati for facilitating the recent auditions for our Ensemble Program.
These auditions were a wonderful opportunity for boys to be heard individually and to have conversations with our Ensemble Directors about their aspirations for 2020. All our audition results have been posted on lists outside the Performing Arts Office. Please see Mr Primrose-Heaney if you have any queries. Well done to all involved and thank you Mr Primrose-Heaney and Mrs McHugh for organising these so well.
2019 Combined Catholic School Choral Festival – Tomorrow Night!
Thursday October 24, St Mary’s Cathedral at 7pm
Come and support our 70 piece combined choir as they join others to perform Mozart’s Requiem. With full orchestra and professional soloists performing under the guidance of Thomas Wilson, you will experience first-hand the genius of Mozart and the utter beauty of his choral writing. Everyone welcome. Entry to this event is free.
Performing Arts Calendar as at 23 October 2019
Application for Music Tuition in 2020
Does your son want to start learning an instrument or having composition lessons? Start the ball rolling and enrol now for 2020 using the application form below.
We have a range of instruments to loan students and just the right tutors and we offer tuition in over twenty different instruments!
Embrace your talents and passion - share them with the world.
“Talent is good, practice is better, passion is best.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Kind regards,
Ms Pip Waters - Performing Arts Coordinator