With the exception of Junior Band and Choir, lunchtime Music rehearsals are cancelled this week in order to allow GCSE and A Level students time in the Stoller Suite to complete their composition coursework. The GCSE deadline is THIS Thursday.
Wind Band and Swing Band rehearsals go ahead as normal this coming week. If everyone who is able to do so can attend that would be fantastic as, for Wind Band in particular, we will start work on the additional repertoire for tour.
Swing Band’s next concert (at Holker) at the end of April has been cancelled.
TOUR – at the moment this is still going ahead. In terms of insurance, we will only get our money back if the government extends the ban on school trips abroad OR Belgium refuses to accept group visits in July. We must, at the moment, continue as normal in terms of planning.
Marines Visit – we have now managed to get a refund from Premier Inn for Friday night, which has recouped £1800. Obviously we are out-of-pocket in terms of income from the whole weekend as we would have expected to profit by about £1,500 (at least half of which would have been the raffle) – which does affect tour a little. However, we are investigating the possibility of the visit happening in early July.
Refunds – The Coronation Hall are dealing with refunds for Saturday night’s concert. For the Friday night event, if you would like a refund, please send your tickets in to the Music Office with your child and we will give a cash refund.Start writing or type / to choose a block
As you may well have heard by now, we have been forced to cancel the visit of the Royal Marines this weekend. The school knows only too well how much time and effort has been put in (as always) by the musicians in the Wind and Swing Bands over the past couple of months to prepare for the two concerts, but the advice we have received has left us in no option but to call them off.
The Marines very much see this as a postponement rather than a cancellation and we will be working hard over the next month or two to re-arrange a weekend.
We had a fantastic Wind Band rehearsal yesterday evening and a superb drum rehearsal today, so everything is looking good for a spectacular concert on Saturday – as well as a great Dance Band evening on Friday. Couple of points:
Wind Band has another rehearsal on Thursday until 5pm; invited players for the Massed band rehearsal need to be at The Coro at 3.45pm on Friday; Swing Band players need to get to the Coro at 7pm on Friday. All details for both days are on the post from last Monday.
RAFFLE: I have 4 really good raffle prizes but could do with a couple more – if anyone has anything please could it be sent to the Music Office by Friday morning? Also, I need volunteers to sell raffle tickets and programmes on Saturday evening: doors open at 6.40pm, so you need to be at The Coro just before then.
Nice of the Mail to publish a bit of nostalgia before the Marines weekend and the school production in 3 weeks.
We still have a few tickets left for the Marines Dance Band social on Friday 13th March at The Coro. It is a fantastic evening of entertainment from UVHS Swing Band and then the Marines with lots of fun, food and dancing.