We will be staging a public A Level recital next Thursday featuring Jess Hartley on clarinet. This will also be a recorded performance for the exam board. Everyone and anyone is welcome to attend – it will start just after 4pm and will last approximately 15 minutes (unless we need to re-record it).
I thoroughly recommend and yr12 Music students and potential A Level students to attend (so that they know what to expect).
If anyone has any good photos of either the Friday and/or Saturday night’s performances with the Marines, please could you email them to me at rbu@uvhs.uk?
Many thanks.
Really recommend students getting along to this at The Coro if possible. National Youth Jazz Orchestra playing Dizzy Gillespie:
Tickets are now on sale for the school production on Wed 19th and Thur 20th April at The Coro. Use the link below
Fantastic opportunity for students in yrs7-11:
Just a reminder that there will be no Wind Band rehearsal tomorrow due to the Primary Dance Platform this week in the main hall. Likewise, there will be no Swing Band on Friday.
All lunchtime rehearsals and after-school show rehearsals are on as usual (Clarinet Choir & Sax Ensemble are GCSE recording sessions, Choir on Friday is just for yr11 singers and invited others).
Last minute reminder to those going down to Portsmouth on Monday morning – please make sure that school has been officially informed that you will be on work experience from mon-thurs (as this is not official school-organised work experience.
The school’s online form is here: Extended Leave of Absence Form (office.com)
A huge well done to everyone in the Wind Band and Swing Band for two fantastic performances at The Coro this weekend.
Swing Band gave a highly enjoyable (and pretty intensive from a playing perspective) set with “Sing, sing, sing” going better than I could have imagined. I know that those in the Scotland Band who have never visited us in the past were absolutely bowled over by what the band achieved.
Wind Band again raised a lot of eyebrows both in the Marines and in the audience – great performances of what was for the most part new music that we only started rehearsing on 9th Jan!!
The students who had the opportunity to play in the massed band … well, what can I say? Amazing!!! So much pressure having only sight-read the music on Friday (and all the music being more difficult than anything we could tackle in Wind Band) – and again, endless admiration from the Marines.
I am a VERY proud ‘music dad’ to each and every one of you (and Mrs Heginbotham, Ms Reed and Mrs Green very proud ‘music mums’). It would seem that, following Covid, the UVHS music family is really getting back together. Well done!!
PS – Wind Band rehearsal til 4.45pm tomorrow – we start to look at the Tour repertoire (and Summer Concert). No rehearsal on Mon 13th (due to the Primary Dance Platform rehearsals in the Main Hall).