Huntingdonshire Music School Association

The end of term Christmas concert starts at 19:30 on Friday 4th December at the Huntingdonshire Regional College.

The order of playing is as follows. All welcome.

 
Rock Band               Purple Ska                           arr. S Spall
Intermediate           Troika                                     Sergei Prokofief        
Concert Band           Don’t stop the cavalry               Jona Lewie

String Ensemble         Eine Kleine Nachtmusik               Mozart
                        (1st movement)
Carol Mills &            Messiah                             Handel
Marie White
           
             
Prep Concert Band     The Little Drummer Boy               Katherine K Davis
                        Fum Fum Fum                       Catalan Carol
                        We Wish You a Merry Christmas             Traditional  
Senior Orchestra         The Pastoral Symphony               Beethoven
                        (1st movement)               


Interval                       Interval
(sax ensemble playing)

Rock Band               Change in my pocket                 Georgia Satelitel
Brass Ensemble         Christmas Joy                       Erik Leidzén
                        Snow Waltz                         arr. D Jacobson
                        Rock around the Christmas Tree           Johnny Marks

Guitar Ensemble         Grandfathers Clock                         arr. Power
                        Bouree                             Mozart
                        Sans Day Carol                       arr. Hasted
Senior Concert Band     Christmas Calypso                   Peter Graham
                        The Symphonic Beatles              
                        Sleigh Ride                         Leroy Anderson
Big Band                 Hayburner                           Sami Nestico
                        The Christmas Song                 Torme and Wells

From Tubanews:

Tuba Carols 2009 is on Sunday 13th December at 12.45 until 14.30 in front of St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Please tell all your Tuba / euphonium / baritone/ sousaphone / helicon / ophecleide / serpent / cimbasso playing friends, and of course, put the date in your own diary.

Music (4 parts, with descants, all clefs) will be provided, also chairs, you will need to bring a music stand.
Last year we managed a fantastic 54 players and collected £780 for charity. (Watch last year’s on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J879e_ntkn0 )

This year it would be great if we could manage 75 + players! We’ll be collecting for The Prostate Cancer Research Foundation (www.thepcrf.org), who’s fundraising campaign using the memory of Bob Monkhouse is, I’m sure, already familiar to many of you.

I look forward to hearing all of you on Sunday 13th December!

Best regards, Chris Ludwig, Tuba Carols.

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I suppose it had to happen. Not content with playing in the bowels of the RRS Les Dawson Keith decided to practice in front of a larger audience. Usually this is a good thing and we would advise any music student to practice in front of strange folks in order to build up confidence. Keith took this advice to heart but being unable to find any humans willing to endure instead decided that the local wildlife in Antarctica would do. I don’t think that the BAS have conducted any studies on the tolerance of the penguin to such noise but hope that it doesn’t affect fertility (penguins!). Those with a keen eye will notice that 1 penguin in the centre appears to have been stunned (or at least has found something better to do). 

It does remind of a Creature Comforts clip. I just wonder what the penguins are saying…!

As Keith himself says:-

I was on the afterdeck working when this lot turned up.  They’ve been loitering around the ship (which is moored up at Brunt Ice Shelf at the moment) for a couple of days now, and I got Bruce to take this.  As you will see, he’s enthusiastic about fill-in flash.  These are Emperor Penguins (as if you didn’t know).

Nice scenery.