Huntingdonshire Music School Association

All of us who go there agree that the Music School is a great place to go to.  However, not a lot of people know about us and what our unique points are.  These include theory and aural lessons as part of the package, as well as your individual tuition; ensembles to play in; etc.

We now need some help with getting the message out there.  The committee have formed a sub-group to look at this and have lots of ideas but are in need of a bit of specialist guidance.  So if you have these skills and could spare a bit of time that would be great.  You will not be asked to do all the work but to tell us what would work.  Also you would be welcome to join in the group to help in a number of ways.  We are currently putting together terms of reference for the group so that you can see what would be involved.

For the last few summers we’ve organised trips at the beginning of the summer holidays. These are always lively and consist of a mixture of performance, sight-seeing and plain old social relaxation. To date we’ve been to Wertheim (Germany)/Paris [2006], Kirchheim (Austria) [2007] and this summer we travelled to the Isle of Man [2008].

The planning is now well under way for the 2009 trip to Norfolk and is open to anyone at the school. Not everyone who goes on these trips plays - they tend to be very much family affairs. As Norfolk is relatively close to home it will enable some to join us for a short time and return home. This hasn’t been possible for the longer trips overseas and as a result some folks have missed out.

The likely locations are:-

• Forum (Norwich library)
• St Stephen"s Church, Norwich
• Aylsham Church - joint performance with The Ipswich & Norwich Brass Band
• Mannington Hall & Gardens

Now that we’ve come over all interactive and are starting to expose our social bits (careful ) we’ve added some added a lot of capabilities that folks who register with us can make us of.

These include:-

• ability to post comments
• ability to use and post on the discussion forums
• ability to sign up for our email distribution lists so that we can keep - those that want to be - informed of what we’re up to and - occasionally - when we’re on the scrounge for help

This makes life easy for you - your sign-in works everywhere on the site and you can choose as much or as little to keep advised of. It also makes our (read ‘my’) life easier as we don’t have to maintain separate contact forms or manage email addresses - everyone looks after their own!

You don’t have to be a student or parent of a student - anyone can register with us as an ‘interested spectator’ and join in. We are a friendly bunch after all. It’s just that our students (and teachers) get to do a bit more.

Go on then - join the site