Huntingdonshire Music School Association - Guitar

The classical guitar ensemble from the Huntingdonshire Music School spent nearly 5 hours recording in Old Hurst at St. Peter’s Church one weekend in March. There’s not much you can do in gloves! Anyway the end result was worth it and we now have a CD for sale (£5) with the proceeds going towards HUMSA and therefore future music-making at the music school.

The tracks include:

• Boureé (Mozart arr K. Marx)
• The Olive Grove - 1) Il Pensieroso 2) L’allegro (Peter Nuttall)
• Contradanza (Ian Gammie)
• Jeux Interdits (Narcisio Yepes arr. Remi Laredo)
• Beginners’ Rag (Susan Sharp)
• Ashokan Farewell (Trad.)
• Arena y Sol (Ian Gammie)
• Sarabande Varieé (G.F. Handel)
• Jamaica Farewell (Trad.)
A sample of the tracks from the CD can be heard on the Music Alley site (used to be the Podcast Music Network).

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           Donâ??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

The ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal School of Music) have changed the syllabi (see Wikipedia!) for:-

• Classical Guitar
• Singing
• Piano

for 2009 onwards.

They have released a series of 3 podcasts covering the syllabus for each including interviews and musical demonstrations.

The links for the each episode are:-

• Piano podcast episode
• Singing podcast episode
• Classical Guitar podcast episode

or you can subscribe to the podcast series via

• RSS
• iTunes