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Strings and Chords

A concert of songs and guitar pieces performed by

HuMS Singers and
HuMS Classical Guitar Ensemble

Performed at All Saints’ Church Huntingdon

19:30 on Sat 12 November 2011

Tickets £5 at the door

HuMS groups are students from Huntingdonshire Music School, www.humsa.org.uk, 01480 379220
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This coming Saturday the 7th May there will be a joint concert from the singers at the Huntingdonshire Music School and the Cambridge Guitar Orchestra (www.cgo.org.uk) in Godmanchester.

The programme is a varied one with the CGO playing:

• Prelude, Air and Rigaudon from the Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg
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• La Oracion del Torero by Joaquin Turina,
• Menuet Antique by Maurice Ravel
• The Millers Dance by Manuel de Falla
• As a Flower Blossoms and Letter from Home – by Pat Metheny
• Becks Bolero by Jimmy Page

together with a joint piece with the HUMS singers.

The CGO has and continues to include players from the music school including current teachers Sandra Buckenham and Len Davidson and is always entertaining.

Tickets: £6, Students £3, children free
Starts 19:00
Location: St. Mary the Virgin, Godmanchester

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HUMSA has a euphonium which is available for loan to anyone who wishes to learn this instrument at the Huntingdonshire Music School. It is part of the brass family and smaller and therefore more practical than the tuba. It is a solo instrument (meaning it often features on its own) and is an important instrument in a brass band although it can be played in a wind band, military band and orchestra so there are a wide variety of styles of music available to the euphonium player. It produces a gorgeous warm sound.

Famous euphonium players include Nicholas Childs (Black Dyke) his son, David Childs (Cory) and Stephen Mead (Royal Northern College of Music).

At the moment we have just the one loan instrument available (courtesy of Sean Pagington and First Brass) but if needed we’ll try and obtain more loan instruments.

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The Sing with Swing Workshop 2011 is being led by professional singer, Bridget Hardy in Buckden on the afternoon of Saturday 19th March 2011, 2pm – 5pm and the morning of Sunday 20th March, 10am – 1pm. The workshop will include individual master classes and cover singing in the swing style and microphone technique.

At 2pm the HuMS Big Band will join the workshop providing live backing for all the singers. Please select three songs from the provided list at the time of booking.

Participants may be invited to join the HuMS Big Band in a fund raising concert on Friday 25th March, 7.30pm – a great opportunity to lead a song and show off to friends and family the skills learnt and developed at the Sing with Swing Workshop 2011. Tickets for this event will be on sale at the workshop, costing just £5.

For further details contact Julian, tel. 07791 723 852

There are only 20 workshop places in total so don’t hang around!

This workshop has been organised by HuMSA (Huntingdonshire Music School Association), a registered charity supporting musical education in the Huntingdonshire region through provision of bursaries to children and other activities

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Links: Wikipedia - Marburg-Biedenkopf, Wikipedia - Bad Endbach, city of Marburg website, videos:

YouTube - video 1 (never mind the soundtrack!), YouTube - video 2

Itinerary

Thursday 11th August:

• Early start from HRC, travelling by coach and ferry.
• Plan to arrive at 18:00 and have a group meal

Friday 12th August - Sunday 14th August

• A number of concerts, depending upon who goes and the bands we can form
• Coach sightseeing trips, possibilities include:
  • Ski lift and summer tobogganing
  • Edersee and Eder dam and waterparc
  • Other options to be built into the itinerary
• Final group meal

Monday 15th August:

Ea
• rly start from Bad Endbach
• ETA Huntingdon 19:00

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Having an impending ABRSM tuba Grade 4 exam looming I thought it might make sense to see what means of playing with accompaniment were available to me (short of kidnapping a piano player). I’d heard that somewhere there might be some download options available. Unfortunately for me, or rather anyone with a tuba, I didn’t find anything to help me. I did, however, find that the ABRSM does itself now have a ‘download shop’.

The ABRSM Audio Download Shop (http://www.abrsm.org/audioshop) provides the ability to download the piano part for Grades 1 - to 8 for the piano (!) [2009-2012], violin [2008 - 2011], clarinet [2008-2013] and flute [2008-2013]. Individual downloads are GBP 0.79 (79 pence) each or there’s an offer of 1 from each of the A, B and C lists (i.e. your complete exam) for GBP 1.95 available once per grade. Pretty cheap and a lot less hassle than trying to persuade the computer to create a backing track.

From the ABRSM site….

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The interview of the HUMS Classical Guitar Ensemble with BBC Radio Cambrigheshire’s Sue Dougan is can now be listened to on BBC iPlayer at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p008zh1y/Sue_Dougan_in_the_Afternoon_29_07_2010/. It will be available for 7 days (usual restriction) which means something like the 2nd August. I wouldn’t leave it that late mind!

The interview starts at around 1h 15mins into the programme.

Enjoy.

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The interview lasted for something like 30 minutes and ranged far and wide not only about the guitar ensemble but also the music school itself. We always hit the problem of ‘school’ being associated with youngsters so often folks don’t realise that the music school is open to all ages. This has surfaced before when talking with the BBC but apparently Sue hadn’t even heard of the school. Well she has heard now and there’s a tentative suggestion that an future feature might be made on the music school itself, perhaps in September.

For those who’d like to listen to the interview it will be broadcast at around 3pm on Thursday 29th July on BBC Radio Cambridgshire. The schedule for Thursday is available here. You can always listen live from the BBC Radio Cambs website. It will be available via the BBC iPlayer for up to 7 days after the interview.

The photos have been added to the Huntingdonshire Music School group on Flickr.

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