Music
T his year has seen the Junior Music department busy despite continuing Covid restrictions with many online instrumental lessons delivered via zoom to our pupils to enable them to continue their learning from home. In March we had a Cartoon Music online enrichment day where our pupils learned how to create a soundtrack to a short cartoon clip, creating ideas to the very first cartoon with synchronized sound – the Mickey Mouse classic Steamboat Willie which made Mickey famous. The children also discovered the meaning of ‘hitpoints’, ‘Mickey Mousing’ and the brilliance of composer Scott Bradley and of how he changed cartoon music forever by persuading the studios to create their animations to his music rather than the other way round. The children then had opportunity to create their own original storyboards and ideas. We have seen the appointment of 3 fantastic new tutors in the Junior music department: Harpist Miss Tamara Young - a highly experienced musician who has performed with many of the U.K’s top orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra; she is a tutor at Trinity Laban Conservatoire and will soon accompany the Northern Ballet’s production of Swan Lake; Pianist Mr David Richard – who made his Parisian debut with the Hector Berlioz Orchestra performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue before performing all over the world; now teaching Piano in the SLC Junior department, he is a tutor at London’s Royal Academy and is an examiner for Trinity College,
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