INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN 2021

It’s the time of year where we begin the recruitment process for students to join the Yeronga State School Instrumental Music Program. All current year 2 students are eligible to join the Strings Program with Mrs Tamsyn Eastgate in 2021 and current year 3 students are eligible to join the Band Program with Mrs Robyn Rosewarne and Mr Alex Grodecki in 2021.

Every year 2 and 3 student will soon be sitting an aural aptitude test in classroom music time. The results of this test along with each student’s classroom music and general classroom results (both achievement and effort) will be considered in the selection process. Keep your eyes on the newsletter over the next few weeks to hear more about this process.

CHOIR

It has been so pleasing to see our wonderful choirs rehearsing again. Currently our ensembles need to rehearse in an area that allows us to abide by the 4m2 per person rule. This means that choir is rehearsing in the hall during first break for the foreseeable future. Therefore, students need to remember to come to the hall after eating time on their required day:

Senior Choir – Tuesdays at 11:15am

Junior Choir – Fridays at 11:15am 

It has been so pleasing to see our dedicated students give up their lunch times in order to attend choir once again and sing some new and exciting repertoire. Keep up the hard work everyone! Due to the lack of performance opportunities this year, we will hopefully have some recordings of each choir performing for you to listen to soon.

Yours in Music, 

Lauren Easey.
 

STRINGS

Coronavirus has had a significant effect on the instrumental music program this year with many concerts, workshops and competitions needing to be cancelled. However, all bands and string ensembles are now back up and rehearsing in term 3. The current restrictions mean that most rehearsals have been moved to lunchbreaks in the hall as there is more space to spread out. It’s been very encouraging for instrumental teachers to see that throughout all the disruption parents have continued to support their children with home practice.  

To maximise the time available in lunchbreak rehearsals the Junior Stradivari string ensemble has been rehearsing without setting up music stands- so this term the students have been taking on the additional challenge of learning their ensemble music off-by-heart.  

The Chamber Strings ensemble for the most advanced strings players has been making good use of the additional time that has been funded with rehearsals running for 1 hour each week this year. This has meant the group has been able to learn about twice as much repertoire as in previous years. This has included classical music, wedding music and movie themes. You can listen to the Chamber Strings performance of Canon in D by Pachelbel by following this link: https://soundcloud.com/user-59122544/chamber-strings-canon-in-d.
 

Mrs Tamsyn Eastgate