Music Highlights
Diana Springford – Head of Music
Music Highlights from Term 3
This term saw us transition smoothly to online learning for classroom music, including our Years 3 – 6 Instrumental Program, as well as the Years K – 2 Infant Strings Program and our private music lessons. It has been so important to keep our Music routines going throughout this unusual time, for the continuity of Music learning, for our health and wellbeing, and for fun. We hope students enjoyed trying new things with their instrument and voice using our online learning packages on Stile and Reshet for our ensemble and choir members, whether that was the Big Band Rhythm Workout or beatboxing on the flute.
Congratulations Music Team – teachers, administrators, tutors, conductors, students and parents – for a great term of online learning of music at Emanuel School. Thank you for the goodwill and time you have ALL put into making this work.
The below photo gallery features just some of the highlights from this rather unique term:
- Years K – 2 Water Xylophone lessons for Science Week
- Oliver Mendoza – Jones in Year K recording Ha’Shorashim
- Aladdin rehearsals continued online for main cast and ensemble choir
- Musica Viva incursion for Years K – 6 by ‘Music in my Suitcase’
- Year 7 Zoom guitar class
- Year 8 baking bush bread while listening and discussing music written by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander musicians
- Year 12 Elective Music remembering to have some fun even as HSC performances approached (check out those psychedelic backgrounds)
- Ezra Hersch in Year 12 recording one of three parts of his HSC composition (the other parts were recorded remotely by other musicians)
Mazal tov to our Year 12 Elective Music students, who are breathing a sigh of relief, with the performance and viva voce components of their Music HSC now completed, and their final compositions now successfully submitted.
Congratulations to Hannah Lax, Ariella Tracton, Gidon Grunseit, Zac Boswell, Guy Rein, Ruben Mihalovich, Ezra Hersch, Chloe Miller and Shane Doust, who should be so proud of their hard work and fabulous achievements. Thanks to Danny Burley and our team of private music tutors whose expertise and care have, over many years, prepared the students for their HSC success, with special mention of Antonio Fernandez who was invaluable in his support of the Music 2 class.
We hope all Year 12 and their families enjoyed their Graduation events. A big thanks to Remi Owen and Antonio Fernandez in Music who put in hours and hours and hours of work, care and expertise with the Year 12 students and parents, and various fiddly bits of software, to make the Year 12 graduation day videos. These videos not only substitute for the usual graduation performances but may be enjoyed for years to come by the Year 12s and their parents
And finally, a huge thank you to all the students who contributed to the Ha’Shorashim virtual choir project for our Capital Appeal anthem as well as to all the staff who devoted hours to supporting, rehearsing, co-ordinating and editing. We can’t wait to share the final video with you.
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