Music Matters
The Music Department feels as if we’ve never been away, now that our Years K – 12 students are back on campus and making music again.
Music Camp
As you will likely have anticipated, there will be no Music Camp this year. Although unsurprising, it is disappointing to miss this much-loved annual event. Music Camp will be back with a bang … drumroll, crash of cymbals, and a great fanfare … next year.
Private Tuition and Infant Strings Program
All tuition has now returned to normal with lessons live and onsite (no more Zooming).
Thank you to those who have already advised us of changes to private tuition and Infant Strings Program enrolments for next term. The deadline for new enrolments, notification of changes or intention to discontinue for Term 3 was last week. All students currently receiving private music tuition and ISP will be automatically re-enrolled into tutor schedules for next term along with students commencing lessons for the first time. Parents should enrol or discontinue using one of the online forms accessed from the links below. If your child intends to discontinue, please act swiftly to provide formal notification in advance to avoid being committed to the full term of lessons and liable for fees.
Please contact Matilda Grieve by email: music@emanuelschool.nsw.edu.au if you have any questions about private music tuition.
The schedules for Term 3, 2020 will be created at the end of term and emailed in July.
Links to online forms for Term 3 enrolments and discontinuations
New enrolment requests for private tuition: http://tinyurl.com/NewPrivateTuitionEnrolment
To discontinue private tuition: http://tinyurl.com/PrivateTuitionDiscontinuation
To enrol into the Infant Strings Program: http://tinyurl.com/InfantStringsEnrolment
To discontinue Infant Strings Program: http://tinyurl.com/InfantStringsDiscontinuations
Ensembles and choirs – a reminder
No choirs will resume ‘live’ rehearsals until Term 3. This is because of the science of the way aerosolised water droplets are produced and spread by singers and the fact that these linger in the air. Many ensembles have returned to rehearsing in modified form and with specific protocols. Since the variables we must consider include ensemble size, room size, whether the ensemble includes string, wind or percussion players, whether there are singers, and whether ensemble musicians share instruments or use microphones, each ensemble is in a different situation. Conductors and band mentors will have informed you of the situation for their ensemble. We ask students to pay particular attention to their conductor’s direction with regard to new rehearsal routines, as keeping to these new routines is the prerequisite for the resumption of rehearsals from Week 6.
Here is a link to the Music Department’s spreadsheet showing the basic intention for each ensemble and choir. Please note that some rehearsals will now start later so as to enable students and conductors to have their temperature checked before rehearsals.