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Ghost River tour success
Last Friday morning, 51 keen Middle School actors and musicians climbed onto a bus for the journey up the Hume Highway to north-east Victoria. Our bus was laden to the hilt with instruments...
07 November 2019
Commitment is the key to music mastery
This week, the Senior School held their annual Speech Night at the Melbourne Town Hall. The many speeches and presentations were interspersed with a number of musical performances...
24 October 2019
Senior Ensemble Auditions
As the year draws rapidly to a close for our senior musicians, we are looking forward to putting our senior ensembles together for 2020. Auditions will occur in the first few weeks of term...
10 October 2019
The China tour celebrating Australian music
It was an absolute privilege to take a wonderful group of 39 Carey students from Years 9 to 11 on a 16-performance tour of China. I could not imagine a nicer group of young people, and we...
10 October 2019
The Australian Marimba Competition: Sophie, Year 12
On Saturday 10 August, along with fellow Carey student Gloria, I attend the semi-finals of the Australian Marimba Competition...
05 September 2019
The essential ingredient for success
The Year 8 Music class has been analysing some of the great classic tunes of the 20th century to see how they are constructed. We started with Herbie Hancock’s epic jazz standard...
05 September 2019
Visiting musicians enriching the JSK music program
‘Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.’ – E.Y. Harburg
05 September 2019
From Vienna to VSMF: Music around the world
It is several weeks since I have contributed to Middle School Music News! The school kindly granted me a couple of weeks of long service leave so I was able to spend a month in Europe.
22 August 2019
Our outstanding ensembles
Third term sees the Performing Arts Department involved in many performances, both external and within the school community. The Whole School Choral Concert on Wednesday 30 July was a...
08 August 2019
'If I cannot fly, let me sing'
– Stephen Sondheim
Singing is the cornerstone for our music making in Junior School. In the music classroom, students experience music through...