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Music thriving in iso
With the challenges of being separated and remote learning occurring, Junior School musicians continue to grow and develop independently. Students are sharing their learning in their time...
20 August 2020
Anyone Can Write a Song
What does it take to write a good song? This is an interesting question! To me it’s very similar to asking what is needed to write a good story. Our Year 8 and 9 Music electives focus on...
23 July 2020
Embracing Indigenous history through music
Since European settlement, much of Australia’s history, from the colonial perspective, has been very accessible through diaries, first-hand accounts of events as well as ballads and folk songs...
18 June 2020
Connecting, expressing and creating through the arts
In my last article, I wrote about the gaping hole created by an absence of the arts in the lives of many, the critical role played...
21 May 2020
Just be the best you can be
One of the lies often promoted to the young is the notion that you can be ‘anything you want to be’.
You can almost certainly be better than you are at the moment...
The Magic of Ensembles
Last week the leaders of many of our musical ensembles met (in the virtual space of course) to discuss ways of maintaining our ensembles in a time of social distancing...
23 April 2020Bee prepared for JSK music!
Throughout Term 1, our Junior School ensemble rehearsals were vibrant and energetic places to be. Each group was gelling together, getting to know one other and preparing...
23 April 2020
Humanity needs the arts
This week, as we continue to navigate the ‘new normal’, there is cause to reflect on what we value in our lives. The performing arts industry has crashed to a halt. Theatre shows, plays, concerts...
27 March 2020If you can talk, you can sing; If you can walk, you can dance
The two statements above have always been a strong part of my philosophy. Every culture in the world has music, including some...
05 March 2020
Chamber music, and all that jazz...
Chamber music, described by Catherine Bowen as ‘a conversation between friends’, gives musicians an opportunity to rehearse and perform in a more intimate context than a large ensemble. This...
20 February 2020