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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
The final moments of school
A message from the Deputy Head of Senior School.
3.10pm last Friday was energetically greeted with widespread cheering by our Year 12 students. This came as they watched...
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
The Class of 2019: Taking the next step
A message from the Head of Senior School.
The beginning of Term 4 is always beset by a range of emotions for our Year 12s as they grapple with feelings of excitement...
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
How do you describe the authentic Carey experience?
A message from the Head of Senior School.
Carey’s recent Middle and Senior School Open Morning was...
Five Days in London
A message from the Deputy Head of Senior School.
In John Lukacs’s book Five Days in London, May 1940, he writes about the pivotal five days during which Winston Churchill was...
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
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