About this Event
🗓️Sunday 17 January
📍Actor's Church, Covent Garden
🕒3pm
🎟️Free entry
A vibrant and varied concert of classical, traditional and jazz masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Thelonius Monk and Duke Ellington, given by the talented young musicians of the Westbourne Grammar School from Melbourne, Australia.
With a large variety of ensembles including an orchestra, choir, string, brass and jazz ensemble as well as young instrumental soloists, the concert will showcase the best musical talent from this historic school music department.
The Westbourne Grammar School Music Department is proud to present a talented group of students from Years 10 to 12 on the school’s tenth European Music Tour. Representing a diverse range of musical styles and ensembles, our students will perform as part of the Choir, Orchestra, String Ensemble, Brass Quintet, Big Band, Woodwind Quintet and Saxophone Ensemble. This tour celebrates the students’ musical excellence, dedication and collaborative spirit, providing opportunities to share their passion for music with international audiences, experience Europe’s rich musical heritage and create lasting memories through performance, cultural exchange and a shared love of music.
Programme:
Choir, Orchestra and Wind Band
S Chin - Excelsis
arr. S Chin - Waltzing Matilda
K Jenkins - Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary
JS Bach - Jesus bleibet meine Freude from Cantata BWV 147
M Kamen - Requiem for a Soldier
McRae, Jacobson, Emerson - In Flanders Fields
W Monk - Abide With Me
N&T Finn - Weather With You
String Ensemble
D Postlethwaite - Willy Wagtail Waltz
R Meyer - River Song
N Oostenbroek - Rush
TL de Victor - O Magnum Mysterium
M Hopkins - Lake of the Clouds
Brass Quintet
G F Handel - Music From The Royal Fireworks
L van Beethoven - Ode To Joy
Trad. African-American Spiritual - Steal Away
Trad. American - Just A Closer WalkWoodwind QuintetP Tchaikovsky - Selections from ‘Children’s Album’ Op. 39’
Big Band
C Parker - Now’s The Time
M Davis - So What
D Ellington - In A Mellow Tone
Saxophone Quartet
T Monk - Blue Monk
T Monk - ‘Round Midnight
Event venue & nearby stays
St Paul’s Church Covent Garden, Bedford Street, London, United Kingdom
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