Sherborne Summer School Of Music 2012 - Day 6 03/08/2012

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Day 6 - Friday 03/08/2012

My alarm went off early again to go swimming with mum before breakfast, another half a mile done!  

CONCERT DAY!!!

Final rehearsals went well and we performed our best.  There was a large audience who seemed to appreciate our efforts!!

The wind chamber course performed their music in a lunch time recital.

Our program from tonight's concert

The Opening Ceremony

I Do Like To Be Beside The Sea Side

Maureen, Martin, Phoebe and Jean

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Sherborne Summer School Of Music 2012 - Day 5 02/08/2012

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Day 5 - Thursday 02/08/2012

My alarm went off early again to go swimming with mum before breakfast, another half a mile done!  

Getting rather close to the concert now, the pressure is on.  Rehearsals went well but a lot of things had been forgotten!! I suppose it is better to forget it today than tomorrow!!

After dinner we went to Oliver Nelson's Violin recital

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Sherborne Summer School Of Music 2012 - Day 4 01/08/2012

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Day 4 - Wednesday 01/08/2012

My alarm went off early again to go swimming with mum before breakfast, another half a mile done!  

Well today there is a bit of a realisation that in two days time we are going to have to perform the pieces we are learning!!

Sessions went well and should make for a good concert.

Mini recital before lunch was David Elwin on the Piano.

Tonight's dinner is a bit more of a formal occasion where everyone dresses up and the Salon Orchestra plays while we eat!!  A band play through the evening with a break for a cabaret session!

Christine, Phoebe, me and Mum

Sue and Jim Hollingworth

Graham asked mum to dance

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Sherborne Summer School Of Music 2012 - Day 3 31/07/2012

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Day 3 - Tuesday 31/07/2012

My alarm went off early to go swimming with mum before breakfast, another half a mile done!  

The sessions today went well, we seem to be making good progress.  However, there are a couple of pieces we haven't looked at yet!!

More rehearsal time with Mike as well for Saturday mornings cabaret, piece coming on well!! 

Rather than going to dinner with everyone else and the Piano recital Tim came up after work and we went  to the Kebab shop for dinner before going ringing to the Abbey Practice night. 

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Sherborne Summer School of Music 2012 - Day 1 29/07/2012

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Day 1 - Sunday 29/07/2012

The year seems to have gone very quickly - but once again I am in Sherborne for 'Band Camp' as my friends call it!!! 

I met mum on the way and we arrived at lunch time.  We got our welcome information and room keys and then unpacked the cars.  We found some others we knew from previous years and went and had some lunch.  At 16.30 we met for our first session to meet the group and have an introduction to some of the music.  As in previous years we are rehearsing and performing in the Powell Theatre.

After dinner I had a quiet evening to get ready for the week ahead!!!

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Sherborne Summer School of Music 2012 - Day 2 30/07/2012

Sherborne Summer School of Music

Day 2 - Monday 30/07/2012

My alarm went off early as I had agreed with mum to go swimming before breakfast (It seemed a good idea last night!!).  Half a mile later it was breakfast time!!

The first session was a sectional rehearsal.  Tim Uglow took the men to Cheep Street Church to have a look at their music while Sue went through ours.  We seemed to make good progress - hopefully we won't forget it all for later!!  The next session Tim Uglow was rehearsing for his recital so we went through some of the unaccompanied pieces.

Just before Lunch we went along to hear Tim Uglow's recital on the organ in the Abbey.

Sherborne Abbey Organ

By the end of the last session for today we had had a look at most of the pieces of music that we are doing this week.  A lot to work on but should be a nice and varied program.  After dinner I met with Mike to have a play through some clarinet music for our cabaret on Saturday morning.  I have decided to play Scarborough Fair from The Emma Johnson Collection.

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Ringing - Quarter Peal Day in Somerset

Quarter Peal Day - Somerset

Winsham

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Thorncombe

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Ilminster

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