Author: Michelle
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Training Band – The First Rehearsal
On Thursday the 1st of June we held a come and try night for people interested in our new training band. The band is going to start from the very beginning – this means that if you have no previous musical experience or knowledge, you will be able to join! As we’re going from the…
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Five weeks to go!
As we prepared for rehearsal on Thursday, it started to dawn on a few members that there were only five rehearsals left until our major concert. With that in mind, we decided to sit in at rehearsal and do some hard work. We started with some of the pieces we are performing with vocalist Shelley…
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Sunday Rehearsal
On Sunday the 21st of June the band partook in a 5 hour Sunday rehearsal to prepare for the concert. It was an eye opening day and the extra rehearsal will definitely pay off. We did a lot of work on Peter and the Wolf and incorporating the narration and some other surprise bits and…
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Reflections on a Rehearsal
Rehearsal on Thursday was great. We were able to work on plenty of stuff for our major concert, which seems to be coming up really quickly. The concert this year is all about Peter and the Wolf, as well as music from other lands, whether far away or fictional. On Thursday we rehearsed some music…
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Band Camp 2014!
On Friday the 26th of August, we all left our homes for the weekend and went down to Torquay. Once we got to the camp site and we had set up, we all sat in for our first rehearsal at 3 o’clock. We played a couple of new charts, but we mostly played pieces that…
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A night off with the RAAF band.
Last night (28th of August) the Air Force Band put on a free concert at the Wyndham Cultural Centre. As it was free, local and was bound to be amazing, we decided to cancel rehearsal and head down to watch. And what a good decision that ended up being. The event was completely booked out,…
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Jurassic Park, Frozen and Over-Confident Soloists
Rehearsal last week was great! Our Musical Director, Mat Taylor, was away due to work commitments so that meant I was in charge of rehearsal. Despite feeling a little bit under the weather and having to step out for some (not so fresh) air, it went really well. The band had obviously worked hard at…
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Three Weeks To Go!
With only three weeks to go until From Stage to Screen, the band’s rehearsal on Thursday was intense. I should clarify that it wasn’t a bad type of intensity; it was the type of intensity that encourages people to work hard and practice and get excited for what we’re about to do. We worked hard…