We had a 2 part concert at Ovingdean, the first part in the beautiful 11th century church, St. Wulfran’s in the village of Ovingdean and the second part back at the school. We hoped the concert would raise a little bit of money for the school, especially to help towards the new drama studio which is almost finished. So as part of the event we also arranged a raffle. Jonathan Myall from Just Flutes sent Adam down with a fabulous display of instruments, music and his new range in mugs and he also donated a blue flute as a raffle prize.
For the church concert we played ‘Hodie Christus Natus Est’ (a little Christmas Fanfare) by Jerry Randalls. Tis piece, in 3 parts will be in your winter magazine. Everyone learnt this from memory and Abbie played a solo line from a balcony in the church. It was very atmospheric. Then we had the 3 ensemble pieces that I told you about yesterday. To conclude this part of the concert we played ‘Cossack Ride’ or ‘Canon of Peace’, again from memory. You should be able to find this on our website, it makes an excellent concert item.
Back at the school we played ‘Casper the Friendly Ghost’ – well it is Halloween, followed by the 3 ensemble pieces so the flute players could learn about the different acoustic properties of the church versus the dining room in the school. We ended the concert with Brian Boru’s March – from memory, of course.
Did the audience mind hearing the same pieces twice? Maybe people who were there could let me know.
After this we had tea and cake and the raffle was drawn. who won the flute (I can’t remember who won the other prizes – there was a bottle of wine, a teddy, some smelly stuff, a James Galway CD and a £25 gift voucher from a supermarket). The blue flute was won by Vicki, I must ask her for a photo.
The best news of all is that we raised £510.50!!!!!!!!!!! Amazing. Thank you all so very much.
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Congratulations on raising all that money.
Sound like a good concert, I’ve played Cossack Ride on courses before and Hodie Christus Natus Est (Today Christ Is Born/ or is to be born – I can do Latin!!) sound good.
I wish I could have won a blue flute!
Thomas