I think I’m just about recovered from our course at Ovingdean. It was amazing, one of the best. It was made so special by every single person who took part in it – young flute players and staff equally. The staff team was superb – Sandy, Jerry, Dave, Stephen, Abbie, Chris, James and Andy. The course members were also superb, they all worked hard and I only had one teeny, tiny thing to complain about (rubbish!).
The flute choir members arrived to rehearse on Thursday afternoon and stayed over until Friday afternoon. We are getting ready to go to Slovenia. I’ll be letting everyone know about rehearsals next year in a day or so. There is still time for people to join us.
Then on Friday afternoon a few people went home and quite a few more arrived. It’s always good to have some new faces around amongst our favourite flute players. Everyone got on with each other really well from what I could see.
We did lots of ensemble work on this course plus a little bit of jazz. Alongside the ‘big’ ensembles, everyone was put into one of three teams to rehearse a small ensemble:
Team Abbie played La Caccia by Telemann; Team James played Magic Bells by Mozart and Sheep May Safely Graze by Bach was studied by Team Chris. And they all got very competitive! Who won? Well, that’s for me to know and you t find out.
On Saturday night we played a very frightening game with Abbie and Stephen all about witches and murder. What fun that was!
I’ll tell you the wonderful news about the concert we had later or tomorrow – just so I can post another photo.
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Sound like a great course – sorry I couldn’t be there!
Out of interest what do people think is the correct term for somebody who plays the flute (flautist/flutist/flute player etc…)
My music teacher at school said the other day something about ‘flautists’ and I said to the person next to me – I’m a flute player, I don’t lay floors.
I know Sir James prefers the term Flute Player and I was wondering what everyone thinks?
Thomas
Funnily enough I was thinking about that today, because I’d always thought the correct term was flautist, but heard the word flutist for the first time earlier today.. So basically I don’t really know – maybe flute player is the safest?!
Sarah