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This is the same as episode #004 except that it is a plain MP3. Some people have trouble with enhanced podcasts.
Introduction
Podcast
- 4th HUMS Aloud podcast
- humsaloud.btpodshow.com
- associated with the Huntingdonshire Music School in what is now Cambridgeshire
- large independent school (400) aimed at musical fun & education for both children and adults
- www.humsa.org.uk
BBC Play It Again
- www.bbc.co.uk/playitagain
- TV series 25th march to 7th May BBC 1
- Jo Brand - piano
- Frank Skinner - banjo
- Aled Jones - rock drummer
- Robert Winston - saxophone
- Diane Abbott - piano
- Bill Oddie - rock guitarist
Took part at exhibitor for HUMS at Comberton event on 13th May
300 participants in each of 2 sessions
Everyone having fun - have a go. Next nearest event at Watford, 50 miles south of home.
Self - tuba (9 months), daughter (Jess) on flute
First of 4 sessions over the weekend
Format
- first of 3 episodes
- split into reasonable lengths
- this one deals with the arrival and settling in
- second one looks at the orchestral rehearsal as a separate group
- third episode - talk to other participants during the break and rehearsal as a complete assembly.
At the Watford Colosseum - Nic's intro
Initial event introduction/welcoming speech
- BBC Concert Orchestra
- BBC singers
- Peter Hayward - Learning Manager, BBC Concert Orchestra
- Watford Colosseum - home of BBC Concert Orchestra
- Tim Steiner - Creative Director of Play It Again
- Bernstein's West Side Story Overture - played by orchestra (the professionals)
- Relaxed style
much like a camp-fire warm-up
humour
"Mambo"
- vocal part - all join in, not just singers
Tunes to Listen for
- - explanation/demonstration of musical phrases to keep ears peeled for
- - built up
- Musical phrases
trombones
bassoons & basses
"2 notes" - professional
upper strings (3 notes!)
drums
flutes & oboes
- complex whole built from simpler parts - important
- 'Tonight' - for the singers
Not Tonight
- slightly different version. Specially written. Not 'America' either!
- Not many attending actually live in Hertfordshire.
Outro
- next part covers initial practice by participants - orchestral (instrument) group
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