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Issue 11 May 2016 Performing Arts Newsletter Date Newsletter ELEVENTH Issue 11 May 2016 Performing Arts Newsletter Date Newsletter ELEVENTH “If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.” - Michelangelo Students in the faculty will know exactly what Michelangelo was talking about because Contributors they have been putting the finishing touches to their wonderful compositions, Mrs Petersen performances, devised pieces, recordings and choreography for GCSE, AS and A2 level Mrs Routledge work. There’s been an incredible creative buzz around the faculty as students have Mr Hughes been completing outstanding pieces of work that some have been working on for 9 Mrs Parsons months. A massive thank you to all Performing Arts teaching staff for helping students Keith Allott realise their creativity this past term. Shannon Bedford Amongst all of this hard work there has been the usual array of concerts, competitions, performances inside and outside of the academy, showcases and successes that you will read about within the pages of our crammed eleventh newsletter. Layout We are lucky at Robert Smyth that we have a leadership team who fully support both Mr Wells curricular and extra-curricular activities in the creative arts. Other schools however, are not so fortunate. You may be aware of the government’s determination to push through legislation which means that schools will also now be graded on results in just the Ebacc subjects, as well as attainment and Progress 8 measures. The creative subjects Editor are not included in the Ebacc list and therefore creative subjects are at risk in our Mr Atkins schools. The Ebacc measure will again be debated in parliament on 4th July 2016, so please write to your local MP to ensure he gets involved in keeping creative subjects in our schools. Please visit www.baccforthefuture.com for more information. It’s also the end of an era for this Performing Arts Newsletter. Our proud sponsors ‘The deal Marketing Company’ will no longer be sponsoring this newsletter and the faculty from the end of this academic year. We’d like to take this opportunity to thank Mr and Mrs Campbell and everyone at ‘The Ideal Marketing Company’ for their kind sponsorship and help throughout the three years they have sponsored us. We are therefore on the look-out for a new sponsor to help ensure this newsletter can be printed every term. If any company is interested or would like to know more about sponsoring us, then please email me directly on [email protected] I look forward to hearing from you. Jess wins ‘Young Person of the Year’ award Year 10 drama student, Jess O’Brien, has been ROBERT SMYTH making films for a few years and you can read ACADEMY about her latest success at BAFTA in this Burnmill Road newsletter. Last month however saw Jess nominat- Market Harborough ed by local filmmaker, Keith Allott, for Leicester’s Leicestershire Lord Lieutenant’s award. Jess had already won the LE16 7JG category for ‘Young Artist of the Year’ after her film T: 01858 440770 ‘Coping’ reduced the judging panel to tears, but she F: 01858 440771 was then named as the overall winner as ‘Young E: [email protected] W: www.rsacademy.co.uk Person of the Year’! A fantastic and well deserved achievement. Well done, Jess! Performing Arts Newsletter ELEVENTH EDITION 2016 Page 2 Gold for the Big Band in Nationals Mr and Mrs Nicholson, parents of Year 13 drummer Jonny Nicholson, came as parent helpers on the Big Band trip to the NCBF in the Easter holidays. Mr Nicholson has written this article about the event. We are very grateful for his contribution to this newsletter and hope more parents will be encouraged to come on trips and write articles for future newsletters: Young people and teachers: both seem to get a bad press these days. So, early one Saturday morning, I began to wonder how I’d managed to allow myself to volunteer, as a parent helper, for a school trip. Surely there are better ways to spend the first full day of a weekend, especially one still in the school Easter holidays. And what was the teacher thinking? Could this be more important than a well-earned rest before term got underway again? The National Concert Band Festival (NCBF) has been running for over 30 years and has grown to include 120 bands representing 5,000 players, who all start their journey in five Regional Festivals in England and Scotland. From there the best bands go forward to the two-day National Festival with al- most 2,500 participants and 1,000 supporters in attendance – the largest gathering of wind musicians in the UK. The Robert Smyth Academy Big Band had reached the 2016 final at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester through the Midlands qualifying Festival in November last year. With such stiff competition from more than 20 schools on the Saturday alone, how would the 17 young musicians fare? After the three-hour coach journey the band had time to settle in, grab some food and get set up in their practice room. Mind you, snaking our way along corridors, up and down stairs, across food halls with instruments aloft, somehow the line got broken and the two halves of the band ended up in different places! But this band had spirit, grit, determination and high expectations. Directed by the able Helle Petersen, they soon settled into their stride as they worked through their three numbers ahead of their main stage appearance in the early afternoon. In jazz music, so I learnt, the rhythm section is particularly important, providing the rhythmic reference for the rest of the band. So, no pressure then for Taylor Burton on keyboard, Jacob Bentley on bass, Jake Cartwright on electric guitar and Lyle Burton and Jonny Nicholson on drums / percussion. The question was how well they ably accompanied the rest of the instrumentalists – with their trumpets, saxophones, trombones and flutes. What made the Festival different this year was the way feedback was provided. After their performances before an appreciative audience, one of the two adjudicators, both distinguished personalities from the world of jazz, got onto the stage. He provided what can only be described as a masterclass, getting the band to re-run one of their numbers and highlighting areas for improvement. At times it bordered on the cruel, but this Festival was about people moving to the top of their musical game, so standards were high. By late afternoon the drama moved to the presentation of awards on the Upper Concourse where hordes of students gathered to hear their fate. It was with a mixture of relief and delight that Taylor Burton and Jacob Cartwright collected the Gold Award on behalf of The Robert Smyth Academy Big Band. Throughout the day the students were a credit to their school, their teacher and their parents. They are clearly a talented bunch who will go on to greater things in the field of music – whether as a hobby, to study or a career. If you are a parent reading this, then I’d highly recommend you take time out of your busy schedule to go as a parent helper on any one of the many academy music trips run from the school. You won’t be disappointed. Mr Nicholson Performing Arts Newsletter ELEVENTH EDITION 2016 Page 3 Spring Concert 2016 On Wednesday 23rd March we staged our annual Spring Concert to a packed hall. The concert featured A level Music soloists as well all the academy ensembles: String Ensemble, Brass Ensemble, Year 10-12 Flute Ensemble, Year 13 Flute Quartet, Saxophone Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Versatile Voices Choir, Folk Group, Big Band, Jazz Band and Soul Patrol. In addition year 13 violinist Emily Newlyn gave a mesmerizing performance from memory of Josef Suk’s ‘Appassionato’ from ‘Four Pieces for Violin and Piano, Opus 17’. Our other 6th form soloist was year 12 vocalist Ellie Boxall, who performed a cover of Adele’s ‘When We Were Young’ very convincingly accompanied by rhythm section and strings in an arrangement by AS Music student Madeleine Oakland. In the second half the Versatile Voices Choir put on a memorable performance of the traditional spiritual ‘Steel Away’, arranged by Mark De-Lisser, featuring year 11 GCSE Music students Amirah Bobat, Lola Pap and Bronwen Herman as soloists. At the end of the second half Soul Patrol showcased three of their new and original songs written for the Music for Youth Festival recently. GCSE Dance Moderation Well done to all year 11 GCSE dance students for performing in their practical moderation on Monday April 18th. All students performed work to a visiting AQA moderator and she was very pleased with the standard of work being shown. Some really outstanding results were achieved…..now onto the written paper!!! Lord of the Flies On Thursday 11th February the AS and A2 drama classes went en masse to the Curve Theatre, Leicester to see William Golding's classic (adapted for the stage by Nigel Williams) Lord of the Flie’s. Produced by Regent Park Theatre Company, this show has been touring since 2015 to sell out audiences in theatres across the country. This was truly an impressive production with a strong male cast and superb design elements. The show featured parts of a plane, violence and real fire. A really impressive performance that gives our AS and A2 classes LOTS to write about for their Live Theatre Review exam in May. Performing Arts Newsletter ELEVENTH EDITION 2016 Page 4 Piano Workshop with a Concert Pianist Richard Meyrick, an internationally acclaimed virtuoso pianist, visited Robert Smyth Academy on Wednesday 23rd February to give a two hour piano workshop to a group of GCSE and A level music students.
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