Wednesday, June 3, 2015

June 4 Music News



JAZZ BAND FRIDAY

Well done to the Chisnallwood Jazz Bands who performed three times on Friday with 5 guest student players from Halswell School. You can see photos on the jazz band page of the website. We also enjoyed having Mrs Pritchard from Westburn School with us for the day. The day started (after a quick practice) at Aranui Library followed by an outside performance in the quad at Shirley Boys High to teachers from quite a number of schools on their training day lunch break. The Irish band joined for the final performance at Shirley Library.


Jazz Band at Shirley Library


SCHOOL PRODUCTION

Next week the orchestra/band is looking forward to being a part of the Chisnallwood Production.
The show is on for 2 nights only. June 10 and 11.

NZ MUSIC MONTH RAFFLE

Congratulations to the winners, thanks to everyone who bought a raffle and thanks to Michelle Ritchie for making up the fabulous prizes!
1st place - Nick Wickens winning a ukulele, Chissy CDs, NZ food and other goodies!
2nd place - Nic Ryan
3rd place - Alice Crighton


CSO UPCOMING CONCERTS AND TICKET OFFER
June 6 Anika Moa and Julia Deans with the CSO (with 2 arrangements by Judith Bell)

June 13 Kaleidoscopes
The Kaleidoscope concert on Saturday 13 June 7.30pm at Wigram Airforce Museum (pre-concert talk at 6.40pm) is free to Chisnallwood students (due to the wonderful ambassador programme). We are allowed 1 adult ticket for every 4 student tickets. They will need to know exact numbers by 8 June. Please fill in this form (which can be found on the orchestra page of the Chisnallwoodmusic website) if you are keen for a ticket. The concert features:
Benjamin Northey Chief Conductor, Ariana Tikao Taonga Puoro, Peter Sculthorpe Sun Music III
Philip Brownlee/Ariana Tikao Ko te tātai whetū (Concerto for Taonga Puoro), World PremiereLissa Meridan A Quiet FuryBéla Bartók The Miraculous Mandarin op. 19
"...a landmark performance for the CSO and New Zealand composition.. Ariana Tikao will be premiering a concerto for Taonga puoro (traditional Māori instruments) and orchestra composed by Philip Brownlee in collaboration with renowned Taonga puoro expert, Dr Richard Nunns."

THE NEXT CSO AMBASSADOR OFFER IS FOR THE PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN PERFORMANCE (Dead Man's Chest) on JULY 4th