Upcoming events

Upcoming Music Dates to put in your diaries:

Wednesday Sept 26th at school from 11am-1pm. Performances in hall for local schools.
Sept 27 Kids in Town 12.30pm Hagley Park as part of IceFest - jazz and Irish bands

HOLIDAYS

Saturday Sept 29th 1.45pm-2.15pm US Antarctic Airbase Open Day, at Antarctic Centre
Sunday Sept 30th - 10am-11am Family Fun Day at the "Undercroft" at University of Canterbury
Sat Oct 13th - CSO - special ticket offer and rehearsal visit for orchestra


TERM FOUR
Wed Oct 17th Jazz and Irish busking at Akaroa
Friday 19th Oct 11am Jazz, Irish performance at North Loburn School
Sunday 21st and Monday Oct 22nd (Labour weekend)- Big Band Festival in ChCh - check out details
Tuesday 23rd Oct - jazz bands play for NI principals (morning at school)
Oct 25th - Chisnallwood Choir at CBS Arena for the ChCh Schools' Music festival
Oct 29 - Dunedin Jazz
Nov 3rd - Marimba festival
Tuesday 6th November - COMBO only for ASB Community Bursary Awards luncheon
Sat Nov 10th - Theory exam and IRMT Jazz event at Chisnallwood
Wed Nov 14 - Itinerant night 1 - drums, violin, trumpet, vocals, flute, hiphop
Monday 19th November NZEI graduation at Aurora Centre
Wed Nov 21 - itinerant night 2 - keyboard, piano, cello, Phil's guitar, sax, clarinet
Wed Nov 28th - itinerant night 3 - Leroy and Clayton
Saturday 1st December - New Brighton Santa Parade
Saturday Dec 8th - Ukulele Festival at Cowles Stadium
Sat Dec 15 - Choir with CSO at CBS Arena 6pm (plus dress rehearsal)
Sunday Dec 16 - Re-Percussion Concert at Cashmere High 6pm
Tuesday Dec 18 - formal certificate assemblies
Wed Dec 19th - final prizegiving

CSO concerts

Please check out the sign up form at
http://chisnallwoodmusic.wikispaces.com/CSO
if you want free tickets or a space at a rehearsal with the CSO thanks to the ambassador scheme!!!
The opportunities are:
1. Revolution rehearsal 13 Oct 2. Revolution concert 13 Oct 3. Halloween concert 31 Oct

Sign-up closes at the end of this week, so make sure you check it out!

BandQuest2012

CONGRATULATIONS to the Chisnallwood rock bands on picking up three awards at BandQuest! Best musicianship (True Culture), Best lyrics (Breana) and Best original Song (Infinity).
All four Chissy bands gave stunning performances! Well done to all 25 students involved!
Here's a link to photos from the day

September 14th and 15th

This week we are looking forward to members of the NZSO visiting Chisnallwood on Sept 14th.

They will give a performance to our whole school in the morning then another performance to 600 visiting students from ChCh schools. Preparation resources have been available on both the NZSO website and the orchestra page of the wiki. Our orchestra has had a go at playing one of the pieces! We look forward also to John Ritchie visiting the first performance and hearing his son Anthony Ritchie's composition, "Purakaunui". As well as Anthony's piece, they will play Hungarian Dance No.5 by Brahms, Can-Can by Offenbach, An American in Paris by Gershwin, Eugene Onegin by Tchaikovsky, Fred No Frevo by Ney Rosauro.

Then on Saturday we wish four of our Chisnallwood bands good luck as they play at BandQuest at Kaiapoi High. This will involve a big sound check for them in the afternoon, then everyone is welcome to come and support them as they play at night 7-9pm. The entry price is $10 ticket. This event is only for bands up to year 8. Our bands taking part are: 50-50, True Culture, Infinity and Unknown.

Music news June 14

SMOKE FREE PASIFICA BEATS - Saturday June 16th 4.30pm - 5.30pm at the Jack Mann
Auditorium 7pm Solway Ave. Free entry. Chisnallwood band: "True Culture" will be
performing.

ROCKQUEST REGIONAL FINALS
Sunday 17th June at the Jack Mann Auditorium 7pm Solway Ave. The Chisnallwood band
"50-50" made it through to the next level despite being one of the younger bands in
Rockquest. All the other bands on Sunday night will be from high schools. Each band gets
to play for a maximum of 7 minutes. Supporters very welcome! $20 entry to non-band
members.

THURSDAY 28th JUNE 1.45pm-3pm The "Afternoon Delights" series will feature our
Chisnallwood jazz bands, ukuleles etc in a special concert designed for an older audience
(but anyone is welcome). This series is hosted by the ChCh Music Centre and the venue is
the Salvation Army Citadel, 250 Colombo St, Sydenham. $5 entry. Details at
http://www.musiccentre.org.nz/concerts/

Want to write a School Radio Jingle? Entries are now open and close July 23rd. If
yours is chosen it will run on air! More than one may be chosen eg. one in English and one
with Maori or Pasifica content.
Those who have taken computer music at school can use SuperDuperMusicLooper,
Mixcraft, GarageBand or Audacity at school. At home you can use MYNA (there is a link on
the music website on the “Useful music links” page).
The frequency is FM 107.7 and you need a catchy short memorable Chisnallwood jingle.

Fantastic UPCOMING CONCERTS which may be of interest.....

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra "La Mer" Sat 23rd June. Free student tickets. Sign up on the
orchestra page of the ChisnallwoodMusic website.
This will be an amazing concert at the Wigram Airforce museum featuring water drums and
orchestra, a harp concerto, Debussy's La Mer and Gareth Farr's From the Depths Sound the Great
Sea Gongs

US Marine Corps Forces Pacific Band in concert: Fantastic concerts - all free!
20 June 2012, 2pm at La Vida Centre, Hanson Lane, Riccarton – joint concert with NZ Army Band
20 June 2012, 7pm at GeoDome, Hagley Park Events Village
Thursday, 21 June 2012, 10:30am, Geo Dome, Hagley Park Events Village (open to schools and
public)
details http://newzealand.usembassy.gov/marine_band.html

May 31st 2012

What a way to end NZ music month!
We were so lucky to have the RDU mobile recording unit at school to record some of our bands as well as the 12 noon Hook-Line-and-Sing-Along!

The photo features Jeff Fulton (Play it Strange) with many of our singers at 12 noon today. Jeff was our guest judge for the house sing-off.

Beside the RDU mobile recording unit at school today.

Special offer of CSO tickets

The CSO have a great opportunity for Chisnallwood students through our CSO ambassadors.

Students are invited to attend upcoming selected Christchurch Symphony Orchestra Concerts for FREE!  Accompanying adults will need to be prepared to pay for their ticket. This term, students are invited to attend " La Mer" on Saturday June 23rd at 7.30pm at the Air force Museum in Wigram. (The night before the all-day rehearsal for production).

This will be an amazing theatrical concert with amplified bowls of water to replace traditional percussion. La Mer is a world filled with surprises and unexpected pleasures as Debussy explores the movements of the waves and the feel of the wind.

If you are interested in attending this concert, please fill in the form here or see our CSO ambassadors - Mahlia in room 7, or Claudia in room 1.
We need confirmation by 1st June. Get in quick, as there are limited seats available.

Once you order tickets you will be given a contact to notify in the case of being unable to attend (so any unused tickets can be re-distributed for this popular concert).
Tickets may be collected on the night at the venue.

Details of the concert: http://www.cso.co.nz/concert-la_mer-6