Week 7 term 4

ITINERANT NIGHTS

Well done to all the students who took part in last night's itinerant night. It was a great night of clarinet, saxophone, piano, keyboard and cello music!

Tonight we look forward to hearing our drum and vocal students in the hall and the music room from 6.15pm with the prizegiving at 7.30 in the hall.

On Tuesday Dec 1st we have trumpet, trombone, violin and flute in the library from 6.15pm, guitar in the music room from 6.30pm, bass in the media room from 6.45pm and hip hop dance in the hall at 7.30pm with the prizegiving.

RECORDING DAY on Monday at school for Jazz, Orchestra, rock and choir for the school CD!

Next week's newsletter will have the CD and DVD order form included.

A few photos from Itinerant Night 1

UPCOMING

DEC 6th Santa Parade (Jazz Band)

DEC 12th New Brighton Santa parade (Jazz band)

DEC 13th 2pm "In the Spirit" Christmas concert at Knox Church (Choir)

DEC 13th RePercussion Concert 7pm at Cashmere High (marimba group with ukes and rhythm section)

 

Chisnallwood Irish Band playing for the New Brighton Ladies Probus Christmas Function.

Week 6 term 4

ITINERANT NIGHTS! 

We've been lucky to hear many of our students getting ready for the itinerant nights and we know that the itinerant music teachers and students have got some really fabulous items ready! These evenings are a wonderful opportunity for students to gain experience performing, as well as a great opportunity for parents and supporters to see the results of all those lessons and practice sessions and have the chance to acknowledge the specialist teachers who come in to share their expertise with our students :)

Wed 25 Nov - Itinerant night 1
6.45pm-7.45pm 
Clarinet & Saxophone (Ellen's students) in the Library
Keyboard (Lynne's students) in the Media Room
Piano (Marnie's students), Cello & Piano (Mike's Students) in the Music Room
Thurs 26 Nov  Itinerant night 2
6.15-7.45pm 
Vocals (Amanda's students) in the Media Room
Drums (Jon's students) in the Hall
Tues 1 Dec - Itinerant night 3  
6pm Guitar (Leroy's students) in the Music Room
6.15pm Trumpet & Trombone (Greg's students), Violin (Julie's students), Flute (Janet's students) in the Library
6.45pm Bass Guitar (Clayton's students) in the Media Room
7.30pm Hiphop Dance in the Hall (Followed by prizegiving)
Each evening concludes with a prizegiving at 7.30pm in the hall with a 7.45 finish.
Permissions and info are at http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/itinerant-nights-2015/

Other school performances coming up:

Irish and jazz perform for Probus Club on Monday 23rd Nov
Ukulele players travel to Auckland's NZ Ukulele Festival on Sat 28th Nov
Santa Parade in town - Chisnallwood Jazz band will be playing on Dec 6th
TalentQuest finals - Dec 7th
NewBrighton Santa Parade - Dec 12
Christmas Choir Concert Dec 13th 2pm
Hip Hop Dance Dec 12th 6pm
Percussion Concert - Dec 13th 7.30pm
Prizegivings Dec 11th and 15th

CDs and DVDs on sale soon

Watch this space for when the school CDs and DVDs go on sale. They'll be out in time for Christmas!

Well done to the Jazz big Band and Jazz Combo who played for the NZEI Graduation Ceremony this week. They first played the National Anthem and two items for the ceremony, then the combo stayed on to play for 45 minutes during the drinks and nibbles. 

COMMUNITY MUSIC NOTICES

Early Childhood Music workshop

Monday Nov 23rd, 5.30-8pm

Presenter - Celia Stewart

Venue - Chisnallwood Intermediate School Music department

http://menza.co.nz/canterbury/music-matters-celia-stewart/

This workshop will explore practical ideas to use with infants & toddlers, and will demonstrate how you can integrate numeracy & literacy learning into your music activities to promote children’s development.

A celebration of 30 years of exquisite ChCh Boys Choir singing.

Saturday 5^th December, 7pm

Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margaret's College

For tickets go to www.dashtickets.co.nz and search for Christchurch Boys’ Choir on the homepage.

To learn more about the choir and upcoming auditions go to www.christchurchboyschoir.co.nz

Climate Parade 

Sat Nov 28

Victoria Square

Organiser - Nikki Berry

If you want to be involved in the Climate Parade you can find all the music (sheet music, lyrics, easy chords and recordings) and details at http://themuse.org.nz/friends/climate-parade-music/

Doug and Doug Concert

Sun Dec 6, 4pm

St Margaret's Charles Luney Auditorium

Garden City Big Band play a tribute to the music of Doug Kelly and Doug Caldwell.

http://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2015/doug-and-doug-tribute-concert-by-garden-city-big-band/christchurch-city

Week 5 term 4

ROCK NIGHT, LUNCHTIME ROCK, GUY FAWKES and Taster Day.

We had a great week of music performances at school, in the community and at the studio. We are looking forward to hearing the recordings from the live recording night at Orange Studio on the Chisnallwood 2015 CDs.

ITINERANT MUSIC NIGHTS are coming up soon! 

Information and performance permission can be found at 

http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/itinerant-nights-2015/

This is a wonderful opportunity to hear what students have been learning in their lessons! The concerts are spread over three evenings are are all approximately 90 minutes long only (including prizegivings).

COMMUNITY MUSIC NOTICES

EARLY CHILDHOOD MUSIC WORKSHOP

Monday Nov 23rd, 5.30-8pm

Presenter - Celia Stewart

Venue - Chisnallwood Intermediate School Music department

Cost $35 or $40. Food and drinks included.

http://menza.co.nz/canterbury/music-matters-celia-stewart/

or

https://music-matters-celia-stewart.eventbrite.co.nz

Celia Stewart will share some great teaching ideas for music in early childhood!

This workshop will explore practical ideas to use with infants & toddlers, and will demonstrate how you can integrate numeracy & literacy learning into your music activities to promote children’s development. We will chant, sing, move, play, and listen in a workshop that will send you away with ideas you can incorporate immediately into your daily programme.  

Celia has been involved in music education all her life and is currently Music Director of the Christchurch School of Music. She is a regular presenter of workshops in early childhood and primary music education throughout NZ and in 2013 she completed a Masters Degree in education majoring in Orff Schulwerk.

A celebration of 30 years of exquisite ChCh Boys Choir singing.

If you love choral music, join the Christchurch Boys’ Choir at its 30^thAnniversary Gala Concert.

Over the last 30 years, hundreds of boys from around Christchurch have created incredible music as members of this treble-voice choir.

This celebration concert will feature the premiere of Richard Oswin's brand new arrangement of "A Ceremony of Carols", special guest performers, wine and nibbles.

Saturday 5^th December, 7pm

Charles Luney Auditorium

St Margaret's College

For tickets go to www.dashtickets.co.nz and search for Christchurch Boys’ Choir on the homepage.

To learn more about the choir and upcoming auditions go to www.christchurchboyschoir.co.nz

Week 4 term 4

Tonight you can hear our school Irish band, Jazz band, Catch Phrase and Cosmic Latte at the New Brighton Fireworks from 6pm -7.20pm by Salt the Cafe by the pier. They are part of the pre-entertainment for the fireworks at 9.15pm which will be done with a Back to The Future Theme!

Saturday Nov 7 is our school live recorded rock night at Orange Studio, 1963 Ferry Road. 

This will feature all our rock bands and starts at 7pm.

All ticket money goes to pay recording sound engineers.

Tickets available from http://orangestudio.co.nz/show/chissy-rock-night-2015/

The orchestra, choir, jazz, Irish and ukuleles will perform for visiting year 6 students at school on Monday Nov 9th at 11am.

If you are learning music at school, please make sure you have filed in the itinerant Night performance form at http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/itinerant-nights-2015/

Music Exams
Congratulations to the following students who achieved merit in their Trinity College flute exams under the teaching of Janet Simon: Sarah Powley Grade 4, Anabel Bramley grade 3.
Best wishes to out students sitting theory exams on Saturday morning.

Congratulations to all involved in last week's Primary Schools' Music Festival. The choir sang well and was a credit to Chisnallwood, and it was great to see Nic Ryan, Olivia Welsh, Mana Rae and Aya McLarty in special groups. Special mention to Nic who gave an excellent spoken introduction.

A number of our students were also commendably involved in out-of-school piano recitals over the weekend.

Week 3 term 4

This week in music news, the school jazz band enjoyed performances at the Big Band Festival over Labour weekend along with 16 other jazz big bands. We also had members take part in a workshop with Rodger Fox. Here are a couple of photos from Thursday at Re: Start mall with Halswell and Medbury in conjunction with Kids in Town and then on Monday at the Botanic Gardens. These were great opportunities for family, friends and general public to hear our band as well as others. The choir performed an item at the Big Band service on Sunday morning.

At Re:Start Mall

You can see the Jazz band at Re:Start Mall on the CTV News here! 

https://youtu.be/S2ewoRfTW6A?t=20m3s

 

Big Band Festival at the Gardens

 

Special guest and Chisnallwood jazz friend Nola Mills played with us.

Our choir sings Joyful Joyful at the Big Band Service 

On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, the orchestra, choir, ukuleles and jazz band gave brief "up-close"performances for visiting students who we are looking forward to seeing at Chisnallwood next year.

Tomorrow our choir performs on the final night of the ChCh School's Music Festival in the Horncastle Arena at 7pm. We have also had some students involved all week who are in the representative choir and orchestra. Details at musicfestival.school.nz

Next week are looking forward to our annual live recording Rock Night at Orange Studio for ALL our rock bands as well as Irish and combo (1063 Ferry Road) on Nov 7th at 7pm. Tickets available at http://orangestudio.co.nz/show/chissy-rock-night-2015/ . All money goes toward engineering costs.

A reminder about Itinerant nights in weeks 7 and 8.

Sign up at http://chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz/itinerant-nights-2015/

Week 2 Term 4

BIG BAND FESTIVAL
This weekend our Jazz Band are playing at the Botanic Gardens Visitors Centre and Ilex Cafe on Monday at 10am. Oct 26.
The choir is singing at the Big Band Festival church service on Sunday morning 11am at South West Baptist church (corner of Cobham and Lyttelton Streets). Oct 25.
There are 40 gigs over the 3 days in 10 venues!
Check www.bigbandfest.org.nz for details.

Yesterday the jazz band were very privileged to perform with Nola Mills in assembly and are looking forward to her being at the Gardens gig on Monday.

CHRISTCHURCH PRIMARY SCHOOLS' FESTIVAL
Next week is the Primary Schools' Festival is on in the Horncastle Arena. Our choir is performing on Friday 30th. Check out http://musicfestival.school.nz/ for details about the festival.

Some of our music groups will be performing to visiting schools next week.

ITINERANT NIGHTS
There have been a couple of small changes to the itinerant nights:
Nov 25 - Clarinet, sax, keyboard, piano, cello
Nov 26 - Vocals and drums
Dec 1st - trumpet, trombone, violin, flute, bass, guitar

Coming up:
Guy Fawkes night at New Brighton - Nov 5th 6pm-7.30 Jazz band, Cosmic Latte and Catch Phrase.
Rock Night Nov 7th.


AURASMA APP
This week guests have been enjoying the Aurasma triggers on our music wall of photos.
If you are in the department, make sure you download the Aurasma app on your device and follow the judith.bell channel to see snippets of student performances come to life on our wall!

STRUM STRIKE and BLOW - LA BAMBA
Here is some newly uploaded footage of the massed La Bamba performance from last term!
https://youtu.be/iD0vsL1J4zo

Term 4 week 1

CONGRATULATIONS to COSMIC LATTE who recently got 3rd place in the NATIONAL FINALS of BANDQUEST! Well done! You can check out their video here.

BUSKING
Saturday Oct 17, 1pm at South City - Max Aldridge, Ryan Bell and Keira Jonkers will be busking as part of the Busk-a-thon to raise money for Home and Family. Great music and a great cause. Please support them.

JAZZ
Thursday Oct 22, 12-1pm Lunchtime performance Kids in Town at ReStart Mall -  Chisnallwood Jazz.
Monday Oct 26 10 -11am Morning tea performance at the Gardens Ilex Cafe and Visitors Centre - Chisnallwood Jazz playing as part of the Christchurch Big Band Festival

CHOIR
Sunday Oct 25, 11am Big Band Jazz Service at SouthWest Baptist - Chisnallwood Choir
Friday Oct 30 CHCH Schools' Music Festival 

Itinerant performance nights. If you are learning music at school, please fill in the form here to confirm your performance! You can find it at www.chisnallwood.org.nz

ROCK NIGHT
Nov 7 at Orange Studio

PLEASE CHECK www.chisnallwoodmusic.org.nz for all term 4 music dates

Congratulations to Aya McLarty on achieving distinction in her Grade 4 violin exam.

If you have the Aurasma app on your device, check out this image below with it to see a snippet of "Snow Ride" performed at Strum Strike and Blow last term.