Gloria’s busy Easter period
On the last day of the Lent Term, Gloria A (Year 7) played cornet with the Guildhall Brass Band at Regent Hall, one of the oldest centres of Salvation Army in London. The band played Festmusik Der Stadt Wien by Strauss, Adoration by Florence Price and Capriccio Espagnol by Rimsky-Korsakov among other pieces to a full house.
On the second week of April, Gloria was off to the NCO Under 12 Spring residential course in Shrewsbury where she played 1st trumpet. The programme theme was All Aboard, with music from across the globe including England, Norway, Romania, Russia, the Middle East, the USA and Cuba. Brass players got really lucky this year as the programme was unusually brass heavy, and the NCO brass section had a blast playing Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines by Goodwin, Seventeen Come Sunday by Williams, Dance from Othello Suite by Coleridge-Taylor, The Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa, African American Symphony by Still, Mardi Gras from Mississippi Suite by Grofe, and Que Rico Mambo by Prado.
Gloria was also selected to present a piece at the NCO U12 concert; she had to present Tango by Albeniz wherein the trumpet part was minimal so it should have been difficult for her to say what she liked about the piece, but noted that doing programme notes and presenting at Lunchtime Concerts here at Wells helped a lot. She researched the composer, the history of tango in general and this particular piece and felt absolutely confident presenting to the audience and comparing the tango arrangements for the trumpet and symphony orchestra and explaining how different sections of the orchestra contributed to the colours of the piece.
She spent the last three days of the Easter break on the RCM Youth Brass course where they played a programme themed around water and the natural world. She was by far the youngest in the ensemble but was leading in the first three pieces: Dvorak’s Fanfare from The Water Goblin, Handel’s Air and Hornpipe from Water Music, and Waldteufel’s Les Patineurs. She played 2nd trumpet in all the rest of the programme. Amos Miller said she did really well, was very focused and looked determined. Her NCO trumpet tutor, Ryan Linham, was also there as he arranged the programme, and without hearing Amos he said literally the same words about her focused and determined look!
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On the second week of April, Gloria was off to the NCO Under 12 Spring residential course in Shrewsbury where she played 1st trumpet. The programme theme was All Aboard, with music from across the globe including England, Norway, Romania, Russia, the Middle East, the USA and Cuba. Brass players got really lucky this year as the programme was unusually brass heavy, and the NCO brass section had a blast playing Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines by Goodwin, Seventeen Come Sunday by Williams, Dance from Othello Suite by Coleridge-Taylor, The Stars and Stripes Forever by Sousa, African American Symphony by Still, Mardi Gras from Mississippi Suite by Grofe, and Que Rico Mambo by Prado.
Gloria was also selected to present a piece at the NCO U12 concert; she had to present Tango by Albeniz wherein the trumpet part was minimal so it should have been difficult for her to say what she liked about the piece, but noted that doing programme notes and presenting at Lunchtime Concerts here at Wells helped a lot. She researched the composer, the history of tango in general and this particular piece and felt absolutely confident presenting to the audience and comparing the tango arrangements for the trumpet and symphony orchestra and explaining how different sections of the orchestra contributed to the colours of the piece.
She spent the last three days of the Easter break on the RCM Youth Brass course where they played a programme themed around water and the natural world. She was by far the youngest in the ensemble but was leading in the first three pieces: Dvorak’s Fanfare from The Water Goblin, Handel’s Air and Hornpipe from Water Music, and Waldteufel’s Les Patineurs. She played 2nd trumpet in all the rest of the programme. Amos Miller said she did really well, was very focused and looked determined. Her NCO trumpet tutor, Ryan Linham, was also there as he arranged the programme, and without hearing Amos he said literally the same words about her focused and determined look!
To find out more about Brass Studies at Wells, click here.
Download the FREE Wells Cathedral School app to easily keep up with the parts of Wells that interest you, interact with our social media feeds, access useful links more! We highly recommend enabling notifications to stay informed about the many wonderful things happening at our School.
