Movement and Performing Arts – Page 5

A New Baby Arrives at Darrick Wood School

05/10/2017 Mr Eynon

The music department took delivery of a beautiful new baby grand piano this week. Many of our students are talented pianists. A large number of them have piano lessons both in and out of school. To mark the delivery of this instruments 11 piano students attended a masterclass at Bromley High School GDST by Joanna MacGregor, Head of Keyboard studies at The Royal Academy of Music and a Steinway Artist. We are very grateful to Caroline Daniel, Head of Music…

“It’s all for you” – Othello Re-imagined

27/04/2017 Mr Eynon

On Wednesday 19th April, ten Year 13 students studying A2 Literature visited the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Theatre for a production of set text, Shakespeare’s Othello. As befitting Shakespearean Tragedy, the performance was not without controversy. The setting, part of the superb Globe Theatre complex, was highly authentic; the entire performance in this very small and intense theatrical space was lit only by candles, as it would have been in Jacobean times when Othello was first performed. Yet the performance began…

Wizard of Oz – The School Production

31/01/2017 Mr Eynon

Tickets for this year’s production of “The Wizard of Oz” are on sale from today. They cost £5 for adults and £3 for concessions and can be purchased from pupil reception (before school and at lunch time). The performance will take place on Wednesday 8th and Thursday 9th February at 7.30pm in the Main Hall. We look forward to welcoming you to what will be an outstanding production.

Brazilian Jazz for Year 8

24/01/2017 Mr Eynon

On Tuesday 17th January 8YM enjoyed a workshop and performance by John and Elisa Harborne as part of their study and performance of Brazilian Music. John grew up in Orpington and rose to fame as one of our most eminent trombonists as a member of the jazz Orchestra ‘Loose Tubes’. He moved to Brazil in 2005 and since then has worked with some of the country’s finest musicians as a cavaquinho player and trombonist. His daughter Elisa, born and brought…

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