North East Hampshire Area Schools' Ensembles

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The Phoenix Theatre & Arts Centre
Hampshire Music Hub

🥁 Feel the rhythm... for FREE! 🥁

Ever fancied trying the drums? Now's your chance!

Join our friendly, open-to-all drumming workshops with our fantastic tutor Will Hughes and learn new rhythms while playing together as a group. No experience is needed, just come along and have some fun!

📅 Wednesday 26th August
🕚 11am or 12.30pm
⏱️ 1-hour sessions
🎟️ FREE to attend

⚠️ Places are limited, so booking is essential. Reserve your space today and discover the joy of drumming!

Book now: https://bit.ly/3T8bJ3T

Vivace Music are holding some FREE sessions over the summer! Take a look 👀
If I could pass for 10, I'd be there myself!!

Anna Kendrick - Cups (Pitch Perfect’s “When I’m Gone”) (Director's Cut) iTunes: http://smarturl.it/morepitchAmazon: http://smarturl.it/Pit...

🎼Thank you to everybody for a really successful concert last night.🎹

🎻It's very important to us that we can show just what progress we make during our rehearsals, and the hard work that students and teachers put in.🪘

🎵Thank you parents, for all your support this year, bringing your children to rehearsals each week and promoting practice at home.🎶

🌞We wish you a very happy summer, and we look forward to welcoming you all back on Wednesday 9th September.📅

We are delighted to share more great musical news with you.

Zara in Senior Strings has just achieved her grade 4 piano. She not only passed, but sailed through with a distinction!

Well done Zara! We are all very proud of you at NEHASE.

Just two days until our end of year concert!
You should have had an email with details, but here they are just in case.
We look forward to showing you what we've been up to this term 😁🪘🎻

Fun Friday!

More quiz questions for you...

1. Which artist released the massive 2020 hit song "Levitating"?
a) Taylor Swift
b) Dua Lipa
c) Ariana Grande
d) Olivia Rodrigo

2. What was Freddie Mercury's real name before he fronted Queen?a) Farrokh Bulsara
b) Brian May
c) Roger Taylor
d) John Deacon

3. What is the title of the song by Tammy Wynette that opens with the line, "Sometimes it's hard to be a woman"?
a) Jolene
b) Stand by Your Man
c) Crazy
d) Coat of Many Colors

Last week's answers:
1. A 'Hoedown' is
a) a lively dance or dance competition.

2. 'Allegro' means
b) play at a lively speed.

3. A 'tone poem' is
c) a single movement of music that captures an idea or theme.

Thought for Thursday... Quirky composers! 😆

French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully died of gangrene after accidentally stabbing his own foot with his heavy, long wooden conducting staff while stomping time during a performance!🦶

Ludwig van Beethoven was incredibly specific about his morning brew and counted exactly 60 coffee beans per cup every single morning ☕️

Massive congratulations to Haroon in Senior Strings. He has just achieved a very high merit result for his grade 4 Violin practical 🏆🎻

Not only that, but he also recently passed his grade 3 piano, also with merit! 🎹

Haroon, everybody at NEHASE is very proud of you. Keep aiming high and enjoying every minute of your musical journey.

STAFF SPOTLIGHT SERIES!

This is Linda. Linda has been with HMS since 2019 and started covering Training Strings due to long term staff absence once ensembles were allowed to resume after Covid. What started out as a temporary position became permanent and is now one of the favourite parts of her teaching week. Prior to this Linda was involved with NEHASE as a Parent when her son played trumpet with wind band. (The violin wasn't for him!) This was a great experience and he went on to play at University, even playing trumpet for a band who re-formed from the 1980s and went on a European tour with them! His love of music remains and he now works in TV and film.

Linda has been making music since the age of 7 when she unexpectedly bought home a violin from school. Saturday morning lessons followed and one of her favourite early memories was being leader of Hounslow Youth Orchestra and playing The Dambusters March which bought a tear to her very lovely but non-musical Dad's eye. Another favourite piece of hers is Prokoviev's "Peter and the Wolf" which she played in Hounslow Orchestra and was narrated by a very famous and great but long forgotten actor, Sir Michael Horden.

Linda also teaches guitar, keyboard and ukulele for HMS. Prior to working for HMS she was a primary teacher with a senior leadership teaching role involving pupils with additional learning needs at a local Junior School.

Linda enjoys crafting, with her first love being anything bee related as well as music themed creations. You may see her at a local craft fair from time to time so she has room to make some more things!
Something you may not know about Linda is that she also has a bit of a wild side and enjoys the pleasure of going out with her husband whilst driving her old second hand car at the weekends with it's roof down, weather permitting of course!

Thank you to all of those who turned up to our Instrument Zoo on Saturday at the West End Centre. It was an amazing afternoon; seeing such huge smiles and little dances as children managed to get a good sound out was truly heart-warming!

If you didn't manage to come and see us, but you still really want to be involved, that's no problem!

If you want to learn the flute, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, trombone or violin, AND play in an ensemble, just scan the QR code below or click on the link https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=tdiBPwfuF0yGnB20OQGNm0ewPd4Vod1OtShZFZ18l3ZURU04WjdDQldEMkNQVUkwNDZKOEE4MjJYUiQlQCNjPTEkJUAjdD1n

For more information about the Music Centre, click on this link:
https://nehase.hmsensembles.org.uk/north-hants-music-centre/