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We took Jessica to see Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' performed by Opera Australia at the Joan Sutherland auditorium, Opera House, today. I was astonished to hear one of the songs -Pamina's Picture--which I have played many times on clarinet, without knowing the origin
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The "new Horizons' band performed here today, in festive attire. We even had a drum playing Santa --who was revealed at the end, to be one of our lady players! Very sporting of her. It all went well and i performed my first public solo--'Michele'
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I went by ferry to Bundeena for a home concert of free form music by a group the 'Monday Club'. An interesting selection of instruments--contra bass clarinet (the tall one) , bass clarinet, French horn, trombone, cello, cornet, saxaphone.........and a solo guitarist born in Mbabane, Swaziland. The
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A late and totally unexpected venue change to Caringbah H.S. meant a lot of stress for Mary but the result was excellent. Thanks to the previous government, all schools received a new hall to overcome the GFC, which was a great initiative and provided a modern, bright hall for
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A fundraising event for the Shire Band, we started at 7.00am last Sunday --I was on 'eggs' with Alf . We made a couple of thousand dollars in 4 hours--so worth the effort.
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Today a small number our Scout Group held a fund-raising barbeque outside REPCO, and in the afternoon our Sutherland Shire Band met the Camden Community Band for a concert at the school--bad weather prevented use of an outside venue. The band in Blue are the Camden band The
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Tonight the Sutherland Shire Choral Society presented a medley of songs from popular musicals--to a packed house and to great acclaim. Other pics include son-in-law Will planting a fruit tree --a present to Mary, a heron near the sea-front and an amusing but accurate T-shirt
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Today I went by ferry to Bundeena to a sort of day 'band-camp', located in an attractive old house on the beach at Bundeena The weather was stunning and on the ferry trip I took pics of a passing boat plus paddlers. In the lunch break three
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On Thursday april 10th our Bundeena band played at the RSL club, where I performed a short impromptu jazz solo (first time ever!). On the Saturday morning we collected a young Italian lady, Valentina, from a house where she was au pair to a somewhat unfriendly S. American family.
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We were asked to dress for this day for band rehearsal tonight--I even won a lolly for my wig and shirt. There was a potato throwing and catching competition as well as green cakes -oh--and we practised some music as well, with trainee conductor Jessica allowed to practise
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Today our Bundeena Band played at this annual Festival--until the rain started, anyway! There were many colourful stands and stalls, including community groups plus some colourful characters, one of whom is 'Jewel' who ran a kids' show called 'The Lottie Show' about a little
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In a rush of blood to the head--we ordered tickets for the one-and-only performance of the Bach Christmas Oratorio at the Opera House, sung by the London Singers with music by the Australian Chamber Orchestra. We heard a lot of the audience speaking German and then the