Well, it’s hard to believe we’re in the last week of term. There’s a bit of running around like headless chickens revising for exams and essay deadlines looming however end of term time also means it’s concert time!
Since everyone takes part in at least 4 ensembles over the course of their degree (many students do more just for their own enjoyment. I have tried out pretty much everything now!) It means come end of term there will be lots of concerts!
We have loads of ensembles to choose from like Gamelan, African dance and drumming, Latin, jazz, chamber music and choir along with ones students organise themselves like big band and experimental music ensemble.
Today at lunchtime in the pub across from Uni, the Jazz Ensemble had their end of term gig so I popped along and it sounded great! They have a range of instruments – for some people their main instrument of study, whilst for others it’s a chance to jam on one of the other instruments they play! They played some really awesome pieces not just your jazz standards but some really cool sounding stuff! I’m posting a couple clips so that you can hear it for yourself instead of taking my word for it! – Enjoy!
It was great to hear jazz band play but I can’t help but feel a little sad! It’s starting to hit me that I’m getting closer and closer to graduation and taking part in ensembles and hearing everyone play is one of the things I have really loved the past three years and I am really going to miss it! We all have such fun playing in our ensembles weekly and the end of term concerts are not only great fun but really satisfying to see everyone’s hard work paying off. In the meantime I’ve got the Gamelan concert next week but this time I’m playing not listening. I’ll tell you about it on my next blog.
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