Year 13 Performances will be happening June 8th during class time, and 2nd compositions and 2nd arrangements are due June 11th by 10am.
Year 11 Performances are happening from Tues/Wed June 15th/16th during Spell One.
Friday, June 4, 2010
Year 11 and 13 performances
Due to a change in some festival dates from what was advertised at the beginning of the year dates for both Year 11 and Year 13 performances have been shifted back one week only.
The Big Sing
The Big Sing is Thursday June 10th.
Permission slips should be almost all in, and the $8 for the bus handed in to the Resource Center. As a special bonus this year the Music Department have paid your entry costs for you. Please make sure that you have sorted out your 'blacks' for this event, and that everything, including shoes, are clean.
Any queries please see me ASAP.
Manawatu Jazz Festival
HVHS Stage Band
All permission slips and money should be in by now. Best wishes for the trip tomorrow, and treat Miss Lindsay to lots of love and lollies for taking you up. You need to be outside LSU at 9:50am to allow time to pack and leave.
Saturday, August 8, 2009
Shona Laing
It has been a while since I did a profile on an ex Hutt Valley High School student, so why not restart this section of my blog with a big name in New Zealand music! Meeting the very successful Shona Laing recently is probably the inspiration behind my blog revival.
The following has been taken directly from Shona's website, which you can get to by clicking on the title of this post.
Shona Laing has always had an ambiguous, sometimes turbulent relationship with the music industry (who hasn't). Integrity and respect have always been non-negotiable for Shona.
She is an intelligent and hugely talented singer/songwriter who surfaced as a result of extensive television exposure on the show New Faces in 1972 with her song 1905, dedicated to Henry Fonda.
Still a teenager she collected gold discs, Rata Awards and represented NZ (twice) in the Tokyo World Song Festival before relocating to the UK where, amongst other things, she was a member of Manfred Manns Earth Band.
Following her return to New Zealand she released a number of albums for both Pagan and Sony, as well as extensively touring Australia (Glad I'm Not A Kennedy was a number nine single there) and the USA where she supported Erasure. Shona has an extensive catalogue of material that not only spans three decades but continues to endure, and endures well! She has currently completed her new album "Pass the Whisper".
This is Shona's comments about her new albumn - "Some old songs are revisited including Kennedy and Soviet Snow. Other songs are as old but have only really found their place recently. It is all played, acoustic guitar-based, with the colour of penny whistle, Northumbrian pipes, bhodran (the Celtic drum), acoustic upright bass, brushes vocals.
The process of finding the players and the place and time has been so natural, no industry pressure at all and I feel it is the best work process Ive ever been through"
The following has been taken directly from Shona's website, which you can get to by clicking on the title of this post.
Shona Laing has always had an ambiguous, sometimes turbulent relationship with the music industry (who hasn't). Integrity and respect have always been non-negotiable for Shona.
She is an intelligent and hugely talented singer/songwriter who surfaced as a result of extensive television exposure on the show New Faces in 1972 with her song 1905, dedicated to Henry Fonda.
Still a teenager she collected gold discs, Rata Awards and represented NZ (twice) in the Tokyo World Song Festival before relocating to the UK where, amongst other things, she was a member of Manfred Manns Earth Band.
Following her return to New Zealand she released a number of albums for both Pagan and Sony, as well as extensively touring Australia (Glad I'm Not A Kennedy was a number nine single there) and the USA where she supported Erasure. Shona has an extensive catalogue of material that not only spans three decades but continues to endure, and endures well! She has currently completed her new album "Pass the Whisper".
This is Shona's comments about her new albumn - "Some old songs are revisited including Kennedy and Soviet Snow. Other songs are as old but have only really found their place recently. It is all played, acoustic guitar-based, with the colour of penny whistle, Northumbrian pipes, bhodran (the Celtic drum), acoustic upright bass, brushes vocals.
The process of finding the players and the place and time has been so natural, no industry pressure at all and I feel it is the best work process Ive ever been through"
Saturday, August 1, 2009
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Sound Unit Level 2
The blue books should all be handed in. If you did not hand it in you will need a legitimate reason with a note, such as a medical certificate if you were sick. A reminder that if you did not hand this in you will no longer be able to continue with Level 3 PA and recording standards.
A big list of congratulations.
Congratulations to Jonny Hurn, Hayden Richardson, Leon Philipsen, Matt Steele and Cindy Xia. Jonny was placed in the Top 20 in the 2009 Play It Strange Songwriting competition for his song, 'Who am I'. Jonny won a $500 NZ Rockshop credit, a recording session, and his song will appear on the 2009 Play It Strange CD that will come out later in the year.
Hayden Richardson will be off to Christchurch the next school break as he has been offered a place as part of the 2009 New Zealand Secondary Schools Brass Band. Matt Steele and cultural captain, Leon Philipsen, have both successfully auditioned as members of 2009 New Zealand Youth Jazz Orchestra, which will be rehearsing and performing over the second week of October. During the last school break Cindy Xia competed in the Hutt Valley Music Competition, gaining four 1st's, including one for her NCEA Level 1 composition 'Moth', one 2nd, and she won the scholarship for 16 years and over.
Hayden Richardson will be off to Christchurch the next school break as he has been offered a place as part of the 2009 New Zealand Secondary Schools Brass Band. Matt Steele and cultural captain, Leon Philipsen, have both successfully auditioned as members of 2009 New Zealand Youth Jazz Orchestra, which will be rehearsing and performing over the second week of October. During the last school break Cindy Xia competed in the Hutt Valley Music Competition, gaining four 1st's, including one for her NCEA Level 1 composition 'Moth', one 2nd, and she won the scholarship for 16 years and over.
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