Concert Weekend Notice for pupils and parents of all our SMMC Centres:

This notice explains what is happening on:

• Saturday morning 24th September (Concert rehearsal at George St School) and
• Sunday afternoon 25th September (Our annual Demonstration Concert at the Dunedin Town Hall).

Saturday 24th September at George Street Normal School:This will run the same as the10th September.

9:00am

Community Orchestra

Junior Symphonia

Symphonic Band

Training Orchestra

Ukulele

Bathgate Park/Mosgiel Orchestra

Guitar Ensemble

9:45am – in the Hall

All pupils combine in the Hall to rehearse the Demonstration Concert final item “Hymn to Joy”.

10:30 – 11:00

Recorders followed by Recorder Consort at 11:00

Flute

Oboe

Clarinet

Saxophone

Brass

Percussion

Guitar

Listen and Learn Violin + portable piano –

Violin – Cello - Double Bass

Singers

11:00am

Recorder Consort

Let’s Make Music

ADMISSION TO CONCERT:

We invite all parents and families of performing children to attend the concert. Because the Town Hall has been kindly offered to us free of charge, there is no admission fee. However, donations will be most gratefully accepted on entry to defray expenses associated with the concert. The audience may sit anywhere upstairs except the centre rows A-C. Programmes will be available to purchase.

SMMC Demonstration Concert:

Sunday September 25th, 2022 (3pm start)

Performance arrangements for pupils:

• Tidy dress is the usual expectation.

• Please aim to arrive at 2:30 if you have an instrument to be tuned, and 2:45 if not.

• Enter through the Harrop Street entrance near the Glenroy entrance. Go upstairs where you will see a sign saying “Coats and Cases.” Please unpack your instruments here and wait to be shown where you are seated. Recorders and guitars can go straight to their upstairs corridors.

• The toilets are off the side corridors (upstairs and downstairs).

• It is good manners to remain still and quiet during an item. It is polite to applaud at the end of an item.

• Before you perform, you will be escorted backstage as a group so that you can line up for entry onto the stage. You will need to do this quickly and quietly. After performing, you will be taken back to your seats.

• Except for very young performers, it is expected that performers stay for the whole concert.

• At the end, that is, after the massed item “Hymn to Joy”, you will be able to return to the entrance passage to collect your coats and cases.

• It would be sensible to have a prior arrangement with your parents as to where you meet up after the concert.

We thank all pupils for their participation, and we are grateful to all parents for their assistance in making this annual concert a happy event.

This concert concludes SMMC Term Three. Weekday teaching centres start on their first day in Term Four. George St and Bathgate Park centres resume Term Four on Saturday 29th of October, the weekend after Labour weekend.

Aart Brusse (027 4544923), Musical Director; Barrie Rutledge (4771214) and Stephanie Hobbs (4772296), Co-ordinators.