Final Autumn Masterclass & Performance at Brady Arts Centre
5 December 2010 at 2:00pm
The Premises Studios, 209 Hackney Road, London E2 8JL
The final workshop in our Autumn masterclass series, leading up to an evening performance culminating the musical development over the last few months. Click Here for details on the show!
Important details for GUYO participating in the performance
This Sunday’s winter celebration concert is fast aproaching. The confirmed schedule is below:
Confirmed schedule - Brady Arts Centre, 192-196 Hanbury St, London E1 5HU
2:00 pm. Youth committee and other volunteers arrive to set up the theatre.
2:30 pm. Rehearsal begins, please make sure you are on time.
2:30 – 5:30 pm. Rehearsal
5:30 – 6:30 pm – Bring and share dinner
6:30 – 7:30 pm – performance
7:30 – 8:30 pm – party / reception, parents friends and family welcome.
Transport
There are the following planned track closures this weekend. Please read carefully.
Circle, Part closure, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 December, no service between Hammersmith and Edgware Road.
District, Planned closure, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 December, no service between Tower Hill and Upminster and between Kensington Olympia and Earls Court.
H’smith & City, Part closure, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 December, no service between Liverpool Street and Barking. Trains serve Aldgate.
Jubilee, Part closure, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 December, no service between West Hampstead and Stanmore.
Metropolitan, Part closure, Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 December, no service between Aldgate and Uxbridge.
Piccadilly, Part closure Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 December, no service between South Harrow and Uxbridge.
Waterloo & City Closed
DLR, Part closure, On Saturday 4 and Sunday 5 December, no service between Stratford and Bow Church due to planned engineering work.
Overground Planned closure
Please check www.tfl.gov.uk on the day to plan your jouney
Dress . Please dress as normal in bright colours. It may be best to bring your outfit for the evening and change into after the bring and share dinner. If you want to dress in the festive spirit you are welcome to do so.
Decorations We do not have a budget to buy decorations for the auditorium this time, however if you have any decorations at home that you want to bring along to decorate the theatre, you are more than welcome to bring them. You will need to arrive at 2:00pm to set these up.
Arts Award
I hope you have all looked at the information sent about working towards achieving an arts award. Catherine Mummery, who will be organising the award, will be around on Sunday. We will need to know for definite if you want to participate in the programme before Christmas, so please speak to us on Sunday about it.
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From September until the end of March, Grand Union’s projects are being united under the banner From Silk Road to Carnival, exploring the trade routes than brought prosperity to Britain and the rest of Europe – but at social, and often moral cost.
Along these trade routes – whether across land from Turkey through Central Asia to China and encouraging the spread of Islam, or by sea with the transportation of slaves from West Africa to Brazil, the Caribbean and the USA – culture and ideas also travelled, especially music.
In practice, this means that the monthly Sunday morning master-classes will explore repertoire and techniques related to this theme. Some of this will develop music and ideas already familiar to some GUYO musicians, and some will be brand new. On the Carnival side, we shall be looking in more detail at South American, Afro-Cuban and Caribbean rhythms (including reggae, ska, soca and calypso); while travelling the Silk Road gives us the opportunity to revisit and extend our knowledge and appreciation of the music of Eastern Europe, Turkey, Bangladesh/India, China and possibly the Arab world.
Highlights on this journey include performances (all Sundays) at Romford World Carnival (September 26th), Stratford Circus Theatre (October 31st), the Brady Centre (December 5th) and most exciting of all with the BBC Concert Orchestra and Grand Union Orchestra at the Hackney Empire (March 6th), a concert to be broadcast on BBC Radio 3.
Get involved
Register with the Youth Orchestra if you would like to come along.