Music

Seniors: Wade Stormonth-Darling (piano), Beatrice de Courcy-White (cello), Jackson Black (clarinet), Dylan Baldwin (trumpet), Eliza Fearon (trombone), Dylan Baldwin (drums), Francesca MorrisWarburton (alto saxophone), Cosmo Le Page (violin) Beatrice de Courcy -White (singing), Eliza Fearon (singing), Alice Andrews (clarinet) and Beatrice de Courcy-White (Bass Guitar).

The theme for the House songs this year was, needing no explanation, ‘Royalty’. Yup, that’s right, you guessed it – Dancing Queen was one of the tracks chosen (by Simms) but (perhaps more surprisingly) there was no song chosen by Queen! The other choices were:

Munro: 'King’ by Years & Years.

Hutchinson: 'Stand By Me’ - Ben E. King

Wilkinson: Vida La Vida – Coldplay (how does that fit the theme, you may ask!? Tenuous perhaps, but the songs starts with ‘I used to rule the world’ and later ‘now the old king is dead, long live the king’ so it snuck in!)

Our judge this year was Chris Mountford who runs the Band Project and it was Elsie Butler (alto saxophone) in the Juniors and Beatrice de Courcy-White (singing) in the Seniors who impressed him the most. With the House songs, Munro had his musical vote, but for their allround performance Wilkinson pipped them to House song category. However, despite this, the overall winners were Hutchinson.

Jason Marconi