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Infant Music by Caroline Francis, Head of Infant Music Term 2 was short but eventful for Infant Music. The Infant Ensembles were all busy practising for the Infant Ensembles Assembly which took place on Thursday, 29 March and included stunning performances by Year 2 Choir, all three recorder ensembles, Ms Bowers’ Dance CCA, ukulele ensembles from Terms 1 and 2, a few individual instrumental soloists as well as our combined Infant Strings. As our Infant Strings Ensemble has grown to a healthy membership of 27 violins and one cello, we have had to split the group into Year 1 and 2 strings for Term 3. They will, however, still come together for performances.
Year 1 Concert The final week of Term 2 saw a beautiful concert by Year 1 children called ‘Once Upon a Time’. This was a concert about two children, who loved to read, being transported into a magical world of mixedup fairytales. It included lively, catchy songs, instrumental accompaniments, great dances, entertaining narrating and acting all in a magical fairytale set.
Junior Music by Fiona Knight International Schools Choral Lucas, Head of Junior Music Music Society (ISCMS) by Another busy term in the Junior Music Kimtalie Ahuja, Y12.10 Department...
Year 5 Songs from Oliver The children in Year 5 delighted parents at their open mornings with a performance of songs from the musical Oliver which they had been learning as part of their topic on the Victorians. Year 6 Beauty and the Beast Year 6 children excelled themselves with a spectacular production of Disney’s
‘Broadway Junior’ version of Beauty and the Beast. The children playing the main characters rehearsed for the acting and singing during their CCA time on Thursday afternoons, while the support cast from the rest of the year practised dances during class music lessons. The stunning costumes were for the most part made by the expert hands of parents Lorna Regan and Seah Slater; and the Junior Art Department, in conjunction with considerable input from
the children, created the beautiful set. With the assistance of some other hardworking parents and Tanglin’s technical team, the children put on a wonderful show, complete with such memorable numbers as ‘Be Our Guest’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Well done to all our Year 6 children – this year’s production was a beauty!
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On Tuesday, 14 February, 16 students from the Senior School went to the ISCMS Beijing Music festival called Lumen. There, we performed 3 pieces by the composer Karl Jenkins entitled Gloria, Te Deum and Celebration (Qing Zhu) and one piece entitled Gospel Mass. There were about 500 students from 25 different schools all across Asia participating in either the choir or the orchestra. The majority of students from Tanglin were in the choir however one of our students, Hana Kumar, was in the orchestra.
The climax of the festival was performing in the Forbidden City Concert Hall, where 500 people were squeezed onto a stage that was not built to accommodate the very hilariously timed foot stamping that Movement 3 of Gloria required the whole choir to do, causing the entire stage to shake. The concert was a big success and each and every student agreed that it was a completely unique, once in a lifetime experience. All the students that were involved in the ISCMS festival had a brilliant time and made many new friends from schools such a Kellett School Hong Kong, ESF Hong Kong, BIS Tokyo, the 5 Dulwich Colleges and many more from all over Asia. All the students from Tanglin would like to say a massive thank you to Mr Godsman, Head of Music, Senior School, Mr Hyland, Music Specialist, Year 7 Tutor and Nurse Janice Murani for giving us the opportunity, supporting us and helping us every step of the way through the very intensive, demanding and energetic week – we were extremely grateful students.
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