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Show at Purcell for primary schools
The Purcell School, this week, put on a multicultural concert for students from six primary schools
Composing, arranging, organising and conducting two, hour-long performances, Year 11 students at the Bushey music school put together every aspect of the concerts, weeks after finishing important exams.
The 23 musicians played and dressed up for a Xylophone piece from Bulgaria, percussive chant from Africa, animal themed piece from New Zealand, dances from Mexico and Poland, an ever-changing Singapore piece and a Chinese performance based around the sound of raindrops.
Even the group’s journey back to England was highly innovative, as 16 hands descended on two pianos.
Each piece was backed by a projection of animals, maps, flags and people from the country the music was based on.
The concerts, performed for Little Green, Highwood, Ashfield, Harvey Road, Nascot Wood and York Mead schools, followed the Purcell students’ trips to the primary schools to teach and play music to the children.
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