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25/12/2024

Merry Christmas (if you celebrate) to Everyone who has been part of the journey this year. You have all done so well! We look forward to seeing you soon. Michael and the Team.

25/12/2024

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05/12/2024

Next Year (venue TBC) we will hold our regular concert, and start rolling out the clubs we have been busily preparing behind the scenes!

For now, we wish you all a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy New Year!

27/08/2024

Not sure have heard this ‘piece’ before, but 10/10 for effort!

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14/08/2024

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21/07/2024

Yay!! It’s BBC Proms 2024 time at the Royal Albert Hall and the lineup this year is amazing as always.

Here’s a sample of one of the starting performances:

BBC Proms
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21/07/2024

Very handy

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19/07/2024

You too can become a Groovestar! 🎸

12/07/2024

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10/07/2024

Bit of Scott Joplin to entertain you 😉

An ageing Scott Joplin (Billy Dee Williams) gives a gruelling performance of The Entertainer.What is Scott Joplin (1977) about?Scott Joplin is a 1977 biograp...

09/07/2024

Good Morning Groovestar followers! We hope you have a great day, and here’s Lang Lang performing Clair De Lune to relax you into it ☺️

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06/07/2024

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When people say classical music is irrelevant…

Sir Elton John told the Classic FM radio presenter Tim Lihoreau in 2019:

“I’m so grateful for my classical training. I played Chopin and Bach, and Mozart and Debussy. Without my training, I never would’ve been able to write the songs I’ve written.”

It made me ponder about the purpose of a musical education - it was such a fabulous thing to consider!

I was wondering about some of the main things that my own music degree taught me, and it’s so interesting to try to consolidate them into ten points.

🎼 To understand harmony and counterpoint, the very backbone of music

🎼 To be able to compose in various styles, emulating different genres and composers

🎼 To listen with acute attention, identifying basslines and reproducing harmonies, dictating multiple melodic lines and articulating one’s thought processes in perceiving a piece of music

🎼 To analyse music to gain a much deeper understanding

🎼 How to take each musical work within its cultural and political context and see the influence of the Zeitgeist

🎼 An understanding of chronology in music history and the never-ending line of influence that composers had on each other

🎼 The necessity of being self-sufficient and driven in one’s instrumental practice and the fixation on working towards the highest standards when NOBODY but yourself can sit down and do it

🎼 The utter wonder and necessity of music making with others, in orchestras, choirs, contemporary music groups, duos, trios, quartets

🎼 The influence of philosophy and aesthetics in the field of the arts

🎼How to question, to reason, to argue and to discuss, both in written format, and orally. Arguably, this was the most important part!

One thing it didn’t teach me was about pedagogy - something that I fear is lacking in the British university sector.

I will ponder this some more.

What points would YOU add?