Magical Moment

Well done to the college musicians and music staff who came together on Saturday 15th October 2022 to create “magical moments” of performance for the forthcoming awards evening.

The young musicians were able to work through a series of instrumental sectional practises followed by a full rehearsal to really work on the craft of music making.

Mr Tratt, Band Director said, ” the day was an opportunity to really work on our main piece for the Awards Evening and to tackle advanced technique and performance challenges in this arrangement of Music from West Side Story, adding some really magical moments of ensemble performance”.

West Side Story outline

Westside story is a modern musical representation of the classic story “Romeo and Juliet”. The sharks and the jets are rival gangs fighting for the same territory. Tensions rise as a shark girl named Maria and a Jet named Tony fall for each other, but there’s a problem they can never be allowed to be together. The sharks are Puerto Rican immigrants. A rumble is planned and Maria pleads with Tony to stop it. Will he try? Or will he run away from the impossible task? The rumble goes horribly wrong and tensions are at the breaking point, will the fighting stop or will the jets get rid of the sharks once and for all?