It's begun! The NYO's Summer Course - our biggest course of the year, and perhaps even any year, given the absolute galaxy of activities we're set to do over the next fortnight - is underway at the University of Birmingham ahead of concerts next week here in Birmingham, in Suffolk, and at the world-famous BBC Proms. We'll be accounting every step of the course right here, and members of the orchestra are already cooking up their own creations for the blog which they promise will outshine their efforts in the Spring. Stay tuned for all that.
After our principals spent 'day zero' blitzing through Romeo & Juliet with 70 younger local musicians, giving them a taste of what life's like in the NYO, the rest of the orchestra arrived last night ready to get stuck into a fortnight of non-stop musical discovery. The first night workshop was a fantastic reminder that sometimes there's loads we can learn about being a better ensemble without our instruments in our hands or any music in front of us. Here, Pete Churchill got the whole NYO singing, and thinking about musical interaction in a totally different way from daily orchestral rehearsals. You can check out their efforts below. We learned all this from scratch (and no notation) in just an hour. National Youth Choirs, watch out!
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