Meeting: September 6th 2015. The address is Crossways (upstairs) at 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria. The meeting will start at 4.15pm and finish at 6.30 pm. Theme for September Student Performers from the New Zealand School of Music Students at the school of music can often play so well. Of course they are less experienced than professional players and they deserve understanding and support in this regard. But they are also often very enthusiastic and passionate about their playing. They deserve our support. Come and enjoy what promises to be some lovely playing of great music. The program is as
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Theme for August – The Bossa Nova
This will be held on Sunday 2nd August 2015 The address is Crossways (upstairs) at 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria. The meeting will start at 4.15pm and finish at 6.30 pm. Please note this is back to normal time and first Sunday of mont Fabiola Stevenson – vocals , Julie Bevan – guitar and Mike Wespel-Rose guitar and a percussion player, will perform 6 pieces from the Brazilian Bossa Nova Repetoire. The piec es will be: How Insensitive – Jobim The girl from Ipanaema – Jobim Black Orpheus – Luiz Bonfá Wave – Jobim Desafinado – Jobim Quiet Nights –
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Guitar Society meeting for July – Sunday July 12th – 2pm to 4pm. Crossways – Mt Victoria
Our next meeting will be held on Sunday12th July 2015 The address is Crossways (upstairs) at 6 Roxburgh Street, Mt Victoria. The meeting will start at 2pm and finish at 4 pm. Please note different time just for this month Welcome If you’re a guitar listener, a beginner player, a seasoned professional or anywhere in between – you are very very welcome to join us as we enjoy listening to and playing music for guitar Theme for July Australasian Music including music composed by you! If you do not have a piece to fit into that category, any
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Theme for June
Featured performer Jamie Garrick Come and hear this great new talent at our society! Here is some biography about Jamie… ‘… a poetic interpretation, with sensitive phrasing and appropriate rubato, underpinned by a sound technique…’ – Frances Robinson, Middle C Classical Music Reviews Jamie Garrick, a graduate of the New Zealand School of Music , was recently awarded 1st prize at the 2014 New Zealand Classical Guitar Competition. This achievement comes less than a year after Jamie completed his Masters, gaining Distinction under the tuition of Dr Jane Curry. Jamie’s previous accomplishments include being awarded a ‘New Zealand
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Theme for May
Great guitarists of the World Some thing I have wanted to do for a long time is have a theme dedicated to showing some videos of some great performances by some of the greatest guitar players of the world! So the later part of this months meeting will be dedicated to this. Including names such as Julian Bream, Alvaro Perri, Ana Vidovic, Marek Pasieczny. These may be performances or performers you have not seen before. Naturally we will have our guitar ensemble. The pieces we will play this month are the first 5 from the ensemble book. Please decide
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Theme for April
Owen Moriarty – featured artist This meeting is our second meeting for the year of 2015. It will be great to see you all. Save medical fees and come and get some music treatment instead. We will be back to our standard meeting structure. We will start with guitar ensemble. Please be brave and join this group. There are parts for players of all standards. Many of us find it a great joy to be part of this group and it is excellent for developing your playing standard. Group music books will be available for paid up members. Non paid
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Theme for March
This meeting will be our first meeting for the year of 2015. It will be great to see you all on the first meeting of the new year. This will be a relatively informal first meeting. We have some members who have already offered to play. We should have some pieces available for our guitar orchestra as well. Any one else who has something to play would be very welcome. It could be a future or previous exam piece for example. Or just something you have been working on recently. See you there this coming Sunday for more enjoyable guitar
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Theme for December 2014
This meeting will be our annual Christmas Concert. At 2pm the guitar orchestra will have a practise play through the program They will be playing the following pieces: Pavane – Mille Ducas Gaillarde Ronde Meridian Baby Elephant walk Milonga del Angel Lacrimae It would be great if all members of the group could be there on time so we can get through this practise promptly. Remember your music, and a music stand. Remember to do a bit of practise before hand. Remember what group you are in. Then at 2.30 the Christmas concert will begin. Please, please, please ….
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Program for – Sunday, 2nd November 2014
The program for November is: Our normal ensemble get- together. This is our last rehearsal before the Christmas concert. The Christmas concert will feature our group playing the following pieces: Pavane Gaillarde Ronde Meridian Baby Elephant Walk Milonga Lachrimae Please practice your parts and remember which part you are on. We have the music group booklet. Get your own personal copy as soon as you pay your society fees. See below on how to do that. Get the pleasure and musical benefit from being part of this exciting group. – Please bring a music stand for your music and your
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