Music students were excited to witness a brand new Yamaha C4 grand piano being wheeled into the Academic Hall last week. This has been purchased by the College PFA and replaces the old grand piano which was last played in public during the recent performance of West Side Story. Pianists at the College have struggled [...]
The staff and students have just come to the end of a magnificent five performance run of Bernstein’s West Side Story.
On Thursday 9th October we were treated to an evening of very high standards in musical performance from the U3rd through to the U6th. There were far too many highlights to mention with many very creditable performances. The evening was well attended and there were performances in the Junior Section (U3 and L4) and the [...]
Head Boy and thespian James Carroll has been busy over the summer appearing as a West Country pirate in a new musical of Peter Pan produced by Youth Music Theatre: UK at the Barbican Theatre in Plymouth. The production spanned two weeks and received outstanding reviews from local press, with the show being pencilled in [...]
Sixteen girls from the Upper Third to Upper Sixth competed in the ‘Madness Manchester Dance Showcase for Schools’.
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Manchester Cathedral Eucharist
College musicians are to perform in Manchester Cathedral at a Eucharist as part of the HMC Annual Conference. The combined HMC Schools’ Choir will perform, amongst other works, Hubert Parry’s ‘I Was Glad’, a vocally taxing piece.
Grade 8 Piano
Timothy of the Lower 5th has just been awarded a distinction for Grade 8 Piano with an outstanding mark of 144. Well done, Timothy!
YOUNG, GIFTED & GREEN’S IRISH NIGHT, THE LOWRY THEATRE, SALFORD, SATURDAY 8 MARCH 2008
Mr Hennigan writes: Young, Gifted & Green Show at the Lowry
This year’s annual charity Irish concert by the College and Prep School for Francis House Children’s Hospice’ at the Lowry in Salford Quays was a magnificent success.
The show raised close to £10,000 [...]
Lower Fifth Theatre Trip
Over 100 students from the Lower and Upper Fifth visited Liverpool at the end of September to watch a staged performance of one of their set GCSE texts — ‘All My Sons’ by Arthur Miller.