22 Oct 2021
While everyone was learning from home, band students met online for their instrumental lessons. Pauline Ainsworth, their tutor, ensured each lesson mixed practice with fun themes such as fancy dress, crazy hair and sport jersey weeks.
The tuition providers, Teaching Service Australia (TSA), also offered students from their participating schools the option to take part in a project called ‘putting the band back together’. Students met for weekly Zoom rehearsals for most of term 3, recorded themselves at home and sent the videos to TSA who then joined them into a final combined recording. The band learned and recorded two songs and created the following video clips - Monster Rock featuring Layla F on clarinet https://vimeo.com/628940687/6d08a268cb and - Star Wars with Lucinda D on trumpet - https://vimeo.com/630025576/38c34823d2.
Amidst the closures and cacellations of COVID it was nice to be able to keep music alive and TSA were so proud of all the students who participated.
