April 2008 - Village Voices

Hollesley School fantastic trumpets
Friday 7th March…
Tomorrow year 5, 6 will be playing their
fantastic trumpets at the famous Snape
Maltings! We have been working very
hard and our trumpet teacher is very
proud of us. We have been doing
complete practices of the performance
every day and are still doing an hours’
work with our teacher on Friday.
Everyone is looking forward to Saturday
and most of us will probably be sweating
in bed tonight! The sad thing is that we
only have the short space of eight
minutes to play our well known tunes.
At the very end of the performances all
of the schools that come tomorrow will
sing a final song. We have recently had a
lady in called Detta to teach us the song,
and we think we all know the words
(well most of them!) A few weeks ago
she came in with two of her friends, who
are also musicians; they came with a big
cello and a loud, electric, base guitar. It
helped to have the music played whilst
we were singing. We now know a small
fraction of what Snape will be like but
we have a feeling that it will be much,
much scarier! But we all look forward to
playing there!
Saturday 8th March,The
Big Day…
Everyone was looking forward to
performing in the concert hall and some
of us described how we felt: ‘we are
happily, nervously, excited!’
Everyone arrived bang on time and we
all headed to our dressing room. It was
really cramped and was a tight squeeze
to fit everyone into the room with our
luggage and trumpets. After a while a
member of staff came in to tell us that it
was our turn to do our rehearsal with our
trumpets. Some of us couldn’t wait but
others were really nervous even though it
was only the rehearsal. After lunch we
went for a walk to Iken but the footpath
was closed so we played some games
instead.
Finally the performance came. There
were eight schools performing in the
concert and we found out that we were
second from last. Just before we went
onto the stage we had a few tears in the
dressing room. Everyone walked on and
we got the introduction from the piano
and then we all started to play. When we
were on our final song, ‘The Saints Go
Marching In,’ the audience started
clapping loudly along to it. Then we
finished all the solos and forgot to walk
off stage! Our Head teacher Mrs Wright
was very pleased with us and we have
already had some letters and phone calls
from people saying how good we were.
That really was an exciting night!
School Reporters Kathryn Venediger
and Simon Coates
April 2008 page 6 www.villagevoices.org.uk