Blog 3: A short update
A shorter entry today - not least because we are at the end of what seems to have been a very blustery and rainy week. Here at the Magnard Ensemble, all our anticipation is building to next Wednesday and Thursday (2nd and 3rd December), when we finally reach the culmination of our project with Wigmore Hall Learning, which has been four weeks in the running but many, many more months in the planning and preparing. This week saw Jon, Cat and myself return to Manorfield Primary
Blog 2: Funky Pigs, and other stories
Second week, second Sunday, second blog post, right on schedule. It really has been a busy, exciting, and wonderfully crazy week chez Magnard. Wednesday saw the second session of our four-week project with Wigmore Hall and Manorfield Primary School - more games, more fun, and of course more composition! The children of Year 5 are coming up with lots of brilliant musical ideas to portray the story of Roald Dahl's Goldilocks, with Jon, Cat and myself on hand to help them organi
Blog 1: New Beginnings
Welcome to Magnard Ensemble, welcome to Revolting Rhymes and Marvellous Music, and welcome to our NEW BLOG! Of course, these welcomes do not extend only to you, readers, but also to the newest member of our crazy Maggerz Family, the wonderful and bassoonerific Catriona! She is, as of this week, our new permanent bassoonist, and she has already proved herself both inimitable and irreplaceable. From her sensitive musicianship to her hilarious rendition of the theme tune from 'W
