Abingdon News No.55

www.abingdon.org.uk 17 Duet with a difference Jamie Kilroy in the Third Year, filmed himself twice playing his clarinet, using a phone and iMovie, and stitched the clips together. It resulted in this charming duet of Schubert’s Wiegenlied . Listen to the duet . Drama First and second year boys have been working on creating a diary entry as a character from a short scene they wrote themselves. They then performed these in character and recorded them, using some excellent costumes, props and special effects. Third year boys have been thinking about what makes good playwriting, and taking inspiration from theatre companies who have adapted their usual craft for lockdown, through doing things such as comedy sketches online. They have written their own plays and comedy sketches and filmed themselves performing them. Watch the video . Here comes the sun As part of the Celebration of the Arts online festival, Gospel Choir had a virtual gathering to perform ‘Here comes the sun’. Listen here . The Licc Fourth year, Jake Morris, enjoyed experimenting with the Licc. The Licc is a short syncopated loop regarded as “the most famous jazz cliche ever”. Using it as the repeated loop for the main section of the piece, Jake assembled several instrumental parts on top of it, made up of drums and some vibrant resounding chords. He then improvised a melody on the keyboard using a reverberating piano sound. Jake assembled the arrangement on Ableton Live. Listen here . Tchaikovsky’s Canzonetta Congratulations to Boco To for his fine performance in this video of Tchaikovsky’s Canzonetta from the Violin Concerto, which he recorded at home in Hong Kong. Mrs Pringle, Boco’s violin teacher, said, ‘I made MP3 accompaniments for pupils so that they can practise and play along just as in lessons - and learn another skill of listening even more intently”. Watch the video . Learning the harp First year pupil, Mark Hanlon, took up the harp six months ago and in this video you can hear him playing Home at the Hearth by Aílíe Robertson. Mark is the third Abingdon pupil to have taken up the harp thanks to the initiative and kind financial support of David Allen, OA. Our aim is to have a harpist in each of the seven years of the school. Watch the video .