HUMS Aloud HUMS Aloud #004 - BBC Play It Again event, Watford (Part 1 of 3) - Enhanced

• 4th HUMS Aloud podcast
• humsaloud.btpodshow.com
• associated with the Huntingdonshire Music School in what is now Cambridgeshire
• large independent school (400) aimed at musical fun & education for both children and adults
• www.humsa.org.uk

• www.bbc.co.uk/playitagain
• TV series 25th march to 7th May BBC 1
• Jo Brand - piano
• Frank Skinner - banjo
• Aled Jones - rock drummer
• Robert Winston - saxophone
• Diane Abbott - piano
• Bill Oddie - rock guitarist

Took part at exhibitor for HUMS at Comberton event on 13th May
300 participants in each of 2 sessions
Everyone having fun - have a go. Next nearest event at Watford, 50 miles south of home.
Self - tuba (9 months), daughter (Jess) on flute
First of 4 sessions over the weekend

Format

• first of 3 episodes
• split into reasonable lengths
• this one deals with the arrival and settling in
• second one looks at the orchestral rehearsal as a separate group
• third episode - talk to other participants during the break and rehearsal as a complete assembly.

At the Watford Colosseum - Nic's intro
Initial event introduction/welcoming speech

• BBC Concert Orchestra
• BBC singers
• Peter Hayward - Learning Manager, BBC Concert Orchestra
• Watford Colosseum - home of BBC Concert Orchestra
• Tim Steiner - Creative Director of Play It Again
• Bernstein's West Side Story Overture - played by orchestra (the professionals)
• Relaxed style

much like a camp-fire warm-up
humour

"Mambo"

• vocal part - all join in, not just singers

Tunes to Listen for

• - explanation/demonstration of musical phrases to keep ears peeled for
• - built up
• Musical phrases

trombones
bassoons & basses
"2 notes" - professional
upper strings (3 notes!)
drums
flutes & oboes

• complex whole built from simpler parts - important
• 'Tonight' - for the singers

Not Tonight

• slightly different version. Specially written. Not 'America' either!
• Not many attending actually live in Hertfordshire.

Outro

• next part covers initial practice by participants - orchestral (instrument) group