To celebrate Bangalore School of Music's 'Odyssey 2012', the Treble All Girls Choir and Brass Band of Frank Anthony Public School performed a musical tribute at Alliance Francaise recently.
"Our aim is to make Bangalore a name and centre for music and arts throughout the world. And it gives us great joy to see Gen-X learning music and coming up as performers," says Aruna Sunderlal, the founder-director of Bangalore School of Music.
Under the baton of Narayanaswamy V, a musical conductor much loved by concert-goers in the City, both groups — comprising of students from class six to 12 — performed heart-warming renditions of popular as well as not-so-popular jazz numbers, western classics and of course, plenty of hymns.
"In school, I am like their father. I have to make sure that they stay abreast with their studies, their real purpose of coming here," shares Narayanswamy. "But I'm very glad that they cut tuitions and stay back in school to practise music," laughs the veteran conductor.
The show began with 33 smiling girls of the choir coming onto the stage in neatly pressed white shirts, black skirts and blue ties.
As soon as the first note was hit on the piano — which was played beautifully by their teacher Rebecca Thomas — the hall was filled with hope and melody as the voices and harmonies took the audience down a peaceful musical journey. They sang songs like 'Come Along', 'Take 5', 'Praise God Sing Ye Heavens' and Hashivenu. The lifting tunes, meaningful lyrics and earnestness in their voices made one sit back, actually picture the rainbow they sang of and inevitably, smile.
"I didn't expect to listen to a mix of spiritual music and jazz!" says Phiroze Bhadra, a member of the audience. "I have never seen a choir performing different genres so effectively. It was quite a pleasant surprise," he adds.
The 34-member brass band saw the tuba, horn, trumpet, trombone, euphonium and percussion played to excellence by the children. They did not fail to stand up to their name of being one of the top brass bands in the country as they performed interesting and powerful renditions of numbers like 'Carpe Diem', 'Colonel Bogey's March' and 'God in Disguise". Energy was definitely not amiss with this bunch!
"We had an amazing audience, which made it even nicer to perform. It was one of the best performances we have ever done," says Meghana T M, who played the euphonium.
What was nice to see was that members of the school's alumni sang along with the choir and played with the band as well. It just goes to show how much music meant to the students while they were in school.
"Our aim is to make Bangalore a name and centre for music and arts throughout the world. And it gives us great joy to see Gen-X learning music and coming up as performers," says Aruna Sunderlal, the founder-director of Bangalore School of Music.
Under the baton of Narayanaswamy V, a musical conductor much loved by concert-goers in the City, both groups — comprising of students from class six to 12 — performed heart-warming renditions of popular as well as not-so-popular jazz numbers, western classics and of course, plenty of hymns.
"In school, I am like their father. I have to make sure that they stay abreast with their studies, their real purpose of coming here," shares Narayanswamy. "But I'm very glad that they cut tuitions and stay back in school to practise music," laughs the veteran conductor.
The show began with 33 smiling girls of the choir coming onto the stage in neatly pressed white shirts, black skirts and blue ties.
As soon as the first note was hit on the piano — which was played beautifully by their teacher Rebecca Thomas — the hall was filled with hope and melody as the voices and harmonies took the audience down a peaceful musical journey. They sang songs like 'Come Along', 'Take 5', 'Praise God Sing Ye Heavens' and Hashivenu. The lifting tunes, meaningful lyrics and earnestness in their voices made one sit back, actually picture the rainbow they sang of and inevitably, smile.
"I didn't expect to listen to a mix of spiritual music and jazz!" says Phiroze Bhadra, a member of the audience. "I have never seen a choir performing different genres so effectively. It was quite a pleasant surprise," he adds.
The 34-member brass band saw the tuba, horn, trumpet, trombone, euphonium and percussion played to excellence by the children. They did not fail to stand up to their name of being one of the top brass bands in the country as they performed interesting and powerful renditions of numbers like 'Carpe Diem', 'Colonel Bogey's March' and 'God in Disguise". Energy was definitely not amiss with this bunch!
"We had an amazing audience, which made it even nicer to perform. It was one of the best performances we have ever done," says Meghana T M, who played the euphonium.
What was nice to see was that members of the school's alumni sang along with the choir and played with the band as well. It just goes to show how much music meant to the students while they were in school.