It was Thursday 12th of November, Mrs Latham announced we’d be having an early breaktime.
She told us that two members of a famous orchestra, the Hallé orchestra, Helen and Maya their names were, they were to come in and do a two hour workshop with our class only! Everyone was ecstatic, but that wasn’t even the best part! The best part was… Tonight at 3:15 we would go home, have our tea, and return to school at 5:45 to then get on a coach at 6… To go to Bridgewater hall in Manchester to watch Hallé orchestra play live and we wouldn’t get back until………… 10:00 pm!
So we had our early break and returned to our class at 10:00 to have our little workshop with Helen and Maya.
We found out Helen plays the Bassoon and Maya, the Cello.
Maya played the cello for us, she’d created a little piece by herself called motorbike crash, she did a distant motorbike rev imitation. Then she rapidly slid the bow across the strings creating a screechy crashing noise, then to finish she played an ambulance siren on the cello.
Whilst listening to Helen, I thought of a poem;
For us, Helen played the bassoon and she played a very funky tune it was really nice to listen to when I heard the music I wanted to move!
The workshop finished at 12:00 O’clock and I’d REALLY enjoyed it!
Ebony
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