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| MiSST Collectively Orchestra in rehearsal on the Barbican |
The Music in Secondary Colleges Belief’s twelfth Annual Live performance; Barbican Centre
Reviewed 23 April 2025
Over 300 college students from freshmen to Grade 8 come collectively to have a good time 12 years of MiSST with college students from 28 totally different faculties throughout the nation demonstrating the sheer pleasure of performing collectively
The Music in Secondary Colleges Belief (MiSST) was celebrating final month with its twelfth Annual Live performance on the Barbican on 23 April 2025. The organisation started 12 years in the past with only one faculty and now 30 faculties throughout the UK participate, with over 22,000 college students reached via their Andrew Lloyd Webber programme. The night concerned college students from some 28 totally different faculties throughout the nation, starting from those that solely began enjoying final September to those that have reached Grade 8.
We started with the MiSST Symphony Orchestra, a big ensemble which rose to the problem of enjoying actions 5 and 6 from Mahler’s Symphony No. 3. The orchestra inevitably displays the gamers, with a mass of flutes and a single bassoon, with part leaders from the grownup academics. The outcomes have been nonetheless spectacular.
Subsequent got here the MiSST Collectively Orchestra, this featured many gamers performing collectively for the primary time. The stage was full to overflowing and moderately impressively, Grieg’s Within the Corridor of the Mountain King was carried out by a younger pupil conductor, his first massive gig. The second piece, carried out by one of many music workers, was Peters Prado’s Mambo No. 5.
Inevitably, with so many performers, the changeover was a giant job and right here have been have been entertained by a trio of piano, clarinet and violin, the three younger performers clearly having enjoyable within the Hungarian gypsy fashion and impressing too. They have been adopted by the MiSST Voices Choir, a comparatively new ensemble, directed by Matthew Hardy, and right here they gave us a few conventional numbers and one thing from Hairspray.
MILO (MiSST Leaders Orchestra) goals to supply proficient college students who’ve been in MiSST accomplice faculties the chance to play at an ordinary of no less than Grade 5, while growing management expertise. Right here the ensemble of 15, performing with no conductor, gave extremely creditable performances of Elgar’s Chanson de Matin and Hisaishi’s A city with an ocean view from the movie Kiki’s Supply Service.
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| MiSST Symphony Orchestra and massed voices in rehearsal on the Barbican |
One other younger pupil conductor was accountable for the MiSST Symphony Orchestra for the premiere of Temi Adebayo’s A Tempestuous Journey, a energetic, partaking and substantial new piece. Then it was the flip of the totally different sections of the orchestra. The strings, carried out by one other pupil, performed Florence Value’s Adoration after which the MiSST Live performance Band livened issues up with a Benny Goodman medly.
Then they have been joined by one of many college students (he additionally performed double bass) because the piano soloist in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. He gave a delicate, fluid account of the solo half and the orchestra proved surprisingly responsive accompanists with some terrific particular person instrumental solos together with the opening clarinet riff.
There have been shows to the musicians of the yr, three musicians who had contributed most to MiSST and three who have been nominated by accomplice faculties and can obtain an instrument. The organisation nonetheless retains rising and subsequent yr there can be 35 accomplice faculties!
Then everybody got here collectively, MiSST Symphony Orchestra and massed choir (ie everybody else) to fill the stage to overflowing for Circle of Life from Elton John and Tim Rice’s The Lion King.
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