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Guth Sce?ine 2011:Layout 1 25/05/2012 15:58 Page 12 aLL YOU Need IS LOve The School musical “All you need is Love” was a collaboration of the writing skills of Shakespeare, the Beatles and six students and 1 former student of the school. Together they produced a script and score that the cast of students (and teachers) worked with to stage the event that was “the school musical”. The shows took place on January 26th, 27th and 28th to packed houses. The audience were treated to big dance numbers such as “Get Back”, “Strawberry Fields”and “I saw her standing there”and a medley of Beatles songs to finish the show with numbers such as “Yellow Submarine”and“Baby you can drive my car”to a show stopping rendition of“ Hey Jude”. The whole show was made possible with cooperation and assistance from lots of members of staff especially the hard working caretakers Teddy and Declan. Rocky and his Racoons (aka staff members) performed a version of “Hard Days Night” in what has become a tradition in the musical, that of “ What are the teachers going to sing?”. The fabulous cast of students can be really proud of all the hard work they put in during rehearsals and Ms Whitehead and Ms Comerford have produced a show that delighted audiences and had Beatles songs ringing around the school for weeks. winners of JC2 Science Quiz LCa Camping trip GUTH SCÉINE 2012 ● PAGE 11
Guth Sce?ine 2011:Layout 1 25/05/2012 15:58 Page 13 ArtS Week Pobalscoil Inbhear Scéine hosted Arts Week from 20th – 30th March 2012. It has become an annual feature of school life with many interesting visiting artists and exhibitions. This year’s line-up promised to be as enthralling as ever. On Thursday, 22nd March Luka Bloom performed to an audience of music students and on Thursday 29th March, the writer Anna McPartlin gave writing workshops to students. She also judged the writing competition. Other highlights of the week included lunch time gigs, films, yoga, ceili dancing, face painting, music recitals and opera moments. Arts week, now in its seventh year continues to provide an opportunity to showcase the creative talents of students. The wide variety of arts activities include painting, photography, film, writing, poetry, dance and music including the launch of this year’s Leaving Cert Sessions CD. Arts week is an exciting, energizing, invigorating and entertaining experience. The Luka Bloom concert was spectacular; students were entertained for nearly two hours by the talented musician. He spoke before performing each song. He told pupils that writing songs was about celebrating life, feelings or the people you live with. It was not about making money. He informed them that writing from the heart was an effective way to produce good songs. He also answered audience questions; one answer was an explanation of his stage name. “Luka” came from a Suzanne Vega song and “Bloom” came from James Joyce. He also asked for and played special requests such as“Pedal On”and spoke about cycling around the ring of Kerry. He is nearly finished recording his latest album entitled “This New Morning”. Ms. Ann Piggott ArtS Week MuSiC During Arts Week there were many and varied performances by a large number of Pobalscoil`s students. A big plus was the glorious weather which allowed for joyful outdoor performances by performers such as Red Elephant, Aisling Urwin, Matty Adams and Brian Murphy. . Opera moments were broadcast every day before break. Peggy Healy`s traditional musicians performed and entertained a number of times including the Summer Bash concert. The Summer Bash concert in the Carnegie Arts Centre has become a wonderful annual event and the students always rise to the occasion. The winners of this year`s composition competition were announced by Tom Dean. Tara Viscardi won the song section and Harry O`Connor won the instrumental section. Transition year ran a fantastic talent competition “Hidden Talents” attended by the whole school. The judges were Ms. Aherne, Claire Bunbury and Nick Ryan. After a highly entertaining 2 hours, Vada Randles was announced the winner. Peggy Healy and James Kelleher brought Arts Week to a great finish with the Ceili Mor attended by a large number of students and staff. MiChAeL CoLLinS - THE MUSICAL On December 1, 40 students from the cast of “All you need is love” headed to Siamsa Tire in Tralee for the wonderful musical based on the last years of Michael Collins` life, written and composed by Bryan Flynn. The show was performed by Tralee musical society and it was a fantastic evening`s entertainment with wonderful songs, music, dance and drama. The students met with many of the cast afterwards including Muiris Crowley and Jack Healy. Their performances and the whole production were an inspiration to our students. Many compliments were received about the Kenmare students who represented their school so well. SChooL Choir The school choir started with auditions in September. The maximum number of the choir is 25, drawn from non-exam classes. The first performance of the choir was at the 10th anniversary celebration of the school on October 28th in which they sang “May the road rise to meet you” and “Standing on the shoulders” with Ms.Aherne. The school choir has sung in all school masses since then, at the Christmas concert, Arts week concert and the talent show. End of year events for the choir include a trip to Cork International choral festival, a workshop and concert. CoMPoSition WorkShoP Past pupil and music graduate, Athoulis Tsiopani conducted a composition workshop for senior students on April 18th. It was a follow on from a previous workshop undertaken last year. It was an educational, exciting and challenging session. We wish Athoulis every success with his post graduate composition studies in Edinburgh University. Veronica Whitehead the VAnBruGh QuArtet On the 10th of November last year, this school was fortunate enough to host the famous RTÉ Vanbrugh String Quartet, who are one of Ireland’s most famous string quartets. The quartet played various pieces of various genres, and gave a short and concise introduction to each of them. They also gave students the opportunity to use the“hands on” approach, in which one student learnt to conduct and another learnt to play basic cello, and joined in with the rest of the quartet. They played some very famous and moving pieces by composers such as Mozart and Beethoven, and also played some oriental pieces, and closer to home, some tunes by an Irish composer. They then held a sort of Q & A afterwards where students asked questions about the musicians careers, choice of music etc. Before the quartet left, several students had photographs taken with the famous four. Later that day, the quartet performed in Kenmare’s Carnegie Theatre and played some great music. This concert showed the immense skill and virtuosity of the four. Let’s hope they come again soon! Harry O’ Connor, JC1 GUTH SCÉINE 2012 ● PAGE 12
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