<rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>bennelongmusic</title><description>bennelongmusic</description><link>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/blog</link><item><title>AMEB &amp; Eistoddfod Successes</title><description><![CDATA[CONGRATULATIONS, 9 students who just received AMEB results:4 x Grade A (Honours)4 X Grade B+ (High Credit)1 x B (Credit)The Piano students where from St Charles, Putney Public School, Lane Cove West Public, Loretto Normanhurst.<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_332a6aa8bd0640c3abf2c3fcd0751635%7Emv2.gif"/>]]></description><link>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/04/29/CONGRATULATIONS-9-students-just-received-great-AMEB-results</link><guid>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/04/29/CONGRATULATIONS-9-students-just-received-great-AMEB-results</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2016 14:42:00 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_332a6aa8bd0640c3abf2c3fcd0751635~mv2.gif"/><div>CONGRATULATIONS, 9 students who just received AMEB results:</div><div>4 x Grade A (Honours)</div><div>4 X Grade B+ (High Credit)</div><div>1 x B (Credit)</div><div>The Piano students where from St Charles, Putney Public School, Lane Cove West Public, Loretto Normanhurst.</div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/fcce0b3b6f2f4240b2d9de05e9b66ddb.jpg"/></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>BAND CAMP 13-15 July, 2016.</title><description><![CDATA[Band CampWednesday, 13th to Friday, 15th July, 2016Naamaroo Conference CentreLady Game Dr, Chatswood NSW 2067Total cost is $379.00 per student.We require 100% fees payable upon booking by credit card/EFT/cash (no cheques please). Booking is essential to attend Band Camp. Conditions Apply. Please speak with us for details.GRAND Band ConcertFriday the 15th at 2pm. Everyone is welcome.Come to the great progress students make in the holidays.<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_2290f911b0f64747a34621b86c2a1f06%7Emv2_d_3264_2448_s_4_2.jpg"/>]]></description><dc:creator>Paul Hodgkinson</dc:creator><link>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/04/29/BAND-CAMP-in-next-holidays-date-TBA</link><guid>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/04/29/BAND-CAMP-in-next-holidays-date-TBA</guid><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:48:00 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WDjiR8AwlzE"/><div>Band Camp</div><div>Wednesday, 13th to Friday, 15th July, 2016</div><div>Naamaroo Conference Centre</div><div>Lady Game Dr, Chatswood NSW 2067</div><div>Total cost is $379.00 per student.</div><div>We require 100% fees payable upon booking by credit card/EFT/cash (no cheques please). </div><div>Booking is essential to attend Band Camp. </div><div>Conditions Apply. Please speak with us for details.</div><div>GRAND Band Concert</div><div>Friday the 15th at 2pm. Everyone is welcome.</div><div>Come to the great progress students make in the holidays.</div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_2290f911b0f64747a34621b86c2a1f06~mv2_d_3264_2448_s_4_2.jpg"/></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&quot;The child’s brain responds powerfully to music ... enhancing all other learning.&quot;
Richard Gill, MD Vic Opera, SSO, Musica Viva.</title><description><![CDATA[Your children are being discriminated against if they are not receiving a well-planned and properly taught music program at school. They are being denied educational opportunities and are being disadvantaged when compared with the small number of Australian children who do receive a good music education.Some schools, state and private, have outstanding arts programs. The tragedy is that in spite of small pockets of excellence, the condition of one of those arts subjects, namely music, can range<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_ab04e94049fc463a804ad114fecc895c%7Emv2.jpg"/>]]></description><link>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/06/05/The-child%E2%80%99s-brain-responds-powerfully-to-music-enhancing-all-other-learning-Richard-Gill-MD-Vic-Opera-SSO-Musica-Viva</link><guid>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/06/05/The-child%E2%80%99s-brain-responds-powerfully-to-music-enhancing-all-other-learning-Richard-Gill-MD-Vic-Opera-SSO-Musica-Viva</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2016 02:42:58 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_ab04e94049fc463a804ad114fecc895c~mv2.jpg"/><div>Your children are being discriminated against if they are not receiving a well-planned and properly taught music program at school. They are being denied educational opportunities and are being disadvantaged when compared with the small number of Australian children who do receive a good music education.</div><div>Some schools, state and private, have outstanding arts programs. The tragedy is that in spite of small pockets of excellence, the condition of one of those arts subjects, namely music, can range from shoddy to unacceptable.</div><div>It is a national disgrace and an embarrassment that large numbers of school-age children are not receiving any music education at all. It is also disgraceful that huge numbers are receiving substandard, watered-down versions of music. Playing Mozart sonatas while children do arithmetic or having them gyrate to the latest pop music does not constitute music education.</div><div>We teach music to children because it is good and because of its immeasurable capacity and potency to act on the heart, mind, spirit and soul of humanity. We teach music to children because in so doing we acknowledge that there is almost no civilisation on earth without music somewhere at the heart of its existence. We teach music because through it we can learn many skills associated with social inclusion</div><div>and social interaction. We teach children music because it is unique and has its own integrity as a subject or discipline.</div><div>The evidence of neuroscience overwhelmingly demonstrates that children studying music have a considerable educational advantage over those who don't. Because of the essentially aural nature of music, together with the requirements of intense listening and concentration, the child's brain responds powerfully to music education, enhancing all other learning.</div><div>Is it not, then, discrimination against children when they are not provided with properly trained music teachers offering a well-designed curriculum? Is it not further discrimination to deny children the opportunity for a full and complete education which includes music?</div><div>I have read most creative arts curriculums in this country, and it seems that many of the people who dream up this nonsense would appear to be non-practitioners of anything genuinely educational or artistic. But they do have a facility in edu-speak: I believe the expression is ''bullshit baffles brains''. In the most recent regressive developments, schools of thought have emerged that suggest all the arts are related and function the same way. The visual arts, dance and drama all have their unique qualities and their own integrities, all of which must be preserved rather than be rolled into one mindless, meaningless subject.</div><div>A serious music education starts in preschool and continues to the end of schooling. Serious music education has singing as its basis, which includes singing songs representative of all musical styles and periods. From that, basic skills in learning to read and write music are taught. A serious music education includes composition of music: the reason we teach music is so that children can make their own. This means that children should listen to a vast range of music and musical styles so they can understand how music works.</div><div>At some stage the teaching of instruments follows and is relatively painless because the child can already read, write and understand musical notation; the instrumental teacher can do his or her job properly. Social inclusion, communal behaviours, co-operation, ensemble skills, teamwork and sharing creative ideas all become part of a serious music education, contributing to a child's development in a powerful way.</div><div>It is greatly to the credit of the Commonwealth and Territory education ministers who, at the request of the Arts Minister, Peter Garrett, have agreed to include arts subjects in the new national curriculum. This demonstrates enlightened thinking. The Rudd/Gillard policy of social inclusion in education and the policy of serious educational reform could be enacted powerfully if good music education were available to every child. Governments should not rest until every child has access to a fully trained, highly qualified music teacher. Universities need to take a long, hard look at the way they teach teachers, especially music teachers. Would you train a surgeon on 11 hours of classes? In some institutions, that is what a trainee primary teacher receives. What passes for the tertiary training of music teachers is inadequate. Indeed, the question of universities and music needs serious examination. Perhaps it is time to return to the days of conservatorium education of musicians if we are to be serious about training teachers and performers.</div><div>&quot;Music is a more potent instrument than any other in education,&quot; said Plato in response to a question asked 2300 years ago. In Australia, some children are still being denied an opportunity to have a complete education.</div><div>Richard Gill is the musical director for the Victorian Opera. He was national adviser to Musica Viva in Schools for five years. He is the artistic director of the Sydney Symphony's education program and has taught from preschool to postgraduate level and lectured on music education.</div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>“Children need art and stories and poems and music as much as they need love and food and fresh air and play. “</title><description><![CDATA[<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_b8eaf5e889fc44a1be44fc17e2134a13%7Emv2.jpg"/>]]></description><link>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/06/05/%E2%80%9CChildren-need-art-and-stories-and-poems-and-music-as-much-as-they-need-love-and-food-and-fresh-air-and-play-%E2%80%9C</link><guid>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/06/05/%E2%80%9CChildren-need-art-and-stories-and-poems-and-music-as-much-as-they-need-love-and-food-and-fresh-air-and-play-%E2%80%9C</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2016 02:16:41 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_b8eaf5e889fc44a1be44fc17e2134a13~mv2.jpg"/></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Big Band Blast</title><description><![CDATA[Gavin and Jade have gone to the Big Band Blast in a Port MacQuarie for a reconnaissance visit... or to play a Twin-Set gig... Love those pearls! Port Macquarie can expect to welcome over 600 eager musicians of all ages and their talented musical directors, and the general public can expect a wonderful and varied feast of great music-making in a non-competitive atmosphere of joyful sharing... FANTASTIC!! Lionel Cole has become well-known as one of Australia's most dynamic, soulful and energetic<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_1cd0fa4d141b44d6bd073d73b879be0b%7Emv2_d_2048_1536_s_2.jpg"/>]]></description><link>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/05/27/Big-Band-Blast-1</link><guid>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/05/27/Big-Band-Blast-1</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2016 07:37:48 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div> Gavin and Jade have gone to the Big Band Blast in a Port MacQuarie for a reconnaissance visit... or to play a Twin-Set gig... Love those pearls!</div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_1cd0fa4d141b44d6bd073d73b879be0b~mv2_d_2048_1536_s_2.jpg"/><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_eea20a7290db4479b4773338942bcd14~mv2_d_2048_1536_s_2.jpg"/><div>Port Macquarie can expect to welcome over 600 eager musicians of all ages and their talented musical directors, and the general public can expect a wonderful and varied feast of great music-making in a non-competitive atmosphere of joyful sharing... FANTASTIC!!</div><div>Lionel Cole has become well-known as one of Australia's most dynamic, soulful and energetic performers and is the featured artist for MOTOWN FUNK, a free concert on Saturday night on the Port Macquarie Town Green. Lionel will be performing with John Morrison's 30-piece big band,</div><div>The 3B HORNS, in a show not to be missed.</div><div>Breakwall Grasshouse Stage - FREE!</div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Gavin &amp; YouTube</title><description><![CDATA[GAV & YouTubeGav's doing some background duties for the next month including making YouTube videos, organising concerts and drumming up funding for new equipment and infrastructure to make Bennelong Music a better place for students, mums and dads and teachers alike.If you have any special talent, skill, ability, connection or contribution you'd like to make please let us know and we can work together to bring it to the community.We'll also be working with local council and businesses to broaden<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_6e165ebd7c8445b6ac0cfd643e1ff856.jpg"/>]]></description><link>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/04/28/Doctors-say-Gavin-Darby-will-survive-and-thrive</link><guid>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/04/28/Doctors-say-Gavin-Darby-will-survive-and-thrive</guid><pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2016 03:52:34 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_6e165ebd7c8445b6ac0cfd643e1ff856.jpg"/><div>GAV &amp; YouTube</div><div>Gav's doing some background duties for the next month including making YouTube videos, organising concerts and drumming up funding for new equipment and infrastructure to make Bennelong Music a better place for students, mums and dads and teachers alike.</div><div>If you have any special talent, skill, ability, connection or contribution you'd like to make please let us know and we can work together to bring it to the community.</div><div>We'll also be working with local council and businesses to broaden the reach kids music has into the community.</div><div>It's hard to believe the doctors... they were wrong last time :)</div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Killara PS</title><description><![CDATA[Killara Public School joins with Bennelong Music to benefit students!This term Bennelong Music will begin teaching at Killara Public School.Well done Gavin and Rachel Darby and all the team for making it possible! From the website: http://www.killara-p.schools.nsw.edu.auOur schoolKillara is a small school located on Sydney's mid north shore. The school has enjoyed significant growth in the past five years. Each year an additional class has been formed, with student enrolment now double that of<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_b9d748c0bfa346f5b63331d331c226c2.jpeg"/>]]></description><link>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/04/29/Killara-Public-School-joins-with-Bennelong-Music-to-benefit-students</link><guid>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/04/29/Killara-Public-School-joins-with-Bennelong-Music-to-benefit-students</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 14:54:04 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div>Killara Public School joins with Bennelong Music to benefit students!</div><div>This term Bennelong Music will begin teaching at Killara Public School.</div><div>Well done Gavin and Rachel Darby and all the team for making it possible!</div><div>From the website: http://www.killara-p.schools.nsw.edu.au</div><div>Our school</div><div>Killara is a small school located on Sydney's mid north shore. The school has enjoyed significant growth in the past five years. Each year an additional class has been formed, with student enrolment now double that of 1995. This is the result of changing demographics and an enhanced school reputation in the local area. Despite this rapid growth, Killara retains its special small community school culture. We - teachers, parents and students - know each other well and enjoy working together. Parents and local community members are actively involved on a daily basis in all aspects of life at Killara. The large grounds in a natural bush setting, surrounded by golf courses, contribute to a quiet, peaceful, harmonious atmosphere at Killara. At our school, each child is offered opportunities to reach his or her potential in academic, social, cultural and emotional areas. We aim to develop responsible, caring, thinking children who are confident users of technology and who are developing a love of learning.</div><div>More details will follow!</div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_b9d748c0bfa346f5b63331d331c226c2.jpeg"/></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>April 1st No joke!</title><description><![CDATA[1st April 2016: Celebrate with Bennelong Music at Son et Lumiere 125 Years! 5:30 Holy Cross College Band 5:45 Our Lady Queen of Peace Band & Soloists 6:00 St Charles Band and Soloists 6:15 Holy Cross College Band & Soloists 6:30 Holy Spirit band and soloists 6:45 Youth Choir and Orchestra Sydney YCOS 7:15 Holy Cross Soloists & Band 7:50 End of musicRachel, Gavin and the teachers at Bennelong Music have prepared their students for multiple performance to add to the celebrations.<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_95a707eeef3f4fa7953b83aa68b0b308.jpg"/>]]></description><link>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/03/17/125-Years-in-the-making-Bennelong-Music-celebrates-with-Holy-Cross</link><guid>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2016/03/17/125-Years-in-the-making-Bennelong-Music-celebrates-with-Holy-Cross</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2016 07:10:53 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div>1st April 2016: Celebrate with Bennelong Music at Son et Lumiere 125 Years! 5:30 Holy Cross College Band 5:45 Our Lady Queen of Peace Band &amp; Soloists 6:00 St Charles Band and Soloists 6:15 Holy Cross College Band &amp; Soloists 6:30 Holy Spirit band and soloists 6:45 Youth Choir and Orchestra Sydney YCOS 7:15 Holy Cross Soloists &amp; Band 7:50 End of music</div><div>Rachel, Gavin and the teachers at Bennelong Music have prepared their students for multiple performance to add to the celebrations.</div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/66a924_95a707eeef3f4fa7953b83aa68b0b308.jpg"/></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>EOY Concert!</title><description><![CDATA[Bennelongs big band just have completed their end of year concert at Putney Public School. With 23 students all together playing a range of instruments from flutes to guitars a lot of hard work and dedication went into perfecting each song. The students all played 5 songs together including; Sesame Street, All About That Bass, Smoke On The Water, Uptown Funk and Don't Stop Believin' all of which sounded great with all of there different parts. What a fun day with our happy students!<img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/b99cd5ba391844ea9ff24449d54d9659.jpg"/>]]></description><link>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2015/08/18/Successful-Performance-At-End-Of-Year-Concert</link><guid>http://www.bennelongmusic.com.au/single-post/2015/08/18/Successful-Performance-At-End-Of-Year-Concert</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2015 03:09:52 +0000</pubDate><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><div>Bennelongs big band just have completed their end of year concert at Putney Public School. With 23 students all together playing a range of instruments from flutes to guitars a lot of hard work and dedication went into perfecting each song. The students all played 5 songs together including; Sesame Street, All About That Bass, Smoke On The Water, Uptown Funk and Don't Stop Believin' all of which sounded great with all of there different parts. What a fun day with our happy students!</div><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/b99cd5ba391844ea9ff24449d54d9659.jpg"/><img src="http://static.wixstatic.com/media/c259cbeefcd1f637ee262fc70b9ac7ea.jpg"/></div>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>