I was amused just how different were the Wesley concerts of the CGS and CGGS (Canberra [Girls] Grammar School). The CGGS concert was huge, with a string of performers, with choirs and larger ensembles, and located in the larger Wesley Church venue. The CGS concert was mostly single or pairs of students with an accompanist performing in the Wesley Concert room ... and with two electric guitars. But I enjoyed both the gigs. Perhaps the difference was that the CGS concert featured 6 performers preparing for the HSC music exams. So we had a Sally Greenaway, Elgar, Joe Satriani (unexpected, all tapping and chordal fingering, obviously on an e-guitar, not surprisingly Ibanez), Richard Percvile, Paganini, JS Bach (on another Ibanez electric guitar, this time a wide, flat maple-necked 7-string) and Hindemith. The playing was good to excellent and always entertaining: the piano accompaniment from Anthony Smith was also excellent; interestingly one performer, Ben Monro, appeared on two instruments, cello and trumpet; those two Ibanez guitars and especially the Satriani were unexpected but interesting; the other instruments were flute, oboe and viola. So a mix of capable players in preparation for exams. Great.
Six players on various instruments appeared at Wesley in preparation for their HSC performance exams.
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