It's not so much boys as young men when the Canberra Grammar School performs at Wesley, but given recent posts, it fits. This was a smaller, shorter and more discrete performance. A pianist was unwell so couldn't perform. Otherwise, it was mostly solo performers with piano accompaniment - clarinet, voice, alto sax-cum-voice - and a solo guitar. All in preparation for HSC exams in coming weeks/months. Some things never change, though. First piece was a Katz-Chernin rag and it was lovely, played on clarinet, followed by a Poulenc second movement. Second movements are commonly the slow, contemplative ones. Then that solo guitar, playing a tango, which fits guitar so well. Then voice, but somewhat more modern in presence and in style, with one tune from the famous rap musical, Hamilton, and a similarly wordy, rhythmic, rap adjacent lyric with some sung pitches, Gnarls Barkley Crazy. Then would be the missing piano and a final discombobulatingly different vocal with a Finzi tune that I'd heard before, all classical voice, perhaps tenor, incessantly melodic and story telling and not at all rappy and two alto sax numbers from the same performer. So a vast mix of styles and takes and tones. Really quite a satisfying outing from the boys-to-men at CGS.
Canberra Grammar School students Alistair Bridgewater (clarinet), Pace Allen (guitar), Jarvis Christie (voice) and Willem Hehir (voice, alto sax) performs mostly with accompaniment by Anthony Smith (piano) at Wesley.
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