Other Musical Activities
Tours
Musicians from RGS tour abroad every year, and we tend to alternate instrumental and choral tours, so that anyone involved with music at school can have the opportunity to travel on tour with us. Students who have been on RGS Music Tours usually say that these are the best and most memorable experiences of their musical careers at school. In addition to foreign tours, the Chamber Orchestra often visits Bryanston School in Dorset for an intensive course.
Recent RGS Music Tours
2003 Swing Band to Barcelona
2005 RGS Singers and Polyphony to Vienna
2006 Symphony Orchestra to Bruges and Brussels
2007 RGS Singers and Swing Band to Lake Garda
2008 Concert Band to Mosel Valley, Germany
2009 RGS Singers and Polyphony to Vienna
2010 Symphony Orchestra to Lake Geneva
2011 RGS Singers and Polyphony to Rome
2012 Concert Band to Holland
2013 RGS Singers and Polyphony to the USA
Amongst our fund raising for the RGS Opportunities Fund is a very popular Music Quiz Night held in February each year.
Shows
Every two years the Music Department collaborates with the Drama Department on a major musical. In 2011 we collaborated on a Junior Musical - ‘Seussical’ - for the first time in a number of years. Additionally, RGS musicians provide the musicians in the bands for these musicals and also for school plays such as 2010’s ‘Nicholas Nickleby’.
Recent RGS Musicals
2001 Oliver!
2003 Cabaret
2005 Les Miserables
2006 I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (6th form)
2007 West Side Story
2009 Anything Goes
2011 Seussical (Junior Musical)
2011 The Producers
Music Trips
We believe that seeing live music is vital for all of our students, and arrange frequent trips to concerts in London. Recently, students have been to English National Opera, the Wigmore Hall, the Barbican, the Royal Albert Hall and the Royal Festival Hall. We have also been to see our fair share of West End Musicals such as Rent, The Producers, Chicago, Hairspray, Blood Brothers, Sweeney Todd and We Will Rock You.
