Music in the Community

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This article is about the Abingdon School Third Year Music in the Community Group. For other uses of Music in the Community, please see elsewhere.

Abingdon School Music in the Community is part of the Third Year Service and Citizenship Scheme, which was recently taken over from the now retired Frau Hanky by the English teacher Anne Soper. The Service Scheme gives Third Years (Year 9s) an opportunity to use their spare time after school on a Tuesday to do something beneficial to the local community, and also to give them valuable experience.

Music in the Community is a small group of young musicians aged 13-14, directed by Dr. Peter Willis, which plays music as entertainment in elderly care homes (such as Abingdon Court Nursing Home and Old Station House) on alternate Tuesdays in term-time, and occasionally in chapel. Rehearsals are from 3.50 until 5.00 on alternate Tuesday afternoons, although the members often practise together in their own time outside of formal rehearsal times.

[edit] Members

Current members (as of July 2007):

Name	Instrument(s)
Ben Etherton	cello
Charlie Hall	violin
Freddie Miles	tenor horn/saxophone
David Mears	clarinet
Ozy Tack	piano/violin
(Dr. Willis - Director)	voice