"East meets West (Song for Ewong)" premiers 8th of July!
Posted by John Roberts at Tue, 08 Jul 2008 07:24:00 GMT and is filed under Golden Triangle Elephants,Public Service Broadcast 
This afternoon (by the time you read this) at the National Music for Youth Festival, held at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham - the UK's second city, not the one in Alabammy - a piece specially composed for our almost-one-eyed mystery elephant will be premiered.
The piece was commissioned by Helen Walton, a mahout course graduate and music teacher in the UK, it will eventually be available on CD to raise funds for the Foundation.
There will, of course, be more details to follow, but if you're in Birmingham and weren't already planning to go along then please do go and support the kids, be the first to publicly hear the East meets West (Song for Ewong).
The piece was commissioned by Helen Walton, a mahout course graduate and music teacher in the UK, it will eventually be available on CD to raise funds for the Foundation.
There will, of course, be more details to follow, but if you're in Birmingham and weren't already planning to go along then please do go and support the kids, be the first to publicly hear the East meets West (Song for Ewong).
Hi I was linked to this blog by Helen - my music teacher. I played bass saxophone in Birmingham yesterday with our quartet... What a great piece to play! And so glad it is all for a good cause.
http://www.youtube.com/v/Kr3_zZmj0q8
This link shows our performance yesteday - or the beginning anyway; camera filming was limited!
James.
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Hi John
Some piccys of the kids who played Ewong's piece - they all want to come & meet her now!!
I think I saw Ewong on the webcam the other day - unfortunately we are on dial up at home, so by the time I had got the camera to pan round they had gone but I am sure it was them.
Helen
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Hi, just dropping a note to say that theres a new video up of East Meets West - of our saxophone quartet playing, but a full video this time!
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This gives you an idea of the piece but is not the best recording! The Cd {a collection of saxophone music by British composer Paul Stiles including this piece commissioned by HCSC & dedicated to th beautiful EWong!}will be much better and should be available before Christmas to raise money for GTAEF and their quest for more land for the eles.
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