Scrapers & Tooters Edinburgh
Last weekend was a very busy weekend for SCO Education. Scrapers & Tooters returned to Edinburgh with 63 enthusiastic amateur musicians from across the country. Dedicated scrapers travelled from as far a field as Nairn and Jedburgh. We were lucky to have David Watkin, SCO principal cellist, conducting an adventurous programme for the weekend. Since it was Valentine's weekend, we had to play something with a love theme, we chose the Love Scene from Berlioz's Romeo & Juliet. A very hard piece, but the orchestra managed to play most of the tricky passages! Also in the programme was Mendelssohn's Hebrides Overture, a great favourite of the SCO.
A fantastic team of SCO musicians were on hand all weekend to take sectionals and help with all those tricky bits. With a few hours of sectionals each day, there was more than enough time to master those difficult passages. On valentine's day one tutor even got bunch of flowers from an admirer!
The only thing to keep this huge orchestra going for the weekend was copius amounts of tea and biscuits. We take our tea very seriously here at SCO Education! An estimated 337 cups of tea were drunk and 422 biscuits eaten over the weekend. I put this amount down to the huge number of accidentals in the Berlioz!
The weekend was rounded off with an informal concert to family and friends to show off everyone's hard work over the weekend. The orchestra received very enthusiastic applause from a supportive audience.
Thanks to all the tutors and David for their hard work over the weekend. Well done to everyone who struggled through those horrible key signatures and counted their many bars rest!
Scrapers visits Glasgow in March, we'll see many of you there.....
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