{"id":2231,"date":"2020-08-25T23:18:46","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T23:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dominicansisters.net.nz\/?p=2231"},"modified":"2023-05-09T04:19:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-09T04:19:23","slug":"music-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/2020\/08\/25\/music-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hail! Saint Dominic, Holy Father,
Hail! O friend of God, to thee!
Chosen Knight of Christ and Mary;
Guardian of the Rosary.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

So goes the opening verse of the Hymn of St Dominic which by now is a familiar and beloved tune to the Sisters and their pupils here in St Dominic\u2019s College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The hymn, penned by Sister Mary Ceslaus Fox, O.P., of the Dominican Sisters of New Zealand, is sung every year on St Dominic\u2019s Day and during the ceremonies of the Congregation. It was this hymn that fittingly closed our St Dominic\u2019s Day celebrations, which concluded with an evening of music at the Radford Junior High Auditorium on 5th<\/sup> August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In line with the theme adopted by the school this year – \u201cNew Zealand and Maori Culture<\/em>\u201d \u2013 the section categories were named after New Zealand Religious who had made notable contributions to the musical culture of our country. They were Sister Mary Leo Niccol, RSM, Sister Mary Ceslaus Fox, O.P., Sister Mary Eulalie Martini, RSM, and Sister Mary Gertrude Fox, O.P. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each Religious lent her name to a section in which the girls, representing their houses, displayed their talents as solo, ensemble or instrumental musicians. The audience, comprising of the pupils, their families, ex-pupils, and the Sisters, were thoroughly treated to an evening of tasteful entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two Maori pieces kicked off the inter-house Music Competition: Hine e Hine<\/em>, a Maori Lullaby written by Princess Te Rangi Pai in 1907, and E Papa Waiari<\/em>, a folk song accompanied by a stick dance that originated from the communities from around the Whanganui River. The girls, having given up their lunch-times to perfect their renditions of these two pieces, performed extraordinarily well, but it was Bologna\u2019s entry that captivated the judges with their string trio and percussion instruments used to great effect \u2013 and enjoyment!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other highlights of the evening included the brave endeavours of the junior musicians in presenting their piano and string pieces (we even had a cello this year!), a French choral trio, and an astounding Mezzo Soprano solo performance of Vivaldi\u2019s Domine Deus.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

What follows are a series of photographs from the night: the girls dexterously executing the Maori stick dance, performing in ensemble, and also of the young cellist who gamely tangled her way through an excerpt of Squire\u2019s Tarentella<\/em> (nerves and all!).<\/p>\n\n\n

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Bologna’s Vocal Ensemble present Scarborough Fair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The Stick Dance is actually quite complicated!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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But I think the girls did have some fun manipulating the sticks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Prouille’s performance was accompanied by a guitar and a little ukelele.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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The sweet voices of the younger girls sang a favourite tune: Edelweiss.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A challenging piece on the cello!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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A guitar performance was also part of the evening.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Singing before a large audience doesn’t seem an issue! (She was shaking inside though!)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Thank you to our judges who had the hard task of determining who would win.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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Sr Jacinta wraps up the evening with a beautiful speech on beauty, music and culture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n
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And thank you very much to all our ex-pupils who were so supportive.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hail! Saint Dominic, Holy Father,Hail! O friend of God, to thee!Chosen Knight of Christ and Mary;Guardian of the Rosary. So goes the opening verse of the Hymn of St Dominic which by now is a familiar and beloved tune to the Sisters and their pupils here in St Dominic\u2019s College. The hymn, penned by Sister … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apostolate","infinite-scroll-item","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4891,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/4891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opsisters.org.nz\/preview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}