How much fun is it to learn a piece from scratch and to perform it 3 hours later? The 80-strong Wind, Brass and Percussion Festival Ensemble, combining tubas, trumpets, trombones, saxophones, horns, bassoons, clarinets, flutes, oboes, piccolos and recorders, generated a fabulous version of Waltz by Shostakovitch. They musicians loved the unusual partnerships such as saxophone and flute and the audience enjoyed the spectacle! A tour de force from Ms Corp!

The first of its kind at JAGS, the Festival gave every wind, brass and percussionist from Year 7 to 13 a chance to perform in pairs or groups. What diversity! From the novel percussion performance of ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes’ (instrument: the human body!) to the clarinets playing ‘Ave Verum Corpus’, the recorders ‘Pink Panther’ and the flautists ‘Shuffle by the Seaside’, to name only a bit of the programme, we didn’t stop admiring the different moods and genres.