Stories

  • Compose Yourself! The 2009 Music and Drama Summer Musical
    2 years 16 weeks ago

    By Catherine Gardner

    Imagine meeting all the famous composers of our past and performing their music with them! This was the theme of our summer musical “Compose Yourself” by Alan Billingsley and John Jacobson.

  • Bones, the 2008 summer camp adventure
    2 years 39 weeks ago

    by Cherry Fraser

    "The toe bone connected to the foot bone, the foot bone connected to the ankle bone, the ankle bone connected to the..........." No, this is not Anatomy 101, but the, "toe-tapping,foot-stomping, knee-slapping, hip-swinging, hand clapping" musical, BONES by Janet Gardner.

    The campers in the Music and Drama camp performed this musical for family and friends at the end of the week. Getting to that point was a lot of work - and a lot of fun!

  • from the Drama Studio, Sept. 2008
    2 years 38 weeks ago

    In Toronto, in May 2008, three drama students from the Beckett School successfully passed their Drama and Speech examinations.  The examiner, from Trinity Guildhall, in England, commended them for their hard work and success.  The students were:  Mercedes Arn-Horn, Gr. 6 - Merit, Phoenix Arn-Horn, Gr. 6 - Merit and Sanasi Jayawardena - Gr. 5 - Merit  (Merit is a mark of 75 and over)

  • Beckett Provincial Competition Delegates for 2009 Finals
    2 years 38 weeks ago

    The Provincial Competition will be held in Peterborough, June 5 - 12, 2009.

    Congratulations: Beth Robertson (voice), Samantha Sosnowski (Piano), Ainsley Nantes (Piano), Sojung Park (Piano), Alexandra Firek-Johns (Violin), Michaela Firek-Johns (cello) and William McLeish (Cello) and from Stratford Festival, The "Beckett Quartet".

    Special Thanks to their teachers Cherry Fraser, Nichole Robertson, Lorin Shalenko, Corinne Dutton, Mark Norris and Julia Dixon.

     

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