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More creative responses from our students in our 'Beyond the Classroom' distance learning programme - Class 11 student on Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture 🎵🎻🎵
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"Through this creative response, I wanted to highlight the way in which Tchaikovsky’s overture portrays the contrasting elements of a tragedy. I wanted to pick up on the calm and frantic, quiet and loud, and slow and fast of the music; how these contrasts reflect the bitter-sweetness of the combination of love, loss and conflict within the plot. The piece seems to me, to mirror a sense dread and apprehension throughout. However, it also at the same time, expresses the sweetness and romance of a love story and it is this contrast that I wanted to portray through my creative response.

My piece is therefore a response to the Love Theme and the conflicting elements of the tragedy that are reflected within it. When listening to it, it sounded to me somewhat ethereal, the mixture of plucky harps, soaring strings, and wistful flutes sounding like angels singing, hence the angels in my piece. However, although sounding beautiful like the voices of angles, it also sounded quite melancholic, almost haunting, as if the couple’s guardian angels were looking down on them, aware of the destruction that their meeting would result in. I therefore wanted to take these angels, which are usually thought as beautiful, positive beings, and depict them as if they were mournful, making them reflect the tragedy of the story as they look down upon Romeo and Juliet’s inevitable fates.

I also wanted to reflect the feelings created in the piece with my use of colour; the purple and blue representing this sense of tragedy and sorrow, as well as adding to the kind of ethereal feeling the piece reminded me of, and the red hinting towards the frantic dread and panic to come. I made the red appear to be closing in on the angels so as to reflect the approaching finale. This enclosing red also represents the heavier parts of the story in general, and how they are expressed within the piece; the build-up of drums, crashing symbols, frantic strings, and the general speeding up of tempo."
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What does experiential learning look like outside of the classroom? Our students and teachers are rising to the challenge of distance leaning - adapting and working creatively with the curriculum and linking learning concepts to wider experiences.

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an inspiring and

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Cardiff Steiner School is a non-selective, independent school in Cardiff for boys and girls aged 3 to 18. Our small, caring and supportive school offers an inspiring and nurturing education based on the needs of the ‘whole child’ – academic, physical, emotional and spiritual.

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