In the middle of June, I had the immense privilege and pleasure to sit on the judging panel for Shake It Up's annual competition. The contest is run by the Copyright Licensing Agency and invites teachers to submit arrangements of music that they have made for use in their school.
It was a delight to listen to the shortlisted entries and pore over the arrangement, identifying the parts which I liked and those which I felt fell a little bit short of the mark. What I found was that there was very little that I did not like – which made the judging all the more difficult! The shortlisted entries had very little in common, besides being arrangements, with a whole host of genres covered – both in terms of the original music and the style of the arrangement. The panel heard samba, opera, musical theatre and even a Christmas carol.
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