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We are delighted that Nicola Benedetti, one of the finest musicians Scotland has produced, is to become involved with the orchestra. Click on our press release link to the left for full details.
ASTONISHING HIGH UPTAKE Winter 2009
Big Noise works with Raploch's children as part of their Primary One school curriculum. When the children go up to Primary Two the orchestra becomes voluntary and participation is after-school. We are delighted that 85% of the Primary Two children in Raploch are now chosing to be in Big Noise.
BIG NOISE - THE BIG PICTURE
To celebrate the Big Noise Orchestra's birthday, we printed a booklet of photographs which were distributed in the community. The pictures told the story of year one in the life of the UK's first Sistema Orchestra. You can download a pdf of the booklet by clicking here.
Sistema Scotland Chairman Dr Richard Holloway gave the Anglo-Venezuala Society's annual Bolivar Lecture at the Palace of Westminster on June 9. A full transcript of the speech entitled How the Children of Venezuela are Teaching Scotland How To Play can be viewed at the Society's website.
Big Noise has recorded a mobile phone ringtone available from the iTunes music store in the UK. It costs 79p to download the track, from which Sistema Scotland receives a royalty of 49p. The Sistema Scotland Ringtone will be available from various mobile content suppliers and online stores such as Napster, O2, HMV Digital, MusicNet, Tune Tribe, and eMusic. We are grateful to our friends at EmuBands.com who arranged digital distribution of the track.
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