NEWSLETTERS
NEWSLETTER 3 January 2025
Welcome to our first Newsletter for 2025.
A belated but warm welcome from The Musical Society of Geelong Inc. We wish you a healthy, happy and musically stimulating year. This year we are celebrating our 60th year as an organisation devoted to helping young music students of Geelong. Our Annual Scholarships for 2024 were very successful with 5 fine young musicians taking home $1,500 each.
This year on FRIDAY 23rd May we will be holding a 60th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner at Truffleduck to raise vital scholarship funds. We will also hold our Annual Scholarships in August: Auditions 9th August and Finals August 17th so a big year for us. PLEASE KEEP THE DINNER DATE FREE AND MAKE A TABLE or JUST COME ALONG AND SIT WITH LIKE-MINDED NEW FRIENDS. If you have any contacts for auction items for our Fundraising dinner please contact me.
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We ask that you please renew your membership/join us. The membership rate for the 2025 calendar year is $20. This entitles you to newsletters and free entrance to the Scholarship Finals. Please see the Membership page for more details.
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We hope to have many of our old friends join us again and please bring along new friends - lovers of music who will help support young students have performance opportunities, our Annual Scholarships and the website. We look forward to fresh ideas and welcome both passive and active members..
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Best wishes until the next Newsletter,
Kristine Mellens - President Musical Society of Geelong Inc
What is Beethoven's favourite fruit? "Ba-na-na-naaaaa"
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NEWSLETTER 2 September 2024
Welcome to our second Newsletter for 2024. The year has certainly sped by up till now, and last weekend we held the auditions for our Annual Scholarships.
It was hard to know what numbers we would get after a couple year’s hiatus, but after many emails to schools and word of mouth, pleasingly 19 young people applied. Martin Greet was our adjudicator for the Auditions and was a very kind, engaging and all-round musician who chose 11 finalists to appear in the Finals.
We are therefore inviting you to attend the Scholarship Finals which will take place this SUNDAY 15th SEPTEMBER, at 2pm at Belmont High School PAC. Jim Davidson will be the adjudicator for the Finals.
We hope you will come to the Finals and bring family and friends. Entry for adults is $5 and children and students are free. Your entry is free as an MSoG Inc member.
Entry is from Rotherham Street, Belmont, the gates directly next to the oval will be open and the PAC is at the top of the carpark. Parking is available in the carpark.
We wish all the finalists a positive and wonderful experience: the feedback from parents and students has been all very positive: the right time of the year to hold the Scholarships for older students to air their VCE pieces before the exam, for students to perform in front of an adjudicator in relaxed, friendly, semi-informal surroundings and to gain professional feedback.
2025 will celebrate 60 years of the Musical Society of Geelong Inc and its work in Geelong, in helping young musicians. At this point in time we plan to hold an Anniversary Scholarship Fund-Raising Dinner with Scholarship Winners participating. Any ideas and helping hands most welcome!
Our membership still needs boosting so please spread the word to like-minded friends.
Best wishes until the next Newsletter,
Kristine Mellens - President Musical Society of Geelong Inc
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Why couldn’t the string quartet find their composer?
He was Haydn.
Welcome to our first Newsletter for 2024.
It’s been a while coming, but life has certainly changed for a lot of us with the legacies of Covid and now the difficult financial world we live in.
2025 will celebrates 60 years of the Musical Society of Geelong Inc. and its
work in Geelong, in helping musicians gain performance opportunities,
and more importantly our work in offering the Annual Scholarships to
students over many years, since 1973. We are very pleased to be able to once again offer these Annual Scholarships, for which more information can be found on the Scholarships page on our website. If you know of any potential young students, please alert them to this so they can participate and potentially gain musical and financial assistance in the process.
Our membership is steady, but ready for a boost of new faces. We
thank you all for supporting us and hope you stay with us and bring like-minded music lovers to join us. Please see membership page for forms.
If you have any ideas, musical jokes or stories we can place on our website, please forward them to me. Our email address is musicalsocietyofgeelong@gmail.com
HOORAY!!! Our website is up and running, so please
view/Google it, give us feedback, pass it on to interested friends/prospective
members and contribute if you wish to.
musicalsocietyofgeelong.org
Best wishes until the next Newsletter,
Kristine Mellens, President
Musical Society of Geelong Inc.
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Why is a piano so hard to open?
Because the keys are on the inside!