Music and Drama
The school has a thriving music society. There are 3 orchestras, a Big Band and numerous instrumental groups and choirs. These range from traditional wind and string ensembles to African and Samba percussion groups.
Both the Music and Drama Departments are able to use the Bushell Hall for performances. This building is used as an assembly hall and has a state-of-the-art retractable stage with under-stage orchestra pit and seats an audience of around 1,000.
Read more about this topic: Solihull School
Famous quotes containing the words music and/or drama:
“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practise politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.”
—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)
“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)