Day 11 - Saturday 12 May
This morning, the boys had to be at the Musik-Akademie Basel at 08:45am, for a rehearsal. Chef gave a type of presentation/workshop about African choral music here from 10-00-11:00am, with the boys demonstrating all the concepts he taught to the audience. The Musik-Akademie Basel is an institution for music education and comprises a music school, college of music and a center for early music research and performance. It is a beautiful school, nestled up against a hill in Basel, with a mix of old and modern architecture. Interestingly, this is also the school where Nathan Julius, a Drakie old boy and Hilton College alumnus, is studying. We met up with Nathan quite a few times during the course of the festival (he attended some concerts of ours), and we are very proud of him and his achievements as a singer and an old boy. Chef and old boy Nathan Julius in the Musik-Akademie Basel After the presentation, the boys walked to the Uni Mensa (this is basic...