Student Life
Senior Formal 2022,
St Aloysius College Archives
Music
Central to celebrations at SAC, music is also a popular extra-curricular activity that adds to the school experience for students.
Music has always been an essential component of education at St Aloysius College. The influence of the founding Spanish-Argentinean Sisters, who came from wealthy upper-class families, meant that music enjoyed a solid place in the education of young women at St Aloysius College.
The ‘Annual Concert’ was an important event on the school calendar and was reported on in great detail in the SAC Annuals up until the 1960s.
From the traditional classes in music, which encompass not just musical appreciation, but also the practical elements of knowing a crotchet from a quaver or a bass from a treble clef, the life of music at SAC has a rich heritage.
Music at SAC has been the soundtrack to the school life of countless generations of students. Without music there would be no whole school productions or Spring Concerts or the opportunity for countless talented students to showcase their talents in school and community settings.
School Masses are all the more memorable for the accompanying voices of the acapella group or the school choir and the many renditions of The Circle of Mercy, a song which has become the unofficial school anthem.
By Carolyn Williams,
Year 12 Coordinator 2023