THE walls of Bendigo Stadium thundered with the sound of music and shone with dazzling lighting and pyrotechnics at Girton Grammar School's Speech Night.
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Almost 3000 people attended the annual end-of-year event, where they were treated to a full symphony orchestra, big band, string orchestra and more.
Five hundred male students from grade 3 to year 11 also took to the stage for a "Boys Item", inspired by ACDC's Thunderstruck.
The school used 1200 kilograms of lighting, 18 speakers on 80 metres of truss and 12,500 watts of special effects.
Girton Grammar School principal Matthew Maruff said the night highlighted the school's commitment to music.
"It's fair to say we are a school that loves music and this year's speech night is testament to the quality of musicians and teachers in our music department," he said.
"Events like this are forever memorable for the students and priceless in terms of the performance experience that they afford our music and performing arts students, plus our staff and student production technicians."
The school has more than 550 instrumental students and performs 80 public music performances in and around Bendigo every year. They also conduct 30 music assembly performances.
Two cherry pickers were brought in to install the equipment and 30 technicians helped to run the show, 25 of which are current Girton students.
Simulated fireworks of gas and compressed air, plus laser lights and dry-ice foggers were among the techniques used on the night.
The speech night included the naming of award winners for 2014.
