Elmwood Junior School Steel Band, Croydon Conductor: Brenda Davis Ping-Pong Samba ) arranged by The Breeze and I Russell Viva Espa'iia Henderson Elmwood Junior School is a large five-form entry school in West Croydon which offers varied musical opportunities to its pupils whose ages range from seven to eleven years.
television on several occasions, has Elmwood Steel Band was first formed in 1971 under the tutorship of been heard on radio and has played at concerts at the Royal Festival Hall Russell Henderson. Each July the and Fairfield Halls, Croydon. Band loses its eleven-year-old players when they transfer to High In both 1974 and 1975 the Band Schools and a new group is gained an Award for the Most formed at the beginning of each Outstanding Performance in their academic year. category at the National Festival of Music for Youth. The Band has appeared on
Woking County Grammar School for Girls Orchestra Conductor: Joan Parry Coriolanus Overture, op. 62 Beethoven (1770-1827)
department has two full-time music staff, and enjoys the help of 13 peripatetic teachers.
The orchestra, which takes girls from all age groups in the school, W oking County Grammar School meets regularly, in preparation for for Girls is small by present-day the termly concerts. Its most recent standards, numbering under 800 performances have been of Bach's pupils. Of these, about 200 are Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 and Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 in B involved either in orchestral or choral societies, or in some form of flat. Som"etimes, the orchestra takes instrumental work. The music part in the local music festivals, and
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last year won a competition open to all schools in the South of England. The overture was written in 1807, about the same period as the 4th and 5th symphonies. It was based on the play 'Coriolanus' by Heinrich von Coli in, which differed slightly from Shakespeare's version of the story. Coriolanus, a nobleman of Rome, is portrayed as a proud, arrogant and defiant figure, a courageous soldier, a hero, for whom honour and valour are the greatest virtues, but also as a leader who has little sympathy with the ordinary people. His attitude to them leads to his banishment from Rome and, in seeking justice for himself, he leads an enemy force, the Volscians, against his own city. When his mother, wife and son are sent out to plead with him to withdraw and to spare the city, Coriolanus is torn between his love for his family and his desire for revenge. After-much torment of mind, he decides to leave Rome in