VUJking County Grammar School }or Girls String Orchestra Symphony No. 1 in B flat William Boyce (1710-1779)
HE Woking County School for Girls is in its last year as a Grammar School. In July 1977 it will close and will reopen in September as a mixed comprehensive school. Although there are under 800 pupils, there is enough enthusiasm for the school to run a full orchestra, senior and junior string orchestras and a wind band. There are also two large choirs and a madrigal group. The String Orchestra performing this evening is coached by Miss Pamela Spofforth, who is one of the directors of Pro Corda, the National Association for Young String Players. The school holds regular concerts at the end of every
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term, and has taken part in several festivals, including the Windsor Festival and the Llangollen International Eisteddfod. The English composer William Boyce lived in the years shortly after the death of Henry Purcell. " This was the period of the early development of the symphony, when composers like Carl Philip
Emmanuel Bach and his contemporaries in Italy, Germany and Austria were laying the foundations of the great classical form. The symphonies of Boyce are among the earliest examples of this form in England. His Symphony No. 1 in B flat has three movements - the 1st and 3rd are quick and lively, and are separated by a beautiful Adagio as the 2nd movement.
Kincorth VUiits Early Music Group Aberdeen CondUClOr: Charles Foster La Mourisque Tielman Susato Pastime with good company Henry VIII Belle qui tiens ma vie Thoinot Arbeau Ungaresca Anon
September 1975, the Kincorth Waits have been playing music of the 16th century, on authentic instruments and in appropriate costume, and are now extending their repertoire to music of the Middle Ages. The members of the group are all pupils from Kincorth Academy, a recently established comprehensive school situated in one of .-\berdeen's large housing schemes_ :\1embers rehearse \"ery willingh in their ()\\"lj time. and obviously deri\"e much pleasure from [NeE
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playing and singing together. In the past year they ha\"e gi\"en many concerts in Aberdeen. ha\-e been heard on Scottish Radio. and made two television appearances, one in
a film aptly entitled 'Kincorth Renaissance'. The founder and director of the group, Charles Foster, is an instructor of brass instruments at Kincorth Academy. 11