Dwr-y-Felin School Orchestra Neath, GlalTlorgan Conductor: Alan Good Last movement from Symphony No. 5 in E minor (New World) Antonin Dvotb.k
(1841-1904) Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 'Land of Hope and Glory' Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
School Orchestra, formerly Nea~h Boys' Grammar School . Orchestra, was established in 1940. Since then it has maintained a successful record of concerts, including invited tours to Esslingen and the Vienna Festival, and has made several broadcasts on radio and television. Many of the orchestra's members belong also to the West Glamorgan Youth Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of vVales. Indeed, the present leader of Dwr-y-Felin is also leader of the National Youth Orchestra. Many former members are now full-time professional musicians.
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Dvobl.k's 5th Symphony in E minor ('from the New World') was completed in May 1893, during the composer's period of
residence in New York. In December of the same year, its first performance met with great success, and much popular interest was aroused by the suggestions that the work was a truly American one, notably in its use of Indian tunes. Dvor.ik himself, however, claimed that the symphony had been composed only 'in the spirit of American national m elodies', and that its tunes and its essentially Slavonic character made it 'genuine Bohemian music'. The 'Pomp and Circumstance' marches form a series of five military marches for orchestra.
They were composed during two widely separated periods, the first four between 190 I and 1907, and the last in 1930. The first, and most famous, was first performed by the Liverpool Orchestral Society in October 1901. A year later, Elgar was invited to compose a Coronation Ode to be sung at a Gala Performance at the Opera House, Covent Garden, to commemorate the Coronation of Edvvard VII. He allied the tune from the Pomp and Circumstance March :'\0. I to A. C. Benson's words, to produce the imposingly patriotic 'Land of Hope and Glory'.
Croydon Schools' Centre for Wt'nd Players 1st Orchestra Conductor : David K endall Overture: Candide Leonard Bernstein
(b. 1918) HE Croydon Schools' Centre for vVind Players was opened in 1969 by the Croydon Educa tion Committee as part of a comprehensive music development plan. At present 120 pupils from 26 Croydon schools attend weekly rehearsals to play in the two wind orchestras and various chamber groups, and to receive instruction in the general musicia n,hip cla sses. The 1st \\·ind O rc hestra has a wide repertoire (f):>i<rin g mainly of original \\"(Jrb !:j !. : );, : ~ ( : . , :;' )u 2h transcriptions of urcr:e <~.l: and
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organ works are used if q: ita:):e :-or the medium . It ha- "ppc, :·,·: , : ~ many occasiOn> at the L':!::t'; ·.: Halls and has \\lJlj ,lh." ' :' .,: ,ill' last five :'\ation,,; FL"":,~i\ .\;, 0\· Music for Youth.
Bernstein's 'Candide' was first p m duced in 195 1). Its m·erture uses se\·cral melodies from the show, \,·ith a fine tune in seven time which pro\·ides brief contrast to the reckless abandon of the rest of thc piece. 13