National Festival of Music for Youth, having performed at the Royal Festival Hall and Fairfield Halls on previl' IS occasions. Musical Director is John Hughes, a peripatetic brass teacher for Walsall Education. Corazon - Carofe Kin!! Corazon, arranged by Bill Stapleton, was originally recorded by the Woody Herman Band and its ever-building ensemble passages make it a perfect example of what a pop-inspired jazz arrangement should be. Make a Joyful Noise - Spera This piece starts and ends with a light-hearted touch of musical satire . The overall arrangement is a mixture of many jazz styles with passages and time changes bringing to mind the music of Charles Mingus, Don Ellis and Count Basie.
larger string groups which meet weekly with Sheila Nelson to study aspects of string technique and ensemble playing, All hold Inner London Education Authority awards and have become members of the London Schools' Symphony Orchestra, of which Stephen Banks is the present leader. Hilary Sturt is now a member of the National Youth Orchestra, The Quartet performed in Italy in July and two of its members travelled to Finland last year to perform with a younger Cromwell ensemble, They were delighted to gain an Outstanding Performance Award at the National Festival, the first festival they have ever entered. String Quartet, Op 67 - Brahms Brahms uses an unmuted viola to dominate the other three muted strings at the outset of this unusual movement, but by the time the calm coda is reached, the four instruments are on equal terms.
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CEREDIGION YOUTH ORCHESTRA arr. Russell Henderson
Elmwood Junior School, West Croydon, offers varied musical opportunities to its pupils whose ages range from 7-1 I years. Its Steel Band was formed in 1971 under the tutorship of Russell Henderson. Each July the band loses its eleven-year old players when they transfer to secondary schools and a new group is formed . In both 1974 and 1975 the band gained an Award for the Most Outstanding Performance of the Year, and in 1978 for Highly Commended at the National Festival which led to its taking part in the 1975, 1976 and 1978 Schools Proms at the Royal Albert Hall. The Band looks forward to further developments now that it has been presented with a much more comprehensive set of instruments by BWIA - the airline of Trinidad and Tobago. These 41 steel pans were manufactured in Trinidad by Winston Graham.
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Cerddorfa Ceredigion draws its talent from the seven secondary schools serving this rural district in the county of Dyfed in West Wales. Despite having a school population of only 10,000, nearly 1,000 of these pupils receive instrumental tuition from visiting teachers in various centres, The orchestra regularly supplies 16-20 members of the N ational Youth Orchestra of Wales . The district's Chamber Orchestra, formed from the full Symphony Orchestra in 1977, appeared at last year's Schools Prom, Cerddorfa Ceredigion's first visit to the National Fes[ival of Music of Youth this year gained them an Outstanding Performance A ward in the Open Orchestra Class. Le Cid - Massenet Jules Massenet is said to have been at least the 27th composer to base an opera on the exploits of Rodrigo de Bivar, the Spanish national hero known as 'Le Cid', The ballet occurs in the second act and provides the opportunity for much seductive, exotic and Spanish flavoured music. The scene is a spring festival in the square in Burgos where a crowd has assembled to watch the dances from and named after various provinces in Spain .
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Cerddorfa Ceredigion Dyfed, Wales Conductor: Alan Wynne Jones S%ist: Terence Judd Le Cid (Jrd and 7th movements) Fantasy on Hungarian Folktunes Pomp and Circumstance March No, 'Land of Hope and Glory'
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