Les Heppleston, the Musical Director. is Head of Peripatetic Bra.ss in Wakefield and has previously played comet for the Brighouse and Rastrick, Yorkshire Imperial and Grimethorpe Colliery Bands. Cops and Robbers- W. Hogarth Lear This is a light-hearted interpretation in music of the classical . "chase" situation between the police. depicted by the basses and percussion. and the cat burglar, played by the flugel horn, with characterizations of sirens, disturbed night cats and other noises. A ha rassing time for the conductor! Theme from "Superman" - WilIiams, arr. Farr Ray Farr, present Musical Director of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, made this arrangement of the theme music for the film, Superman. The piece very positively portrays the effects of astral travel.
Walsall Youth Jazz Orchestra
WALLACE FIELDS MIDDLE SCHOOL Conductor: Andrew Scott "The Preacher": Scene and Variations
Horace Si/ller, arr. Scott
Wallace Fields is a Surrey county middle school of 230 pupils, between Epsom and Ewell. The cast of The Preacher consists of three-quarters oflast year's Fourth Year; all but the drummers are now at secondary school. The school has bad a strong music departm:ent for some years, currently boasting an orchestra, choirs, recorder groups, a jazz club, barbershop groups and a drama club that creates its own full-length musicals, as well as, on the movement side, folk-dancing and outstanding gymnastics.
The Preacher-Sillier, arr. ScOIt Tire Preaclrer was created around the children who perform it. Initial arrangements were by Andrew Scort, then adapted by the performers. Much of the dancing and some of the band's orchestrations were improvised by the children. Rehearsals took place during lunchtimes, music lessons and out of school hours. The setting of the piece is a youth club in New York in the 1920s -the era of jazz and Prohibition. The original tune is a jazz staple by Horace Silver.
Wakejield Metropolitan Band
WALSALL YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Musical Director: John Hughes Bluff Point John Labarbera Louisiana Bebop Les Hooper Aja Becker/Fagan, arr. Alan Broadbent The Orchestra was formed in 1975. Its purpose was to give local children the opportunity of playing high quality big band jazz arrangements. This year was the fourth time the Orchestra participated in the National Festival of Music for Youth, having performed at the Royal Festival Hall and the Fairfield Halls on previous occasions. The compositions featured in tonight's concert are all from the Orchestra's first LP, Alone Again, which was recorded earlier this year and has just been released . Bluff Point - Labarbera This medium tempo minor blues with its building passages , showcases the Orchestra's various jazz soloists. Louisiana Bebop - Hooper Interesting sectional counterpoint aga inst a complicated rock rh ythm highlights this jazz/ rock composition by American composer, Les Hooper. N ick Pu mell is featured on electric piano. Aja - Becker/Fagan, arr. Broadbent Alan Broadbent's arrangement of this Steely Dan hit was originall\' done for the Woody Herman Orchestra. It is a mixture of many styles with dreamy Latin sounds contrasted against towering brass passages. Charles Wright is featured on tenor saxophone.
Theme Vari.tion Variation Variation Variation Variation Variation Variation Variation
1 la 2b 3a 3b 3c
- S ettiug Ih. Same - Th e PaTl ), - The Pt,. char - TIle Waltz - High Jinks - Tire Raid - Tire C over.up - The Arrest
4~ (minor) 4b and Coda -Holle!'Uol.
-Band - TappctS, A:tppers. Band -PrC2chu . Co mpany. Bm d - Company. Bmd -Preacher. Boun~rs. Band - Trumpct. Cops -Recorders - ComfWI), -Glmpanr
Wallare Fields Middle S,hool
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