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Introduction OME of us who complain about the Government's apparent Philistine attitude to musical education, as displayed by financial cut-backs, might care to remind ourselves at this time that music has survived hard times and harsh words before.

Ever since that ancient Greek complained that "Music was invented to deceive and delude mankind" each age has produced its critics who at least prove that the health of the musical world is something that must be defended and never taken for granted.

This is particularly true in Britain where reformers like Jeremy Collier tried to outlaw music as being "almost as dangerous as Gunpowder".

Given this climate of opinion, music in Britain sometimes had a difficult time and led at least one European visitor to assume that "the English are not only unmusical but decidedly antimusical."

How times have changed. It would be instructive to be able to summon that jaundiced tourist and bring him along to this the eighth Schools Prom which we know will once again demonstrate the astonishing variety and virility of music at Britain's schools.

In the following pages we present the menu for tonight's feast of music and the background to the many schools and groups of performers taking part. And once again we thank our sponsors for helping to make it possible.

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Contents Introduction

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Larry Westland on Music for Youth

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Derek Jewell on the Schools Prom

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Richard Baker on music and broadcasting

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Jacques Loussier on what it takes

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Programme Notes

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Concert Programmes

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Schools Prom Personalities

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Exhibition

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List of Performers Friends of Music for Youth

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Director and Producer: Larry Westland Associate Director: Derek Jewell Assistant Producer: Richard Mallett Directors of Music for Youth: Ian Trafford (Times Newspapers Ltd) James T. Cop-pock (AMI) Leslie Bond (The Rank Organisation) Victor Head (Commercial Union) Stage Managers: Richard r ebb Paul dell Production Assistant: Jean Halford-Thompson Programme Editor: Corimla Stowell (Commercial Union)

The Schools Prom is organized in conjunction with Westland Associates Limited.

Front Cover drawing by John Minnion

Music for Youth is a non-profit making company with charitable status. It was formed earlier this year to manage and organize the National Festival of Music for Youth and the Schools Prom. Its members are the Association of Music Industries, Commercial Union Assurance the Rank Organisation and the Times Educational Supplement. Their nominees are trustee directors who have appointed Larry Westland as Executive Director of both these events.

AMI is the music trade association whose members include music publishers and manufocturers of musical instruments. It played a founding rOle in the formation of the National Festival ten years ago and has continued to provide financial support for the Festival through the years as part of its aim to contribute to the growth of musical appreciation in the United Kingdom.

Royal Festival Hall Queen Elizabeth Hall Purcell Room 14 : 15 : 16 July 1983 Sponsored by The Association of Music Industries Commercial Union Assurance The Rank Organisation The Times Educational Supplement Regional Festival Series sponsored by W H Sm ith

Music for Youth

By LARRY WESTLAND elcome to the seventh Schools Prom - the fust t.mder the banner of 'Music for Youth', the charity set up last year to manage and sponsor the National Festival of Music for Youth and the Schools Prom. Its members are the Association of Music Industries, Commercial Union Assurance, The Rank Organisation and the Times Educational Supplement. The first task for Music for Youth was to bring the National Festival to the South Bank Concert Halls from its previous home in Croydon.

The move proved highly successful and over four thousand young musicians performed before the biggest audience we have ever had. Some 120 schools and music groups performed more than 300 different works, 30 of which were new compositions . The concert platforms of the Royal Festival Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Puree]] Room proved the perfect setting for the boundless confidence and exuberance of these young performers.

Thirty-two of the most outstanding ensembles from the National Festival are here with us at the 1982 series of Schools Prom concerts. There is so much to commend to you in these concerts, from the superbly intuitive and lyli cal bassoons of the Lady Manner School to the poise and musicality of young Simon Blendis and the Winchmore Hill Orchestra. Watch also for the grassroots infant and junior music-making of Towers Hill and the Lakes School from Cumbria.

At the senior level we welcome the return of the accomplished and always exciting Doncaster Jazz Orchestra. We have also a suprisingly high number of performers new to the Schools Prom, 20 in all. A spedal word of welcome to the youth orchestras from Sheffield and Coventry appearing for the first time, as are the bands from Stourbridge Staffordshire and Sandwe11. As you will see from your programme, this year's Schools Prom offers what must be the m ost varied repertoire ever.

Surprisingly, there is no Mozart and sadly, there are no foreign guests. Our plans to invite a group from West Africa did not bear fruit.

We do, however, have some very special guests this year covering a very wide specu'UlU of musical performance. From the jazz and big band world we have two of its most famous personalities in Kenny Baker and Don Lusher. Kenny and Don will solo with individual groups on two days and come together on the third evening for a performance with the Doncaster Jazz Orchestra. From the concert world we have the distinguished young violinist, Nigel Kennedy, and the BBC Young Musician of the Year, Anna Markland.

Nigel is to play the first movement of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto with the Coventry Youth Orchestra.

Anna will perform the first movement of the Grieg Piano Concerto with the Merseyside Youth Orchestra.

We are pleased and delighted to welcome to the Schools Prom for the fIrSt time a man whose career and talents cross all musical boundaries, composer and musician, Jacques Loussier. Jacques has for so long delighted audiences across the world and he embraces the whole spirit of the Schools Prom in the universality

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of his music. I am sure you will all join me in saying "Bienvenu" to this very special guest.

As these Schools Prom concerts draw to a close on Wednesday evening, we must turn our minds to 1983 and a further year of Music for Youth. The programme begins on 1 March with a combined press launch and Festival audition. The regional auditions (or festivals) will follow in 19 other centres throughout the month.

The prospectus and Entry Form for the 1983 National Festival has now been distributed to schools and music groups throughout the British Isles.

The full year's programme is given below:

The 1983 National Festival of Music for Youth Regional Festivals/Auditions Sponsored by W H Smith Centre

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London Bedworth Aberystwyth Derby Barnet Barnet Southampton Guildford Brighton Exeter Glasgow Swindon Newcastle London Sheffield Leeds Manchester Birmingham Norwich Colchester

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National Festival of Music for Youth at the South Bank Thursday 14 July Royal Festival Hall Friday 15 July Royal Festival Hall

Queen Elizabeth Hall Saturday 16 July Royal Festival Hall

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Juniors at the National Festival Brass Bands Voices in Concert Wind Bands Secondary School Music Jazz at the South Bank School Orchestras Open Orchestras YOIC Rehearsal Youth Orchestras in Concert Chamber Music International Chamber Concert

1983 Schools Prom Royal Albert Hall- 21, 22, 23 November.

If Y OIl require details Dr an entry f orm for the 1983 National Festival, plelJSe sÂŁ'nd a stamped, addressed envelope to: Tire" "alioual Festival oJ Music Jor Youth 23a Kings Road, London SW3 4RP. o 3

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By DEREKJEWELL t'S astonishing to me that this is the eighth year of the Schools Prom concerts - which, less encouragingly, means that we'll be ten years old in the ominous year of 1984. Let that pass, however ...

I find that the eight years since these concerts were launched have passed very swiftly and already in 1982 so much is different from previous occasions.

This is - and most importantly of all - the first time the Schools Prom has been staged under the overall banner of Music for Youth, with the unofficial alliance which had always existed between the Prom and the National Festival of Music for Youth cemented into formal unity. The task oflooking after the whole event demands far more time than I could offer, which is why I have had to give up the Director's role for that of Associate Director.

There are other differences. It's the first time I remember a composition being especially created to be played at the Schools Prom by an orchestra previously unknown to the composer. That's the case with Uprising, which Jacques Loussier has written for the King Edward VI College Orchestra from Stourbridge to play on Tuesday, with the composer as soloist. One night later we have, again for the first time, a double hand of jazz soloists - Don Lusher and Kenny Bakerto perform with the magnificent Doncaster Jazz Orchestra, who have already been honoured by being asked to play at the great EuropeanJazz festivals in Nice and Montreux.

We're sad that, after a run of five years, we have no guests from abroad. You will remember, perhaps, that since 1977 we've had some wonderful visitors from Russia, America, India, France and Germany but the bright side is that we're able to include three more excellent British groups this year. And British musicians, in the end, is what the Schools Prom is primarily about - which brings us neatly to the reasons why we're here at all at Royal Albert Hall on these dark We're of music, human endeavour. the words of guests in earlier indications that our Mr Morris wrote young musICIans bonds that bind us

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different and less welcome kind. When will the rulers learn to accentuate the positive instead of grizzling about the negative?

Diversity is an especially welcome feature of the Schools Prom, and one of its keystones. This year we've the expected mix of groups and orchestras in the tradition which has seen medieval ensembles, symphony orchestras, percussion bands, chamber trios, jazz groups, bell-ringers, choirs, poetry-and-music ensembles, as well as wind, guitar, swing, brass, accordion, recorder and steel bands all playing under the great dome of this Hall year by year. Oh, and I mustn't forget the composers ... if you look only at this year's programmes, you'll find Vivaldi and Lloyd Webber, Lennon-McCartney and Grieg, Khachaturian and Handel, Loussier and Mendelssohn cheek by jowl!

As ever, we welcome famous guests to play along with the young musicians from all over Britain. In 1982 we have Jacques Loussier, Don Lusher and Kenny Baker, Nigel Kennedy, the BBC Young Musician of the Year finalist, Anna Markland, and that great BBC personality, Richard Baker, who will co-present the concerts. Antony Hopkins will conduct our finale, as he's done every year.

Guests of the Schools 1975: John Dankworth, Antony Hopkins (every year) 1976: Hurnphrey Lyttelton, Robin Ray 1977: Yehudi Menuhin, Michael Aspel 1978: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tirn Rice, John Williarns, Rick Wakernan, Michael Collins 1979: Don Lusher, John Dankworth, Julian Lloyd Webber, Terence Judd, Caroline Dale, Johnny Morris 1980: Ronnie Daniel

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1981: Julian Lloyd Webber, Hurnphrey Lyttelton, Robert Cohen, Clare McFarlane

I hesitate to delve into all the groups who'll be playing, but I'm especially delighted to see a choir and orchestra from myoId school, Latymer, on the programme (Nothing to do with me, guv - honest!) because it was there, during the second world war, that my appetite for music was ignited, by a man who believed in having his choirs perform Ellington and Negro spirituals at a time when most school singers were limited to Sweet Lass of Richmond Hill.

And all that is left, I suppose, is to thank all of those who have helped to make these concerts possible particulary Times Newspapers, who were its sponsors from the beginning, and who have been joined more recently Commercial Union Assurance (1978) and, this year, The Rank Organisation. There are, too, the Friends of Music for Youth (named on the back and a host of individuals who join in the the so-expert staff of Associates Ken Griffin, who has over BBC TV programmes which Prom.

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By RICHARD BAKER the dear departed days of the late 20s and 30s there was a resident BBC dance band directed fust by Jack Payne and later by Henry Hall and Jack Payne's signature tune was Say it With Music. Tlllnking back over a long career as a presenter of music programmes for the BBC and others, it occurred to me that I might borrow it.

There is of course a strict limit on what can be usefully said about music. Experiencing the music itself is what matters, and whether it grabs you or not is hardly likely to depend on words of explanation. I w as taught in my very early days as an announcer 00 the Third Programme (now Radio 3) to say as little as possible, and above all not to express any personal feelings I might have about the music 1 was introducing. Obviously it would not do to say, "Good evening. We now present a concert of baroque organ music - can't stand the stuff myself." But equally, it was thought inappropriate to show enthusiasm: "Good evening. Now we have for you an absolutely gorgeous hour of music by my absolutely favourite composer, Winckelgruber. It's going to be perform ed by tbe Superlative Ensemble, who as you all know, are fab apart from being my closest friends ." Everything had to be calm, careful and impersonal, qualities I did not specially admire at the time. But I now see a lot of merit in letting the music speak for itself, and above all not telling the audience in advance what you think they should think about it.

This means, I hope, that I have travelled some clistance from my schooldays. Then, asked to speak on a musical subject of my choice. I set out at the age of 13 to lecture my form on that vast four-opera cycle,

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Wagner's Ring. From the depths of my ignorance I must have contrived to talk at some length, because all we had by way of musical illlustration in the school record library was The Ride of the Valkyries on one side of an old '78' disc. Nowadays, if I'm asked to introduce a televised opera or ballet, the producer will probably say: "I can give you about one and a half minutes at the start and maybe another short minute in the break between the acts - that's enough isn't it?" Though occasionally I feel it is not quite enough, I remind myself that brevity is the soul of wit, and that it is the music and not me that people want to hear.

There are times, however, when it is necessary to let your musical presenter do some talking, most often when the unexpected happens. I was introducing the opening concert at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on the South Bank, to be attended by the Queen. Alas the royal car was some 12 minutes late arriving , so we had to fill in. There was quite a lot to say about the music and the performers and the guests, and of course the architecture of the new hall itself. But as the time went on I was driven to talking about the aluminium used in the construction of the seats - " the very same material" (I was graspjng feverishly at anything I could find in the South Bank brochure) " from which the GLC dust carts are made!" Fortunately, just then the royal motorcade arrived and there were more relevant things to talk about.

Know your sousaphone It always pays to give very close attention to the pictures being shown on the screen on occasions like these, and it is a good idea to establish some rapport with the person directing the cameras. I was not able to achieve this when describing a ceremonial event in Chile which the Queen visited in 1969. She was laying a wreath at the monument in tbe centre of Santiago to the Chilean national hero Bernardo O'Higgins (I remember that name - who could forget it?) . We were transmitting the ceremony live via the satellite, with a Chilean Outside Broadcast unit and a Chilean producer who did not speak or understand a single word of English. Along came a magnificently dressed military band playing the w ell-known march Colonel Bogey, and I happened to remark that it sounded very good played by a band such as tha t one, complete with a sousaphone. "By the way, ' I added, " the sousaphone is that peculiar object you see sticking up in the middle of the picture /tow !" Alas, just befo re I made that comment, the Chilean producer had cut to a close-up of the Duke of Edinburgh.

Some of the happiest memories of my broadcasting career are associated with the Royal Albert Hall. For some 20 years I have introduced the Last Night of the Proms for the BBCTV, as well as numerous other Promenade Concerts, and of course it was the very special spirit of enjoyment and participation at these splendid events which led to the idea of the Schools Prom. So I am looking forward greatly to being one of the comperes at this year's School Prom, with the opportunity to er~ o y the amaz ing array of talent that has once again been assembled. At leas t I shall be safely on the platfo rm this time and not perched insecurely, as I usuall y am for the televised Prom s, on the edge of a box in the Grand T ier - a situation that led a young Promenader on one occasion to shout out loudly: "Will the real Richard Baker please fall oill" My presence with you today proves that I have so far managed to 0 avoid complying with that request. .

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By JACQUES LOUSSIER y youngest son (I have four plus one daughter) once asked me why I was a musician. He probably thinks it a strange occupation .. I answered him, of course, but as 1 replied I had to admit that, if the occupation itself is not strange, my 0wn musical career has been somewhat.

I first heard about the piano as an instrument of torture and I heard it played on the radio before I ever saw one. My sister was a reluctant learner at school.

However when my mother, a music lover, asked me at about the age of ten whether I was intereste? ~Il: learn.ing to play, I said "Yes" - this was probably, Lmtlally, Just . . . to compete with my sister.

Was I gifted? I suppose I was, as wlthm SIX months I was playing the same pieces as my sister after five years oflessons. Did I find it difficult? Not really, apart from reading the music. At first I could not understand why there should be ewo keys (G & F) for the two hands and consequently two staves.

My interest in music was immediate and my mother gave me great encouragement. Not only did she supervise my piano studies but she took me to all the concerts held in Angers, our home town.

At 13 I was familiar with Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Beethoven and Mozart - and loved them all but my favourite was Johann Sebastian Bach. His music appealed to me more than any other composer's because of its structure, fullness and creativeness. Later 1 became a fan of Debussy, Ravel and the Russians.

I developed a sheer enthusiasm for music and pian? playing; I worshipped my teachers. One day I fOUD? It particularly hard to play a Chopin Impromptu. It Just would not sound the way I wanted it to and it made me realize for the first time how much work went into becoming a 'good musician'. I decided then and there to work and work and work - I was going to be a professional.

I was 13 years old then and my work schedule became stricter but I was never discouraged. On average I practised for one and halfhours a day at home and much more at weekends on top of regular school attendance.

Then came the exams, which I passed successfully. I was frightened, of course bu~ no~ paralysed as. we~e some other candidates. Stage fnght IS a strange thing: It can happen at any time and very unexpectedly. I have experienced it of course, but never too often nor too severely - thank goodness! At 16 I reached the goal: I was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire.

In, addition to classical music, 1 was, from early on, also interested in other music: the modern jazz quartet, for instance, and its leading musician, John Lcwis, taught me that there was 'another' form of interprcration. His musical arrangements were a revelation to me.

I did not then anticipate that my own interpretation of Bach's musi c would be the backbone of half of my career.

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I have often been asked what my reaction to modern composers or rather contemporary music is; it is. hard to say. Above all, I love inspiradon and spontanelty, and therefore, I feel a sincere admiration for innovators like the Beatles. However it seems to me that what I can only describe as the 'laboratory music' of our times seems to lack both.

At the age of 18 I became a professio~al pi~ t, arranger and composer (having started to wnte ~USIC at 12). All these things r did to the best of my ability .and with complete dedication and love of wha t I was dOUlg. Most of the time it is strenuous work. Playing 50 concerts in 50 days in 50 different cities is exhausting.

You spend more time in planes and tra~ls tl:an. OI? th.e stage. Tours of this kind require very stnct dlsCIplme If one is to remain fit but there is nothing in the world more rewarding than receiving a standing ovation from a full house.

Travelling, though, brings a lot more than packing and unpacking. I have been fortunate e~ough to learn a great deal by visiting almost the entIre world from Cuba to Turkey, and from America to Japan, to say . , nothing of almost every European city. .

I calculated with my son that at this POUlt, and It surprised me that r have pJa) cd abou t 1700 concerts with m . PLAY BACH TRIO, and more than 100 with my new music PULSION and PAGAN MOON. I have also written the music of 20 movies and TV films and I have no intention of stopping or even slowing down! My world is music, that's why I am a musician.

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Programme Notes where she gained her LTCL performer's diploma. Whilst a pupil of Margaret Major of the Aeolian String Quartet, Rachel was a member of the National Youth Orchestra where she was made Sub-Principal viola in her second year. Last year she won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music where she has been studying full-time since September with Stephen Shingles.

The Miniature Suite - Cordon jacob The Miniatu re Suite has four movements of which the Petraney Duo will play the fiIs t and las t. The March is particularly interesting in that it uses pizzicato chords, co/ legl10 (playing with the wood of the bow) and hm'monies in the viola part. The clarinet opens the Fugne with a. livel y th em e which is repeated and developed by both instruments.

Sandwell Youth Band, West Midland,

SANDWELL YOUTH BAND Conductor: Stuart johnson March Overture Cornet Roundabout

Stuart johnson Robert Eaves

The Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, in the West Midlands, within its framework of Music Centres, Area Orchestras and Area Bands (both brass and wind), provides its many instrumental pupils with the opportunity for closely graded ensem ble work. The Sandwell Youth Band was formed in 1974 by their condu ctor this evening, Sruart Johnson. The band's present membership is widely representative of instrumental work in both Ju nior and High Schools throughout the Borou gh. Instrumental pupils are encouraged to fu rther their interests and many al ready benefit from involvemen t with local adult bands and orchestra . Stuan Johnson, until Septem ber of this year Music Adviser for Sandwell, has recently been ap pointed Director of Music for the County of Staffordshire. T his evening therefore will be his final performance with the band, and in recognition of his valued contribution to music in Sand well over the past 11 years, the band has chosen to open its programme with his own March O verture .

Helenswood S(ho ol Chamber Orchestra, Hastings

HELENSWOOD SCHOOL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor: Rosemary Fleet Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra (2nd and 3rd movements)

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Helenswood Girls' Comprehensive School from Hastings in East Sussex has a lively and flourishing Music Department which boasts both choirs and a symphony orchestra. The Head of Music is David Wookey. Rosemary Fleet, conductor of the Helenswood Chamber Orchestra, is the school's visiting violin and viola teacher. She founded this orchestra four years ago as an orchestral string training class and it meets weekly to supplement the girls' individual string lessons. The orchestra performs in many local concerts and appeared at the National Festival of Music for Youth in 1979 and 1980. This year the orchestra gained the Outstanding Performance Award in its class at the Royal Festival Hall.

Concertino for HaIpsichotd and String Orchestra - Leigh The COHurtiHo, which was written in 1934, uses the string instru ments and harpsichord in a subtle com bination with only a him of flam boyance in the keyboard cadenza of the finale.

HIGH GREA VE JUNIOR SCHOOL BAND Petraney Duo , Surrey

PETRANEY DUO The Miniature Suite (1st and 4th movements) Cordon jacob

Both Neyire Ashworth (Clarinet) and Rachel Bolt (Viola) have been members of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for the past two years and are long-standing members of the Surrey County Youth O rchestra. eyire, 17, is a pupil of the Guildford High School for girls. She is a junior exhibitioner at the Gu ildhall School of Music and Drama and is currenrly studying the clarinet VI<ith Amon We.inberg and the piano wi thJoan H avill She has given frequent public performances and has recently taken part in a master class with Jack Brymer. Rachel is 18 and began playing the violin at the age of ten. but after winnin g an Associated Board Gold Medal for violin she changed to the viola. She won all exhibition to the T rinity College of Music Junior Depa rtment

Conductor: Brian Lingley March Fanfare On Ilkla Moor A Children's March

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This highly successful junior school band is a tribute to Rotherham 's instrumental school policy. The reputation of their band has grown over the past ten years follo wing numerous successes at local music festivals and its three appearances at the National Festival of Music for Youth. Indivi dual attention is given in school time by peripatetic teachers; all rehearsals are our-o&. school activities. Rebuilding starts every September as experienced players leave. Most continue to play at their comprehensive schools. One has progressed to the National Youth Orchestra, another to the National Youth Brass Band.

March Fanfare by Stuart Johnson leads to an arrangement of Ilkla Moor by Musical Director, Brian Lingley, Head of Rotherham's Peripatetic Team and National Youth Band Tutor. A Children's March is an arrangement of children's tunes well suited, as are many others from the pen of Stuart Johnson, to bands of this standard.

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Programme Notes WIGAN METRO STAGE BAND Musical Director: fan Darrington Guest Soloist: Don Lusher Soloists: Andy Prior, Richard Halliwell, Richard Winpenny Engine No. 9 Les Hooper Night Birds W. Sharpe/R. Odell Up Front Lennie Niehaus Wigan Metro Stage Band is one of the senior ensembles of the instrumental music services of Wigan. It was formed on 1 March 1976 with the aim of offering more advanced pupils the opportunity to play big band music. During the six years that the band has been in existence, all 30 secondary schools within the Wigan Metro have been represented. At this time, 12 schools and three sixth-form colleges are represented in the band.

T he band has been particularly busy over the last 1S months, taking part in the National Festival of Music for Youth in 1981 and 1982, making a l2-day visit to Elkh:trt, Indiana (USA) and playing many concert dates - including an open-air concert with Georgie Fame and rh", Blue Flames. In eptember laSt year a junior band was formed to act as a " feeder" band and has proved to be very successful. Ian Darrington took over the duties of Musical Director of the band in 1978.

High Greave Junior School Band, Rotherham

KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE STRING QUARTET, STOURBRIDGE String Quartet (4th movement)

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This college quartet came together in September of last year. All the members were in their first year at the college and studying music as one of their 'A' level subjects. It had been hoped to keep the quartet together for two years, but unfortunately (fortunately for him!) the leader, Matthew Scrivener, was offered a place at the Royal Northern College of Music, where he now studies.

String Quartet- Shostakovich Shostakovich wrote his first String Quartet in 1938 in the months following the composition of the Fifth Symphony. Although the Quartet has the customary four movements, it is not a long work, taking only 15 minute.s in performance. The final Allegro is a boisterous and h.a ppy movement with frequeot changes of time signature aud cl ynamics, the use of the high registers of the instnrrnents, in particular the firSt violin and cello, aggressive triple and quadruple stopping of the strings and, above all, rhythmic and percussive vitality which carries the movement along to an e->cciting conclusion.

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STOCKPORT SCHOOLS STAGESOUND Conductor: Derek Nash Blaydon Races Getting Sentimental Over You Birdland

arr. Pat Nash Bassman, arr. P. Nash J. Zawinul, arr. P. Nash

The orchestra was formed in November 1977 by their Musical Director, Alan Tomkinson, under the auspices of the Education Division of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council, to provide an outlet for young musicians from Stock port and the surrounding area who wished to play and enjoy orchestral jazz and big band music.

The traditional swing band line-up has been augmented by woodwind and strings, producing an extra dimension to the music and giving experience to the young players to contrast with their more classical music.

Stagesound have appeared in the National Festival of Music for Youth for the last four years and appeared in the Schools Prom in 1979 and 1980, where their particular style of music has been greeted with great enthusiam by the 'prommers'.

They are accompanied by an Instrumental Ensemble which is drawn largely from the school's Chamber Orchestra which contains several players hoping to pursue careers in music.

Stabat Mater - Pergolesi Pergolesi wrote his Stabat Mater in 1736, a few months before his premature death at the age of26. It is scored for a two-pan chorus, stting orchestra and continuo. Of the 12 movements, the group is perfo rming the first, which tells of the mother of Jesus weeping under the cross, and the last, whi ch , after a beautiful slow section, ends witb a vigo rous All/m .

Aberystwyth Brass E"senlble

ABERYSTWYTH BRASS ENSEMBLE The Noble Era (Music for Brass Quartet)

Thomas Tomkins, arr . Butterworth

For many years in West Wales brass and woodwind instruments have been as Cinderc:llas to their successful. string and harp sisters!

However, witb an enthusiastic team of teachers and the support of the county music adviser, many school and district brass and wind bands are being formed, and the people of Dyfed ar e realizing wh at a spectrum of music such instruments are able to perform outside the no rmal orchestral context. Such is the progress that a quartet of saxophones from Aberaeron Comprehensive School - one of only seven large secondary schoo.ls in the area - recently look the National Eisteddfod of Wales by surprise and deservedly took first prize in the youth chamber music co mpetition, and the Ceredigion Wind Band is currently preparing a programme of music to play on tour in Brittany next Spring_ The Aberystwyth Brass Ensemble is therefore only the tip of a musical iceberg. Each of the quarret of players has gained individual recognition , having been invited to pia y in various national yourh ensembles _ Goronwy Eva.ns, 1st crumpet, is a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as well as playing in the National Youth Orchestra of Wales with fellow ensemble members Helen Rudeforth (horn) and Geraint Evans (trombone). Colin Rees (2nd trumpet) also plays cornet in the National Youth Brass Band of Wales.

The Noble Era- Thomas Tomkins Neil. Burterworth's arrangement of music by Thomas Tomkins is not one of the most technically demanding of works in the quartet's repertoire, but is onc which allows much freedom of dynamic interpretAtion and performanCe?

City of Covel!lry YO!l,h Orchestra

CITY OF COVENTRY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Peter Isherwood Soloist: Nigel Kennedy "Spitfire" Prelude Dance of the Rose-Maidens from "Gayaneh" Violin Concerto in E minor (1st movement) POtnp and Circnmstance March No . 1

Walton Khachaturian Mendelssohn Elgar

The Coventry tEA centres its instrumental work at the Coventry School of Music where th ere :lIe SCV1:n graded orchestras, br.lsS and wind bands as well as other activities nonnally associated with a flourishing music centre. Tb e orchestra is essentially a schools' orchestra and meets weekly, as well as attendin g a two-day coursc mid-term. The orchestra has tended to perform locaUy, but last yea r it was invited to play for the Papal visit to [his country and in the Fes tival Hall for the N ational Festival of Music for Youth. The orchestra has a wide repertoire and has commissioned a number of original works and arrangements. In addition, opportunities are given for the principal players to play concertos_ "Spitfire" Prelude- Walton The Spitfire music is a re-arrangement of the film score of The First of the Few , which traced the story of R. J. Mitchell who designed the Spitfire_ The film was issued in 1942 but this orchestral version was first performed by the Liverpool Philharmonic O rchestra under Walton on 2 Jan uary 1943. Althougb the PrelHde, like the Crown Imp el'ia I, owes much to Elgar's Pomp and CirCUII/SlanCe marches, the work has tremendous strength and simpHcity.

Th e Latymer Singers a1ld Ill 5l1w"clllal EIlsemble, i\ 'orth Londou

THE LATYMER SINGERS AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Conductor: David El/iott Stabat Mater (1st and final movements)

Pergolesi

The Latymer Singers and Instrumental Ense mble arc all pupils of The Latymer School in Edmonton, North London_ The school has some 1,250 pupils and a large music department which runs several choirs, orchestras and bands_ The Latymer Singers are all aged between 12 :md 15. and they arc an auditioned group takcn frOID the school' much larger J unior Choir. They rehearse twice 3 week, and in addidon to nl3ny performances at the school and other local venues, they recently pa rticipated in rhe Natio nal Festival of Music for Youth in London_

Dance of the Rose-Maidens from "Gayaneh" - Khachatllrian In the Gayaneh ballet suite, Khachaturian's avowed aim was to use a great dea.l of folk music: "1 adopted the folksong as my starting point but evo lved melodi c or rhythmic themes from it, decorating it with independent inner parts and harmonic coloration."

Violin Concerto in E minor (1st movement) - Mendelssohn A friend of Mendelssohn's from his youth, Ferdinand David, was an important 19th century violinist who became leader of the Leipzig Gewandhaus when Mendelssohn was appointed conductor.

This violin cO.ncerto written for David was first perfomlcd there in March 1845, with David as soloist and the Spanish composer, Gade, conducting.

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1-Elgar The Pomp and Circumstance marches are a series of fIve military marches in symphonic form. The first march is now best known because of its link with the words "Land of Hope and Glory". This link came about when Elgar used both the words and music in his C oronation Ode to commemorate the coronation of Edward VII. A hybrid it may be, but it never fails to stir the patriotic fervour associated with it.

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Programme Notes ST AFFORDSHIRE YOUTH WIND BAND Conductor: Eric Bennett Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 Op. 39 Elgar Fandango Perkins

the Festival Hall in 1982. They were also chosen to audition for ITV's Fanfarefor Young Musicians in 1979 and 1980. The programme comprises traditional songs including London Cries and Oranges and Lemons, progressing to the syncopated rhythm of Yellow Bird and the Waltz rhythm of Pretty Augustilu and culminating in Rhythll1 af the .\1wic.

As part of musical education in Staffordshire schools children are given the opportunity of learning to play an orchestral instrument.

The County Education Authority has a large, full-time team of professional instrumentalists who visit schools to teach groups of children on a weekly basis. Children who reach a sufficiently high standard become members of the County Music School. Here they can join a full symphony orchestra, a symphonic wind orchestra, a brass band or a youth choir. These organizations regularly give concerts in this country as well as making tours abroad. The Wind Orchestra was formed in 1970 and in 1972 gave concerts in Austria and Germany, also visiting the Salzburg Festival. Two years later they took part in the Bremerhaven Youth Festival and gave concerts in Bremerhaven and Hamburg. In 1979 the Wind Orchestra undertook a tour of the German Rhineland, giving concerts in Mannheim, Weinheim, Cologne and Heidelberg. Next year a concert tour is being arranged in Denmark.

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4, Op. 39-Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4, Op . 39, was first performed in public at a Promenade Concert on 4 September 1907. After No. 1. it may be said that the trio section of this March is the second most famous of the Pomp and Circumstance group and during the last war patriotic words were supplied by Sir Alan Herbert under the title of Song of Freedom. The march was played for the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer last year.

Fandango - Perkins Fandango is a colourful and flamboyant composition featuring characteristic Spanish rhythms to good effect.

Towers Infants} School A;[usic Group, Bsex

SCOTT QUARTET String Quartet in F (1902) (4th movement)

Ravel

Members of the Scott Quartet have combined in various ensembles during Sheila Nelson's larger group sessions at weekends over several years. For the past two years, however, they have studied seriously as a quartet with only one change in personnel. Their preference is for tackling difficult works which only take shape over a long period of time, but which give a great deal of satisfaction by the time a performance is achieved.

Quartet in F - Ravel The rhythmic complexities of the last movement constantly changing from 5/8 to 3/4 or 5/4 taxes the cohesiveness of any quartet coming fresh to this work. Each part makes virtuoso demands on the performer, emphasizing the impressionist's emancipation from the traditionally unequal roles of the string quartet's members - an emancipation established in Debussy's quartet of 1893.

Staffordshire Youth Willd O"hestra

TOWERS INFANTS' SCHOOL MUSIC GROUP Conductor: Joyce Mumford "Dress Rehearsal"

Trad. songs

Towers Infants' is a Hornchurch council school with a great interest in music. The children are four to seven years of age. Mrs Joyce Mumford teaches music throughout the school, and all children commence their musical education with singing and rhythm work during their first term. Recorder tuition takes place at lunch hour sessions augmented by early morning sessions for the advanced group who learn to sight-read and play a variety of instruments including tuned and untuned percussion and hand chimes and sopranino, descant, treble and tenor recorders. Some of the group attend Saturday Music School, and Tessa O'Loughlin, the recorder soloist, has recently started to play the flute. The school holds annual Musical Evenings when the children's performance illustrates the progression of musical education. The Music Group took part in the National Festival of Music at the Fairfield Hall in 1981 and at

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'Programme Notes WARD LE HIGH SCHOOL BRASS BAND Conductor: Cary Walczak Guest Soloist: Don Lusher Dallas/Vegas Sarabande en Bleu Saturday Market Overture

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ImmellFrontiere Cordon Langford Anthony Hedges

Wardle High School is situated at the foot of the Lancashire Pennines in the Metropolitan district of Rochdale, and opened as a new school in September 1977 with an intake of 113 ll-year-olds.

It is this first intake, now 16-year-olds, which forms the nucleus of the band appearing in this promenade concert five years after opening. The school has an active policy of out-of-school hours activity and among its 114 regular weekly lunchtime, pre- and after-school clubs are five brass bands from 45 to 70 strong, two wind bands, five woodwind ensembles, five recorder groups and four choirs. In all, more than 300 children out of the school's 860 play a musical instrument and with choirs, well over half the school is involved with music.

Dallas/Vegas - ImmellFrontiere Dallas and Vegas are arrangements of two well known TV themes linked via a percussion solo to form one continuous piece. The music, as one has come to expect from American shows is bold, brash and very exciting and offers the band the opportunity to display not only their musical prowess but also their precision in the use of drill.

Sarabande en Bleu-Cordon Langford This is a new composition by Gordon Langford which is not only melodic, but then goes into a beat treatment. A fine piece of brass band writing.

Saturday Market Overture-Anthony Hedges Saturday Market was one of the test pieces for the 1982 Butlins Brass Band Championships. It is written in one extended movement and the nature of the piece is that of a lively allegro which is maintained throughout. Audiences will appreciate the qualities of this work, the results of which are always musical rather than technical.

Wardle High School Brass Band, Rochdale

SAX APPEAL Badap

Sax Appeal, Cheadle

CITY OF SHEFFIELD YOUTH ORCHESTRA AND CHOm Conductor: Michael Brewer Crown Imperial Zadok the Priest

Walton Handel

This new unit was formed in 1980 by Carl Browning, shortly after his appointment as General Adviser (Music) to the Sheffield Education Authority. Joint concerts have included performances together in Derbyshire, Sheffield, Stafford and Lincoln and most recently at the Royal Festival Hall, London for the National Festival of Music for Youth.

Since its formation two years ago, the orchestra's principal conductor has been Christopher Fry and he is to give a final concert with them in Sheffield's City Hall after Christmas. Michael Brewer, Director of Music at Chetham's School, Manchester, and conductor of the British Youth Choir, has since its inception acted as guest conductor of the orchestra, and we look forward to further gradual developments by both units over an exciting three-year period ahead.

The orchestra has recently returned from a concert tour of Switzerland with the city's Youth Festival Band and has already planned a visit to Bochum, Sheffield's twin city, for one week next summer.

The choir has recently returned from a three-week tour of the Californian coast. It was invited to perform in Disneyland and Great America (a massive amusement park south of San Francisco) under Michael Brewer, and also gave the first open-air concert by a young British choir in Tijuana, Mexico, under its associate and regular weekly conductor Carl Browning. Plans for next year include second appearances in both the Royal Albert and Royal Festival Halls, the honour of being the senior demonstration group for a new British Federation of Young Choirs, and the prospect of a Scandinavian choral exchange next summer.

Crown Imperial- Walton This is a lively piece of music using the full resources of the new orchestra.

Zadok the Priest-Handel This piece is a refined and subtle invocation to the joys of mighty Solomon's investiture as King .

Derek Nash

Sax Appeal was formed approximately 18 months ago from members of the successful big band, Stockport Schools Stagesound, although it has had a couple of changes since then . The band is run collectively by the members, each of whom contributes ideas towards its progress. It plays a wide range of music varying through swing, dance music to jazz funk and jazz rock, the latter being the band's own favourite. In addition to performing jazz standards and popular music, there is a source of original music from within the band itself Badap-Derek Nash Badap is an example of this original music, written and arranged by Derek Nash, who is also the featured soloist. The title of the piece comes from the literal translation of the main theme into the language of Scat singing into which many jazz musicians are inclined to slip on numerous occasions!

City of Sheffield Yo",h Orchestra alid Choir

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Programme Notes STOURBRIDGE YOUTH SWING BAND Musical Director: John Saunders Soloist: Kenny Baker Eager Beaver Mission 459 Disco Kid

Stan Kenton Kenny Baker Ralph Gingery This Swing Band comprises 18 members of the full Stourbridge Concert Band who, at the beginning of this year, told their Musical Director of their interest and desire to play the Big Band sounds of the 30s and the 40s. As a result, scores were begged and borrowed and impromptu get-togethers were held after full Concert Band rehearsals. The ensuing sound encouraged their Musical Director to enter them in the National Festival of Music for Youth Big Band section. They had only previously appeared in public on four occasions before the July appearance at the Royal Festival Hall (and only then as an added attraction in the programme of the Stourbridge Concert Band). In the few months of Big Band Jazz their music has included pieces from 30s right up to the 80s .

Eager Beaver-Stan Kenton This is the classic swinger by Stan Kenton and typifies the popular music of the 40s .

Mission 459-Kenny Baker Mission 459 features the composer himself.

Disco Kid - Ralph Gingery Disco Kid is a 1980 composition in today 's Disco idiom.

Their programme, reflecting an evening's entertainment at the Court of King Henry VIII, includes a processional Pavan, a sprightly Galliard, an Ayre, with the solo voice accompanied by lute (treble viol played in pizzicato) and two tenor viols, concluding with a lively Branle. Much of the melodic and rhythmic decoration was initiated by these children - a basic right allowed to musicians of that time, and much enjoyed by these young players .

Killg Edward Vi College Orchestra , Stollrbridge

KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE ORCHESTRA, STOURBRIDGE Conductor: John Griswold Special Guest: Jacques Loussier Uprising

Jacques Lou5sier

Stourbridge is in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley in the county of West Midlands, 12 miles from Birmingham. King Edward's, formerly a Boys' Grammar School, is an open-access Sixth Form College. Music plays an important part in the life of the college, with a number of large and small instrumental and vocal ensembles. The number and variety of the ensembles varies from year to year, but the main ones include a wind band, swing band, choral society, chamber orchestra and various chamber music groups, in addition to the College Orchestra which is performing this evening.

The members of the orchestra are very honoured to be invited to appear at the Schools Prom, particularly to play with such an international star as Jacques Loussier.

Stollrbridge YOllth Swillg Balld, West iHidlallds

ST PAUL'S EARLY MUSIC GROUP Conductor: Rosemary Fleet Pavan Arbeau ) arr.

GalIiard "La Manfrolina" Anon.

Rosemary Since First I Saw Your Face Ford Fleet Branle "Les Bouffons" Phalese The St Paul's Early Music Group includes dancers, singers and instrumentalists, aged between eight and 11 years old, who learn viols, recorders and cortols with their teacher, Rosemary Fleet, during breaktimes at St Paul's Primary School in Hastings. The group, varying in size to suit the many concerts at which they appear, perform dances and ayres in appropriate costume.

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Uprising-Jacques Loussier Loussier has composed this work especially for the Schools Prom and tonight's performance with the King Edward VI College Orchestra is the first public performance. Titled Uprising, this concerto for piano and orchestra portrays man's struggle in life, and for life, with his realization that hope must never die. It is sketched in four moods. The fIrSt reflects man's fight for life and his early desire for freedom. In the second, we see all his hopes for the future, the bright 'canvas' he maps out, his easy spirit of confidence and optimism. But despair and frustration begin to invade as his hopes and plans are shattered by the very environment in which he exists. Through this spirit of disillusionment, however, resistance and rebellion stir within him , and in the process man discovers his deeper layers of resources, and this inner drive for freedom fuels his determination and strength to conquer.

YORK MUSIC THEATRE Conductor: Barry Russell Fa~ade

William Walton

(i) Tango-Pasodoble (ii) ]odelling Song (iii) Popular Song (iv) Polka York Music Theatre was formed earlier this year with the intention of introducing young performers to contemporary music with an element of theatre. The present group draws players from two York schools, Archbishop Holgate and Queen Anne Grammar Schools.

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Fa~de- Walton When Farade was first performed in public in June 1923 the reaction was hostile, one critic going as far as to write: "Surely it is time this sort of thing was stopped." The work sets abstract poems by Edith Sitwell (written with a delight in the sound and rhythm of the words - not their sense) for narrator with a chamber group approximating to the jazz band of the 1920s. The music is riddled with cliches and quotations from popular music of the time and classical music (listen for I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside and parts of William Tell) .

StOlJYuridge Concert Band, West Midlallds

STOURBRIDGE CONCERT BAND

York Music Theatre

KING EDWARD VI SCHOOL (CHELMSFORD) SENIOR ORCHESTRA Conductor: Peter Cross Adagio from Spartacus Pomp and Circumstance March No.1

Khachaturian Elgar

The orchestras of King Edward VI School, Chelmsford were formed nearly 50 years ago by music teacher Tom Wright.

Originally members were drawn both from the school and the County High School for Girls. More recently children from other schools in Central Essex have joined so that there are now nearly 100 players.

Unlike most other youth orchestras entry is not by audition but rather by promotion from the junior orchestra once Grade V has been passed. The orchestra rehearses once a week during term time and has three times achieved the Outstanding Performance A ward at the National Festival in 1973, 1981 and 1982.

Adagio from Spartacus - Khachaturian This has become a most popular and well-loved piece particularly since its use as the theme tune for the television series The Onedin Line.

Musical Director: John Saunders Fanfare and National Anthem Anon Un Poco Cinco John Fluck Parade of the Tall Ships J. Chattaway This band was formed under the Dudley Metropolitan Borough Education Peripatetic Music Service six years ago by their present Musical Director and is supported by a Parents Association. The ages range from 12 to 19 and the players are drawn mainly from the Stourbridge area of the Dudley Borough. Many of the original members are still playing in the present band. The band represented Great Britain at an International Music Festival at Ronneburg, West Germany earlier this year and has subsequently been invited to do an extended tour next Easter.

The musical repertoire ranges from Tchaikovsky to the Beatles and although much influented by the Concert Band movement of the United States still enjoys an enthusiasm for Coleridge Taylor, Elgar, HoIst and other composers nearer home.

Un Poco Cinco-John Fluck Un Poco Cinco was inspired by the composer's travels throughout South America and is a melange of the dance rhythms of several countries, most notably Brazil, Paraguay and Peru. As the title 'A Little Five,' implies, this colourful and exuberant number explores, in a most creative and musical fashion the metre of 3/4.

Parade of the Tall Ships -J. Chattaway Parade of the Tall Ships was written to commemorate Operation Sail 1976, which was the largest gathering ever of tall sailing ships from all over the world. This historic event took place in New York, harbour on 4 July, 1976 as part of America's bicentennial celebrations. This exciting concert march is dedicated to Commander Ned Muffiey and the United States Navy Band, who also premiered the piece as part of the OpSail festivities.

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1- Elgar The Pomp and Circumstance marches form a series of five military marches for orchestra, four of which date from between 1901 and 1907 and the last from 1930. The celebrated patriotic words of A. C. Benson were added later to the first march in D major for a special Gala Performance given to commemorate the Coronation of Edward VII.

King Edward VI School (Chelmsford), Senior Orchestra

Wroughton Middle School Choir, Norfolk

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Programme Notes WROUGHTON MIDDLE SCHOOL CHOIR Conductor: Gregory Underwood Accompanist: Margaret Underwood The Dream Seller Markham Lee Witchery Wood Harold Noble 01' Dan Tucker arr. Robert de Cormier Wroughton is an 8-12 Middle School formed in September, 1982 under the re-organization in the Eastern Area of Norfolk. The school has 400 pupils and the choir consists of children from the third and fourth years, aged. 10 and 11 plus. There is an other junior choir and an orchestra, together with various recorder groups.

Instrumental tuition is given by peripatetic turors~ many children in the choir learn an orchestral instrument. The choir meets for one hour a week in school time, and extra rehearsals are held at lunchtimes. The choir sang for a regional audition in Norwich and performed in this year's National Festival of Music for Youth in the Royal Festival Hall under Juniors at the National Festival , gaining a Highly Commended Award.

so that pupils may be motivated by the opportunity of being able to play the solo part with the orchestra - as in fact most do during rehearsals. This situation also makes it possible to relate lessons and practice directly to rehearsals. Most of the players are pupils of Peter Watmough and the orchestra is run with the support of parents.

Concerto in A minor, Op. 3, No. 6-Antonio Vivaldi Allegro - Largo - Presto This concerto belongs to Vivaldi's Opus 3 which was published in 1712, in Amsterdam, under the title L'Estro Armonica. For a long time the concertos of Vivaldi (1680-1743) represented the typical model of the musical form of the concerto.

The three songs bave been chosen fo r their di fferent qualities. Ti,e Dream Seller is a delightful two-part song attractiv ely written and well-suited for the choir. This is follo wed by a ty pically 'junior' song abou t witches and hags, ending with a ha unting owl- like hoot. In contrast, 0/' DO.'l Tu cker is a lively American folk-song with amusin g wo rds, and a romping tim e whi ch is fu n to sing and delightful to hea r.

Th e Winchmore Hill SIring Quartet , London

TWO PLUS ONE Flutes en Vacances

Guildford Percussion Ensemble

GUILDFORD PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Conductor: William Kitto Gainsborough Percussion Quintet (1st and 3rd movements)

Thomas Gauger

The Guildford Percussion Ensemble was formed in 1979 by their conductor William Kitto who is also percussio n ru tor for Surrey County Council. The ensemble meets once a week ill Guildford to rehearse a variety of percussion music. After being presented with the Silver Jubilee Award this year at the National Festival of Music for Youth they were asked to perform the same piece'in the summer concert given by the Surrey County Youth Orchestra at ~he Civic Hall, Guildford.

Jacques Castereae

Caroline Howard, Vivian Jones and Ian Clarke, all from the Surrey County Youth Orchestra, formed Two Plus One two years ago.

Caroline, 18, began to learn the flute at the age of ten and studied at the Royal Academy of Music as a Junior Exhibitioner, starting as a full-time student in September. lan, also 18, has been learning about seven years and entered the Shell competition two years ago.

He is now at University reading mathematics, keeping his music as a very strong hobby. Vivian, slightly younger at 16, has held a Junior Exhibition at the Royal College of Music for four years. The trio has given several very successful concerts and they also appeared at the National Festival of Music for Youth at the South Bank earlier this year.

Flutes en Vacances-Jacques Casrerede Casterede's Flutes en Vacances is a light-hearted work depicting various moods. The two movements to be played tonight are the second, Flures Joyellses, in the form of a scherzo and the last, Flutes Ugel'l's, whi ch has a j azz y feel to it.

Gainsbor ough Percussion Quintct- Thomas Gat/ger T he Gains/;oTollgli PerCIIssiotl Qldn.tet is one of the m os t complex and .re warding en sembles written fo r Pc(cussion. The main difficulty lies in tbe fact that both marimba players mus t be able to play fourmallet technique. The firsl m o vement of Ga illsbcrough is w ritmll in 9/8 (d=l 00). In one section some players are in 9/8 w hi le others are in 3/4, but this hemiola effect is easy to accomplish. The third movement marked presto (~=180) is in a fast 2/4 with some 3/8 measures injected.

THE WINCHMORE HILL STRING ORCHESTRA Conductor: Peter Watmot/gh Soloist: Simon Blendis Concerto in A minor, Op. 3, No. 6 Antonio Vivaldi The Orchestra meets so that pupils may enjoy playing in a string orchestra and so that they may come to view their private practice in perspective. String music mainly of the concerto type is studied

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T, vo Plus One , Surrey

THE OCHO RIOS STEEL BAND Conductor: Phil Sulton Fame Memory Yellow bird Get Back 00 Jo)

Michael Gore Andrew Lloyd Webber Trad.

LennonlMcCartney

This multi-racial group was formed in 1977 and is an entirely independent group run as a charity crust. It is well known in Rugby and also further afield and has performed at venues from Edinburgh to Plymouth, and Wales to East Anglia. They have appeared for the past fout years at the Harrogate International Music Festival and at the Schools Prom in 1980. This year they received a Highly Commended Performance Award at the National Festival of Music for Youth. Other highlights include a two-week tour of America; All England Steel Band Champions; Rugbians of the Year; and appearances with Frankie Vaughan, Roy Castle, The Spinners and many more. The members of the band change from time to time and the band is a very 'ongoing thing'. Only two of the original band remain, and the newest member has only been playing with the Ocho Rios for four months. The Ocho Rios play for fun, not only for themselves, but for their audiences. "Music for fun" is their motto, and excellence of performance is their aim.

Fame-Michael Gore

Made popular by the film and television series of the same name.

Memory-Andrew Lloyd Webber This song is taken from the current hit West End musical Cats by Andrew Lloyd Webber and was recorded by Elaine Page and Barbra Streisand.

Yellow Bird- Trad.

The tune that all steel bands are expected to pl~y!

Get Back 00 Jo)-LennonIMcCartney A tune with a limited melody but strong beat which reminds everyone of the talent of Lennon and McCartney.

abetted by Northcliffe Comprehensive School, Conisbrough. The musical policy is one of variety, creativity and the broadening of musical horizons, through a graded process of challenging composition. DJO members, past and present, have derived much pleasure and invaluable experience from Schools Prom and National Festival of Music for Youth appearances. They have received the Outstanding Performance Award on four successive occasions at the Festival. As a direct result of this involvement at national level, along with the hard work and initiative shown by the Central Bureau for Educational Visits and Exchanges, the orchestra has enjoyed recognition and musical successes at home and abroad.

They have toured the South of England on several occasions and were honoured to be the first ever British jazz orchestra to appear at the Montreux International Jazz Festival in 1979. They also performed at Nice Jazz Festival in 1979 and 1980. Recently, most exciting cultural and educational links have been secured with schools in Lyon and Grenoble in France.

The Schools Prom has been a major source of motivation since their first appearance in 1976. The excitement, appreciation and genuine warmth displayed by audiences has proved inspirational to many young Doncaster musicians. Tonight they are honoured to be sharing the platform with special guests Don Lusher and Kenny Baker.

Back Bone- Thadeus Jones The music of Thad Jones has been very much a feature of their varied repertoire in recent years. This particular piece is very much enjoyed by everyone because of the intricate ensemble work involving the whole band. In addition, the chorus interludes give soloists an opportunity to create on a sound chord line. The soloists are David Nettleton, Wins ton Rollins, Denis Rollins and Andy Barron.

T.O.-Rob McConnell This final piece has something for everyone. It is most definitely one of the most exciting and ambitious pieces that the DJO has attempted to date. Rob McConnell is one of today's most prolific jazz writers. He surrounds himself with some of the finest musicians in the world and the results are astounding. His "Boss Brass" are currently the toast of Canada and the USA and play his own refreshing and exciting compositions. The initials T.O. stand for Ted O'Reilly, a veteran jazz broadcaster in Canada. This piece contains contrasting stylistic items indicative of his spectrum of jazz programming - Henry Red Alien, Jelly Roll Morton, Miff Mile and Duke Ellington to Freddie Hubbard and Anthony Braxton. It has Swing, Rock, Dixieland and even a 'free' section which they promise not to labour! The soloists are Carl Collins and Steve Sadler.

The Q,ho Rio, Steel Balld, Rugby

DONCASTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA Conductor: John Ellis Special Guests: Kenny Baker and Don Lusher Back Bone Thadeus Jones Battle Hymn of the Republic aYr. Kenny Baker T.O. Rob McConnell The Doncaster Jazz Orchestra is the senior of three such orchestras administered by the Doncaster Youth Jazz Association. A growing number of music students from Doncaster schools are involved in a "Jazz and Modern Music Education" programme which operates over four evening sessions each week. The classes are assisted by Doncaster Youth Service and enthusiastically hosted, aided and

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Programme Notes CLASSROOM COMPOSITIONS FROM THE

LAKES SCHOOL

Conductor: Kenneth Hjitch A Glimpse Into The Classroom The Lakes School is an 11-18 Comprehensive School in Windermere and its music syllabus is centred on small-group creative music making. All pupils are encouraged to create their own music in an approach that ensures everyone finds a sense of achievement in classroom music lessons. What you will see and hear is a normal classroom activity. Because of time alloction at the Schools Prom their performance can only show extracts from each original piece. We hope, however, that our glimpse will show how music is for all children and not just a selected few , and how they keep music alive first and foremost in the classroom. It is very exciting when this work can continue into the examination syllabus as the two fifth year girls found when they offered Variations as part of their CSE project.

The Holbome COl/sort, Tyl/e alld Wear

THE HOLBORNE CONSORT Sonata for Seven Recorders

j. H. Schmelzer

A Glimpse Into The Classroom 1. Music Stand 2. Storm 3. Headache I 4. Headache 11 5. Theme & Variations Music Stand had as its starting point the patterns of notes obtained by drawing the shape of a folding music stand against a double stave. Storm is a natural mood piece found acceptable to a second year remedial class and Headache was a challenge for a third year class.

The Holborne Consort was formed in 1979 and it is now, as then, composed entirely of former pupils of Marden Bridge Middle School, Whitley Bay, which is noted for the quality of its recorder ensembles. The present players, all members of the North T yneside Schools' Recorder Ensemble, have appeared regularly at the National Festival of Music for Youth and several of them performed at the Schools Prom in 1978. Due to the demands of further education this is sadly the last performance by this consort.

Sonata for Seven Recorders - J. H . Schmelzer Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (1623-1680) , Kapellmeister at the Imperial Court of Vienna, is one of the most interesting composers before Bach. His sonata for recorders and bass is the only example of a piece of old music composed for this combination. It was certainly written for some special occasion but there is no evidence that it was written for court. The only existing copy of this piece is in the Royal University Library, Uppsala, Sweden.

Lady Malllle" 5c"001 Bassooll Quartet, Derbyshire

LADY MANNERS SCHOOL BASSOON QUARTET Ivor the Engine Springtanz Le Phenix (1st movement) Teddy Bears' Picnic

Classroom Compositions from The Lakes School, C umb/ia

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arr. Vem011 El/iolt Praetorills Correlle arr. Smith

The success and versatility of these instrumentalists have made them a popular concert item in their home county of Derbyshire.

Julie Price, principal bassoonist of the National Youth Orchestra for two years and wind fmalist in the Young Musician oj/he Y ear, 1980,

is now at the RNCM and Manchester University, following the Joint Course. Helen Peller is also in the National Youth Orchestra and is principal bassoonist in the Derbyshire County Youth Orchestra. She is hoping to continue her studies at music college.

Susie Groocock has only been playing for two and a half years. She is already playing in two local orchestras and her ambition is to get into the National Youth Orchestra. Elaine Hoyle lives and goes to school in Sheffield. She has played the bassoon since she was 10, and has successfully competed in festivals and competitions in Sheffield and Huddersfield.

Ivor the Engine-arr. Vernon El/iott The repertoire for this unusual combination of instruments is extremely small and so Vernon Elliott kindly offered to arrange Ivor the Engine especially for our quartet. A bassoonist himself, he knows how to put the full range of the instrument to humorous effect.

Springtanz - Praetorius Praetorius (1571-1612) did not specify any particular instrumental media for the performance of the Spring Dance. However, it is very doubtful whether he would have imagined it played by four bassoons.

Le Phenix - Corrette The Phoenix is a mythical bird. The upper two bassoons have flights of semiquavers and are written in true virtuoso style, while the lower two provide the continuo line.

The Merseyside Youth Orchestra, based in the Philharmonic Hall, Liverpool, is administered by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society and is financially supported by Merseyside Arts and the MYO Sponsorship Scheme. The orchestra has its own constitution and members committee and rehearses each Sunday morning. They have toured in Switzerland, France, Germany and Israel and recently played in the Gala Concert in the Royal Festival Hall as part of the 1982 National Festival of Music for Youth on the South Bank. Timothy Reynish was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and later became a horn player with several professional symphony orchestras before becoming a conductor. He is the Head of the School of Wind and Percussion at the Royal Northern College of Music.

The Grieg Piano Concerto is one of the most popular works in the piano repertoire and tonight we will hear the first movement. The Scottish Dances are popular short movements which are immediately a ppealing to the listener. They illustrate the typical sty le of Malcolm Arnold, who has written many film scores. The Pomp and Circumstance march has a special link with the MYO as it was first performed by the Liverpool Orchestral Society more than 80 years ago. It is Elgar's most famous work and is played by hundreds of orchestras each year. Everyone knows the tune, so join in for the chorus of " Land of Hope and Glory ."

Teddy Bears' Picnic-arr. Smith The four individual parts of Teddy Bears' Picnic were composed with each of the girls' character and bassoon playing in mind. The rest is left to your imagination!

MERSEYSIDE YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Timothy Reynish Soloist: Anna Markland Scottish Dances Nos. 1 and 4 Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 (1st movement) Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1

Malcolm Arnold Grieg Elgar

Merseyside Youth Orchestra

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Progratntne Land of Hope and Glory Dear Land of Hope, thy hope is crowned, God make thee mightier yet!

On Sov'ran brows, beloved, renowned, Once more thy crown is set.

Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained, have ruled thee well and long'

By Freedom gained, by Truth maintained, Thine Empire shall be strong.

Lal'ld of Hope and Glory, Mo ther of the Free, How Shall we extol thee, who are bom of thee?

Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee might}!, make thee mightier yet, God who made thee mighty } make thee mightier yet, Repeat chorus Thy fame is ancient as the days, As Ocean large and wide; A pride that dares, and heeds not praise, A stern and silent pride.

Not that false joy that dreams content With what our sires have won; The blood a hero sire hath spent; Still nerves a hero son.

Repeat chorus twice, as before.

Monday 29th November 1.

SANDWELL YOUTH BAND Conductor: Stuart Johnson March Overture Cornet Roundabout

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PETRANEY DUO Miniature Suite (1st & 4th movements)

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Stuart Johnson Trad ., arr. B . Lingley arr. S. Johnson

KING EDW ARD VI COLLEGE STRING QUARTET, STOURBRIDGE String Quartet (4th movement)

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WaIter Leigh

HIGH GREAVE JUNIOR SCHOOL BAND Conductor: Brian Lingley March Fanfare On Ilkla Moor A Children's March

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Gordon Jacob

HELENSWOOD SCHOOL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor: Rosemary Fleet Concertino for Harpsichord and String Orchestra (2nd & 3rd movements)

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Stuart Johnson Robert Eaves

Shostakovich

WIGAN METRO STAGE BAND Musical Director: Ian Darrington Soloist: Don Lusher Engine No. 9 Night Birds Up Front

Les Hooper W. Sharpe/R . Odell Lennie Niehaus

INTERVAL - 20 MINUTES (Warning bells will sound 5 minutes before the end of the interval)

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STOCKPORT SCHOOLS STAGESOUND Musical Director: Derek Nash Blaydon Races Getting Sentimental Over You Birdland

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ABERYSTWYTH BRASS ENSEMBLE The Noble Era (Music for Brass Quartet)

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Smoking is not allowed in the auditorium. The use of cameras and tape recorders is strictly forbidden.

Thomas Tomkins , arr. Butterworth

THE LATYMER SINGERS AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Conductor: David Elliott Stabat Mater (1st and final movements)

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arr. Pat Nash Bassman, arr. P. Nash j. Zawinul, arr. P. Nash

Pergolesi

CITY OF COVENTRY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Peter Isherwood Soloist: Nigel Kennedy Spitfire Prelude Dance of the Rose-Maidens from "Gayaneh" Violin Concerto in E minor (1st movement) Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1.

"Land of Hope and Glory"

Walton Khachaturian Mendelssohn EIgar

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Prograntnte

Tuesday 30th Novelllber 6.

CITY OF SHEFFIELD YOUTH ORCHESTRA AND CHOIR Conductor: Michael Brewer Crown Imperial Zadok the Priest

Walton Handel

INTERVAL - 20 MINUTES (Warning bells will sound 5 minutes before the end of the interval)

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STOURBRIDGE YOUTH SWING BAND Musical Director: John Saunders Soloist: Kenny Baker Eager Beaver Mission 459 Disco Kid

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Stan Kenton Kenny Baker Gingery

ST PAUL'S EARLY MUSIC GROUP Conductor: Rosemary Fleet Pavan Galliard "La Manfrolina" Since First I Saw Your Face Branle "Les Bouffons"

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Arbeau Anon.

Ford Phalese

arr. ) R. Fleet

KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE ORCHESTRA, STOURBRIDGE Conductor: John Griswold Soloist: Jacques Loussier Uprising

Jacques Loussier

YORK MUSIC THEATRE Conductor: Barry Russell Fac;:ade (i) Tango-Pasodoble (ii) Jodelling Song (iii) Popular Song (iv) Polka

Walton

KING EDWARD VI SCHOOL (CHELMSFORD) SENIOR ORCHESTRA 1.

ST AFFORDSHIRE YOUTH WIND BAND Conductor: Eric Bennett Pomp and Circumstance March No.4, Op. 39 Fandango

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TOWERS INFANTS' SCHOOL MUSIC GROUP Conductor: Joyce Mumford "Dress Rehearsal"

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SAX APPEAL Badap

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Ravel

WARDLE HIGH SCHOOL BRASS BAND Conductor: Gary Walczak Soloist: Don Lusher Dallas/Vegas Sarabande en Bleu Saturday Market Overture

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Trad. songs

SCOTT QUARTET String Quartet in F (4th movement)

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Elgar Perkins

ImmellFrontiere Gordon Langford Anthony Hedges

Derek Nash

Conductor: Peter Cross Adagio from Spartacus Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, "Land of Hope and Glory"

Khachaturian Elgar

Progra1l11l1e

Wednesday 1st December 5.

TWO PLUS ONE Flutes en Vacances

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THE OCHO RIOS STEEL BAND Conductor: Phil Sutton Fame Memory Yellow Bird Get Back Go Jo)

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Jacques Cast/?rede

Michael Gore Andrew Lloyd Webber Trad.

Lennon-McCartney

INTERV AL - 20 MINUTES (Warning bells will sound 5 minutes before the end of the interval)

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DONCASTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA Conductor: John Ellis Soloists: Kenny Baker, Don Lusher Back Bone Battle Hymn of the Republic

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Thad Jones arr. Kenny Baker Rob McConnell

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THE HOLBORNE CONSORT Sonata for Seven Recorders J. H. Schmelz er

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CLASSROOM COMPOSITIONS FROM THE LAKES SCHOOL Conductor: Kenneth Hjitch A Glimpse Into the Classroom

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LADY MANNERS SCHOOL BASSOON QUARTET Ivor the Engine Springtanz Le Phenix (1st movement) Teddy Bears' Picnic

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MERSEYSIDE YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Timothy Reynish Soloist: Anna Markland Scottish Dances Nos. 1 and 4 Piano Concerto in A minor (1st movement) Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, "Land of Hope and Glory"

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Anon.

John Pluck J. Chattaway

Markham Lee Harold N oble arr. Roberl de Cormier

GUILDFORD PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Conductor: William Killo Gainsborough Percussion Quintet (1st and 3rd movements)

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Elgar

WROUGHTON MIDDLE SCHOOL CHOIR Condll cto r: Grego,.y l:ndmI1f)od Accompanist: Margn rer C",ierwIJ"d T he Dream Seller Witchery Wood 0 1' D an T ucke r

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Malcolm Amold Grieg

STOURBRIDGE CONCERT BAND Musical Director: John Saunders Fanfare and National Anthem Un Poco Cinco Parade of Tall Ships

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arr. Vemon Elliott Michael Praetorius Michel Comtte arr. Sonja Smith

Thomas Gauger

WINCHMORE HILL STRING ORCHESTRA Conductor: Peter Walmough Soloist: Simon Blendis Concerto in A minor, Op. 3, No. 6 Vivaldi

Yamaha C7 piano kindly supplied by Mr Denzil Jacobs of Kemblel Yamaha and Mr Gerald Haim of Chappell of Bond Street.

Percussion instruments kindly supplied by Mr Barry Moorhouse of F & H Percussion Limited.

Premier drums and accessories kindly supplied by The Premier Drum Company Limited.

De Blaise Continuo harpsichord kindly supplied by Mr Dudley Orbell of Whelpdale, Maxwell & Codd Limited.

Fmder Rhodes Electric Piano and amplification eou I'ies), CBS Feuder.

COlJllllllllicaliolls kindly supplied by Bu mdept Electrollies (ER) Limited.

Programme plllllogrnphs by Odile Noel, 5iggi Sehwarz /llId Dcrek Norlo n.

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You've finally made it We were happy to help you on your way - in your regional audition* in the spring ....

We enjoyed the National Festival at the South Bank in the summer ..... .

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We look forward to helping with the preparations in the winter for the 1983 Regional series. * In: Bristol, Exeter, Glasgow, Manchester, Newcastle, Aberystwyth, Leeds (twice), Liverpool, Southampton, Brighton, Chatham, Guildford, Norwich, Swindon, South London (twice), Derby, Bedworth, Birmingham, Colchester and North London (twice) .

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Schools Prom Personalities Larry Westland, Director and Producer, is well-known for his work in youth music, notably as Director of the National Festival of Music for Youth, which he founded in 1971 with the backing of the Association of Music Industries. In 12 years, the Festival has grown into the most comprehensive youth music festival in Europe. The Festival embraces all forms of instrumental music and this year some 20,000 young musicians took part. He has been closely involved with the Schools Prom since it was launched in 1975 and has this year been appointed Director of this now famous concert series. He has also been appointed Executive Director of Music for Youth, a charity which has been formed by the Association of Music Industries, Commercial Union Assurance, The Rank Organisation and The Times Educational Supplement. He is General Administrator of the British Youth Band Championships which he founded in 1978 in conjunction with the British Youth Band Association. This year, he launched the first Sainsbury's Festival of Choirs at the Royal Albert Hall in conjunction with the National Association of Choirs. He has also presented numerous concerts by British youth orchestras and his other activities include the presentation of charity concerts and the British Music Fair.

DerekJewell, Associate Director and Presenter, founded the Schools Prom in 1975 whilst Publishing Director of Times Newspapers Ltd, and was its Director until last year when he left to pursue his business career with the International Thomson Organisation. He has also been a writer and broadcaster for many years, most notably as Jazz and Popular Music Critic of The Sunday Times.

His books include two novels; a biography of Duke Ellington, Duke; and a collection of reportage on music, The Popular Voice. He is currently writing songs and a musical with Jacques Loussier - one of this year's guests - and his musical entertainment, Duke, had its premiere, starring Elaine Delmar and Adelaide Hall, in July. He is an honorary adviser and adjudicator for the National Festival of Music for Youth.

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Antony Hopkins, CBE, Guest Conductor and Presenter, has been associated with the Schools Prom from the first and has conducted the finale at everyone.

He has lectured and conducted in many countries and his Talking about Music programme on Radio 3 is now in its 30th year. His book Understanding Music won the Yorkshire Post award as the best music book of the year, and has now been issued in paperback. His book on the Beethoven symphonies has also been reprinted recently as a paperback while other publications in this year alone include Sounds of .\1IJSic, a book about the orchestra, and his highly entertaining autobiography Beating Time. His Songs for SWillgillg Golfers are due to be recorded by the Swingles as Songs for Swingling Golfers. Another work of his, Johll & the Magic Music Man, makes a perfect introduction to the orchestra for young children; Antony Hopkins wrote the words and music, conducts it and narrates it. Is this a record? Yes, it is - on Unicorn RHS 360! In 1980 he was awarded a Doctorate by the University of Stirling and made a Fellow of a Cambridge College; he sa ys it makes him feel quite respectable at last!

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Schools Prom Personalities Jacques Loussier, Guest Musician, and founder of the renowned Play Bach Trio, was born in Angers in Western France. At 15 he was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire but left two years later to begin his career as an instrumentalist - his first job being with an orchestra in Cuba. He returned to Paris in 1959 at the age of 25, already a pianist of vast experience, and formed his famous Trio. Almost immediately they began to make recordings and by 1964 the Trio's fame had spread around the world. Mter 18 years Loussier decided to take a two-year bI:eak to re-think his musical direction and in 1980 released P~llsion which combined the qualities of rock, classical music and jazz. His most recent release is Pagan Moon.

Richard Baker, Presenter, was educated at Kilburn Grammar School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he gained a Honours Degree in history and modern languages. He served for three and a haJf years in the Royal Navy during World War IT and was, for a brief period, a teacher and an actor before joining the BBC in 1950. For three years he was an announcer on the Third Programme (now Radio 3). In 1954 his was the first voice to be heard on the new BBC Television News, and since that time his work as a television newsreader has been the mainstay of his career. Apart from the news , however, he take part in a number of other radio and television programmes. Since 1970 he has had his own current affairs programme on Radio 4- Start the Week with Richard Baker, and also introduced the weekly record programme These You Have Loved for five years (1972-1977); he now has rus own weekly record programme Baker's Dozen. He is a regular panellist on Face the Music on BBC 2, and introduces many of the Proms and the New Year's Day Concert from Vienna.

He has also been the BBC's television commentator on a number of Royal occasions, among them the Investiture of the Prince of Wales at Caernarvon and the Silver Jubilee Fleet Review at Spithead.

He is the author of six books: Here is the News; The

Terror of Tobermory; The Magic of Music; Dry Ginger: Richard Baker's Music Guide; Mozart; and co-author of The Everyman Book of Sea Songs. In 1976 he was awarded the OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours for services to broadcasting; in 1979 he received the honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws at Strathclyde University.

Kenny Baker, Guest Musician, started his musical career by playing the cornet in a local brass band in Yorkshire. He left for London in 1939 and was soon in demand as a trumpet player, appearing with the star orchestras of the time. After a five-year break in the services he joined the newly-formed Ted Heath Orchestra in 1946 and was lead trumpet, soloist and arranger. Three years later he left to form his own band, toured a great deal and performed as a solo artiste. In 1951 he was asked by the BBC to form a group of professional musicians. They became known as Baker's Dozen and played on the radio programme Let's Settle for M~lsic which ran for eight years. He continued to make recordings and work as a solo artiste. Today he devotes most of his time to studio work playing anything from Symphony to Top of the Pops and has worked with many famous musicians. H:is latest album is The Best of British Jazz.

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Don Lusher, Guest Musician took up the trombone at the age of six and played in Salvation Army junior and senior bands. In 1942 he joined the Royal Artillery and after the war played in a forces concert party during which time he met many professional musicians and decided to take up a musical career. He went on to play in various bands and was Jead trombone in Ted Heath's for more than nine years. After a world tour and five tours of the USA, he left to concentrate on studio work and has played under numerous famous conductors and toured with Frank Sinatra. He now runs the Don Lusher Big Band, the DL Quartet and the DL Trombone Ensemble and directs the reformed Ted Heath Band as well as arranging, composing, making solo appearances and giving first performances. He was voted Musician of the Year in 1976 by the BBC Jazz Society and in 1979 and 1982 attended the International Trombone Association Workshop in Nashville, USA, where he gave master classes and recitals . His latest album is Cavatina and others.

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Nigel Kennedy, Guest Musician, born in 1956, attended the Yehudi Menuhin school where he studied first the piano and then the violin. He went on to the Juilliard School in New York. His Royal Festival Hall debut was in 1977 when he played with the Philharmonia Orchestra with Riccardo Muti. He has now played with all the major British orchestras as well as the Berlin Philharmonic and the St Louis and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras. Recent performances have included the EIgar Concerto with the RPO and the Walton Concerto with the Halle. He has played at the BBC Proms and at the Aldeburgh, Malvern and Gstaad Festivals. Nigel Kennedy has toured Hong Kong and Australia with the Halle and has pJayed in India, Turkey, Denmark, Norway and the USA. He is also interested in Indian Music and Jazz and has given concerts with Stephane Grappelli and has played at the Chichester and Cork Festivals with American jazz musicians. He now plays in the group (T) Zigane.

Anna Markland was born in Wallasey in 1964 and studies the piano with Heather Slade-Lipkin in Manchester. Amla is a third-year sixth form pupil at Chetham s School of Music where her musical studies also include singing. In addition to the piano she plays the harpsichord and the violin. Anna has taken part in masterclasses with several distinguished professors, including Kendall Taylor, Alberta Portugheris, and the late Gordon Green. In 1977 Anna Markland was awarded the Gold Medal by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, and in 1981 she gained her ARCM Performer's Diploma with Honours. In 1982 Anna became the BBC Young Musician of the Year, and she has received invitations from all over the country to give concerto and recital performances, including many appearances on radio and television.

Anna has met the Prime Minister and attended the 1982 Women of the Year lunch as guest of honour. Outside of music, Anna's wide interests include history and literature, and she also enjoys playing sports.

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Schools Prom Personalities

Exhibition of musical portraits and fantasies

By JOHN MINNION Prince Consort Room, Grand Tier Level Ken Griffin, Television Producer, started his musical training as a chorister at The Chapel Royal. At the age of 14 hejoined the Army as a, Band Boy with the King's Regiment (Liverpool). Some years later, after further studies at The Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, he joined The Coldstream Guards Band. In 1966, after 20 years in the Army, Ken Griffin joined BBC Television as a Production Assistant and became a Producer some 5 years later. Now, as an Executive Producer in Television Outside Broadcasts, he is responsible for a variety of programmes ranging from Beauty Contests, Brass Band Competitions, the West End and Variety Club Awards to Wodd Dancing Championships and the Schools Prom, with which he has been associated since 1975.

John Minnion, Programme Illustrator, draws Radio 3's composer of the week each week in The Listener, and is currently working on a book of illustrated limericks about composers. He can't play a note of music himself, however, "If you can't beat them, draw them" is the philosophy he appJies not only to drums , glockenspiels and xylophones, but also to the politicians he caricatures regularly for New Statesman - most of whom deserve to be beaten soundly.

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List of Performers ABERYSTWYTH BRASS ENSEMBLE Tutor: Cenfyn Evans Age range of performers: 16-17 years Goronwy Evans (1st trumpet) Colin Rees (2nd trumpet) Helen Rudeforth (horn) Geraint Evans (trombone)

CITY OF COVENTRY YOUTH ORCHESTRA

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Conductor: Peter Isherwood Tutors: Violins: Mildred AU50P , Mitdldl SI'IQw; Violas: PIJIII1J1 Midmer; Cellos: Bnrbal'a DOnllld50n; Double-basses: John Vale; Woodwind: Eddie Cockram; Brass: Brian Clwppell; Percussion: Sheila Btil:ge:ss Age range of performers: 12-19 years Andrea Bryson First Violins Kathleen Byrne Jill Renshaw (Leader) Mia Vernon Jeannette Lewin Double Basses Martin Woolley John Hemmings Annette Davies Martin Queally Julian Street Carla Brayson Nicholas Gazey Susan Grimsey Julia Schofield Nerys Rolinson Penny Lynch Lynn Coleman Desmond Jack Flutes Gillian Brightwell Melanie Bryson Karen Williams Lindsey James Bernadette Carroll Lynne Cummins Paul Williamson Rachel Poole Timothy Hall Gaynor Barradell Oboes Caroline Rhodes Howard Walsh rvan Jewel Mary Rolinson Siobhan Byrne Catherine Page Catherine Lee Clarinets David Williamson Melesina Moore Matthew Smith Alison Cleobury Martin Dutton Adam Ryan Second Violins Jane Maycock Jane Wiseman Bassoons Heather Stoney Simon Pedley Richard Pick wick James Stewart Jonathan Fitzsimons Alexandra Cleaver Jane Waters Sally Bliss Lorraine Murtagh Horns Joan Croarken Kevin Durham Melanie Ensor Adrian Sherratt John Varnish Stephen Jones Helen Crawford Evan Charles Elizabeth North Gillian MacDonald Carol Harris Maria Majors Julia Wood Trumpets Janice Shakespeare Peter Durham Barak Askari Jane Anderson Gillian Davis Fiona Gergely Dale Bradbury Christopher Price Judith Haverty Andrew Rackham Trombones Anita Howard Peter Tonge Violas Andrew Gardner Martin Brown Christopher Knibbs Peter Rolinson Carl Webster Arvine Brown Martin Haywood Helen Keep Tubas Peter Smith Alison Walker Graham Childs Ceri Noel Julie Coleman Harp Graham Hayden Adrian Dolby Cellos Timpani and Percussion ran Minty Mark Waits Kay Ford Stc'"en Williams Stephen Carroll Y,"onne Bayliss Rebecca Viner John Stretwn ran Thompson Lucy Poole Nigel Rasberry Tina Hewitt Organ Lydia Denny Simon Over

CLASSROOM COMPOSITIONS FROM THE LAKES SCHOOL Director of Music: Kenneth Hrtch Assistant: Gillian Baker Age range of performers: 12-16 years Louise Bland Karl Bleese Robin Dean Julie Dodd Christine Ellwood Gail Fryer Christopher Haywood Michael McVey

Kathy Shaw Martin Slater Marie Stronach Heidi Thornbarrow Emma Tomlinson Andrew Vity Andrew Wright

DONCASTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA Director of Music: John S, M, ElIis Asst Director/Sound Engineer: Philip Gibbons Saxophone Tutor: Harold Searle; Guitar Tutor: Mark Heame Age range of performers: 13-20 years Reeds Jane Searle Nikki Burnham Steve Gibbons Steve Sadler Carl Collins Rona Gilchrist (fit) Trombones Dennis Rollins Winston Rollins Andrew Gurnhill Tim Rose Andy Needham (bltrom) Chris Calder (tuba)

Trumpets Mark White Steven Flemming David Grace Paul Millband Tony Corish Andrew Sellars Rhythm Dave Nettleton (pno) Andy Vinter (pno) John Campbell (gtr) Glenn Muscroft (bass) David May (drums/perc) Steve McKie (drums/perc)

GUILDFORD PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Conductor: William Kitto Age range of performers: 15-18 years Stephen Hiscock Neil Marshall Andrew Martin Richard Benjafield David Lodge

HELENSWOOD SCHOOL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor: Rosemary Fleet Age range of performers: 13-18 years Harpsichord Claire Booth Jones First Violins Clare Chaplin Alison Harling Rachael Maddock Tracey Hewitt Catherine Paync Alison Graham Second Violins Penny Witchell Nicola Fagonde Lara Blann Donna Woodfine Gail Wall work

Violas Alison Haley H elen Dixon Jenny Haley Cellos Penny Goodman Elizabeth Maddock Jackie McCallum Sally Ann Hillman Double Bass Jane Williams

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List of Perfortners HIGH GREA VE JUNIOR SCHOOL BAND Musical Director: Brian Lingley Assistant Conductor: Jack Hempsell Tutors: Brass: Brian Lingley; Woodwind: Denis Langfield; Percussion: Len Addy Age range of performers: 8-12 years 1st Clarinets Eb Horns Jane Humphries Lynda Pritchard Alison Beck Rachel Pickering Belinda Frankland Julie Waiters Michelle Frankland Annette Medlock Penelope Hinchcliffe Vicki Downing Amanda Steer Baritones 2nd Clarinets Nathan Parkin Stephanie Partington Lee Dunning Yvonne Emms Trombones 3rd Clarinets Moira Ogilvie Merilee Carter lan Waiters Lisa Bingham Darren White Jane Reynolds Craig Watts 1st Cornets Euphonium Andrew Wassell Nancy Swann Nicola Dunning Eb Basses Darren Hull David Hammon Shelley Ball Scott Toseland Karen Hardy Grant Toseland 2nd Cornets Percussion Roger Naylor Deborah Oxborough Melanie Scales Dawn Eblet 3rd Cornets Lee Watson Judy Card well Nicola Scatt Vanessa Pritchard

THE HOLBORNE CONSORT Tutor: Reg Chapple Age range of performers: 15-18 years Michelle Collins Stephanie Grant Julia Nicholson Sandra Reynolds

Tony Betts Alice Harrison Julia Macklin

KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE ORCHESTRA, STOURBRIDGE Conductor: John Griswold String Tutor: Kenneth Farmer Age range of performers: 16-19 years 1st Violins Matthew Scrivener (Leader) Julia Holloway Robert Bishop Ann-Marie Ashworth Susan Nordon Julie Harris Katie Berker Philippa Mills Jane Bowman Nicola Mills 2nd Violins Ralph AJlin Tim Byard-Jones Helen Griffiths Thea Clift Natasha Winter Joannah Pickering Nicola Goode Andrew Thynne Graham Jones J acqueline Scott Natalie Gazey James Turner Violas Heather Raybould Sara Jones Stephen Tristram Gaye Springer Tan Jones

Michael Horton Helen Snedker Cellos David Knight In grid Tranter Paula Springer John Dudley Jessica Harford Louise Jones Helen Thomas Michelle Spencer Basses Mark Andrews David Green Robert Drewry Flutes N icola Bissell Julie O'Neill Rachel Perry Julie Cooper Oboes Katherine Marsh Graeme Lodge Rachel Williams Clarinets Debbie Ka\' Tim Long~ore Diane Tomkins Katherine Brown

Bassoons Sarah Weston Philippa Cartwright Richard Whitehouse Horns Beverly Woolcock Fiona Hilliard Nichola Winnington Peter Taylor Trumpets Stefan Asbury

Patrick Alien Justin Tundervarry Trombones Alan MacCormack David Harshorne Simon Denley Timpani Robert Mantle Percussion Elizabeth Croft Sarah Ogden

KING EDWARD VI SCHOOL (CHELMSFORD) SENIOR ORCHESTRA Conductor: Peter Cross Leader: Anthony Marwood Age range of performers: 11-19 years Violins Alison Barnes Helen Borne Emma Brown Rachel Chaplin Andrew Clandillon Helen Clay Elizabeth Clements Catharine Clothier Veronica Culver Jenny Dyer Jonathan Evans Emma Field Georgina Field Julian Field Clare Findlay Alison Gibbons Julia Greenwood Natalie Gupta Rachel Harrington Brian Hooper John Jackman Catherine Lloyd Helen Mackie Anthony Marwood David Mercer Gail Osmaston Hazel Province Suzanne Reeves Eliza beth Rose Daniel Sharp Philippa Still well Amanda Tenneson Nicola Tenneson Simon Williams Andrew Withams Violas Ann Bevitt David Borne Fiona Bonds Bridget Carey John Findlay Emma Fowle Patricia Gibbons Alison Hatwell Katherine Holden Neil Meader Cellos Julian Adams Melvin Archer Katie Brown David Campbell Stephen Coles Naomi Davies James Dickson Julie Little Billy Longhurst Diane Taylor Charles Wright Double Basses Ben Davies Rachel Field

Flutes Debbie Brown Clare Houghton Stephanie Jones Deborah Jones Joanna Kitchiner Joanne Lloyd Philippa Osmaston Mark Pike Susie Sharp Claire Whittaker Oboes Judith Burg Richard Fagg Sally Gosling Angie Holden Rachel Prosser Hilary van Tromp Clare White Clarinets Simon Byatt Ann Groves Susan Johnston Andrew Kitchiner Sarah Little Juliet Mascall Deane Nicholson Raymond Perrier Annette Reeves Bassoons Sara Boucher Susan Bradley Martin Greenwood Lucy White Horns Michaela Betts Martin Kingsley Hilary Macaulay David Pad more Trumpets Nicola Bower Richard de Orfe Alice Holden Lucy Longhurst Richard Rook Trombones Mark Reed Simon Ruane Ruth Wells Tuba Crispin Whettam Percussion Simon Johnston Andrew McCann Russel Newton Paul Withams Piano/Organ Mark Lee

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As ever the music on display at the SCHOOLS PROM is both varied and exciting.

It ranges over wide areas of music and is a triumph of hard work and a tribute to the music teachers whose professional Skill and dedication has made this feast of music possible.

BUT do you realise that this whole development is now more seriously threatened than it has ever been since the War? In 1981/82 alone, music in schools in at least eight local education authorities has suffered very severe cuts and this is only part of the story. That is why the ISM and MU have joined forces to alert the music-loving public, parents, and all those concerned with the education of our children to the value and importance of music in their lives.

List of Performers KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE STRING QUARTET, STOURBRIDGE Coach: Joan Best Age of performers: 17 years Matthew Scrivener (1st violin) Robert Bishop (2nd violin) Heather Raybould (viola) David Knight (cello)

LADY MANNERS SCHOOL BASSOON QUARTET Tutor: Sonja Smith Age range of performers: 14--18 years Julie Price He!en Peller Susie Groocock Elaine Hoyle

THE LATYMER SINGERS AND INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE Conductor: David El/iott Rehearsal Accompanist: Denise Francis Age range of performers: 12-18 years

THELATYMER SINGERS Caroline Antscherl Alison Baker Joanna Barker Kristen Barnard Ruthanna Barnett Michelle Beddall Amanda Brialey Nadine Burden Soma Chakrabarti Elisabeth Clare Julia Colley Philippa Comoy Emma Cool en Sarah Cross Rosemary Crossley Eleanor Denvir James Denvir Catherine Dixon Lynne Doswell Gretel Dowdeswell Amanda D'Souza Kee!y Fisher Emma Francis Emma George Helen Goddard Mark Ham Melanie Hart Martin Heidensohn Graham Hepburn Sarah Hepburn Karen Herlihy Simon Hester Louise Hewett Samantha Holder Jason Hornett Habiba Hrida Tara Hubbard Daniel Hudson Alev Hussein He!en Jenkins Nancy Keng Mariam Khan Alexandra Knight Elizabeth Lawrence Laura-Jane Lowy Penny McCabe Beth Mack Justine Marlowe Leonie Muffett Catherine Myers Indira Nathan Susan Parker

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Georgina Ray Adrienne Roberts Natasha Robertson Melanie Rubenstein Lisel Ryatt Veneta Samuel Jacqueline Shapiro Amy Shelton Andrea Tait Andrew Tatch Joanne Thurgood He!en Tivnann Duncan Trathen Peta Tuthill Carole Tyrrell Alison Waite Steven Wakeford Clare Wallace Ursula Wielgosz Claire Wonacott Elizabeth Woods Justine Young

INSTRUMENTAL ENSEMBLE 1st Violins Karen Anstee (leader) Claire Thatcher Nancy Lloyd Natasha Tropp 2nd Violins Sarah Hudson Louise Tilley Penny Mack Jennifer North Violas Jennifer McGhie Helen Bromley Cellos Rebecca Firth Helen Thatcher James Harrison Stephen Anstee Double Bass Timon Do\\-des\Vcll Harpsichord \1ei Wei Lim Organ Richard Hodges

MERSEYSIDE YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Timothy Reynish Chairman: Stephen Pratt Administrator: Sandra Parr Hon_ President: Sir Charles Groves, CBE Tutors: Members oJ the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society Age range of performers: 12-23 years

1st Violins Mark Pharoah Hilary Nation Andrew Smith Alicia Pearson Douglas Kirby Diane McCausland Andrea Nicholson Susannah Foster Louise Beavan J anet La tter Karen Polak Nicola Bone Margo Nelson 2nd Violins Caroline Paul Raymond Glynn Michael Begley Naomi Caunce Amanda Ray Lynne Rylands Natalie Cartwright Judith Taylor Andrew Louis Peter Quinn Anita Malkhandi Jonathan Podmore Violas Karen Whitehead Catherine Brierley Stephen Rae Susan Black William Kell Tracey Atkinson Janet Marsden Alison Mitchell Helen Wilkins Deborah Clark Cellos Stephen Falk Keith Anderson Lisa Cowling Helen Draper Helen Sant Kate Granger-Brown Kate Jackson Fiona Breckon Anita Jones Kate Crows on Basses David Lund

Mark Merrick Andrew McGuirk Nigel Richardson Christine Mullen

Flutes Amanda Highton Jeffrey Rimmer Joanna Kale Hazel Woodcock Oboes Ellen Marsden Juliet Paul Roseanna Moore Clarinets Andrew Roberts Colette Louis Ian McGowan Bassoons Andrew Bassey Fiona Cairney Horns Lindsey Robinson Andrew McConachie Simon Twigge Martyn Jones Leonie Ruddock Trumpets Julie Baker Jayne Laird Dominic Starkey Keith Price Trombones Timothy Lenahan Andrew Banks Andrew Freeman Bass Trombone Simon Frith Tuba Stephen Gray Timpani Catherine Gilbertson Percussion Paul Ramsell Colin Thompson Jonathan Ellis Harp Sheila Wardle

THE OCHO RIOS STEEL BAND Musical Director/Conductor: Phil Sutton Age range of performers: 11-18 years Dorothy Dodd Andrea Johnson Daphne Dodd Angela Morris Marcha Carter Karen Morris Tony Morris Marlyna Blake Suzanne Woodcraft Kevin Mills

Steven Morgan Yvonne Morrison Paul Cowley Sheila Powell Lydia Edwards Sarah Cowley Sharon Drackett Michelle Carter Rachael W oodcraft Paula Vassell

PETRANEY DUO Age range of performers: 17-18 years Neyire Ashworth (Clarinet) Rachel Bolt (Viola)

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List of Performers SANDWELL YOUTH BAND Conductor: Stuart Johnson Assistant Conductor: Keith Watts Tutors - Cornets: John Hynd; Horns: Heather Williams Age range of performers: 10--20 years

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Principal Cornet Harold McNeil Solo Cornets Tracey Reed Robert Smith Paul Steward Michelle Reed Simon Mason Soprano Cornet Jonathan Hancocks Flugel Horn Tanya Corns Repiano Cornets Sus an Reed Ann Hollins 2nd Cornets Mark Bryant Stephen Bastable Jane Ralph 3rd Cornets Patrick Hill Ian Chapman BryanJames Solo Horns Stephen Parsons Julie Stephens 1st Horns Joanne Longdon Jayne Holloway 2nd Horns Jayne Parsons Samantha Newton

1st Baritones Karen Williams Joanne Matthews 2nd Baritones Warren Corns Julie Dale Phillip Green Euphoniums Linda Stevens Paul Hadley Jill Corbett 1st Trombones Mark Freeman Clive Austin 2nd Trombones Jacquie Perry Christopher Hill Bass Trombone Clive Vile Bb Basses Lawrence Eccleston Andrew Monk Eb Basses Philip Watson Shirley Grappy Gary Linford Andrew Allan Percussion Steven Jeavons

SAX APPEAL Age range of performers: 17-21 years Alto Saxophones Scott Dixon Derek Nash Tenor Saxophones Karen Emmett Mark Witty Baritone Saxophone Susie Williams

Bass Guitar David Ellis Keyboards Andrew Richardson Drums Adam Ryan-Carter

SCOTT QUARTET Tutor: Sheila Nelson Age range of performers: 14-15 years Rebecca Scott (1st violin) Kavus David (2nd violin) Ania Ullinann (viola) Robert Max (cello)

CITY OF SHEFFIELD YOUTH ORCHESTRA & CHOIR Conductor: Michael Brewer Orchestra Administrator: David Greenlees Co-ordinator of Singing: Vivien Pike Tutors - Strings: Martin Milner, Dennis Simons; Woodwind: Kerry Camden , Stephen Nagy; Brass: Alan Lumsden, Peter Gane, Christopher Holding Age range of performers: 13--20 years ORCHESTRA Violins Paul Warburton (Leader) Susannah Barley Richard Barron Roger Barron Joanne Beever

Gillian Blackwell Catrin Blank Ian Brownhill Nicola Haywood Ruth Headridge Deborah Huntley Toby Kohler

Lorna Latham Andrew Long Karen Mace Catherine Marshall Paul Marvin Jacky Nash Lesley Newman Jane Osborne Elizabeth Porteus Elizabeth Ramsbottom Andrew Roberts Helen Robson Lisa Rollin Hazel Sewell Julian Smith Bridget Stansfield Stephen Thistleton Helen Thorpe Joy Warburton Violas Susan Calderbank Neil Davis Michael Frost Susan Gowland Catherine Osborne Rachel Robson Jonathan Warburton David Worrall Alice Young Cellos James Banbury . Matthew Barley Jane Blank Sheila Gowland Christopher Hoyle Rachel Lewis Sally Maitlis Phyllis Moxam Katy Pay ton Robert Read Judith Robinson Heather Sewell Anne Staniforth Diane Stewart Double Basses Angela Belbin Philip Hensher Mark Longson Catherine Needham Lyndon Wall Flutes Alison Smith Patrick Snook Tracey Stewart Clare Ward Oboes Rosemary Collins Penelope Johnson Susan Sharp Clarinets Karen Betley Gillian Read Sarah Rodger Alison Wilkinson Bassoons David Gillott Sarah Kirkaldy Allison Murphy Catherine Thorpe Horns Andrew Kilpatrick Philip Latham Karen Morris Alexandra Murphy Matthew Pollitt Step hen Smart Trumpets Jane Freeman Richard Grantham

Jeremy Klemz Martyn Thomas Nicholas Ward Trombones David Beech Alan Borrington Neal Pawley Angus Tucker Tubas George Browne Derek Scoins Percussion James Barrott Tim Bradshaw Ben Daglish Organ Neil Bennett CHOIR Sopranos Susan Allsopp Georgia Andrews Diane Atherton Jill Bayley Catherine Briggs Joanne Gray Marion Heeley Sarah Kirkaldy Elizabeth Patrick Helen Perry Hilary Pye Fiona Ritchie Helen Sanderson Jacqueline Senior Vivien Siberry Joanne Smith Ann Spittlehouse Helen Steiner Jill Taylor Jane Terris Helen Thorpe Deborah Watson Jill Wilkinson Kate Whyman Altos Maria Dodgson Karen Holmes Jane Keeton Kathryn Lawson Rachel Oxley Cia ire Paul Erika Redfearn Susan Rotherham Fiona Russell Rachel Skipworth Anne Whiteley Tenors Garth Bardsley Roger Betterton Paul Boocock David Claxton Tim Evans Stephen Peat Peter Smith John Turner Stephen Turner Simon Sanderson Paul Wildgoose Basses David Bell Mark Chatterton William Fullbrook Simon Hanson Andrew Hall Peter Jones Kenneth Senior Peter Shoo bridge Matthew Uttley Francis Wells

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List of Performers ST PAUL'S EARLY MUSIC GROUP Director: Rosemary Fleet Age range of performers: 8-11 years Viols and Recorders Graham Casselden Daniel Goodger Megan Held Sandra Hurrell Martin Osborne Amy Osmond Michaela Phillips

Amanda Pont Kishli Rummery Emma Watts Solo Voice Kevin Vernon Percussion Robin Smith

STAFFORDSHIRE YOUTH WIND BAND Conductor: Eric Bennett Leader: Sandra Beiley OTchestral Administrator: Jeremy Dul/oJ! Tutors - Horns: LYllne BOllomley; Percussion: Margaret Cotton; Brass: James He.jdmotl Frallk Wadki.l ; Double-bass: Ronald Large; Woodwind: David Kenyon , Michael Tllorley Age range of performers: 13-19 years Clarinets Marcus Abbotts Sandra Bailey lan Bennett Tracy Clewlow Susan Day Julie Dixon Cathy Donaldson Louise Donaldson Christopher Flathers Helen Fox Carol Flynn Helen Goodwin Ruth Hakesley Sally Ann Harvey Elaine Haviland Linda Holbrook Rebecca Holden Jill Jones Alison Lloyd Williams Kathleen Lynch Christopher Massey Rachael Mountford Catherine Morris Susan Nicholas Catherine Nickerson Kathryn Robinson Vivienne Seward Pamela Sherwin Karen Spalding Jennifer Stebbings Helen Stephenson Robin Stokoe Lisa Trotman Karen Turner Simon Voila m Jackie Warrender Donna Willard Valerie Winning Sally Wyatt Flutes Lincoln Abbotts Louise Buxton Simon Copley Elizabeth Flathers Beverley Hoon Simon Hutt Lesley Oakes Julie Shipley Helen Smith Kathryn Tebby Jane Wallis Sarah Walsh Oboes Kathryn Austin Helen Bailey Helen Boad Jill Pemberton Caroline Simpson Marie Thomas

Saxophones Timothy Baines Christopher Caldwell "Darren Hawley Michael Miller Malcolm Moorewood Claire Nichols Carol Westbrook Bassoons Sarah Dewes Donna Griffiths Lucille Massey Helen Simpkin Christopher Williams French Horns Christopher Boone Elizabeth Ellison Sian Ferguson Peter Foulkes Richard Milan Fiona Morris Jennifer Munden Rebecca Tooth Trumpets Stuart Ashmore Simon Bennett Natalie Fleetham Karen Gittens Richard Glennan Karen Hale Gillian Helps Anthony Lee Robin Mannell Karen Markham Ashley Pugh Robert Starr Shirley Stone Trombones Mark Eades Linda Exton Malcolm Henshaw Brendan Keirle Nicholas Lloyd lan Murray Adrian Parsons Andrea Taylor Hywe\ Waiters Euphoniums Nicholas Baincs Paul Jobling Janc Thompson Tubas \\anin Barnett Louise Hanslow Sman '\1arshall Richard Sand land Peter T omson

Double Basses Julianne Barbenson Janet Green Percussion Gwyn Fisher lan Fleming

Russell Hawley Julian Mountford Paul Murfin

STOCKPORT SCHOOLS STAGESOUND Conductor: Derek Nash Musical Director: Alam Tomkinson Age range of performers: 14-19 years Saxophones Robert Jinks Nicholas Owen Nigel Parry Michael Torkington Suzie Williams Trumpets Adrian Cragg Andrew Mooney Trombones Andrew Alcock Michael Barlow Robin Dewhurst Melvyn Howard Nicholas Rees Flutes Nigel Iyer Nicola Jenkins Caroline Sargeant Donna Skeith Joanne Wilson Clarinets Marcus Brown

Ann Harrison Lorna Jenkins Stephen Mooney Marcus Warwick Keyboard Simon Brooks Drums Jason Osborne Guitars David Cartwright Dave Ellis Violins Heather Clark Melanie Clark Linda Durojaiye Debra England Katherine Powell Margaret Powell Julie Ratchford Cellos lan Johnstone Judith Lee Jenny Tapner

STOURBRIDGE CONCERT BAND Musical Director: John Saunders Age range of performers: 12-19 years Trumpets Patrick Alien Justin Tundervarry Duncan McNaughton Robert Pountney Patrick Fradgley John Hickenbottom Mark Hadley Trombones Alan McCormack Andrew McNaughton Kevin Hadley Basses David Horton Melissa W illetts Jane Malpass Elizabeth Raybould Euphoniums Andrea Lewis Elizabeth Newton Paula Tombs French Horns Amanda Smith Karen Leedham Nicola Winnington Natalie Spencer Ruth Hewins Clarinets Jacqueline Hickman Diane Tomkins Julie Cartwright Lisa Tarr Sean Fradgley Rachel Homer Beverley Griffin Tracey Burford Jeanette Postnieks Sarah Rees Claire Rowley

Jeremy Harrison Richard Keen Alto Clarinets Lynn Kite Richard Williams Bass Clarinets Sarah Hewins Kay Proudler Bassoons Alison Rutter Sarah Bishop Oboes Robert Bishop Dawn Thompson Christy Cartwright Flutes Sarah Husselbee Katy Lloyd Sara Perks Sara Moore Catherine Twigg Lisa Drew Helen Foster Lisa Greenway Nicola Boyden Georgina White Alto Saxophone Stephen Twigg Tenor Saxophones Jennifer Williams Sally Smith Percussion Peter Cater Andrew Southall Neil Bullock Barbara Whitworth David Green

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List of Performers STOURBRIDGE YOUTH SWING BAND Musical Director: John Saunders Age range of performers: 14-19 years Trumpets Patrick Allen Justin Tundervarry Duncan McNaughton Robert Pountney Pat rick Fradgley Trombones Alan McCormack Andrew McNaughton Kevin Hadley Andrea Lewis Alto Saxophones Diane T omkins Stephen Twigg

Tenor Saxophones Lisa Tarr Jennifer Williams Sally Smith Baritone Saxophone Sean Fradgley Keyboard Jacqueline Hickman Bass Guitar David Green Drums Peter Cater

TOWERS INFANTS' SCHOOL MUSIC GROUP Tutor: Joyce Mumford Director: Sally Davis Age range of performers: 6-7 years Orchestra Joanna Archer Helen Bantin Beelia Byron Sue Huxtable Gareth Lucas Louise Page Adam Smith Soloist Tessa O'Loughlin London Cries Bethan Boothby Paul Smith Graham Storey Yellow Birds Philip Ayres Nicola Baker Claire Brockington Jennifer Daffin Ann Farrand Lindsay Herold Susan Hopkins Lynsey Mann James Prigg Leanne Severn

2nd Trombones Simon Goodliff Philip Healey Bass Trombone Phillip Biddulph Tubas Peter Jones Gary Tetlow James Holt Adrian Blanchard Percussion Robert Scott Gregory Pitts Alan Connell David Oldham

WIGAN METRO STAGE BAND Hayley Thomas Karen Watson Organ Grinder ran Casey Pretty Augustine Dancers Lawrence Best Natalie Cowley Paul Cowley Clare Davis lan Embrey Alison Parry Darren Pearce David Pickford James Quinlan Sally Stone Louise Sweeney Joanna Woodward Stage Hands Adam Black Philip Dowling Andrew Fynn Robert Hall Steven Kerr Mark Thorne

Musical Director: Ian Darrington Assistant: Bill Lowe Age range of performers: 14-1 9 years Alto Saxophones Karen Ashton Nicola Brogan Sheila Mason Tenor Saxophones Carl Kelly Richard Winpenny Stephen Manton Gareth Robinson Baritone Saxophone Richard Halliwell Trumpets Dawn Thomas Makolm Melling David Prior Simon Ridings lan Jacobs Trombones Andy Prior Lee Thomas

Patrick McA voy John Hurst Carolyn Ashley Stuart Sidebottom Piano Paul Walker Basses Philippa Haimes Lawrence Foster Guitar Paul Haimes Drums Paul Henderson Congas David Neill

THE WINCHMORE HILL STRING ORCHESTRA

TWO PLUS ONE Tutor: Wendy Berry Age range of performers: 16-18 years

Conductor: Peter Watmough Soloist: Simon Blendis Age range of performers: 7-14 years

Caroline Howard Vivian Jones lan Clarke

WARD LE HIGH SCHOOL BRASS BAND Conductors: Rom Stanko (Musical Director), Gary Walczak (Musical Associate) Principal: Tra cy Barlow Band Manager: Chris Giblin Age range of performers: 1~16 years Principal Cornet Tracy Barlo\\" Soprano Cornet Tim Knight Solo Cornets Jane Wright Stephen Fisher Wendy Constable Lee Rigg Repiano Cornet Paula Butterworth 2nd Cornets Karen Melior

1st Horns Michala Hilton Lorna Fitzsimons Joanne Roberts 2nd Horns ran Whiteh ead Deborah Porter 1st Baritones Susan Bolton Lynne Bancroft 2nd Baritones Andrea Wilkinson Jane Hobbs Euphoniums Brent Warren Clare Hamilton Chris Mitchell Solo Trombones Stewart Plant Zoe Birbeck

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Edward Thomas Katherine Watmough Alan Williams Clare Williams Juliet Williams Violas Daniel Leetch Harriet Coll Nicola Day Darius Van Helfteren Cellos Gretel Dowdeswell Joanna Beaumont Paul Blendis lsobel Coltman (Leader) Sarah Compton Anthony Findlay Celina Girling Saul Hill man Double-Bass Antonia Bakewell Harpsichord James Blendis

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