Programme Notes KINCORTH WAITS Galliarde Putta Nera BaUo Furlano o Lusty May Brimsle Gay Schiarazula Marazula
STONELEIGH YOUTH ORCHESTRA Michael Praetorius Giorgio Mainerio Anon. Scottish Michael Praetorius Giorgio Mainerio
The Kincorth Waits, pupils of Kincorth Academy, a comprehensive school in an Aberdeen housing estate, began, in 1975, to perform music of the Medieval and Renaissance periods. The present group of eight musicians is the third to be so designated. Amongst their great variety of reproduction instruments, many, including crumhorns, schreyerpfeifen, flutes, recorders and cornamuses, were made by the Director, Charles Foster. Of special interest is his re-creation of a 'still shawn' of unique design, salvaged from the Mary Rose.
In 1976 the Waits accepted an invitation to present a series of concerts in Moscow and Leningrad. More recently, among many other engagements, they have played in the Purcell Room on the South Bank, at the Bristol Conference of the International Society for Musical Education, and this summer, in the course of a recital tour in Southern England, in the foyer of the National Theatre. In 1980 they contributed Volume Five to the series, 'Medieval and Renaissance Sounds', made and distributed by the C.M.S . Record Company of New York. The Galliarde, performed by a loud band of shawms, schreyerpfeifen, sackbut, curtal and percussion, and the Bransle Gay which uses seven crumhorns, come from Terpsichore, the famous collection of Michael Praetorius. Putta Nera Ballo Furlano played by a quartet of gemshorns, and Schiarazula Marazula, which begins with solei sackbut accompanied by tenor and bass shawms, are both danc.es published in Italy. 0 Lusty May was a song popular in Scotland for 150 years. The music was specially transcribed for the Waits, with many other Scottish pieces, from the hitherto inaccessible Robert Taitt Manuscript, in the possession of Los Angeles University.
Conductor: Adrian Brown Soloist: }v/m, Wallace Finale from The Firebird Suite (1919) Trumpet Concerto
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1, 'Land of Hope and Glory'
Igor Stravinsky Alexander Harut'unyan Edward Elgar
The Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra was formed in 1944 by the late Edward Gough as a junior orchestra for young players in the Epsom and Ewell districts of Surrey. It is a full size symphony orchestra now with an upper age limit of 21 years. Since 1973 the orchestra has been under the direction of Adrian Brown. Together they have achieved some notable successes in recent years at the National Festival of Music for Youth in 1976 and 1979, on a tour of Sweden during the summer of 1978 and at the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in 1977. They have broadcast for the BBC and have twice appeared in the Schools Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, and for three years running played at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Stoneleigh receives no finartcial support from either government or educational sources and as a Registered Charity relies on contributions from parents, friends, and other interested parties for its existence. Adrian Brown was born in Ipswich and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and later with Sir Adrian Boult. In 1975 he was the first British conductor ever to reach the final of the Herbert von Karajan Conductor's Competition. Since then he has broadcast with the London Sinfonietta and the BBC Scottish Orchestra. He has worked with the City of Birmingham Orchestra and Opera North Orchestra and broadcast with the Salamon Orchestra. He is conductor of Harrow Students' Philharmonic and Oxford University Orchestra and with them performed M'ahler's 5th Symphony in St John's Smith Square in 1982. He has recently given concerts with Guildford Philharmonic Orchestra.
Finale from The Firebird Suite (1919)-Igor Stravinsky The original ballet from which " T he Firebird" Suite, is taken was the first major work the impr~sario Diaghilev commissioned from Stravinsky for his Russian Ballet. In idiom, harking back to the sounds and scoring of his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov, its combination of melody, rhythm and colour made it Stravinsky's first success in Paris, 1910. Look back it does, but certainly the seeds are there of the two more modern and percussive ballets shortly to be written, "Petrouchka" and "The Rite of Spring".
Kincorth Waits, Aberdeen
Stoneleigh Youth Orchestra, Surrey
The story is simple. A scintillating bird hovers round the fairy tree in an attempt to gather golden apples. Ivan, a hunter, pursues the elusive bird and manages to capture a golden feathe.r which helps him ultimately to vanquish fear, personified by the ogre Kashchei who petrifies all. Ivan obtains possession of Kashchei's soul in the shape of an egg, breaks it and thereby releases a captive princess who becomes his bride and the enchanted castle is filled with rejoicing.
Trumpet Concerto-Alexander Harut'unyan The Armenian composer Alexander Harut'unyan was born in 1920 in Erevan. In 1941 he graduated from the conservatoire in En;van and went to study in Moscow. He made his name with his 'Cantata on the Homeland' written in 1948 and became the Artistic Director of the Armenian Philharmonic Orchestra in 1954. He became the Director of the Erevan Conservatoire in the Fifties and was made a People's Artist of the USSR in 1970. The Trumpet Concerto was written in 1950 and has been popularised by the fmt trumpet of the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Timofey Deikshitzer. It is a concerto in one movement, scored for a large orchestra in a colourful manner, rather like Khachaturian's style, and its origins could be said to be based in Armenian peasant music. The piece opens with a declamatory recitative passage for solo trumpet followed by an energetic allegro section. The piece features the trumpet in its most lyrical register and, after alternating slow, lyrical passages with allegro material, the concerto presents the solo trumpet in a cadenza before the final coda.
Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1-Edward 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 0 Major for a special Gala Performance given to commemorate the Coronation of Edward VII.
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