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Introduction There is probably one regret shared by the majority of adults who experience the Schools Prom, either here Ul the world-famous Royal Albert Hall or on BBC television later. How many of them gave up their own music lessons and practice when they were as young as tonighfs performers? Perhaps because they lacked sufficient determination and dedication, or because they preferred to go and play outside with their friends or maybe because they felt they had no talent or were just too lazy - and have lived to regret it.

There is certainly, however, one outstanding sentiment shared by all adults who know the Schools Prom.

One that is also a reward shared by all parents, relatives and friends, music teachers and administrators, sponsors and friends of the Schools Prom and by the brilliant organisers of this event. It is to delight in the knowledge that their interest, support, help and guidance have ensured that thousands of young musicians throughout our still great country can be assured that their own determination and dedication, their hours of practice and

their personal sacrifices have all been worthwhile. Their talent has been fulfilled, their young lives have been enriched, their hard work rewarded and their dreams come true.

How pleased, grateful and proud all the adults are and what exciting promise is augured for future young musicians who are just beginning to find an interest and pleasure in their own music.

Long may the Schools Prom provide the platform for the realisation of those young dreams.

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Contents Introduction

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Larry Westland on Music for Youth

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Schools Prom Presenters

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Programme Notes

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Concert Programmes

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Schools Prom Personalities

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List of Performers

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Friends of Music for Youth

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Music for Youth is a non-profit making company with charitable status, formed to manage and organise 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. AMI is the music trade association whose members include music publishers and manufacturers of musical instrtunents. It played a founding role in the formation of the National Festival 15 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. The Schools Prom was launched in 1975 by The Times Educational Supplement and its founding Director was Derek Jewel!.

The 1986 National Festival of Music for Youth Regional Auditions Sponsored by W. H. Smith 1 to 23 March National Festival of Music for Youth at the South Bank 9, 10, 11, 12 July Schools Prom North Free Trade Hall, Manchester 17, 18 Y1arch 1986 Schools Prom Royal Albert Hall 24, 25, 26 November

Director and Producer: Larry Westland Music for Youth Directors: Michael Harris, Chairman (Commercial Union Assurance) James D. Coppock (The Association of Music Industries) Rodney Rycroft (The Rank Organisation) ran Trillord (The Times Educational Supplement) Schools Prom Organiser: Jean Halford-Thompson Associate Producer: Paul Uden Stage Managers: Dave Haythorne, Mick Mepham

Programme design: lan Marshall Photographs by Steve Hall and Alldy Howes Drawillgs by John Mimlioll

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in Paris, Los Angeles, Madrid and Manchester by Larry Westland 'We would be hard pressed to find any ambassadors for Britain who would be better received overseas.'

This observation was made by a senior British Council spokesman last April at Spain' s premier concert hall, the Teatro Real in Madrid. He had just witnessed the standing ovation given to the young musicians of Scalby School Jazz Orchesh'a at the final performance of a six-concert tour of Spain.

In view of recent events which have highlighted the negative and destructive forces affecting young people today, he must have been thankful to be able to present this more hopeful and positive picture of British youth.

Scalby School were not our only ambassadors this year. Groups from the Schools Prom and the National Festival have been giving concerts and recitals in almost every part of the world. What a great pity it is that more of our young people are not encouraged and subsidised to carry out these goodwill tours.

The standard of excellence achieved by our young musicians is the envy of Europe. They are greeted with rapturous applause wherever they appear. Yet another Yorkshire group - the Doncaster Youth Jazz Orchestra - has been taking CaJifornia by storm this summer. Hard-bitten jazz critics have been eulogising over their

talents. Their tour culminated in a triumphant concert in Los Angeles.

This will come as no surprise to Schools Prom audiences. Doncaster has for so long set the standard that other jazz and big bands aspire to.

Music for Youth sent Jane Spiers, flute, Rebecca Holt, piano, and Robert Max, cello, to Brussels for the firstever European Music for Youth Prize.

They returned with every award in the competition playing against the prizewinners of every major European nation. Since then they have been invited to give concerts in Austria, France, Germany, Spain and again in Belgium.

Paris has also been won over by our young musicians. Twelve young people aged eight to twelve years, known as Orchestral Steel and based at Seyrnour Road Junior School in Manchester, were invited to play at an international youth festival by the Jeunesse Musicale organisation in Paris in May. Their teacher and conductor, Peter McGarr, commenting on their performance said, 'the audience seemed to hang on every note we played; then they kept on clapping and chanting and literally swarmed on to the stage.'

Manchester? It was here, at home, that we were able to record the greatest success for our young musicians. Schools Prom North, held at the Free Trade Hall in April, was

one way of celebrating the tenth birthday of the Schools Prom. We staged two concerts involving some 800 young performers from the 1984 National Festival. Both evenings were so successful that it has now been decided to repeat Schools Prom North in 1986. A long-standing ambition of Music for Youth to take the Schools Prom to other parts of Britain has begun to take shape. Plans for Schools Prom Wales are now well advanced and we hope to be in a position to announce this event shortly.

It has been a good year fQr Music for

Youth despite the inroads that educational cuts are making into the national framework of music teaching.

Were it not for the dedication of our music teachers and a resourceful team of local authority music advisers a different picture might have emerged.

We owe a great debt of gratitude to these people and through these concerts we thank them for Keeping Music Alive In Our Schools.

Music is one of the many things in which our young people excel and we would like to think that this Schools Prom will create more young ambassadors for Britain. One thing it will certainly do is show quite conclusively the benefits and civilising influences of musical participation.

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Schools Prom Presenters Natalie Anglesey Presenter, has been Theatre Critic for BBC Radio Manchester for the last ten years. She trained for, and worked in the theatre for many years before becoming employed by the BBC in 1975. Since then she has appeared regularly on Radio 2, Radio 4, Woman's Hour, British Forces Network and the World Service, where she has a listening audience of twenty million. For television she has presented 'Celebration', Granada's prestigious arts programme, as well as a series called 'Gallery'.

At the moment she presents 'Good Afternoon' , a magazine programme for BBC Radio Manchester. Prior to working for the BBC in this country, she was known as 'The Voice of Turkey', broadcasting daily for the World Service whilst she lived and worked there .

She has written a book about the 'Palace Theatre' and is currently working on another about Manchester's Famous Families.

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Richard Baker, OBE, Presenter, was born in Willesden in North London.

He was educated at Kilburn Grammar School and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he studied history and modern languages. He served for three and a half years in the Royal Navy and was briefly a teacher and actor before joining the BBC in 1950. For three years he was an announcer on the Third Programme (now Radio 3), and in 1954 his was the first voice to be heard on the new BBC Television News. He remained a TV Newsreader, three times winning the Newscaster of the Year Award, until December 1982.

He became presenter of the BBC 1 arts magazine 'Omnibus' in 1983 and in 1984 the presenter of the BBC Radio 4 programme 'Rollercoaster'. He received the Variety Club of Great Britain Award as BBC Radio Personality of 1984.

Richard also takes part in a number of other radio and TV programmes. 'Start the Week with Richard Baker' has run continuously on Radio 4 since 1970, and since 1972 Richard has had weekly record programmes on the same network. He is a regular panellist on BBC 2' s 'Face the Music' and introduces many other musical programmes including the Last Night of the Proms and the New Year's Day Concert from Vienna. He has also

been the TV commentator on a number of Royal Occasions, among them the Silver Jubilee Fleet Review at Spithead: for many years Richard was a member of the Royal Naval Reserve and holds the Reserve Decoration.

In recent years Richard Baker has been in increasing demand as a concert artist, performing most of the musical works which require a narrator and giving entertainments of words and music in partnership with others.

Richard Baker is the author of six books and has also made a number of recordings; the most recent of these is a 'Master-chord' recording of 'The Wind in the Willows' and 'The Reluctant Dragon' with the King's Singers.

He is married with two sons and lives in Hertfordshire. In 1976 he was awarded the OBE and has received honorary degrees from the Universities of Aberdeen and Strathclyde.

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Schools Prom Presenters Peter Duncan, Presenter, made his debut when he was 15, as Jim Hawkins in 'Treasure Island' at the Mermaid Theatre followed by two years with the National Theatre and many TV and film roles including Stardust, Mr Quip and Flash Gordon.

Before he joined Blue Peter he was the star of many Children's TV Drama Series including 'King Cinder' but it was on Blue Peter he established himself as a daredevil action man, taking part in the first three London Marathons, wild water canoeing, high diving, deep sea fishing, climbing Big Ben, mountaineering with Doug Scott, fighting Sumo wrestlers and slalom skiing to name but a few. He also took over the role of the programme's Cook - his carrot cake has to be tasted to be believed! And he puppy walked Blue Peter's fourth guide dog, Prince.

Last year Peter left Blue Peter to make his own six-part action adventure series, 'Duncan Dares', in which he performed feats of lunacy and courage. On his return to Blue Peter this autumn, he plunged into speed roller skating, surfing and mini hover racing.

Antony Hopkins, CBE, Guest Conductor and Presenter, has been associated with the Schools Prom from the first and has conducted the finale at every one. He has lectured and conducted in many countries and his 'Talking About Music' programme on Radio 3 is now in its 31st 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 include 'Sounds of Music', a book about the orchestra, and his highly entertaining autobiography 'Beating Time'. His recent book of scandalous poems about musicians, 'Music-amusings', is guaranteed to make you laugh.

Another work of his., 'John & 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! His latest book, the 'Concertgoer's Companion', came out in November 1984 and Volume 2 of this book will be published in January 1986.

Lesley Judd, Presenter, attended the Arts Educational School in Tring, Hertfordshire, from the age of six, until she left at sixteen to join the West End production of 'Half a Sixpence' as a dancer.

In 1964 she danced in another West End musical, 'Our Man Crichton', with Millicent Martin and Kenneth More. She joined the 'Young Generation' in 1967 and remained with them dancing in England and Europe until 1972 when she joined 'Blue Peter'.

Lesley finally left 'Blue Peter' in April 1979. She has worked on BBC Schools Productions and also BBC All Star Record Breakers. She has appeared in a series for the BBC, 'In the Limelight with Lesley Judd'; 'Wide World of Entertainment'; 'World Driving Championship'; 'We're Going Places' and 'Go With Noakes'.

Lesley is well known for her appearances in television commercials and is a regular contributor to Woman's Hour on radio.

His one record 'Cold As Ice' was highly praised by Elton John but only reached 113 in the Charts. He hopes to improve on that! His most exhilarating studio experience was conducting a full orchestra - Royal College of Music Symphonia - in a unique rendition of Pomp and Circumstance.

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Programme Notes ACADEMY OF ST. PHILIP'S, BIRMINGHAM Conductor: Peter Bridle Fanfare and National Edward Gregson Anthem performed with The Guildhall School of Music & Drama Junior Department Brass Band Symphony No. 1, Classical Sergei Prokofiev The Academy of St. Philip's, Birmingham, is a chamber orchestra consisting of young insbumentalists from the West Midlands. It was formed in 1976 and now performs a regular series of concerts in St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham. The orchestra's repertoire consists mainly of the works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but attempts are made to include as numy twentieth-century works as the size of the orchestra permits. The majority of players are schoolchildren.

Symphony No. 1, Classical - Sergei Prokofiev Prokofiev wrote the Symphony No. 1 in 1916, one year before the October Revolution. It is written in an eighteenthcentury style and uses a Haydn size orchestra. It has four movements. The opening Allegro is clearly a miniature sonata form, the Larghetto is a graceful minuet, the Gavotta contains memories of Russian folk music and the Finale recalls the music of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera 'Snow Maiden' .

COUNTY OF AVON SCHOOLS' ORCHESTRA Conductor: John Forster Saxophone Concerto Alexander Glazunov Four Cornish Dances ' Malcolm Arnold Pomp and Circumstance March No.l'Land of Hope and Glory' Edward EIgar The existence of the County of Avon Schools' Orchestra is evidence of the priority that the County of Avon Education Committee gives to musical opportunity for young people. Its members, whose ages range from 13 to 19 years, are drawn from all parts of the county.

The orchestra meets for intensive rehearsals during school holiday periods and orchestral coaching is provided by members of the county's Instrumental Music Teaching Staff.

Within its ten years' existence the orchestra has firmly established itself as one of the leading youth orchestras in the United Kingdom through broadcasts, public concerts in many places and the tours abroad to Bermuda in 1975, South East Asia in 1978, France in 1979 and the Gulf States and Sultanate of Oman in 1981 and 1984.

The principal conductor is John Forster, a member of the conducting staff of the Royal College of Music, London.

John Forster was born in Yorkshire and studied at the Royal College of Music where he had an outstanding career, winning many prizes - including two Leverhulme scholarships, two Sir Adrian

Boult scholarships and the coveted Tagore Gold Medal. During his time there he performed piano concertos by Mozart and Rachmaninov and, as a violinist, was leader (for two years) of one of the College's orchestras. He then began to specialise in conducting and, shortly after completing his studies, was invited to join the staff of the R.C.M. where he now teaches and conducts the Sinfonietta.

Saxophone Concerto - Alexander Glazunov This concerto, written while Glazunov was in Paris in 1933, was composed in the cyclic form, a favourite device used by nineteenth-century composers, including Liszt and Franck. The themes of the first movement are treated extensively in the second movement, Andante, and again in the Tarantella-like fugal finale. The score is concise and concentrated and is written in a purely classical mould, without any of the jazz elements normally associated with the saxophone. The cadenza for the soloist comes at the end of the second movement.

Four Cornish Dances - Malcolm Arnold If the present unmitigated drive for so-

called 'productivity' were pursued in the orchestra, the trumpeters could play all their notes in five minutes, pocket the concert fee and be off home. Fortunately for us (and them) their parts are liberally sprinkled with obligatory rests, during which. they can daydreillD., eye the audience, get nervous, or listen intelligently. Malcolm Arnold, for several years principal trumpet of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, listened to excellent effect, learning to write for the symphony orchestra with absolute assurance.

As a composer he has certainly been productive, deliberately setting out to make himself useful to his former playing colleagues and to a broadly-based audience.

The Cornish Dances were composed in 1966 as a tribute to the people he then lived amongst; he has written: The Cornish people have a highly developed sense of humour. Many are sea-faring folk, and it is a land of male voice choirs, brass bands, Methodism, May Days, and Moody and Sankey hymns. The Cornish, despite, or even because of, their great sense of independence, have been ruthlessly exploited. The deserted engine houses of the tin and copper mines bear silent witness to this, and these ruins radiate a strange and sad beauty. I hope some of these things are present in this music, which is Cornish through the eyes of a "furrener" .'

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 - 'Land of Hope and Glory' - Edward EIgar This march, now so firmly associated with the Last Night of the Proms, was composed in 1901. Referring to the tune in the trio section, Elgar said to one of his 'Enigma' friends, 'Dorabella', 'I've got a tune that will knock 'em - knock 'em flat' . The march was played at a London Promenade concert in the same year, conducted by Henry Wood. The march was indeed a knock-out, the audience calling for three encores. With the addition of the Land of Hope and Glory words for the Coronation Ode of 1902, as suggested by King Edward VII, the march became a second national anthem and in the fervour and frenzy of the Last Night of the Proms it provides a stirring and fitting climax.

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Programme Notes A.K.S. BRASS ENSEMBLE

BEARS DEN BRASS QUINTET

Conductor: Stephen Wood Queens Masque Anon Alman Morley Galliard, Pavan, Mal Sims Farnaby

Musical Director: Peter Dram Festival Occasions (mov) Howard Burrell J. S. Bach G Minor Fugue

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The A.K.S. Brass Ensemble was formed in January 1985 by the conductor and gave its debut at the regional audition for the National Festival of Music for Youth. Based in Wakefield, the group is made up of instrumentalists from local bands and orchestras.

Two interesting features of the group are the blend of orchestral and brass band instruments and also the fact that all the players and the conductor are under the age of twenty.

Over the past eleven months the group has enjoyed success in concerts and had many pieces specially composed or arranged for them.

The five pieces chosen for tonight's performance are arranged by their conductor, Stephen Wood.

Queens Masque -

Anon

This piece captures all the atmosphere of the Elizabethan court and provides a perfect opening movement.

Alman -

Thomas Morley (1557-1602)

Thomas Morley was organist at St. Paul's Cathedral and gentleman of the Chapel Royal. His Alman is a fine example of Elizabethan keyboard music.

Pavan - Giles Famaby's Dream Galliard MalSims

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The Bearsden Brass Quintet has played together for one year under the supervision of Mr Peter Oram, principal trombone in the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra. The quintet has performed at various venues in the west of Scotland. Members of the group have performed with both the National Youth Orchestra and with the National Youth Orchestra of Scotland. The quintet has now split up because the members are studying at various universities. Their performance this evening is in the nature of both a reunion and a finale.

Festive Occasions (mov) -

Howard Burrell

This is a recent composition originally written for the Philip Jones Brass Quintet.

G Minor Fugue -

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This is an arrangement of the organ fugue by members of the Canadian Brass Quintet.

BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS' CONCERT ORCHESTRA Guest Conductor: Louis Clark Beatles Medley LennonlMcCartney arr. Louis Clark Hooked on Can Can arr. Louis Clark To cater for the growing demand by pupils and teachers to integrate the various styles of music, the Birmingham Schools' Concert Orchestra was established in September 1983. Prior to this date, the orchestra was known as the Birmingham Schools' Training Orchestra, performing purely classical music.

The ninety-three members of the Concert Orchestra are drawn from a wide crosssection of schools around the Birmingham area, thereby offering equal opportunities for all. The orchestra rehearse every Saturday morning and perform regularly around the Birmingham area.'

Tonight's music has been arranged by the orchestra's guest conductor, Louis Clark.

Beatles Medley -

LennonlMcCartney arr, Louis Clark

The Beatles Medley was first performed at the Royal Albert Hall in December 1982 as part of a charity concert celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Beatles. This medley contains some of the Beatles' finest music and is arranged in Louis Clark's unique 'hooked on' style.

Hooked on Can Can - arr, Louis Clark Can Can is also in the 'hooked on' style, incorporating many famous tunes from the classical side of music and offering the various departments of the orchestra the opportunity of solos.

Giles Farnaby wrote over fifty pieces for virginal and was composer of many madrigals and canzonets. Pavan, Galliard and Mal Sirns provide a contrasting finale to this Elizabethan suite.

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Programme Notes BISHOP THOMAS GRANT PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

BOURNEMOUTH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS' FLUTE TRIO

Conductor: Andy Leask Serenade to a Sand Dune A Taste of Brahms

Tutor: Alan Melly Flutes Legeres Casterede The Flight of the Bumble Bee Rimsky-Korsakov With two full orchestras, three choirs and 180 woodwind players amongst its 840 pupils, Bournemouth School for Girls justifiably staged two recent concerts in the famous Winter Gardens. Jt is not surprising that out of this musical depth three flautists have emerged who are not only on the playing strength of the National Youth Orchestra but in fact had the unusual distinction of playing principal, second and third in a concert this year at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam.

Sabre Dance

Alan Abel arr. Thomas L. Davies Aram Khachaturian

The Bishop Thomas Grant Percussion Ensemble was formed in 1982 by their conductor Andy Leask who is a percus.5ion teacher for ILEA. All members of the ensemble are pupils of Bishop Thomas Grant R. C. School, Streatham, London. In December 1984 they won the Ensemble Class at the Kingston Music Festival and earlier this year performed at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Royal Albert Hall.

Serenade to a Sand Dune -

Alan Abel

An' exuberant melody springs across an ever-changing chordal background in Samba-like rhythm and, after a brief modulatory respite, is transformed with abundant decoration into an exhilarating French waltz. There is a recapitulatory Latin conclusion.

A Taste of Brahms - arr. Thomas L. Davies

The Flight of the Bumble Bee - Rimsky-Korsakov

Sabre Dance -

Introduzione -

Donizetti

Donizetti's Introduzione highlights the first violin and first cello as operatic-style soloists, requiring both warmth and subtlety from the quintet's other members to bring out the music's special theatrical qualities.

Flutes Legeres - Casterede

This work is ill Latin style, the melody is played on glockenspiel and vibraphone while the chordal accompaniment is on xylophone and marimba. This is followed by a contrasting section with Latin instruments leading to a climatic ending in a fast % time.

With the use of standard percussion instruments (including bass guitar) some interesting effects are produced in this arrangement, in the first section the melody is stated on the xylophone and glockenspiel, the vibraphone and marimba take over and play in unison until some contrasting tempo changes occur, a fast % section leads into a slow %, and with a gradual accelerando returning to the original tempo, the piece draws to a close.

CROMWELL JUNIOR QUINTET Tutor: Sheila Ne/son Introduzione Donizetti The members of the Cromwell Junior Quintet meet on Sundays as part of a larger group, to sing and play music of various kinds. Three of the players took part in the Schools Prom two years ago and the Quintet is actually a quartet and a trio combined for the National Festival.

This virtuoso showpiece has been arranged for almost every instrument (possibly excepting bagpipes and triangle), aIid here we find the ÂŁJute trio breathlessly spinning their chromatic kaleidoscope.

Aram Khachaturian

The Sabre Dance from the Russian ballet 'Gayane' opens with tarn tarn, cymbals, timpani, and drums. The melody is played in unison on two xylophones and one marimba. A contrast in sound occurs in the middle 3/4 section when most of the players produce a metallic sound at a soft volume.

At the end of this section a one bar drum roll leads the ensemble into the driving rhythm that Signals the return of the opening and the piece ends with an exciting flourish.

Cromwell 'unior Quintet

Bournemouth School For Girls' Flute Trio

Bishop Thomas Grant Percussion Ensemble

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Programme Notes DONCASTER YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Theme & Variations on a Hero's Return - Barbara Thompson

Musical Director: John El/is Party Hearty Bob Florence Theme & Variations on a Hero's Return Barbara Thompson Things Ain't What They Used To Be Mercer Ellington, arr. Dave Lalama The Doncaster Youth Jazz Orchestra was founded some twelve years ago by the present DiTector of Music, John Eills (Head of Music, Northcliffe Comprehensive School).

Doncaster musicians, past and present, have derived much pleasure and invaluable experience from Schools Prom involvement over the years. They are naturally and justly proud of the fact that they have become the first group, throughout the history of this marvellous event, to periorm on a record 8 occasions (,路76, '77, '78, '80, '81, '82, '83, (85). At the NationaLFestival in July of this year, they also became thl! only group (from any category) to receive an Outstanding PerfolIDance Award for the sl:xth successive time.

As a direct result of this recognition at national level. the orchestra has enjoyed concert success at home a.nd abroad. They were honoured to be the first British jazz orchestra to appear at the Montreux .International Festival in '79. Also, the Nice Festival in '79 and '80. In July of last year the orchestra toured Poland and took part in the Bydgoszcz Festival, winning the festival's major award outright despite tough opposition from thirteen other countries.

Cultural and educational links have been secured with the schools of Lyon, Grenoble and Metz, France. A further tour is planned for '86, plus appearances at the Montreux and North Sea Jazz Festivals next July.

In May of this year D.Y.J.O. set off on a concert tour of California, U.5.A. They were not disappointed. The tour was a fantastic success with performances in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Luis Obispo.

On their last Schools Prom appearance, these young musicians enjoyed a very special performance with special guest Kenny Oare, the legendary drummer.

Kenny died in January of this year and his passing was a great shock to all who knew him - 'His effect on a band was to lift it; his effect on individuals was to show them how to achieve what they did not think possible. He became our friend - and it is both his musicianship and his friendship that we honour with our performance here torught.' Kenny Clare will always be BIG in Doncaster!

This is part of a new suite specially written and alTanged for jazz orchestra featuring Barbara Thompson on soprano saxophone.

Party Hearty -

Things Ain't What They Used To Be - Mercer Ellington, arr. Dave Lalama How true . . . the Mercer Ellington title says it all. However, this tune has stood the test of time, having been performed and recorded by the great Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Buddy Rich and Woody Herman orchestras.

At the Civic Theatre, Doncaster in July 1984, Kenny Clare was the driving force behind this mg Band classic. The occasion was the 2-band finale at the Doncaster Big Band Summer School concert. Sadly, it was ,to be his last piece and his final summer in 'sunny Donny'. It is therefore a fitting tribute to close our programme this evening with 'Things Ain't What They Used To Be'.

EAST NORFOLK SCHOOLS' BIG BAND Musical Director: Peter Fraser The Best Thing For You lrving Berlin arr. Peter Fraser Gospel John Jeft Steinberg arr. Bob Lowden The Pink Panther Henry Mancini arr. Peter Fraser Birdland Jose! Zawinul arr. John Higgins The East Norfolk Schools' Big Band was formed in January 1983 by their Musical Director Peter Fraser. The band is composed of pupils from the local high schools in the Great Yarmouth area; their age ranges from 13 to 18 years.

Since its formation the band has averaged about 40 concerts per year, ranging from large charity functions to concerts for the holiday makers at some of the local holiday camps in the Great Yarmouth area. In October 1984 they did a concert with Don Lusher on trombone as guest star and one with Kenny Baker on trumpet in March 1985. In November this year they will complete the 'hat trick' by performing with George Chisholm on trombone.

The band appeared on Anglia Television in 1984 and also at a special Glenn Miller weekend which featured the Syd Lawrence, Ken McKintosh and Herb Miller Bands, where they made such a good impreSSion that they have been asked back again this year. Also in 1984 they took part in the National Festival of Music for Youth and received a Highly Commended Performance Award. They returned again this year and this time were presented with an Outstanding Performance Award.

The Best Thing For You - lrving Berlin arr. Peter Fraser An uptempo arrangement of an old standard.

Gospel John - Jeft Steinberg arr. Bob Lowden This is a light-hearted piece based on American gospel music.

The Pink Panther - Henry Mancini arr. Peter Fraser The famous Mancini movie theme.

Birdland - Jose! Zawinul arT. John Higgins An exciting arrangement of the classic jazz rock number made famous by the group 'Weather Report' .

Donazster Youth Jazz Orchestra

Bob Florence

Bob Florence is noted for h.is challenging subtleties, originality and the fact that he stretches all sections equally. This uptempo original is no exception. It's difficult, but a joy to play. Party Hearty was the final piece in the band's National Festival performance in July.

wt Norfolk Schools路 Big Bond

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Grangetown Primary School

King Edward VI College (Flute Quartet)

King Edward VI College iElectrodance)

Hampshire County Youth Orchestra

Jenny's Accordionists

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Programme Notes GRANGETOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL Tutor: Bob Mason Elizabethan Suite Gavotte

arr. A. W. Benoy William Boyce arr. R. Noble

Grangetown Primary School Recorder Group was very pleased to be presented with the Outstanding Performance Award in the newly created category for children aged 8 years and under at the National Festival. Although tonight will be a momentous occasion for most of the young group they will be guided by the experience of Tina and Nicola who will be making their second Schools Prom appearance.

This programme consists of Elizabethan and Baroque tunes arranged in three parts for recorders. Following the tradition set by former pupils from Grangetown, the children will be happy to announce details of their own programme.

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Edgar Holmes Festival Prelude for Orchestra and Organ, Op.61 Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 - 'Land of Hope and Glory'

Richard Strauss Edward EIgar

The Hampshire County Youth Orchestra was formed in September 1971 to provide orchestral experience ar>.d opportunities for young instrumentalists attending schools and colleges within the county.

Rehearsals take place on alternate Saturdays and each Easter there is an important week-long residential course.

Since 1976 the orchestra has travelled widely to places as far apart as Australia and Alaska . This summer a 26-day visit was made to New England where some fourteen concerts were given.

To mark International Youth Year, the orchestra was invited to perform at the United Nations in New York where it was presented with the U.N. Peace Medal.

Festival Prelude for Orchestra and Organ, Op. 61 - Richard Strauss In 1913 a new concert hall was to be opened in Vienna. For the inaugural concert homage was paid to the great Viennese masters of the past and the most celebrated living composer, Richard Strauss, was invited to write a work. Then 50 years old and halfway through composing the' Alpine Symphony' Strauss was at the height of his career.

The score calls for an enlarged orchestra: quadruple woodwind including heck.l~phone, 8 horns, 4. trumpets plus, at the climax, 6 or if possible U additional players, 8 timpani and a vastly augmented string section plus organ! HoWever, at the first performance seventy-five years ago on 19 October 1913 the orchestra did not comply with these directions.

The work opens with the majestic festive sound of the full organ in C major, but with typical Straussian flavour, chords from other keys are quickly used. Trombone fanfares echoed. by horns, followed by trumpet and woodwind flourishes complete the opening before the main melody played by the strings in seven parts is heard.

The sheer mass, richness and brilliance of the sound and an increased contrapuntal texture marks the climax which is capped by additional trumpets projecting the main theme over the whole orchestra.

KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE, STOURBRIDGE, FLUTE QUARTET Tutor: Linda Goodwin Valse Staccato Rubenstein The members of the Flute Quartet all joined the College in September 1983. It is unusual to be able to keep a group together for two years and the result has been an extremely successful second year. At the beginning of this year the quartet entered the Schools' Chamber Music Competition.

It won through to the finals concert in St. John's, Smith Square, and gained two outstanding performance awards for its performances in the qualifying round and semi-final. Finally in July at the National Festival of Music for Youth the quartet gained the Maurice Jacobson Award.

The members of the quartet are now spread all over the country - London, Manchester, Newcastle and Cardiff - but intend to keep together by meeting during vacations.

Valse Staccato - Rubenstein Valse Staccato shows the quartet off to great advantage. The opening is quick, light and delicate, needing a great deal of control in ensemble. The middle section is more legato and after a brief cadenza from the first flute the music of the first section returns.

Electrodance - John Griswold Electrodance was written specially for the National Festival. It is an exercise in using electronic keyboards and acoustic percussion and in particular it is a vehicle for the talents of the two dancers. There are three sections, the first two played without a break. The introduction is based upon elements of the two main sections, the first of which is slow and waltz-like.

The final section uses a ground bass, first introduced as a solo line and followed by a number of variations.

JENNY'S ACCORDIONISTS Musical Director: Jenny Neal Die Galerie (movs) Heinz Ehme Jenny's Accordionists rehearse weekly and give concerts locally and abroad as well as taking part in national and international competitions. The organisation has won major prizes and made several reciprocal visits and combined concerts with accordion orchestras on the continent during the past 10 years.

The youth orchestra is selected from the membership and commenced rehearsals for their Music for Youth participation in January. All of the members are taught the piano accordion by Jennifer Neal, some from the early age of 6 years old, and have enjoyed ensemble playing since their initial lessons.

The youth orchestra has performed twice before at the Schools Prom, in 1979 and 1981. Its success is mainly attributed to the unfailing loyalty, reliability and dedication of the young players and their parents to the organisation and its orchestra.

Die Galerie (movs) - Heillz Ehme The gallery is a contrast of colours in music in 5 movements: 1. Romance in Pastel, 2.

Abstract Mural, 3. Pen and Ink Drawing, 4.

Japanese Water Colour,S. Self Portrait in Oil. Tonight we are playing movements 3, 4 and 5.

KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE, STOURBRIDGE Conductor: John Griswold Electrodance John Griswold King Edward' s is a sixth-form college, taking students from the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley as well as other neighbouring authorities. Music plays an ~port.ant part in the life of the College With eight concerts a year gi ven by the students as weII as recitals by visiting artists. The main activities are the orchestra, chamber orchestra, wind band and choir and a number of chamber ensembles. Last year there were no fewer than twelve different groups rehearsing on a regular basis.

The College has been a regular supporter of the National Festival of Music for Youth since 1978. Indeed so many groups are entered that it has now become a venue for the regional auditions.

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1985 A BUSY YEAR FOR SCHOOLS PROMMERS ...

In March this year, W.H. Smith were pleased to sponsor your regional auditions, beginning at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's South Bank, and in Aberystwyth, Barnet, Bedford, Bedworth, Birmingham, Brighton, Colchester, Derby, Exeter, Glasgow, Guildford, Leeds (twice), Manchester (twice), Newcastle, Norwich, Penge, Plymouth, Southampton, Stafford, Stourbridge, Swansea, Swindon (twice) and Wakefield.

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

Congratulations on getting to the Albert Hall!

We'll be with you again in the regions in March 1986.

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Programme Notes LATYMER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor: Shane FIetcher Concerto for two flutes and orchestra Cimarosa The Latymer Chamber Orchestra consists of members of the Latymer School, Edmonton, in North London. When playing as an all-string group they are directed by their coach Chrlstine Rayfield and much work has recently been done on developing Baroque style. Last summer the orchestra took part in a school concert tour of Southern Gennany, featuring music by Bach and Telemann.

Concerto for two flutes and orchestra - Cimarosa Domenico Cimarosa is chiefly remembered as an opera composer, though of his sixty or so operas only The Secret Marxiage' is regularly produced nowadays. In his own day, Cimarosa was a widely respected international figw:e, considerably more popular than Mozart, his contemporary, and his career took him from his native Naples as far afield as St. Petersburg.

Cimarosa wrote only two purely orchestral works, this concerto and another for harpsichord; both concertos show the strong influence of Mozart's style.

LUDLOW SCHOOL CHOIR Conductor: Anthony Knight Prometheus Anthony Knight LilJretto: Joanna Knight Ludlow School is a rural comprehensive of just over 1,000 pupils with a catchment area of over 400 square miles. Music plays an important part in the school curriculum with great emphasis being placed on creative work within the classroom.

The school first entered the National Festival in 1983. Since then the school band has perfonned in the Festival Hall and the senior choir has received the Outstanding Performance Award for the last two years in the Voices in Concert section. The previous highlight was last year's perfonnance by the choir of 'The Willow Pattern' in the Schools Prom. The choir has grown since last year and now numbers 55 pupils, some of whom have never visited London before, let alone perfonned in the Royal Albert Hall.

Prometheus -

instrumentalists and movement, the work is a contemporary version of ancient Greek legends surrounding the figure of Prometheus.

We see his creation of mankind, his stealing of fire to give man warmth and his subsequent punishment by the Gods.

Doomed to die a thousand deaths, he is powerless to prevent mankind's corruption.

On the wind his voice cries out in pain but the Gods reject him.

Anthony Knight

Prometheus is a music drama specially written for the choir's entry in this year's National Festival of Music for Youth. Told through a combination of choir,

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Programme Notes MOSSLEY HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOL BAND

THE MOUNTBATTEN SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR

Musical Director: Brian Farrar A Tameside Overture Philip Sparke Miller Magic Glenn Miller arr. Denzil Stephens Mossley HoIlins High School Band was formed by their Musical Director Brian Farrar in 1969 on receiving six brass instruments from Lancas hire County Council. The band is entirely selfsupporting and over sixteen years has built up a fine collection of instruments and a very good music library.

In 1980 they recorded their first 1.P. and accepted an invitation to the French town of Armentieres. This resulted in a visit, by invitation, to Tilberg, Holland (1981) and a second trip to France in 1983.

The year 1984 saw the band highly commended in their National Festival of Music for Youth debut; winning four firsts and one second prize at the 29th Rastede Music Festival, West Germany; and recording their second 1. P. with the most apt title of 'Flourishing Brass'.

An Outstanding Performance Award at the Royal Festival Hall; five first prizes on their second tour of Germany; and a string of successes gained in school/youth band competitions in England, would have made this the 'best ever' year for the band. Add the invitation to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in the Schools Prom, involving a first TV appearance, and 1985 will certainly be the yardstick for success in future years!

A Tameside Overture - Philip Sparke Specially commissioned by the Yorkshire Bank for the first Annual Youth Brass Band Course, initiated by Tameside Recreation Department in 1982, this original composition for brass combines majesty, complex rhythms, counterpoint, an almost Caribbean flavour and always an air of excitement.

Miller Magic - Glenn Miller arr. Denzil Stephens The title says it all - we hope we can capture the idiom and the magic to help make tonight's concert a very special memory.

Conductor: Marilyn Felix Unexpected Song Andrew Lloyd Webber I Feel pretty} Leonard Bernstein Somewhere arr. M. Felix Chitty Chitty Bang Bang R. M. Shermanl R. B. Sherman The Mountbatten School opened in 1969 on land which was formerly part of the Broadlands estate of the late Earl Mountbatten, at Romsey in Hampshire. It is a mixed, comprehensive school of 1300 pupils from 11 to 16 years.

The concert choir, whose present average age is just thirteen, was formed by its Musical Director, Marilyn Felix, in 1980.

Since then it has performed successfully in numerous music festivals, participated for the first time in the National Festival of Music for Youth in 1984, and appeared at Buxton Opera House last December in the semi-finals of Sainsbury's 'Choir of the

Year' competition, making several television appearances.

The choir's future engagements include a tour of Holland early in the New Year and a performance in the Purcell Room at the South Bank next April as well as many local concerts.

Unexpected Song - Andrew Lloyd Webber I Feel pretty} Leonard Bernstein Somewhere arr. M. Felix Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - R. M. Shermanl R. B. Sherman The choir's repertoire is quite extensive, ranging from classical to light music.

Tonight's programme is a selection of songs from their 'light' repertoire. Unexpected Song, an Andrew Lloyd Webber 'hit', is followed by two songs from the musical West Side Story, the enchanting I Feel Pretty and the very moving song Somewhere. The programme ends with a lively rendering of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang from the film of that name.

Mountbatten School Concert Choir

Mossley Hollins High School Band

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Programme Notes THE OGONOVSKY ENSEMBLE Tutor: Margaret Ogonovsky Deux Mouvements Jacques Ibert The Ogonovsky Ensemble was formed in October 1984. The players originally met in the Surrey County Youth Orchestra and, with the principal flute's teacher Margaret Ogonovsky, started this ensemble.

They recently entered the Chamber Music Competition for Schools gaining a place in the finals concert at St. John's, Smith Square.

All the players attend comprehensive schools in Surrey; two of them attend the Junior Department of Trinity College of Music and one is a pupil at the Junior Department of the Royal College of Music.

They all play in various other chamber groups and ensembles, some of which also took part in other categories of the National Festival of Music for Youth.

Deux Mouvements - Jacques Ibert Jacques Thert (1890-1962) wrote these two short movements for two flutes, clarinet and bassoon in 1922 while studying in Rome after winning the coveted Prix de Rome. Deux Mouvements was the first published chamber music in Thert's large and varied output; other works by him include concertos for flute and saxophone and the witty incidental music for the comedy 'The Italian Straw Hat' arranged by him as 'Divertissement'.

ST. PAUL'S AND ALL HALLOWS' YOUTH STEEL BAND

Tutor: Clyde Dias Yellow Bird } Mary Anne

arr. Clyde Dias

The band was formed in 1976 when the drums were purchased. Each year we have a fourth year and a third year (beginners) band. Over the past few years we have invited those who leave to come back and start a youth band with some fourth years.

As a group this band has performed successfully at the North London and Enfield Music Festivals. They have played at P.T.A. functions, school fetes, and elderly people's homes. They have also played at the G.L.c. Music Festival, the Barbican Lakeside and at the National Steelband Festival in Coventry.

The band enjoy making music and owe their success to the excellent work of their tutor, Clyde Dias, and the help given by the Haringey Music Advisor, Miss Claudia Clarke.

St Paul's & All Hallows' Youth Steel Band

The Ogonovsky Ensemble

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Monday, 25th November

1.

WOLVERHAMPTON CONCERT BAND Conductor: Colin Douglas Fanfare and National Anthem lle de France Rapscallion; Scherzo for Symphonic Band

2.

Music of McCartney The Abbey (from Suite: Margam Stones)

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 sh路ong.

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who ewe born of thee?

Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God who made thee mighty, 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.

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

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John Williams arr. Ray Farr IIrr. Warren Barker Gareth Wood

SOUTH GLAMORGAN YOUTH STRING ORCHESTRA Conductor: Jeft Lloyd Soloist: Felix Schmidt Cello Concerto No. 1 in A Minor

Land of Hope and Glo!:y

arr. } Clyde Dias

WARD LE YOUTH BAND Musical Director: Rom Stanko Star Wars

6.

John Griswold

ST. PAUL'S AND ALL HALLOWS' YOUTH STEEL BAND Tutor: Clyde Dias Yellow Bird Mary Anne

5.

arr. John Clements Armstrong Gibbs Ivor Novello

KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE, STOURBRIDGE Conductor: John Griswold Electrodance

4.

James Barnes

TORQUAY GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS' SENIOR CHOIR Conductor: Valerie Barton Blow the Wind Southerly Five Eyes Waltz Of My Heart

3.

Trevor L. Sharpe Milhaud

Saint-Saens

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

7.

EAST NORFOLK SCHOOLS' BIG BAND Musical Director: Peter Fraser The Best Thing For You Gospel John The Pink Panther Birdland

8.

Irving Berlin arr. Peter Fraser Jeft Steinberg arr. Bob Lowden Henry Mancini arr. Peter Fraser Joset Zawinul arr. John Higgins

BEARSDEN BRASS QUINTET Musical Director: Peter Oram Festive Occasions (movements) Howard Burrell G Minor Fugue J. S. Bach

9.

BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS' CONCERT ORCHESTRA Guest Conductor: Louis Clark Beatles Medley Hooked on Can Can

10.

LennonlMcCartney arr. Louis Clark arr. Louis Clark

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Edgar Holmes Festival Prelude for Orchestra and Organ, Op. 61 Richard Strauss Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 'Land of Hope and Glory' Edward Elgar

Tuesday, 26th November 1.

STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH BRASS BAND Conductor: Stuart Johnson Fanfare and National Anthem A March Overture Toccata in 0 Minor

2.

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Anon } arr.

Morley Stephen Farnaby Wood

4.

Conductor: Shane Fletcher Soloists: Karen Jones and Jane Spiers Concerto for two flutes and orchestra

6.

Cimarosa

(Warning bells will sound 5 minutes before the end of the interval)

7.

9.

INTERVAL - 20 MINUTES Bob Florence Barbara Thompson

8.

Musical Director: Ian Darrington Soloist: Barbara Thompson Gonna Fly Now Bill Conti/Carol Connors/ (Theme from 'Rocky') Ayn Robbins arr. Jay Chattaway Theme & Variations on a Hero's Return Barbara Thompson Bloom/Mercer Day In Day Out arr. Billy May

Mercer Ellington arr. Dave Lalama

Alan Abel arr. Thomas L. Davies Aram Khachaturian

9.

GRANGETOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL Tutor: Bob Mason Elizabethan Suite Gavotte

Anthony Knight Libretto: Joanna Knight

10.

SOUTHAMPTON YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Keith Smith Swan Lake (Czardas, Waltz) Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 'Land of Hope and Glory'

Tchaikovsky Edward Elgar

arr. A. w. Benoy William Boyce arr. R. Noble

SCALBY SCHOOL, SCARBOROUGH Musical Director: Tony Turner 42nd Street

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10.

WIG AN YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA

LUDLOW SCHOOL CHOIR Conductor: Anthony Knight Prometheus

Alexander Glazunov

(Warning bells will sound 5 minutes before the end of the interval)

BISHOP THOMAS GRANT PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Conductor: Andy Leask Serenade to a Sand Dune A Taste of Brahms Sabre Dance

Rubenstein

COUNTY OF AVON SCHOOLS' ORCHESTRA Conductor: John Forster Soloist: John Harle Saxophone Concerto

DONCASTER YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Musical Director: John Ellis Soloist: Barbara Thompson Party Hearty Theme & Variations on a Hero's Return Things Ain't What They Used To Be

8.

7.

Philip Sparke Glenn Miller arr. Denzil Stephens

KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE, STOURBRIDGE, FLUTE QUARTET Tutor: Linda Goodwin Valse Staccato

INTERVAL - 20 MINUTES

Donizetti

MOSSLEY HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOL BAND Musical Director: Brian Farrar A Tameside Overture Miller Magic

LATYMER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Andrew Lloyd Webber Leonard Bernstein } arr. M. Fe/ix R. M. Sherman/ R. B. Sherman

CROMWELL JUNIOR QUINTET Tutor: Sheila Nelson Introduzione

5.

Casterede Rimsky-Korsakov

THE MOUNTBATTEN SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR Conductor: Marilyn Felix Unexpected Song I Feel Pretty Somewhere Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Igor Stravinsky

A.K.S. BRASS ENSEMBLE Conductor: Stephen Wood Queens Masque Alman Galliard, Pavan, Mal Sims

BOURNEMOUTH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS' FLUTE TRIO Tutor: Alan Melly Flutes Legeres The Flight of the Bumble Bee

WOKING CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor: Robert Ault Pulcinella Suite (movements)

5.

2.

Heinz Ehme

Jacques Ibert

ACADEMY OF ST. PHILIP'S, BIRMINGHAM Conductor: Peter Bridle Fanfare and National Anthem Edward Gregson performed with The Guildhall School of Music and Drama Junior Department Brass Band Sergei Prokofiev Symphony No. 1, Classical

THE OGONOVSKY ENSEMBLE Tutor: Margaret Ogonovsky Deux Mouvements

4.

1.

Antony Hopkins Stuart Johnson J. S. Bach arr. Ray Farr

JENNY'S ACCORDIONISTS Musical Director: Jenny Neal Die Galerie (movements)

Wednesday, 27th November

arr. Bob Lowden

COUNTY OF AVON SCHOOLS' ORCHESTRA Conductor: John Forster Four Cornish Dances Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 'Land of Hope and Glory'

Malcolm Arnold Edward Elgar

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Programme Notes SCALBY SCHOOL, SCARBOROUGH

SOUTHAMPTON YOUTH ORCHESTRA

Musical Director: Tony Turner 42nd Street arr. Bob Lowden Scalby School serves a wide rural catchment area of well over 100 square miles to the north and west of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Reorganised along comprehensive lines in 1973 the school has 1050 boys and girls aged from 11 to 16.

Music plays an important part in the life of the school and its community. A large percentage of the pupils participate enthusiastically in the instrumental and choral activities of the school, which ~nclude two choirs, wind band, orchestra, Jazz orchestra and guitar, recorder and percussion ensembles. The Scalby School Wind Band was formed in 1980 and has already become well known in North Yorkshire for its concert performances and festival successes.

Th~ ~t academic year has been a busy and exating one for the Sca\by musicians. The Jazz Orchestra appeared at the 1984 Tenth Anniversary Schools Prom; the Wind Band appeared in the final of the National Concert Band Festival at the Wembley Conference Centre; in April 1985 both the Wind Band and the Jazz Orchestra were invited (through Music for Youth) to tour Spain, giving six concerts in seven days culminating in an appearance at the Teatro Real in Madrid (Spain's premie~ concert hall) as guests at the prize-winners' concert of the European Music for Youth Organisation. The television broadcast in S~ain that night coincided almost exactly WIth a pre-recorded concert broadcast in this country by Yorkshire Television! The Jazz Orchestra appeared in the first Schools Prom North in Manchester on its way back from Spain. Both of the school's entries in the National Festival of Music for Youth in July 1985, the Jazz Orchestra and the minimusical '42nd Street', received Outstanding Performance Awards.

In addition to his work at the school Tony Turner also conducts the North Yorkshire E.A.S.Y. Band, the wind band/jazz orchestra of the Scarborough Music Centre which appeared in the 1983 Schools Prom and also received an Outstanding Performance Award at this year's National Festival.

The school is indebted on this occasion to Sandra Blair, a former professional dancer, for the choreography of the show.

42nd Street - arr. Bob Lowden Song and dance styles from the 1930's to the present day set to the music of the hit musical. This musical project started with a Bob Lowden band arrangement to which we added singers, dancers and several more tunes.

Conductor: Keith Smith Swan Lake (Czardas, Tchaikovsky Waltz) Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 - 'Land of Edward Elgar Hope and Glory' Southampton Youth Orchestra was founded in 1956 and is now administered

by Hampshire Education Authority. Since 1979 it has been under the musical direction of Keith Smith. Members of the orchestra attend schools in the Southampton area and are aged between 13 and 20; they are selected by audition and many graduate from the training orchestras.

Since 1979 the Youth Orchestra has premiered several works by British composers and worked closely with Malcolm Williamson, the Master of the Queen's Music, who performed his own Piano Concerto No. 1 with them in 1979.

In 1980, 1981 and 1983 the orchestra played in the Festival of British Youth Orchestras held in Edinburgh during the International Festival, and in 1982 and 1984 toured Bavaria, Austria and Sweden. In August this year Southampton Youth Orchestra completed a highly successful concert tour of Holland playing in Amsterdam, Amersfoort, Zieriksee and Leeuwarden.

Swan Lake (Czardas, Waltz) - Tchaikovsky

Swan Lake is one of the four famous scores

by Tchaikovsky which form the central pinnacle of the Russian Classical Ballet. The composer's understanding of instrumental colour and his wonderful gift of orchestral writing is beautifully exemplified in these movements. Also evident is Tchaikovsky's ability to achieve an exciting climax in his music.

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 'Land of Hope and Glory' 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.

Scal/Jy School

Southampton Youth Orchestra

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Programme Notes SOUTH GLAMORGAN YOUTH STRING ORCHESTRA

STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH BRASS BAND

Conductor: Jeft Lloyd Cello Concerto No. 1 Saint-Saens in A minor Whilst only recently established on a formal basis, a chamber orchestra recruited from members of the County Youth Orchestra has already been actively involved in joint performances wi.th the South Glamorgan Youth Choir in a number of very successful concerts.

In January 1984 however, it was decided that a string orchestra should be established under the direction of Jeffrey Lloyd, the County's newly appointed Head of Strings. As well as forming the basis for an accompanying ensemble, it would enable the studen.ts to explore the vast string repertoire ranging from the early Baroque to the contemporary genre.

In July 1985 the orchestra took part in the Festival of Music for Youth in London's Royal Festival Hall and was awarded the Outstanding Performance Award for its performance of Elgar's 'Serenade for Strings'.

Cello Concerto N. 1 in A minor Saint-Saens In the Cello Concerto, Saint-Saens condenses the traditional three movements in one continuous piece although there are three clear sections. At the point where the recapitulation might be expected in the first movemel1t, the slower middle section, a quiet minuet begins. It leads straight into the final section which is a recapilulation of the first movement theme with a second subject material. The soloist has the bravura lead throughout much of the Concerto.

Conductor: Stuart Johnson Fanfare and National Antony Hopkins Anthem Stuart Johnson A March Overture J. S. Bach Toccata in D Minor arr. Ray Farr Members of the Staffordshire County Youth Brass Band are all pupils at Staffordshire schools and audition for membership of the county band from anyone of eleven area music c~ntres throughout the county.

The band gives regular public concerts in Staffordshire as well as further afield. In 1981 the brass band undertook a tour of Bordeaux and in 1983 took part in the Staffordshire Music Festival at the Royal Albert Hall.

Last July the baT\d were privileged to play at a Royal Garden Party at Shugborough Hall in Staffordshire in the presence of Her Royal Highness, Princess Anne.

In celebration of International Youth Year and European Music Year the S.Y.B.B. were delighted to mark both events by a European tour in July 1985, visiting and giving concerts in Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.

They are conducted by Stuart Johnson, County Director of Music for Staffordshire.

A March Overture - Stuart Johnson An exhilarating and appropriate opening to this evening's concert. Written by the band's Musical Director the March Overture features exciting fanfares and very effective use of the trombones' glissando.

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S. Bach arr. Ray Farr TIlls famous organ work has been freely adapted by one of today's top band arrangers, Ray Farr. In the tercentel'lary of Bach' s birth it makes a fitting contribution to tonight's programme even if played in not quite the way Bach intended!

Toccata in D Minor -

TORQUAY GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS' SENIOR CHOIR Conductor: Valerie Barton Blow the Wind arr. John Clements Southerly Five Eyes Armstrang Gibbs Waltz Of My Heart lvor Novella Torquay Grammar School for Girls' Senior Choir was formed two years ago to compete in the Granada TV National Choir Competition. They were fortunate enough to be chosen to represent the South West for this event. Prior to this the school choir was open to students on a term-to-term basis but its format has now been revised retaining such a choir but providing the school with a smaller group of greater stability.

Most of the choir's work is undertaken locally for charity work but last Christmas it competed in the 'Choir of the Year' competition gaining a place in the quarter finals.

As a local charity choir it is important that items of general interest are offered to the audience and for this reason there is no particular specialisation but rather music representing styles from Gabrieli to the Beatles.

Blow the Wind Southerly arr. John Clements This is a well-known Northumbrian folk song which has been set for three voices by John Clements. It was Kathleen Ferrier, the famous British contralto, who was responsible for making the song a real success.

Five Eyes - Armstrong Gibbs This two-part song is full of drama. The three cats, Jekel and Jessop each with two eyes and Jill with only one, lie in wait for the rats who come to 路their master's mill to thieve the grain.

Armstrong Gibbs studied at Camblidge and later .w as appointed to the Royal College of Music where he served on the staff for many years.

Waltz Of My Heart - lvor Novella This song is from 'Dancing Years' by lvor Novello. It is typical of his style and one can well imagine the glitter and grandeur of the ballroom at the lurn of the century and just prior to the First World War.

South Glamorgan Youth String Orchestra

Staffordshire County Youth Brass Band

TM/.ay Girls路 Gr.nIllUlT 5clronl

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Programme Notes WARDLE YOUTH BAND

WIG AN YOUTH JAZZ

Musical Director: Rom Stanko Star Wars John Williams arr. Ray Farr Music of McCartney arr. Warren Barker The Abbey (from Suite: Margam Stones) Gareth Wood Wardle village is situated at the foot of the Lancashire Pennines in the Metropolitan District of Rochdale. In this village stands Wardle High School where all the present youth band players have had five years grounding in concerts and contests. The school failed to acquire a sixth form and the parents of these children were determined to see that the children's perseverance and talent did not go to waste. They pledged to form a youth band for all Wardle High School Band players.

The present Wardle Youth Band has 58 members aged between 16 and 19. Since its inception the band has made rapid progress in both the concert and contest field and has quickly established a reputation for itself as one of the leading youth bands in the country.

An exciting and expert concert band, they have been featured on both commercial and BBC television appearing on Yorkshire Television' s 'Brass in Concert' series and BBC's 'Brass Beat'.

Star Wars - John Williams arr. Ray Farr Star Wars is an imaginative entertainment experience which takes the audience to an unknown galaxy thousands of light years from earth. The high energy adventure combines contemporary science fiction with the romantic fantasies of sword and sorcery. Here is a skilful arrangement by Ray Farr of four themes from the film.

Music of McCartney - arr. Warren Barker A lively arrangement of two wellknown McCartney songs originally performed by the group Wings.

The Abbey (from Suite: Margam Stones) - Gareth Wood The Abbey is a slow processional march quoting themes from the two previous movements, recalling the splendour of the past and ending in triumphal fashion. The suite was used as the test piece for the National Youth Band Championships in 1981.

ORCHESTRA Musical Director: Ian A. Darrington Gonna Fly Now Bill Conti/ (Theme from Carol Connors/ 'RockY) Ayn Robbins arr. Jay Chattaway Theme & Variations on a Hero's Return Barbara Thompson Bloom/Mercer Day In Day Out arr. Billy May The Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra is one of the senior ensembles of the School's Instrumental Music Service of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan. The orchestra was formed in 1976 with its aim to offer the more advanced music students scope to broaden their musical outlook and to introduce them to the vast and challenging world of jazz and big band music. Since then all the secondary schools in the borough have been represented in the band at some time. From 1981 to 1983 the orchestra performed in the National Festival of Music for Youth, receiving a Highly Commended Performance Award in 1982 and that same year they performed in EIkhart, Indiana, USA, as part of a 12-day visit and at the Schools Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.

The orchestra's first English tour came in the summer of 1983 while the following summer they participated in the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. 1985 began with a series of concerts with world famous soloists at the Wigan Pier and in July the orchestra visited Hong Kong and Aberdeen to take part in the Youth Arts Festivals. At the 1985 National Festival of Music for Youth the orchestra was awarded one of two Outstanding Performance Awards.

Gonna Fly Now (Theme from 'RockY) - Bill Conti/Carol Connors/Ayn Robbins arr. Jay Chattaway This was recorded recently by the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra.

Theme & Variations on a Hero's Return - Barbara Thompson This is part of a new suite specially written and arranged for jazz orchestra featuring Barbara Thompson on soprano saxophone.

Bloom/Mercer arr. Billy May This is one of the most popular pieces recorded by Frank Sinatra and the Billy May Orchestra.

Day In Day Out -

WOKING CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor: Robert Ault Pulcinella Suite (movs) Igor Stravinsky The Woking Chamber Orchestra was formed by its 17-year-old conductor, Robert Ault, in January of this year, drawing on players in and around the western half of Surrey.

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The orchestra gave its first concert on 27th March and has since given two others, in May and earlier this month. The orchestra's repertoire extends .from works by Bach, Haydn and Mozart to those of Stravinsky, Ravel and Ibert.

Robert Ault, the conductor, is first clarinettist with the Surrey County Youth Orchestra and Guildhall School of Music and Drama Symphony Orchestra (where he studies on Saturdays) and is the leader of the Surrey County Wind Orchestra. During the week he studies at Woking College and hopes to continue his studies in clarinet and conducting at music college in 1986.

Pulcinella Suite (movs) - IgOT Stravinsky In 1919 Stravinsky was invited by Diaghilev to write a ballet using as a basis the music of Pergolesi, the eighteenth-century Italian composer. Stravinsky seized upon the idea and produced a ballet in one act scored for soprano, tenor and bass soloists and orchestra. He adapted a concert suite from the ballet score (omitting the solo voices) and it was first performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Pierre Monteux in 1922.

The balance of Pergolesi's music is upset by Stravinsky's alterations to rhythm and harmony and by his scoring for a chamber orchestra in which winds and a solo string quintet are prominent.

Pulcinel1a marks the beginning of Stravinsky's controversial style of neoclassical writing, which produced other great works like the piano and violin concertos, the opera The Rake' s Progress' and the 'Dumbarton Oaks' Concerto.

WOLVERHAMPTON CONCERT BAND Conductor: CoUn Douglas Fanfare and TrevoT L. Sharpe National Anthem Milhaud lie de France Rapscallion; Scherzo for James Barnes Symphonic Band Wolverhampton Concert Band is made up of 50 players between the ages of 12 and 21, drawn from Wolverhampton schools and Colleges of Further Education. The band gives concerts over a wide area of the West Midlands, playing music ranging in style from pop to original wind band compositions. Some recent p erformances have been at Magdalen College, Oxford, Cosford Air Show and Shrewsbury International Music Festival.

He de France - Milhaud Ile de France is the short central movement of Suite Fran~aise, an original composition for band.

RapscalliQn; Scherzo for Symphonic Band - James Barnes This is a more extended work, also originally written for wind band, in which the music ranges from the biting sarcasm of Shostakovich to the exotic languor of Debussy.

Woking CllJlmber Orchestra

WolverllJlmpton Concert Band

Wardl. Y9lJ111 Band

Wigan Youth 'azz Orchestra

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Schools Prom Personalities Larry WesUand, Director arid Producer, is well known for his work in youth musk, notably as Director oHhe National Festival of Music for Youth, which he founded in 1971 with the backing of The Association of Music Industries. In 15 years the Festival has grown into the most comprehensive youth musk festival in Europe. The Festival embraces all forms of instrumental music and this year over 20,000 young musicians took part. He has produced the Schools Prom since it began in 1975. He is Executive Director of Music for Youth, a charity sponsored 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.

He is also Director of the Festival of Choirs organised in conjunction with the National Association of Choirs.

Next year he is launching a new national event - the Barclays Youth Music Theatre Awards .

I...arry Westiand

Barbara Thompson, Guest Musician, studied clarinet, flute, piano and composition at The Royal College of Music whilst developing a formidable ability in soprano, tenor and baritone saxophone. Before becoming a professional musician she joined the New Jazz Orchestra (led by Neil Ardley) in 1965 where she met her husband, Jon Hiseman. They have two children, Marcus and Anna.

Barbara was the featured flute and saxophone player on Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit LP 'Variations'.

Audiences of the early London performances of the hit musical 'Cats' were lucky enough to hear Barbara playing sax and flute live; she is also featured on the album of the stage show and recently took part in the recording of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new work 'Requiem'.

Paraphernalia, the main creative outlet for Barbara's compositions, tours extensively in Europe and the UK. Composers and bandleaders make frequent use of her talents and she plays in all branches of music. She has guested frequently on TV and radio in Europe and Scandinavia and was ~he featured soloist representing the jazz saxophone at the Adolphe Sax Centenary celebrations in Brussels.

Barbara has contributed to the theme music for the main news show of London's Capital Radio. She also wrote and recorded the score for the feature film 'The Challenge' and was i1eard with Paraphernalia OD Thursday mornings through 1984 playing the signature tune she composed for BBC Radio 4's magazine programme 'Rollercoaster' .

On 15 December 1979, BBC television featured Jon, Barbara and the children and Paraphernalia's frantic living and playing lifestyle in a one-hour Lively Arts series documentary called 'Jazz, Rock and Marriage' .

Barbara is currently working on a new Paraphernalia album and also a solo instrumental project to be entitled 'Lady Saxophone', both of which will be released on her own record label 'TM Records'.

Barbaro Thompson

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Schools Prom Personalities Karen Jones, Guest Musician, has been playing the flute since she was ten. A prizewinner at the 1978 International Flute Summer School she has played in the National Youth Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Per Musica and The Young Musicians' Symphony Orchestra. For the past five years Karen has also been a member of the European Community Youth Orchestra working with conductors such as Dorati, Bernstein and Abbado and travelling to China, Japan and Mexico.

In 1982 Karen won the wind section of the BBC Television 'Young Musician of the Year' competition which has led to solo engagements throughout Great Britain including the Edinburgh Festival, the Wigmore Hall and the Purcell Room and concertos in the Royal Albert Hall, the Barbican Hall and St John's, Smith Square. In 1983 Kru'en won a scholarship to the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she is now in her third year studying with Peter Lloyd. Earlier on this year Karen won the Shell-London Symphony Orchestra Scholarship and her future engagements include a concerto conducted by Sir Neville Marriner in the Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Jane Spiers, Guest Musician, began playing the flute when she was ten and later studied at Chethams Music School, Manchester. She has just been awarded her Associate of the Guildhall School of Music (AGSM) and was presented with the Laurie Kennedy Memorial Prize for her recital performance. Her teachers at the Guildhall were Peter Lloyd and Edward Beckett.

In 1984 Jane was chosen to perform at a Warwick Arts Trust Young Musicians' Recital, which was later broadcast on Radio London. Also in the same year she won the Outstanding Performance Award at the National Festival of Music for Youth and went on to win the first European Music for Youth prize in Brussels. Her pianist, Rebecca Holt, won the accompaniment prize and Robert Max won the cello prize. Since then as a group they have given concerts in the Purcell Room, Belgium, Austria, and in the 1985 German Music for Youth Festival in Mainz, Germany.

Jean Halford-Thompson, Administrator, has worked for Music for Youth for four years and became the administrator of the National Festival of Music for Youth and the Schools Prom in 1983.

She was educated at St Mary's School, Wantage, where she studied piano with Andrew Pratten, and at Bryn Mawr College, U.S.A. She plays and teaches piano in her spare time.

Jane is now studying with Peter Lukas Graf at the Basel Music Academy in Switzerland which has been funded with scholarships from the Countess of Munster, the Craxton Memorial Trust, the Ian Fleming Charitable Trust and the Martin Musical Scholarship.

Jane is a member of the European Community Youth Orchestra and this year they played in Europe with Claudio Abbado and in Japan with Leonard Bernstein.

• Karen lanes

lane Spiers

l.an Halfard¡ Thampson

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WELLS CATHEDRAL SCHOOL SOMERSET Patron: HRH The Prince of Wales

SPECIALIST MUSIC SCHOOL

for Young Musicians of Outstanding Talent Since the twelfth century there has been a Cathedral School at Wells; it was amalgamated with the Chorister School in Elizabethan times and today is completely co-educational with over 600 boarding and day pupils about half of whom learn one or more musical instruments.

Fifty Specialist musicians between the ages of 8 and 18 follow individually balanced programmes of intensive instrumental tuition, practice and chamber music with academic subjects. Principal studies are on violin, viola, cello and piano, but there are also opportunities for outstanding woodwind and brass players. Most go on to conservatoires though, since the foundation of the scheme in 1970, a number have gained scholarships at Oxford or Cambridge. In addition to aural classes, choir training, ensemble and orchestral coaching there are regular masterclasses and recitals by visiting artists.

Specialists give frequent public performances and in recent years have given concerts in Hong Kong, Western Canada and United States and much of Northern Europe as well as in the United Kingdom.

During April 1986 the Chamber Orchestra will be going on a World Tour with the Wells Cathedral Choir giving concerts in Singapore, New Zealand and Los Angeles.

ASSISTANCE WITH FEES The school is designated as one of the four Specialist Music Schools in England by the Department of Education and Science who assist with the fees of up to 50 pupils.

Preliminary auditions may be arranged at any time. Final auditions will be held on February 8th and 9th for entry in September 1986. Normal ages of entry are from 8-13. There are a few places for outstanding 6th form candidates.

FURTHER INFORMATION write or telephone: The Head Master, Wells Cathedral School, Wells, Somerset BA5 2ST Telephone: 0749 72117 38

Schools Prom Personalities Louis Clark, Guest Conductor, may not be as familiar to music fans as most who have topped the charts. Even so, in a relatively short space of time, he has sold over eight million copies of his 'Hooked On Oassics' album world-wide!

Louis' musical career began in his native Birmingham, where he played guitar in a number of local bands. He then teamed up with fellow Brummie Raymond Froggatt, with whom he recorded ten singles and two albums.

He spent the next three years at the Leeds College of Music, where he studied flute, keyboards and arrangement & composition and after leaving college he was asked to work with Raymond Froggatt. He has also contributed to almost every ELO album and is responsible for their unique string sound; he even played keyboards on their last tour! The idea of coupling popular classical themes to modem pop arrangements came to Louis aftel;" working with ELO and 'Hooked On Oassics' was born.

Although only originally conceived as a Single, the idea proved 50 popular that it developed into three alliums and a series of highly-successfu11ive concerts.

The success of the 'Hooked On Classics' series has given Louis Oark the opportunity to perform with a variety of orchestras all over the world and particularly on the North American continent where he is very much in demand. He has performed in front of audiences of 100,000 on several occasions and one of these concerts was televised coast-to-coast, achieving an audience in excess of eighty million viewers.

Louis Clark

John Harle, Guest Musician, made his New York debut at the Carnegie Hall in 1984 and in the sam.e year made a solo appearance at the Royal Albert Hall 'Prorn' Concerts in London. A distinctive and recognisable stylist in whatever field of music his playing takes him, he has attracted composers from all backgrounds to write music for him. Luciano Berio, Jonathan Uoyd, Ned Rorem and Robin Holloway are amongst those who have dedicated major works to him.

Starting from a classical training at the Royal College of Music, London, and in Paris with Daniel Deffayet, his range of activities is enormous, embracing solo concerto appearances throughout the world.

Film, TV and pop music session-work has led John to be the featured soloist on many film soundtracks. He recently composed music for the Nobby ClarkQuintet Films production 'The Dance Film'. John has also played and recorded with jazz composers William Russo and John Dankworth. john's interest in music and film in the 1920s and '30s led to the formation of his 'Berliner Band' - a multi-media group which features newly composed musical scores for silent Surrealist films of the period and theatre events, including 'To Those Born Later' - a show devised by John and Dominic Muldowney, using words by Bertolt Brecht and music by Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler.

Felix Schmidt, Guest Musician, began his musical training with the French cellist, Maurice Gendron, with whom he continued to study at the Yehudi Menuhin School and later at the Paris Conservatoire. He went on to study with William Pleeth in London and has recently worked with Mstislav Rostropovich.

Felix has given recitals throughout Europe and has played with most of the leading European Orchestras. He has broadcast for radio and television in Europe and has made two records in Germany. The German Television Service made a documentary film about him which was screened nationally in 1982.

Felix has formed a duo with the fine pianist Ingrid Jacoby, with whom he has given recitals in England, Germany, France and America. Their first recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall was highly praised by the critics.

In 1982 Felix was awarded the Gold Medal by the Cziffra Fondation as the most promising young artist of the year. He made his debut with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in two solo performances in 1983 and he and Ingrid Jacoby subsequently made an important recital recording for German Radio.

In March last year he was the soloist

in an orchestral tour of the UK under the baton of the former Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Edward Heath, which met with the highest possible critical acclaim.

In August he gave an outstanding performance of the Dvofcik Cello Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Zurich which received a standing ovation. The Neue Zurcher Zeitung commented: 'a big, full sound, with which the innermost cantilena is as confidently relished as the in terpreter' s virtuoso passa ges are thoughtfully mastered'.

Joh" Harle

Felix Schmidt

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List of Performers COUNTY OF AVON SCHOOLS' ORCHESTRA Conductor: John Forster Senior Tutors: Tom Shearman, A/lan Mead, Richard Pepper Age range of perfonners: 15--19 years 1st Violins Meryl Thomas (Leader) Joanna Bowen Andrew Birdsall Susan Weston Simon Emery Sarah Gillingham Geoffrey Powell Ann Harding Sally Goodliffe Claire Sharpe Anna Johnson Elizabeth Goode Stephen Taylor Catherine Dufour Alwynne Pritchard Thomas Toms Christina Brock Katy Latham Karen Treby 2nd Violins Caroline Hodge David Massey Luke Miller Inga Bryden Catherine Southern Helen Palmer Rhoda Smyth Catherine Black Lucy Lambert Then Hullah Susanna Rooth Clare Ross Leon Gee Rebecca Yirrell Ann Child Anna Buswell Sarah Hoddinott Violas Rachel Coates Nerissa Dando NicOla Johnston Philippa Jones lan Stoodley Nicola Walker Finola Mason Jane Taylor Sophie Littlejohns Philippa Leonard Sally Frost Ninian McBride John Fardell Becky Harlowe Cellos Tabitha Tuckett Heidi Lyddon Penelope Taylor SauI Berkovitz Nadia Lanman Vicki Ryan Fenella Porter Rosie Adams

Tamsin Trelawny-Ross Mark Espiner Una Birtchnell Elizabeth Taylor Helen Spillman Anne McLachlan Double Basses Alison Procter Michael Windsor Nigel Dufty Stuart Patrick Mark Robbins Emma Nichols Flutes Sharon Williams Gillian Cordall Nicola Woodward Oboes Andrew Nethsinga Juliet Lee Clarinets Julie Ryan Jacqueline Cook Bassoons Peter Harrison Rachel Stidson Horns Joanne Ross Robert Matthews Andrew Ratcliffe Peter Smith Jenny Eachus

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BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS' CONCERT ORCHESTRA

Conductor: Peter Bridle Age range of perfonners: 14-21 years

Guest Conductor: Louis Clark Age range of perfonners: 11-19 years

Violins Jackie Allen Gillian Brightwell Edward Burton John Chapple Nicola Divett Sophie Divett Jessica Gough Deborah Hartland Katie Hodder Vaughan Jones Gerald Lowe lain McNeish Everton Nelson Anita Newton Wendy Philips Nicola Vincent Richard Wise Helen Witcomb

1st Violins Caroline Allen Louise Carey Jean-Pierre Charon Ernily Cheatle Sarah Chiltern (Joint Leader) Mark Desmond Isabel Heard Tracey Horton Claire McInerney Anna Moore Louise Shipway Matthew Sprigg Jonathan Storey Mark Whittaker Katherine Williams Edward Young (Joint Leader)

Violas Hilary Dewer Joanna Glaiser Julian Pentz Tom Storey Elizabeth Varlow Susie Waite Cellos Ailsa Buchan Laura Fairhurst Zoe Fairhurst Julie Gopsill Erica Newton Richard Wood

Basses Kate Saxeby Simon Smith Flutes Sarah Leaman lan Thomsett Oboes Carrnina Lopez Karen Watts Clarinets Sarah Spanton Patrica Walker Bassoons James Dunstan Anna Sanderson Horns Tim Franks Ruth Wilkinson Trumpets Kevin Greenbank Bruce MacInnes Timpani Sarah Wood

Trumpets Nicholas Baker Nicholas Jones Andrew Stephen Trombones Edward Smith Amos Miller Stuart Daines Tuba Peter Clements Percussion Anne Templer Ruth Barron Daniel Farrant Charles Giddings Da\;d Tador

A.K.S. BRASS ENSEMBLE Conductor: Stephen Wood Age range of perfonners: 14-19 years Stephen Wood Maggie Walsh Brian Jones Gerard Cooney Kathryn Wood Peter Mayfield

David Wagstaff Roger Shone Alex Ward Glyn Wilshire Xanthe Lewty

2nd Violins Kathrine Allen Chris Cockel Susan Coleman Peter Collins Stuart England Jo Field Amanda Gething Fiona Goldingay Louise Goodwin Samantha Green Mark Hadley Emma Harvey Ayse Hassan Penny Hayhurst Nina Lovesey Joanne Middleton Tim Wright Violas Diane Brassington Sandra Hart Marie Payne Mandy Snowdon Steven Bakey Fionnala Bourke Juliet King Naomi Fairhurst Cellos Helen Duncan Helen Groves Helen Neaves John Gough Judith Carey Nicola Plevey Sandra Jones Alex Ba1rnforth Joanne Carty Jane Williams Trudi Smith David Storkey Susan Hatfield

Double Basses Emma Norden Tracey Smith Trevor Lewis Flutes Abigak Read Melanie Evans Helen Levin Claire Lindley Oboes Claire Buckley Bridget Aldridge Margaret Henderson Lesley Neal Clarinets Daniel Sprigg Clare Holroyd Catherine O'Riordan Hayley Ward Bassoons Alex Sedgwick Sharen Davies Christopher Smart Paul Rimmer Trumpets Adrian Hart Matthew Smith Alistair Jackson John Gardner Dominic Johnson Trombones Michael Gardner Mark Langford Lynn Wearing Bass Trombone Anne Oakley Tuba Richard Hart French Horns Neil Bathurst Jonathan Kaye Ravinder Joshi James Ranford Yvonne Pardon Percussion Sarah Wood Guy Derrington James Harbidge Drums Chris Dagley Bass Guitar Gavin Summers

BEARS DEN BRASS QUINTET \\usical Director: Peter Dram .-\ge range of perfonners: 17-18 years Alistair Mackie Step hen Stewart Donald Manson

NigeJ MacIntyre Paul Drury

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List of Performers BISHOP THOMAS GRANT PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE

Conductor: Andy Leask Age range of performers: 12- 15 years Cynthia Tambirasa Stena Tambirasa Regina Tambirasa Rebecca Mooney Russell Tomlin

Chibu Onyendi John Sheehy William Monteen Stephen Byme

EAST NORFOLK SCHOOLS' BIG BAND Musical Director: Peter Fraser Age range of performers: 13-18 years

Saxophones Elizabeth Bulley Joanne Parmenter David Brown lan Houghton Hayley Harris Trumpets Jason Newman Robert Goodfellow David Howes Angela Hall John Parmenter

BOURNEMOUTH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS' FLUTE TRIO

Trombones lan Mercer Aileen Braidwood Mark Wells Jonathan Wyatt Piano Paul Seaman Bass Brendan Baldwin Drums Darren Clarke

Tutor: Alan Melly Age range of performers: 17-18 years Catherine Maytum Melanie Fulker Claire Parkin

GRANGETOWN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Tutor: Bob Mason Age range of performers: 7-9 years

CROMWELL JUNIOR QUINTET

Tina Nichols Michael Nichols Tara Varley Dawn Lee Shelley Harrison

Stephanie Currie Jennifer Heirons Jean Large Nicola Burnett

Tutor: Sheila Nelson Age range of performers: 11-12 years Nicola Loud Katherine Hunka Kate Elton Alexandra Mackenzie Alison Atkinson

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Edgar Holmes Tutors: Strings: Joan Schmeising, JI!Jl I1 Paterson, Timothy Griffiths, Mu'riel Daniels, Margaret Fairfax Woodwind: Robin Soldall, Geoffr~ Bridge,

DONCASTER YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA

Jane! Hersoll , Jane Maskell Brass: Peter Kalle, Keith Chalmers, CI,ifford Bevan Percussion: Jack Richards

Musical Director: John Ellis

Age range of performers: 13-19 years

Flutes Rona Gilchrist Tracey Stewart

1st Violins Lucy Gould Patrick Ardagh-Walter Kate Austin Gareth Bicknell Emma Bishop Susan Bowran Victoria Dixon Su san Gane Rebecca Hardy Lisa Miller Philip Noms Sophie Penfold Charlotte Ruglys Helen Smale I<im Wallace Michael West

Alto Saxophones Kate Hemsworth Sharon Ward Tenor Saxophones Paul Long Simon Lockwood

Trumpets Andy Spence Andy Sellars David Grace David Hewitt Shaun Guttridge Piano Garry Howe

Bass Jonathan White Baritone Saxophones lan Jenkins Drums Steve Gibbons David May Trombones Wins ton Rollins Andrew Gurnhill Helen Ashwood lan Rowing Andy Needham

Violas Clare Barwick lmogen Burchett Janice Flynn Paul Janes Mark Kinkaid Kirstine May Jane Mowbray Paul Newbury Jane Parker Beverley Pearce Adrian Ward Sarah Winmill Cellos Rachael Rudling Catherine Ardagh-Walter Sally Barnett Amanda Berry Sarah Bowler Andrew Byatt Kate Gould John Hunt David Myers Alice Neary Caroline Silvester Rachel Tapping Double Basses Peter Ringrose Clarissa Bull Peter Fry Sally Johnson Juliet Martin Lucy McConnell-Wood Gavin Murphy Simon Oliver Flutes Diana Adams Anita Silk Alexandra Daley Claire O'Neill Joanna Selman Piccolo Andrew Nicholson Clarinets Sally Arnold Karen Hawker Julie Arnold Timothy Chamberlain

Bass Clarinet Wendy Lance Bassoons Karen Turner Bridget Leverton Katharine Monk Helen Weavers Christine French Contra Bassoon William Reid Horns Martin Hobbs Alistair Butt Paul Bentall Sally Hazelgrove David Hepworth John Merriam Jenny Poxon Benedict Thompson Trumpets James Macfarlane David ApSimon Step hen Foster Richard Hammond Timothy Hayward Andrew Holman Richard Jones Martyn Lewington Adrian Muckley Julie Ryan Susan Williams Oboes David Heath Laura Lanfear Penny Ouvry Cor Anglais Timothy Redmond Organ Philip Walsh Timpani &.

Percussion Simon Carrington Simon Bentall Michael Gillett Andrew McDonald Daniel Saville

2nd Violins Claire Lewis Clare Ben tall Monique Blanken Elizabeth Cox Claire Hudnott Elizabeth Jones Sophie Looney Michael Parsons Clare Read Susann ah Reid Sophie Rendell Andrew Riley Elizabeth RusseU Karen Smith Adrienne Turner Katherine Watts

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List of Performers JENNY'S ACCORDIONISTS Musical Director: Jennifer Neal Age range of performers: 12-18 years 1st Accordions Jane English, Guest Leader Catherine D'Silva, Soloist Nina Bowles Julie Scales Jenny Tinsley Anita Appleton 2nd Accordions Jonathan Hallett, Soloist David Bobby, Soloist Sharon Yates Mary Stirnson Deborah Picton Adrian Toulson

4th Accordions Alexander Neal, Soloist Rita Hunt Duncan Smith Christine Carter Bass Accordions Hazel Swinscoe Benjamin Murtagh Electroniums Michael Latter Anna Hallett Percussion Allan Gifford Melanie Buckingham

LATYMER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor: Shane Fletcher String tutor: Christine Rayfield Age range of performers: 13-18 years Violins Helena Rathbone Michael Ward Daniel Hudson Jake Rea Paul Costin Katie Kinnear Geraldine Barrett Mark Barnard Jane Hemingway Sarah Hill Martin Heidensohn Gary Bayliss Kristen Barnard Ayalah Bentovirn Violas Jenny North Sarah Shaw ran Rathbone

3rd Accordions Shaun Bryant, Soloist Lucy Stirnson, Soloist Maxine Muckie Sally Gregory Trudy Brent William Alexander

KING EOW ARD VI COLLEGE, STOURBRIDGE, ELECTRODANCE

Cellos Stephen Anstee Helen Thatcher Sian Holt Selina Girling Double Bass Julian Wayne Oboes Karen Rowlingson Duncan Trathen Bassoon Susan Thompson French Horn Stuart Perkins Trumpet Alan Bayliss

LUDLOW SCHOOL CHOIR Conductor: Anthony Knight Make tip & costume: Sheila Rose, Ceraldine Rose, Julia Honeyfield Age range of performers: 13-17 years Choir Christine Morgan Judith O'Donovan Jo Basten Margaret Taylor Kim Nicholas Erica Waite Kim Edwards Suzanne Collette Helen Bews Ruth Stams Sharron Jackson Charlotte Evans Catherine Ewins Joanne Benton Rebecca Tudge Elizabeth Precious Alison Briant Jane Lilley Maddy Speed Lynne Watkins Vickie Sinclair Penny Lovatt Carol Wilding Debbie Smalhnan Claire Morris Helen Smallwood Sarah Cooke Nicola Denton Anna Wainwright Clare Powel!

Leo Dodd Lara Furniss Emma Wise

Instrumentalists Bruce Waite Richard Griffiths Isabel Kydd Rosalind Taylor Sarah Ayres Katie Moses Julie Cordingley Sarah Holland Debbie Venables Anne Watkins Movement Denis Jones Eaun McPherson Peter Crouch Beverley Reid Alice Hooton Alison Kydd Hannah Tudge Katie Mountford Joanne Eills

Conductor: John Griswold Choreogtapher: Dawn RowlelJ Age range of performers: 17-19 years Dancers Dawn Rowley Helen Gorton Keyboards Rachael Homer John Hodgetts Andrew Fellows Nigel Moore David Price ran Teoh

Percussion Andrew Bradbury Andrew Hale Glyn Howells Andrew Shillingford

KING EDWARO VI COLLEGE, STOURBRIDGE, FLUTE QUARTET Tutor: Linda Goodwin Age range of performers: 18--19 years Heather Brown ran Teoh Sarah Husselbee Jenny Williams

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GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC & DRAMA JUNIOR MUSIC DEPARTMENT Junior Guildhall offers a comprehensive musical training to promising singers and instrumentalists under 19. Our professional staff and exciting curriculum combined with our modern facilities create a unique environment for aspiring performers.

We now run a course for elementary string players, aged 4-7 years old, using advanced teaching techniques.

Further details are available from the Director.

GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA BARBICAN • LONDON • EC2Y 8DT 01-6282571

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THE ASSOCIATED BOARD OF THE ROYAL SCHOOLS OF MUSIC PATRON: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN PRESIDENT: HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER

The Associated Board, through the establishment of recognised graded standards in musical performance and theory, is uniquely placed to provide a valuable service to music education.

Founded neafly 100 years ago it now examines half a million candidates each year in the UK and over sixty countries worldwide.

Syllabuses are available for Voice, Strings, Piano, Organ, Guitar, Recorder, Harp and all Brass and Woodwind instruments (including Saxophone) and Chamber Music. In addition, Theory of Music and General Musicianship examinations can be taken and the Board confers the diploma of Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music on successful candidates as performers or teachers in overseas centres. Up to 15 scholarships are awarded annually, each tenable for a period of three years at one of the Royal Schools of Music .

Enquiries and requests for further information should be addressed to: Ronald Smith, Chief Executive and Director of Examinations The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music 14 Bedford Square, London WCIB 3JG. Telephone: 01-636 4478/5400

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List of Performers THE MOUNTBATTEN SCHOOL CONCERT CHOIR Conductor: Marilyn Felix Accompanist: Arthur Blake Age range of performers: 11-16 years 1st Sopranos Helen Ashley Timothy Ball Marie Bateman Tamsyn Blair Katy Bull Susan Chapman Carla Chivers Robert Crates Sophie Dobell Victoria Glanville Louise Gray Elizabeth Harrison Katherine Hayes Victoria Hobart Justine Jones Sorella Le Var Deborah O'Brien Lisa Patten Amanda Schiffrin Elizabeth Smith Sara Spinney Victoria Welch 2nd Sopranos Stuart Calvert Angela Davy Sarah Dyer Clare Felix Nicholas Field David Florence Edward Goodwin Katherine Goodwin Sara Halton Sarah Hamilton Russell Hamett Catherine Hart Karen Howard

Sarah Kemish Michelle Longworth Jane Parker Sarah Proctor Mary Richardson Alexis Sargent Robert Schiffrin Jennifer Seager Victoria Skates Catherine Thome Diana Warren Andrea Whitren Charlotte Wilson Altos Alison Bradshaw Nina Collins Helen Crawford Karen Dyer Angela Hickrnan Ernma Hounslow Angela Hughes Carron Mitchell Joanne Overy Karen Painter Katy Parker Alison Parsons Helen Roper Lydia Smith Charlotte Spanner Nicola Thome Nicole Thome Carolyne Viney Susan Warren Julie Wort

Soprano Comet Justine Lee Solo Comets Susan Ellis Ian Mills Louise Longley Tracy Andrew Repiano Comets Darren Cyprus Joanne Simpson 2nd Comets Lisa Cusick Nicola O'Neill Christine Smethurst 3rd Comets Alison Neild Neil Dutton Flugel Horn Kay Farrington Solo Horns Simon Ashton Tracy Bishop

Tutor: Margaret Ogonovs/.,:y Age range of performers: 14--17 years Emily Beynon Katy Bircher Rosalind Mams Andrew Chenery

ST. PAUL'S AND ALL HALLOWS' YOUTH STEEL BAND Tutor: Clyde Dias Age range of performers: 12-16 years Susanna Gerald Tricia Williams Michelle Lawrence Marda Browne Nadine Bames Michelle Lefebre

STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH BRASS BAND

2nd Baritones Loma Beevers Angela Pollard

Conductor: SI-uart Johnson.

Band Administrator: Ronald Fargher Librarian: Ivy Davies Tutors: Comets: David Godfrey Horns: Thomas Bariow EuphoniumIBaritone: Derek Deakin Trombones: Gordon Watts Basses: Ronald Banks Age range of performers: 11-18 years

Solo Euphoniums Dean Farrar Marie Mannion

Soprano Comets Susan Allerton Andrea Pugh

1st Trombones Julie Waring Helen Kinsey

Comets Louise SnaJe

Musical Director: Brian Farrar Age range of performers: 12-17 years 1st Baritones Helen Dutton Karen Senior

2nd Trombones Alison Farrington Samantha Lee Bass Trombone Alison Davies EEb Basses

Anthony Winterbottom Andrew Mackenzie Paul McKechnie

1st Horns Jane Andrew Rachel Brooks

BBb Basses

2nd Horns Lee Farrington Michael Hampson

Percussion Michael Copson Andrew Bain Lee McKechnie

Mark Pearson Stephen Hawley

(Princip )

Paul Farrington James Mobberley Jonathan Jeavons Gary Stand even Phillip McBride Jeremy Youlds Sarah Hulme Adrian Martin Simon Chadfield Tina Jackson Susan Shirley Matthew Smith Louise Syrett Gareth Thomas Andrea WaIker Richard Stacey Stuart Winfield Richard Woodberry John Edwards Nicholas Faulkener

SCALBY SCHOOL, SCARBOROUGH

Flugal Horns Martin Brown Sharon Comes lan Riley

Singers Lianne Sneddon Sally Derrington Sarah Dungey Sally Gorse Sarah Sharpe Sarah Calder Michelle Davison

Tenor Horns David Warburton Nicholas Warburton Nicholas Henwood Fay Collier Kevin Lindop Joy Ellams Christopher Gibbs Gareth Evans Simon Mansell Paul Trotter

Musical Director: Tony Turner Assistant Musical Director: Susan Rueter Choreographer: Sandra Blair Age range of performers: 11-16 years

THE OGONOVSKY ENSEMBLE

Elizabeth Jarvis Jayne Romeril Sonia Cutting Charlotte Browne Tracey Baker Anthony Degale Susan Sawyer

MOSSLEY HOLLINS HIGH SCHOOL BAND

Dancers Nicola Finnigan Elizabeth Waltham Kirsty Williams Usa Shingler Charlotte Corrigan Suzy Corrigan Catberine Goring Pa,ula Muffitt Kathryn Johnson David Henderson Jake Daniel Alastair Mollon Musicians Karen Moloney Karen Bolland Bronwen Taylor Danielle Eade Julie Fisher Caroline Ellerker

Elizabeth Sneddon Katie Jowsey Carolyn Smith Anne Wright Helen Hitchcock Rebecca Tingay Nancy Evans Ruth Miller Nina Chrysaffi Michelle Thompson Victoria Hall Susan East Peter Shaw David Shaw Andrew Moloney James Tingay Neil Pennock Geoffrey Newiss Mark Penny Alistair Bridge Michael Lynskey Dale Moulding Gareth Taylor Jim Dickinson Daniel Rourke Jason Ward Peter James BruneI James Chris Newiss

Trombones Mark Wenman Tracy Cutts Trudy Hall Gilliam Hall Andrew McGovern Robert Bailey Mark Oldham "Euphoniums DavidEvans Darren Anderson Usa Cadman Darren Robinson Baritones Sarah Edom Sharon Preece Timothy Mansell Sara Whitfield Eh Basses ran Mould Darren Adams William Evans Ian Watson Keith Watson Bb Basses Mark Norris Hayden Ellams Andrew Fargher Timpani David Jackson Percussion Neil McGovem Jason Jones Paul Murfin

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Many of the young string players you will see here tonight started their musical careers with an instrument from Stentor, the premier supplier of orchestral stringed instruments in Britain. 'Stentor' strings and rosin have been known to orchestral players since 1895 and today you will find something from Stentor in every orchestra, be it professional, amateur or student. Famous makers such as Grunert, Sandner, Koberling, Voigt, Paulus, Riedl, Knoll, Uebel, Bazin send their instruments and bows to Stentor from all over the world, and some of these instruments are made from our own stocks of fine tonewoods and makers' materials. This total involvement enables us to continually work to raise the standard of student instruments; for example, 'Stentor Student' violins made to our own high specifications are available in six sizes for around £50 and 'Andreas Zeller' cellos for around £270.

Ask for full details of the complete service from Stentor, including 'Dogal', 'Red-o-Ray', 'Golden Spiral' and 'Stentor' strings, at your usual music shop, or write to the address below .

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UNDERSTANDING MUSIC Winner of the 1979 Yorkshire Post 'Music' Award '... he doesn't just put across facts: he makes you think about what you're listening to, he helps you to listen better ... highly recommended: BBC Music Weekly 'here is a book that covers almost ever aspect of listening, criticism, creation, form, idiom, purpose and method: Yorkshire Post £4.95 paperback

THE CONCERTGOER'S COMPANION Volume 1: Bach to Haydn Volume 2: HoIst to Webern '... Hopkins is a master at introducing the right amount of chatty commentary with factual detail: Classical Music Weekly on Volume 1 In these two volumes, Antony Hopkins takes his readers on a musical odyssey through significant orchestral works from the main concert repertoire. The composers are arranged alphabetically. Each one is introduced in a short biographical essay and placed in the musical context of his time.

Volume 1: £10.95 Volume 2: £15.00 January 1986

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List of Performers SOUTHAMPTON YOUTH ORCHESTRA

Conductor: Keith Smith Tutors: Strings: Richard Harvey, Michael Cutter, Sta:nley Borl.r.md, Bam) Glyrzn Woodwind: Robin So/dan, Geoffrey Bridge, Beverley Ingerme/s, CO/ill Wi/SOIl Brass: lan Smith, Gareth UelOellyll , Peter WiCldmol1 Age range of performers: 13--20 years 1st Violins Stuart Robertson Katie Buchanan Claire Jackson Alison King Matthew Knight Catherine Lee Elizabeth Lee Teresa MalcoIm Eleanor Moye Isabel Moye Dawn Nichols Simon Packman Alex Robertson Roger Smith Fiona Stevens Vivien Woodford Cecelia McFarland 2nd Violins Josefa Campbell Mark Ashurst Martin Charlton Cather.ine Ford Vivienne Heller Rachel Humphery Fiona Knight Karen Lumb Helen Mansbridge Katherine McWilliam Sarah Molland Rachel Osman Sally Rowntree Anthea Woodford Joanne Ford Nastasa Kielbinska Violas Penny Winsborough Catherine Birch Laurence George Rosamund Holness Angela Page Janet Parnell Hugh Parry Alex Scurlock Claire Smith Michael Swann Christina Line Cellos Sarah Blot!

Nicola Blatchford Frances Blott Sarah Bolt Kerstin Drummond Marie-Claire Garfield Louise Hardiman Sally Hudson Sharon Lewis Lara Mardell Sarah Nichols

Double Basses Barbara Yendell Daniel Barron Catherine Burrows Pauline Falvey Heather Preston Flutes Rachel Ford Zoe Brookes Elizabeth Cook Halinka Ward Julie Witts Oboes Rebecca Jarvis Tracy Dredge Karen Dyer Sarah Robertson Julie Where Clarinets Pamela Trodd Timothy Lines Matthew Cantrell Tara Caplin Bassoons Jane Felix Lindsey Edwards Sandra Prosser Horns Jonathan Cox Jonathan Cooke Jacqueline Jarvis Andrew Osborne Sharon Roundell Clare Savage Elizabeth Taylor Trumpets Alan Welch Philip Richards Andrew Stockton James Stygall Trombones Mark Seymour Debbie Ellard Andrew Verner Kevin Turner

SOUTH GLAMORGAN YOUTH STRING ORCHESTRA Conductor: left Lloyd Assistant Conductor: Mark Roberts Tutors: String: Jennifer Constable, Penny Huglles, Kntlrn)11 Morgan Woodwind & Brass: Eric Phillips Administrative: Ba,rbam Q-.ven, Barbara Parkholm, Glenys Morgan, Christopher HOllgilton Age ran,ge of performers: 12-18 years 1st Violins Helen Clissold, Leader Susan Evans Mathew Cottam ,E myrEvans Debbie Keyser Simon Ashton Elizabeth Hopkins Ca thy Houghton Mary Gaud Suzanne Fish Eleanor W. Davies Susan Rees Sam Evans Lucy Wilson-Dixon Richard Evans Allyson Rowles Nia Beaven 2nd Violins Tayne Hughes Rachel Hembury Jane Roberts Sarah Lloyd Eleanor S. Davies David Morgan Teremy Baldwin Ruth Tatevossian Step hen Morgan Sarah Lees Rhlan Morgan Usa Hardlng Sarah Perey Fay Mcaffer Emma Chapman Gwen Llian Rees Violas David Sherry Caitlin Constable Stephen Banbury Sian Beaven Simon Bracken Huw Sullivan Sheena Islam

Cellos Richard Weigold Sion Lewis Buw Davies Claire Parkholm Elizabeth Stevens Rebe.cca Ball Sioned Guy Mewyn Rees Jenny Lloyd David Batchelor Andrew Wilson Timothy Perkins Double Basses Hannah Griffiths Timothy Drewitt Flutes Justine Phillips Vivienne Braithwaite Ceri Phillips Oboes Sian 'Ball Rhlannon Lloyd-Jones Clarinets Owen Saer Verity Fielding Bassoons Edwin Massey Helen Cotter Homs Stephen Jackson Kim Darby Julle Jones

TORQUAY GRAMMAR SCHOOL FOR GIRLS' SENIOR CHOIR Conductor: Valerie Barton Accompanist: Milly Bailey Age range of performers: 11--18 years 1st Sopranos Georgina Alderslade Lisa Chalk Karen Gregory Heather Partridge Alison Rowe Jennifer Cusden Sarah-Jane Winter Emma Dunn Maria Bidmead Fionnuala Quinn Lynne Hyne Gail Shapter Rebecca Ward Deborah Walker Helen Bretherton Cheryl Dyer Caroline Pettigrew Jeannette Price Angela Walker Sarah Righton 2nd Sopranos Amanda Molan Jane Ridgway Rebecca Trethewey Tanya Savini Katie Turpin Jacqueline Penwell Deborah Marquand Gillian Seldon Kathie Sauer Sarah Moxham Lisa McCool Alicia Bodill Sharon Phillips Amanda Bailey Adele Kirby Joanne Warner Deidre Quinn Rosemary Cree

1st Altos Andrea Thomas Vicky Watmore Debbie Christophers Anita Barham Wendy Turner Clare da Costa Angela Locke Faith Davies Anna Gough Samantha Stayte Caroline Densham Lucy Densham Michelle Haycroft Joanna Huckle Joanne Redford Nicola Jones Jo Anne Thomson 2nd Altos Samantha Molan Emma Bailey Fiona Matthews Karen Strudwick Sally Schneider Claire Hughes Annabel Burrows Delphine Knott Emma Stevens Lesley Pearson Louise Knapman Emma Bickford Deborah Nield Susan Peddie

Trumpets Michael Lynskey Adrian Jackson Timpani Nicholas Josty

Tuba Michael Todd Percussion James Goold Janice White Martin Lanchester Antony Hathaway

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The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra wishes all participants in the 1985 Schools Prom every success For the September 1985 - June 1986 RPO concert brochure please write to: RPO, 34 Red Lion Square, London WC I R 4SG

BLABYROADWIOSTON LEICESTER LE82DF ENGLAND TELEPHONE:0533 773121 TELEX: 342171

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List of Performers WARD LE YOUTH BAND Musical Director: Rom Stanko Age range of performers: 16-19 years Soprano Cornet Jillian Mottershead Solo Cornets Jane Wright Louise Webster Sharon Halliday Denise Bossons Paula Butterworth Caroline Shorrocks Repiano Cornets Karen Mellor Lorraine Dearnley Tracey Kershaw Elizabeth Miller Cheryl Parry Tracy Barlow 2nd Cornets Gillian Anderson Andrew Nicholson Janine Anderson Jonathon Yates Jane Grindrod 3rd Cornets Annette Pitcher Michael Clegg Lisa Scholes FIugel Horns Julie Gilligan Gwen Diggle Rachel Pearson Solo Horns Jane Meller Helen Plant Julie Ackroyd 1st Horns Mair Jones Carol Chesney Sophie Kelsall

2nd Horns Andrea Nicholl Karen Pitcher 1st Baritones Lynne Bancroft Nicola Smith Michelle Tole 2nd Baritones Jane Hobbs Karen Rogers Sonya Howarth Joanne McMinn Euphoniums Brent Warren Clare Hamilton Michelle Renwick Andrew Soutter Christopher Mitchell Trombones Philip Hamilton David Warburton Jacqueline Ashworth Stewart Plant Phillip Biddulph Basses Gary Tetlow John Rigg Sharon Harling Stephen Tennick Peter Jones Warren Sheridan Paul Scales Percussion Alan Connell Richard Howarth

WIGAN YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA

WOLVERHAMPTON CONCERT BAND

Musical Director: Ian A. Darrington Assistant: Gillian Chambers Tutors: Saxophone: AI/an Currie Percussion: Tim Holden Jazz Animateur: Paul Mitchell-Davidson Librarian: Anne Jol/el) SOUl'ld Engineer: Christopher Haines Assistant to W.Y.].O.: Marianne Humphreys Age range of performers: 12-21 years

Conductor: Coli/'! Douglas Tutors: Woodwind: John Biddulph Brass: Regina/d Forrest Age range of performers: 12-21 years

Trumpets Malcolm Melling Ashley Frohlick lan Jacobs Sharon Pennington David Hitchen Trombones Carolyn Ashley John Hurst Stuart Sidebottom Lee Thomas Alto Saxophones Richard Halliwell Amanda Darrington Sheila Mdson Tenor Saxophones Gareth Robinson lan Green

Piano Paul Bridge Guitar Paul Haimes Bass Philippa Haimes Percussion Craig Santus Philip Hurst Vocalist Andy Prior Vocalists & Additional Percussion Paula McCourt Alison Nolan

Baritone Saxophone David Humphreys

WOKING CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Conductor: Robert Au/t Age range of performers: 15--22 years 1st Violins Denise Powell Lisanne Me1chior Alison Aldridge Richard Mayall Claire Ashby 2nd Violins Matthew Saunders Susannah Steedman Anita Powell Rebecca Coleman Lorna Powell Violas Edmund Knollys Lucy Hill Catherine Bradshaw Helen Grainger Louise Grierley

FIutes Rachel Brown Lucy Bastin Heather Biddulph Alison Birch Colin Clarke Sally Cowern Debbie Harries Oboes Tracey Durnall Andrew Gee Jennifer Jackson Clarinets Stuart Brodmann Mark Bonsell John Brown David Morgan Lynn Perry Alison Rogers Joanna Smith Caroline Vaughan Bassoons Michael Servant Richard Whitehouse Saxophones Stuart Fisher Jane Lockley David Price Mark Betteridge Conrad Gauntlett Stephen Rhodes

Horns Christopher Newton Jane Bolus Sarah Fry Paul Tulley Elizabeth Webster Trumpets Matthew Grocutt Jeremy Cross Gavin Dark Carolyn Howden Yvonne Mason Nicholas Pemberton Mark Powell Julia Richards Trombones Andrew Rogers Colin Gauntlett lan Rumble Euphonium lan Johnson Tubas Angela O'Sullivan Helen Sanders Mark Timms Percussion Elizabeth Askew Gregory Evans Gary Griffiths Adam Hoque David Redmond Helen Thorpe

Flutes Emily Beynon Tracey Tonkins Oboes Mark Dean Claire Morley Bassoons Andrew Chenery Penny Coulthard Horns Sarah Willis Helen Wheatley Trumpet Wendy Pansey Trombone Mark Wheatley

Cellos Damian Knollys Emma Vidgeon Anne Brierley Penny Bradshaw Double Basses Andrew Marson Hugh Yendole

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THE MOST EXCITING EVENT IN YOUTH MUSIC FREE TRADE HALL MANCHESTER 17th, 18th MARCH 1986 at 7pm Seven Hundred youn~ musicians from all parts of Britain will play music as diverse as jazz, classics, pop and calypso. A three-hour lon~ jamboree of the best of youth music with balloons, Land of Hope and Glory and lots of fun. Natalie An~lesey and Antony HopRins will be presenti~ the music and joinin~ in the fun.

Full pro~ramme and booRin~ form available from Schools Prom North 23a Kin~s Road London SW3 4RP reI: 01-7302628

Sponsored by The Association of Music Industries Commercial Union Assurance Marlls & Spencer The Ranll Organisation The Times Educational Supplement

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