Progra111111e Notes BADDESLEY ENSOR MIDDLE SCHOOL CHOIR
BARNET SCHOOLS' BRASS QUINTET
Conductor: Michele ]. Kennedy
Quintet for Brass (3rd movement)
I R. Sandland I R. Sandland (Jenny Baines) Baddesley Ensor Middle School is set in a small village in North Warwickshire and has some 146 children on roll, aged between 8 and 12. The choir, which was formed two years ago with some 40 children, has now grown to three times its original size and includes most of the pupils in the school. During the last two years, the choir has taken part in a large number of concerts, performing in local halls and churches. The undoubted highlights of the choir's short life have been the invitations to this year's National Festival of Music for Youth and, now, the Schools Prom. The programme has been specially written for them by T. R. Sandland who, apart from composing a lot of the music they perform, also accompanies the choir.
The Barnet Schools Brass Quintet was formed some four years ago by Jacques Cohen, the group's first trumpet and leader. The other members are Hugh Sprowson (trumpet), Roger Cutts (trombone), Andrew Verity (trombone) and Martin Kennedy (euphonium). All are members of the Barnet Schools Brass Band. The group was formed entirely on the initiative of the members to play chamber music for brass. Rehearsals take place weekly in the members own homes.
Recitative Big Band
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The quintet has been successful in many competitive music festivals and has made numerous concert performances in the Barnet area. This evening they make their first appearance at the Schools Prom and their music is the work of the leader Jacques Cohen.
BROMLEY YOUTH CONCERT BAND Conductor: Peter Mawson
arr. Cordon lacob Dmitri Shostakovich The Bromley Youth Concert Band, formed in 1978, comprises 65 boys and girls mainly aged 14-19, from all parts of the London Borough of Bromley. In 1980 they participated in the 'People to People' Music Festival in Copenhagen and were awarded first prize. The following year they competed in the World Music Festival in Holland and were awarded first prize. Two years later, in 1983, under their present Conductor, Peter Mawson, they were awarded first prize in the 12th International Youth and Music Festival in Vienna. This was followed a week later with a 'Highly Commended' in the National Festival of Music for Youth at the Royal Festival Hall, South Bank, London. In July 1984, in a tour organised by the Anglo Austrian Society, the Band gave concerts in Mayrhofen, Zell am Ziller, Bad Hoisern and Hallstadt. The Youth Band competed in the World Music Festival at Kerkrade, Holland, in July 1985 and was again awarded first prize. The Bromley Youth Concert Band has recently completed a highly successful concert tour of the Eastern Coast of the United States of America, giving concerts in Long Island, New York, Baltimore, Washington, Annapolis and Waldorf. Festival Overture, Cp. 96 Dmitri Shostakovich Shostakovich's Overture was composed for symphony orchestra in 1954 between his Symphony No. 10 and the Violin Concerto. A Russian band version was released in 1958 but tonight's arrangement is for full symphonic wind band by Donald Hunsberger. The Overture opens with a powerful, extended fanfare which leads into an exciting presto, which demonstrates one of Shostakovich's greatest attributes - the ability to write a long sustained melodic line combined with a driving, pulsating rhythm. The Overture's ability to generate excitement in both performer and listener alike makes it an excellent beginning to this year's Schools Prom. Fanfare and National Anthem Festival Overture, Op. 96
BADDESLEY ENSOR MIDDLE SCHOOL CHOIR
BROMLEY YOUTH CONCERT BAND
BARNET SCHOOLS' BRASS QUINTET
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