Progra1lJ1lJe Notes With help and guidance from: John Biddulph
SAHarA BRarHERS
SOUTHAMPTON YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Urdas kat der hait
Conductor: Keith Smith
Jhoom kar gar-or
Sahota Brothers Words: Upsahik Pravez Mehdi
The Sahota Brothers are all in the sixth form of Valley Park Secondary School in Wolverhampton where they study music as part of their sixth form course. The school is an Inner-Urban Multicultural school and the musical activities that take place there are as varied and wide ranging as one would expect. The Sahota Brothers are, in fact, two brothers and a cousin who live next door to each other. Apart from their success in the National Festival of Music for Youth they have appeared on BBC Television twice, once in a concert performed on Asian Magazine and once as part of a programme about music at Valley Park. They have also played on the radio and give regular performances at weddings and other celebrations. Their skill as musicians has been recognised nationally yet they have only been playing together for 18 months. Urdas kar der han Jhoom kar gar-or
Sahota Brothers Words: Upsahik Pravez Mehdi
The programme comprises two songs: the first, composed and arranged by the group is a devotional song and an amalgam of Punjabi and Ghazal styles. The words to the song tell us that 'we are all one family, no caste, no colour, no creed'. It is a slow contemplative song.
Soloist: Robert Max Cello Concerto in B Minor Op. 104 (1st movement)
Antonin DvoMk
Southampton Youth Orchestra was founded in 1965. Since 1979 it has been under the direction of Keith Smith. Members of the orchestra attend schools in the Southampton area and are aged between 13 and 20. Over the years the Youth Orchestra has premiered several works by British composers and has worked closely with a number of leading musicians including Malcolm Williamson, the Master of the Queen's Music, who performed his Piano Concerto No. 1 with them in 1979. Recent tours abroad have included visits to Bavaria and Austria in 1982, Sweden in 1984 and the Netherlands in 1985. By invitation, the Orchestra has played in the Festival of British Youth Orchestras held in Edinburgh during the International Festival on four occasions since 1980. Southampton Youth Orchestra has performed in the National Festival of Music for Youth at the Royal Festival Hall in each of the last four years and they are again delighted to be playing in the Schools Prom. Conductor Keith Smith was a violinist in the National Youth Orchestra. Later he read music at Leeds University before going on to study choral and orchestral conducting at the Royal College of Music. He has held various conducting posts, both choral
and orchestral, and in 1974 was appointed conductor of both the Leicester Philharmonic Society Choir and Leicester Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted successful concerts with the English Sinfonia and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Antanin Dvo'fak Cello Concerto in B Minor Op. 104 (1st movement) The Cello Concerto Op. 104 was composed between November 1894 and February 1895 towards the end of Dvorak's three years in America. The first movement is in orthodox sonata form with the usual double exposition. The first theme is heard at once on the clarinets and then taken over by the strings. A calmer section modulates to 0 major and the horn introduces the second subject, a beautiful romantic melody. A brief fortissimo passage ends the orchestral exposition. The soloist enters with the first theme which is elaborated at some length. The romantic second subject is reached and now presented by the soloist in the upper register. After this the mood gradually increases in excitement and the exposition ends with a tutti statement of the first theme. This is followed by a fairly short development, mainly based on the first theme with many modulations. Finally, a brilliant passage for the soloist leads back to the main tonality of B, and the recapitulation begins fortissimo with the second subject, which is quickly taken over by the soloist. The movement comes to a brilliant climax when the first theme returns, grandioso.
The second, Jhoom kar gar-or roughly translated means 'sing with joy, I am drunk with delight!' (The second part should not be taken too literally). It describes a party atmosphere but most importantly it describes feelings rather than just telling a story. It is a fast song in Ghazal style which means the words are very important and have a poetic quality to them which is designed to extract a reaction from the audience. The instrumental parts are partly established and partly improvised.
SO UTHAMPTON YO UTH ORCHESTRA
SAHOTA BROTHERS
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