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Music for Youth is a charity dedicated to developing and encouraging music in schools and fostering the activities of young musicians. The charity was formed to organise and manage the National Festival of Music for Youth and the Schools Prom series of concerts.

Music for Youth is sponsored and directed by Commercial Union Assurance, Marks and Spencer, The Music Industries Association, The Times Educational Supplement and W. H. Smith.

The National Festival of Music for Youth was founded in 1971 and is now the largest annual music festival for young people in Europe involving over twenty thousand young musicians each year.

ANNUAL PROGRAMME

EUROPEAN MUSIC FOR YOUTH at the National Festival OBOE AND CLARINET COMPETITION The next European Music for Youth Prize will take place in Switzerland during September 1988 and the chosen instruments are the Oboe and Clarinet. The British candidates will be selected from a competition to be held in the Purcell Room on Thursday, 7 July during the National Festival.

THE SCHOOLS PROM - 21, 22 & 23 NOVEMBER 1988 Each November over twelve hundred performers chosen from the National Festival appear in three public concerts at the Royal Albert Hall with audiences exceeding fifteen thousand over the three nights.

SCHOOLS PROM NORTH - 21 & 22 APRIL 1988 REGIONAL AUDITION SERIES - MARCH A series of twenty-five regional auditions is held throughout Britain during March to select participants for the National Festival. There are no results or awards and criteria for selection is determined by performance, quality and originality.

THE NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOR YOUTH - 6, 7, 8 & 9 JULY 1988 Five thousand young musicians appear at the National Festival which is held over four days in July at the South Bank Centre in London.

Participants appear before critical and appreciative audiences and benefit by comparing their achievements with other performers - comparison, not competition, is the keynote of the Festival.

THE DES NATIONAL CHORAL COMPETITION at the National Festival The Department of Education and Science has asked Music for Youth to repeat this very successful National Choral Competition and in 1988 it will take place during the National Festival on 6 July in the Royal Festival Hall.

Schools Prom North was launched in 1985 in Manchester and brought young performers from all over Britain to perform together. It is now an annual event with some seven hundred musicians from the National Festival participating. In 1988 the event moves to the Royal Hall in Harrogate and is supported by Kodak.

SCHOOLS PROM WALES - 11 FEBRUARY 1988 The first Schools Prom Wales took place at St. David's Hall, Cardiff in February 1987. The launch of the event was an enormous success and it has now become an annual concert series. In 1988 Schools Prom Wales will be televised by HTV Wales.

SCHOOLS PROM SCOfLAND - 20 JUNE 1988 With the introduction of Schools Prom Scotland, Music for Youth has made a further step in expanding the audience for youth music. It is hoped that Schools Prom Scotland will become an annual concert. Schools Prom Scotland takes place at the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow on 20 June as part of the Scottish National Orchestra's Prom Season. Schools Prom Scotland is supported by the Musicians' Union.

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Contents

Introduction

Introduction

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Music is Alive in our Schools

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Schools Prom Personalities

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Programme Notes Concert Programme

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List of Performers Friends of Music for Youth

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Back cover

One of the chief joys of coming to the Schools Prom concerts every year lies in bringing friends along who have never been before. Without exception, they are always amazed by the standard and variety of the performance and delighted by the exhilarating atmosphere at the concerts.

There is little doubt that the existence of this annual national platform has provided an ideal incentive for thousands of young musicians over the past dozen years and one of the most remarkable aspects of it is that every kind of music is covered: no taste is excluded - from classical music of every kind, to jazz, to bands of all varieties.

Almost as important a feature of the Schools Prom, the National Festival that precedes it in the summer and the regional auditions held at the beginning of every year, is the huge number of people and organisations who are involved in the exercise. In addition to the performers, to all the schools and the music advisers and teachers, without whose dedication the performances would never reach such a high standard each year, there is a team of workers under Larry Westland's direction who achieve great feats of energy and organisation and there are the adjudicators (some of whom have been doing their job with Music for Youth since the very first National Festival in 1971).

Director and Producer: Larry Westland Schools Prom Organiser: Janet Dingley Stage Managers: Dave Haythorne, Mick Mepham Music Youth Directors: James Coppock, Chairman (Music Industries Association) Heather AIlery (Marks & Spencer) Michael Harris (Commercial Union Assurance) Julian Smith (w. H. Smith) Ian Trafford (The Times Educational Supplement) Larry Westland, Executive Director

Programme design by fan Marshall Drawings and cover design by lohn Minnion Photographs by Odile Nod Roland amplification and electric stage piano kindly supplied by Roland (UK) Limited Bliithner and Welmar pianos kindly supplied

by Whelpdale, Maxwell & Codd Limited Percussion instruments kindly supplied by Mr. Roger Horrobin of Premier Percussion Limited Sound Equipment kindly supplied by R. C. lones Limited (01-540 9881)

For an operation of this size and influence, an unusual element is the fact that, until this year, it has been completely funded by business. The consortium of major sponsors increased this year from four to five - form the board of management for Music for Youth - and the Schools Prom have always received invaluable support from a team of very firm Friends. This year an exciting development has taken place: the Department of Education and Science gave recognition to the work done for schools' music by Music for Youth in funding the first National Choral Competition as part of the National Festival in July. The DES has agreed to support it again next year. The sponsors and organisers of Music for Youth are delighted to welcome their latest partners.

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Music is Alive in our Schools Welcome to this the thirteenth presentation of the Schools Prom at the Royal Albert Hall. It would seem that there is no stopping the amazing achievements of our young musicians. We mentioned in last year's programme introduction that these standards can only be maintained if we have the support and resources essential to study.

Certainly this year there has been no shortage of support and encouragement.

At the National Festival of Music for Youth in July we were able to launch a national choral competition aimed at encouraging singing in our schools. This new event was introduced at the personal instigation of the Secretary of State for Education, The Right Honourable Mr Kenneth Baker. Funding for the competition came from the DES and on 14 July, at the Royal Festival Hall we listened to fifteen of our best school and county choirs.

Later that day, at an award-winners' concert, Mr Baker announced to rapturous applause that music

figured very high in current talks on the new curriculum. Mr Baker also told the audience that the DES would continue its support for this all-important aspect of school music. We shall shortly be announcing plans for the 1988 DES National Choral Competition which will be expanded to bring in even more choirs than this year.

We have tried this year to present a wider variety of ensembles than ever before to illustrate the standards of excellence that are the envy of the world. Their performances are the tip of an enormous iceberg that covers thousands of British schools and are a tribute to the dedicated music teachers and the local authorities who make it possible. We should like to take the opportunity of thanking our sponsors for their backing and, even more importantly, their stewardship of Music for Youth activities.

Last year we were delighted to welcome the arrival on the Music for Youth scene of Marks and Spencer as a major sponsor. This

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year we have further cause for celebration with the decision by W. H . Smith to become an equal partner in the promotion of youth music. Last year we were able to launch the first Schools Prom Wales and this latest sponsorship enables us to start Schools Prom Scotland in Glasgow on 20 June as part of the Scottish National Orchestra's Prom Season at the Kelvin Halt Glasgow.

Response to this year's Schools Prom concerts is higher than ever before, a capacity audience on Wednesday and a near sell-out on Monday and Tuesday. The interest in our wonderful young musicians continues unabated and we welcome this latest surge of support and backing which we are getting at Music for Youth.

As we look forward to a fruitful and rewarding year of musicmaking in our schools we hope that you will derive great pleasure from tonight's concert. Thank you for joining our celebration and helping us to Keep Music Alive In Our Schools.

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Schools Pr0111 Personalities The Barbican Piano Trio, Guest Musicians, are Sophie Barber, violin, Robert Max, cello and Rebecca Holt, piano. Winners of the 1986 South East Arts Competition and the Worshipful Company of Musicians' Maisie Lewis Platform they are one of the most sought after young trios. Their engagements have included recitals in the Purcell Room and Wigmore Hall as well as appearances at this year's Brighton, Guildford and Rye Festivals. They are making their first record in July 1988. Concerts and recitals including visits to St. David's Hall, Cardiff and the Manchester Mid-Day series will keep them busy throughout the 1987/ 88 season.

Mark Bebbington, Guest Musician, was born in Coventry in 1962. He studied in Birmingham with Marjorie Hazlehurst prior to commencing his studies at the Royal College of Music with Kendall Taylor. In his first year there he was awarded an Exhibition and also the end of year Piano Prize and in 1982 he won the Royal College of Music Chappell Silver Medal, one of the College's most prestigious awards. In July 1983 he graduated from London University with a B.Mus (Hons) degree.

In 1983 Mark was invited by the Royal College of Music to deputise for Daniel Barenboim in rehearsals of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto conducted by Sir Georg Solti, a work which he later performed at the Royal Festival Hall during the National Festival of Music for Youth and for which he was presented an award for the most outstanding piano performance . Part of this work was also included in the 1983 Schools Proms at the Royal Albert Hall which was televised by the BBC. In 1984 Mark was invited by the Ministry of Culture to visit Singapore where he gave recitals and radio broadcasts. He was also awarded the Vlado Perlemuter Scholarship by the Franco-British Institute for a period of study in France with Aldo Ciccolini and later that year received a Leverhulme Scholarship for post-graduate study at the Royal College of Music with Phyllis Sellick.

Eric Delaney, Guest Musician, is widely acclaimed throughout the world as the leading showman percussionist of his time . His distinguished career includes a Musician of the Year award, a hit record with "Oranges and Lemons" arrd a Royal Command Performance at the London Palladium . He has appeared at Buckingham Palace, Blenheim Palace and the Royal Albert Hall.

He has appeared with most of the world's stars including Max Bygraves, Morecambe and Wise, Mike and Bernie Winters, Tommy Cooper, The Supremes, Tony Bennett, Winifred Atwell, Gene Pitney, Dusty Springfield, Harry Secombe and Frank !field to name but a few. He has also played with the world's leading orchestras and bands including Acker Bilk, Mantovani, The London Symphony Orchestra, Chris Barber, Kenny Baker, Syd Lawrence and Johnny Dankworth.

Eric Delaney has recently enjoyed a highly successful season at the Tower Ballroom in Blackpool appearing before capacity audiences every night. Eric has extensive British and German tours planned for the future and is certainly one of the busiest musicians in the country today.

A grant from the Countess of Munster Musical Trust is enabling Mark to study with Aldo Ciccolini in Italy and he has recently been awarded a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship for participation in international competitions in Europe and America.

His London debut at The Wigmore Hall last season was received with considerable public and critical acclaim .

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Schools Pro111 Personalities Bob Holness, Presenter. As the dreaded doodle-bugs rained down on London's suburbs one night towards the close of the Second World War, a young boy lying huddled beneath his blankets secretly listening to a small crackling radio set could have had no idea that his addiction to radio would one day lead to an acclaimed career in broadcasting. The boy's name was Robert Holness and his career over the past thirty years has spanned virtually every aspect of broadcasting in both radio and television .

His sheer love and enthusiasm for his work has ensured not only his dual success on both the small screen and the airwaves, but also his enduring popularity with old and young alike.

Twenty-five years after making his television debut as host of Granada Television's early game show "Take a Letter", Holness is known to an average audience of some twelve million viewers as host of Central Television's runaway success, "Blockbusters", the first quiz show in Britain to air on a daily basis.

Bob's special rapport with his eager young competitors and the consistently cliff-hanging, intelligent nature of the show last year won "Blockbusters" the TV Times Readers' Favourite Game Show Award and a British Academy Award nomination for Best Children's Programme. Now into its fourth series, "Blockbusters" is also regularly voted "Best Game Show" by the readers of Britain's national newspapers.

Antony Hopkins CBE, Gu est Conductor and Presenter, has been associated with the Schools Prom from the first and has conducted the finale at everyone. He has lectured and conducted in many countries and his "Talking About Music" programme on Radio 3 is now in its thirty-second year. His book "Understanding Music" won the Yorkshire Post award as the best music book of 1986 and has now been issued in paperback . His book on the Beethoven symphonies has also been reprinted as a paperback while other publications include "Sounds of Music", a book about the orchestra, and his highly entertaining autobiography "Beating Time". His 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. His latest book, the "Concertgoer's Companion", came out in November 1984 and Volume 2 was published in January 1986.

Elenid Owen, Guest Musician, formerly a pupil of Professor Suzanne Rozsa, is a fourth year student at the Musikhochschule in Cologne where she studies with Professor Igor Ozim . She is leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales and her college orchestra. In 1984 she was winner of the T.S.B. All Wales Young Musician of the Year Competitio,n .

She has given many recitals at home and abroad including radio broadcasts. Later this week she will once again be appearing as a soloist at the Cardiff Festival of Music.

Bob Holness has achieved a great deal in his thirty year career in radio and television but he admits to a certain nagging regret. "I would dearly love to have played either the flute, or the trombone, my two favourite instruments and then I could make my own music.

Still, there is plenty of time .. .I may yet get that done too .. . :'

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Schools Prol1J Personalities Bernard Robertson, Guest Musician, was born in London and educated at Cambridge where he was an organ scholar and at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. He is active as a freelance keyboard player in a number of different fields. As an orchestral player (playing piano and celeste) he works regularly with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra in radio and television recordings and in concerts both in this country (including Henry Wood Promenade Concerts) and abroad. As a continuo player he appears with a number of early music groups, chiefly the Gabrieli Consort and Players. He is also busy as an accompanist, working with a variety of solo singers and instrumentalists and with choirs, as well as undertaking repetiteur and coaching work with singers.

Richard Stilgoe, Presenter, has a wife, an ex-wife, five children, a dog and a Hymac digger. From this you will gather that he is passionate and creative but essentially down to earth .

He was born in Camberley and brought up in Liverpool, where he sang "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" at St Agnes' Church and "Rip It Up" at the Cavern.

In trying to write a song as good as either of these, he has now written several hundred and played the results on radio (,Today", "Stilgoe's Around" and the prize-winning "Hamburger Weekend"), on television ("Nationwide", 'That's Life", his own series and everyone else's) and on stages all over the world . His one-man show has been seen at festivals from Edinburgh to Adelaide. Clients for his bespoke cabaret act include IBM in Rhodes, Butlin's in Toronto and H.M. The Queen at Windsor Castle.

Larry Westland, Executive Director of Music for Youth, has directed and produced the Schools Prom since its inception in 1975 . He is well respected for his work in youth music, primarily as Director of the National Festival of Music for Youth which he founded in 1971 with backing from The Association 路of Music Industries. He is Director of the Barclays Youth Music Theatre Awards and General Administrator of the British Youth Band Championships which he founded in 1978 with Stephen Johnson and the British Youth Band Association .

His two-man show with Peter Skellern ran happily in London's West End, and is now to be seen on Broadway.

For Andrew Lloyd Webber he wrote the words for the opening song of "Cats", all of the words of "Starlight Express" and every other word in "The Phantom of the Opera". This has paid for the Hymac digger, and enabled him to found the Orpheus Trust, which helps disabled children to play and enjoy music.

Much of his work is now with children.

He has his own BBC 1's children's series, introduces opera to children at Glyndebourne and is a patron of the National Youth Music Theatre, for whom he is currently writing the words and music of "Bodywork", a musical that takes place inside the human body.

He still occasionally sings "Rip It Up" but now finds "I Know That My Redeemer Liveth" a bit high.

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Progra1l11l1e Notes BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS' CONCERT ORCHESTRA Conductor: Robert Vivian

Maroin Hamlisch, arr. R. Lowden Chitty Chitty Bang Bang R.M. & R.B. Sherman, arr. N. Richardson The Birmingham Schools' Concert Orchestra was formed in 1983 to cater for a growing demand by teachers and instrumentalists alike to rehearse and perform a wide variety of music - not purely symphonic and not purely "light music". The members of the orchestra are drawn from a crosssection of schools in the Birmingham area. Rehearsals take place on Saturday mornings during term-time and in January each year a residential course is held.

At Easter the Concert Orchestra travels to Switzerland to perform concerts at various venues including Montreux and Geneva.

Selection from "A Chorus Line" M. Hamlisch, arr. R. Lowden This arrangment of Hamlisch's "A Chorus Line" contains some of the more tuneful and easily recognised melodies from this popular American show.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang R.M. & R.B. Sherman, arr. N. Richardson The original film music was written by the Sherman brothers and arranged by N. Richardson . The musical character of this arrangement depicting the lighthearted aspect of the film is very evident in this short piece.

Selection from "A Chorus Line"

BURY METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA

''BRAVURA'' VIOLIN AND VIOLA ENSEMBLE, SUTTON COLDFIELD

Conductor: Anne Moss

Musical Director: Heather Doust

Soloist: Bernard Robertson

Trad. , arr. ]. Scott Skinner Salut D'Amour Edward Elgar, arr. Heather Doust "Bravura" was formed earlier this year to give opportunities to violin and viola pupils in ensemble work performing styles ranging from classical to romantic and from folk to jazz.

"Bravura" has taken part in a number of concerts in and around Birmingham and has been invited to perform in many events in the future. They are delighted to be part of the Schools Prom this year. All the members of the group enjoy sharing their love of music with an audience.

For those curious to know the origin of the group's name, "Bravura" is an Italian musical term normally applied to singers meaning "fine, rich, brilliant, singing sound". They try to live up to this definition!

The first piece "Bravura" is to perform is a lively folk tune with "drone" type accompaniment from the violas plus tambour. Salut D:Amour by Elgar has been arranged so that the violas add to the richness and warmth of this beautiful melody.

Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, with organ and two pianos (3rd movement)

The Deil Amang the Tailors

"BRAVURA" V/OUN AND VIOLA ENSfM BJ..E:

Camille Saint-Saens

Bury Metropolitan Youth Orchestra was formed fourteen years ago as a result of a course at which almost anybody in the area who could play anything was present! The repertoire progressed rapidly from choice numbers such as "Arapahoe Warriors", through arrangements of varying difficulties, to the standard orchestral repertoire. Although the area from which the orchestra is drawn is small, it not only provides musicians for three full symphony orchestras, of which this is the senior, but also for fifteen other groups, all of which rehearse each week at Bury Schools' Music Centre.

Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, with organ and two pianos (3rd movement)

Camille Saint-Saiins

The organ symphony was commissioned by the London Philharmonic Society in 1886 and the composer conducted its first performance in London on 19 May where the work was given a splendid reception. The finale to the work begins with massive chords on the organ, introducing a predominantly fugal style movement, superbly orchestrated. The work culminates in a mood of great exultation.

Progra1lJ1lJe Notes COLCHESTER INSTITUTE CONCERT ORCHESTRA Conductor: Glyn Parfjtt

String Quartet in D Major, Op. 74, No. 3 (Finale)

Soloist: Elenid Owen Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

CamilIe Sainl-Saiins

Colchester Institute Concert Orchestra rehearse every Tuesday during term-time . The students are drawn from three courses: preliminary course, graduate course and B.A. (Honours) course. All are music students and receive their tuition at the Colchester Institute; their ages range from sixteen to twenty-two years. The orchestra has accompanied soloists such as Maurice Hasson, Robert Cohen and their repertoire is as diverse as Avison and Schubert to "Lawrence of Arabia".

Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso

DAVIS QUARTET, LONDON Musical Director: Sheila Nelson

CamilIe Sainl-Saiins

This highly acclaimed work was written in 1863 when Saint-Saens was twenty-eight and it was dedicated to the famous Spanish violinist/composer Sarasate. The piece was tailor-made for Sarasate's elegant style, silver sheen and romanticism. The deft scoring only underlines the violinist's virtuosity. Bizet made an arrangement for violin and piano and Debussy wrote a four-handed version for two pianos. This work is undoubtedly one of the most popular in the violinist's repertoire.

Joseph Haydn

The Davis Quartet has been in existence for some years now within a larger group which meets on Sundays at Sheila Nelson's house in North London.

Following last year's appearance at the Schools Prom the quartet was invited to take part in the Portsmouth Symposium for Young String Quartets, which they found both stimulating and enjoyable. This year's success came as the result of some intensive effort following a busy year for school examinations.

String Quartet in D Major, Op. 74, No. 3 (Finale)

Joseph Haydn

Haydn's music in the key of D is often particularly extrovert and brilliant and this finale is no exception.

A rhythmically insistent background of repeated staccato quavers dominates the contrapuntal exchanges between first violin and cello, with occasional explosions of activity from the inner parts making up a movement which is sometimes dramatic but never sombre or threatening.

THE DIANA KIVERSTEIN SINGERS, KINGSBURY Musical Director: Diana Kiverstein Bingo Tmd., arr. Douglas Coombes The Echoing Green WilIiam Matthias Running Set: Spring Elizabeth Poston "One" from "A Chorus Line" Marvin Hamlisch Diana Kiverstein is the musical director resp~nsible for this ensemble consisting of school/college students, mainly originating from one school. Having sung together under her guidance for many years they have achieved much success here and abroad, the most recent at the 1987 International Eisteddfod, Llangollen, winning first prize for the second successive year. The choir won first prize at the Vienna Youth and Music Competition in 1985 and has twice won an "Excellent with Distinction" grading at Montreux and broadcast on World Wide Radio and European Broadcasting Network.

The Singers have also raised thousands of pounds for charities - donations having been given for Cancer Research, Talking Books for the Handicapped and MENCAP. Douglas Coombes has been a great inspiration, writing and arranging pieces for Diana Kiverstein's singers, one of which you will be sampling tonight.

Trevor Hughes, who accompanies the choir tonight, studied organ, piano and viola at the Royal College of Music. He graduated, winning the Colles Prize and is also an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, winning the Doris Wookey prize.

CROMWELL JEAL QUINTET, LONDON Musical Director: Sheila Nelson Quintet in C: Rondo

Luigi Boccherini

The members of the Cromwell leal Quintet meet on Sundays as part of a larger group, to sing and play music of various kinds. All of the players are new to the Schools Prom, although they have played in the National Festival of Music for Youth before with different groups.

Quintet in C: Rondo

Luigi Boccherini

Boccherini's famous Rondo in C is published as the finale of a quintet made up from odd movements, not originally intended as a complete work by the composer, but frequently performed that way today.

The Rondo has a brilliant, soloistic cello part which was clearly played by the composer himself and the other members of the ensemble are given opportunities for warmer and more expressive playing.

COLCHESTER INSTITUTE CONCERT ORCHESTRA

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Progra1lJ.1lJ.e Notes DONCASTER YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Musical Director: John Ellis Soloists: Andy Gurnhill, Mark Kerrigan, Simon Lockwood, Mark White, Jonathan Wh ite Matchpoint All My Life Peanut Fender Bender!

Don Schamber Sammy Nestico arr. John Ellis

The first Doncaster Youth Jazz Orchestra was formed fourteen years ago by the present Director of Music, John Ellis, who at that time was a peripatetic brass teacher with the West Riding of Yorkshire. This group is now just one facet of a successful "Jazz and Modern Music in Education" programme administered by the Doncaster Youth Jazz Association , The DYJo. is the senior of three graded jazz orchestras, each one being organised and directed by John Ellis (currently Head of Music, Northcliffe Comprehensive School) over three evenings weekly.

Classes, workshops and rehearsals are assisted by Doncaster Youth Service and enthusiastically hosted, aided and abetted by Northcliffe Comprehensive School and the William Appleby Music Centre, Doncaster.

Doncaster musicians, past and present, have derived much pleasure and invaluable experience from Schools Prom involvement over the years. They are naturally proud of the fact that they have become the first group, throughout the history of this marvellous event, to perform on a record nine occasions! At the National Festival of Music for Youth they have received the Outstanding Performance Award on seven successive visits to the South Bank.

As a direct result of this recognition at national level, the orchestra has enjoyed concert success at home and abroad. They were honoured to be the first British jazz orchestra to appear at the Montreux International Festival in 1979; also, the Nice Festival in 1979 and 1980. In July 1984 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.

In May 1985 they toured California, U.S.A. Thetourwas a fantastic success with concert performances in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Luis Obispo. The highlight of the tour was a concert appearance at Donte's Jazz Club in Hollywood, where Bob Florence - the celebrated pianist/composer - performed with the orchestra. A musical "high" that will never be forgotten.

Cultural and educational links have been developed with the schools of France, thanks to the expertise and sincere interest of Andre Gicquel of A.D.D.I.M. RhOne. Doncaster musicians have been enjoying his well-organised concert tours each year since 1980.

Long may this continue. La vie est belle.

Don Schamber Matchpoint An exciting and dynamic chart with some very challenging ensemble work for all. A driving swing 'opener' and an opportunity to feature a soloist or two.

All My Life Sammy Nestico

FLAT PAVAN, GLASGOW

FOUR BY FOUR, EDLINGTON

Musical Director: Richard Tedstone

Tutor: Mark Hird

The Hunt is Up What Saith my Dainty Darling Phyllis, Farewell Bransles de Champaigne

Trad" arr. Flat Pavan Thomas Morley, arr. West

Thomas Bateson after Pierre Phalese Flat Pavan is run by Glasgow Arts Centre, part of Strathclyde Regional Council's Community Education department. The group consists of ten to fourteen players, largely in their teens who over the last few years have established themselves as one of the main youth groups specialising in early music in the United Kingdom . They introduce their own brand of what can best be described as "four hundred year old pop" ballads, airs and popular dances from one of the most fascinating and formative periods in our history.

Tonight's programme consists of the sort of music which might have been played at social occasions by amateurs or local bands playing on whatever was to hand. Orchestration was a result of experimentation and necessity. "The Hunt is Up" was a folk tune of the fifteen hundreds which has survived virtually unaltered until today. The pieces by Morley and Bateson are fashionable songs of the 1590s and the Bransles are a set of popular dances from the second half of the century.

Dixie in F D. Baker and Pal Stone St. James' Infirmary Jo Primrose ~ arr.

Five Foot Two, Eyes Ray Henderson S P. Severson of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Gir\) Four by Four is an eight-piece dixie jazz band made up of musicians from Edlington Comprehensive School, Doncaster. They are all members of the school's stageband and wind band, both of which gained Highly Commended Performance Awards in this year's National Festival.

Formed almost a year ago, Four by Four is an independent offshoot of the school's stageband, set up to explore new and exciting aspects of small jazz ensemble work, covering dixie, traditional and modern jazz styles.

Hundreds of people stopped to listen to the band when they provided foyer music in the Royal Festival Hall during this year's Festival and the group has since appeared on television.

Their programme for this evening features "Dixie in F", a bright up-tempo number to begin with, followed by an original slow funeral blues from New Orleans "St. James' Infirmary". They conclude their performance this evening with another New Orleans standard "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue (Has Anybody Seen My Girl)".

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DONCASTER YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA

This beautiful jazz ballad has become the perfect vehicle for the distinctive playing style and tone of Simon Lockwood, one of our saxophone soloists.

Like all true jazz musicians, Simon endeavours to find something new to add to each performance of this feature. His final cadenza is never the same!

Peanut Fender Bender! arr. John Ellis This fun arrangement of the standard "Peanut Vendor" was last played by this band at the Schools Prom in 1977! It has been revived, rejuvenated and re-arranged to feature different soloists and other "improvised" activities. Another piece which never sounds the same twice!

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ATBARCLAYS WE NEVER TAKE THE ARTS FORG NTED It is well known that most arts organi- sponsorship by Barclays are members of the sations could not survive without a local community themselves. combination ofgrants and sponsorship.

However, being an avid supporter As a founder member of the ~ .7'h~I"""::S I of the arts is only one of the many G ();- areas in which Barclays involves Association for Business Sponsorship of the Arts (ABSA) .Q;j cA itself with the community. ~ As a matter of policy, we Barclays has been involved ~ in arts sponsorship since the p:) tT1 annually contribute a percentage of our profIts to a wide mid 1970's.

From national activities, ranging programme designed to help charitable causes and such as major productions by the London Festival Ballet and the community at large.

We achieve this through donations, Welsh National Opera to local events such as the WakefIeld Festival and the secondment of senior staff, support for job Cambridge Theatre Group's Pride and creation and small business development Prejudice, Barclays sponsors many arts events schemes and sponsorship of various youth throughout the year. projects and activities.

We openly encourage companies which In fact, in 1987 we expect to spend take the living arts on tour. over ÂŁ5 million on community activities This is due to a quite natural desire to alone.

So you could say that at Barclays we ensure that sponsored arts activities are spread around the country as much as possible, but take the art of serving the community rather mainly because touring activity enables a seriously. greater number ofpeople to attend and enjoy these events.

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Progra11J11Je Notes GRAMPIAN SCHOOLS' PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Musical Director: Ron Forbes

Musical Director: Eithne Valle/y

Ron Forbes Ron Forbes In brief profile the ensemble follows the traditions of its original group, formed in 1972 by Ron Forbes.

There are nine members, aged from thirteen to eighteen, drawn from a number of schools in the Grampian region. The membership is not constant as older members leave to follow studies or careers and younger talent is eagerly awaiting selection.

The four boys and five girls, two of whom are identical twin sisters, meet for practice sessions on Saturday mornings at the Aberdeen Music Centre, as do many other enthusiastic young musicians from the region's town and country areas to join in concert band and orchestras.

The musical director and founder of the Grampian Schools' Percussion Ensemble, Ron Forbes, has done much to broaden the musical and geographical horizons of his ensemble, travelling with them as far afield as Australia to delight audiences "down under".

Ron, an instructor in percussion with Grampian Region, is a highly respected teacher and musician in his own right - having cut his "musical teeth" as a professional player in London before coming to Aberdeen in 1971.

The originality and flair of the ensemble is fuelled by the pieces written especially for them by Ron musically exciting, these pieces have inspired dancers from the Scottish Ballet to join the ensemble during the Aberdeen International Youth Festival.

The magical combination of a disarming charm and a search for originality and excellence from their leader, has done much to combine and refine the talents of these children. They will all freely admit that, while his "yokes" are not always easy his jokes are much, much worse!

The Sleigh Ride from Ice Mountain Ron Forbes Festival Five Ron Forbes Both of these items were written by the ensembles musical director. "The Sleigh Ride" is the last movement from "Ice Mountain" composed in 1986 and "Festival Five" was composed for the ensemble to perform at the 1987 National Festival of Music for Youth.

Concerto The Smiles and Tears of Erin

The Sleigh Ride from Ice Mountain Festival Five

GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA JUNIOR BRASS BAND, LONDON

GREENPARK TRADITIONAL GROUp, ARMAGH O'Caro/an Trad_

The Greenpark Traditional Group play a selection of Irish traditional music making use of some of the popular traditional instruments. The music they play has been handed down for generations and is part of an oral tradition with its roots in the ancient bardic music of the celts.

Concerto

O'Carolan

O'Carolan's "Concerto" opens their selection. This is an eighteenth century harp tune with an interesting story behind its composition. The source of the story is Oliver Goldsmith who was the first to retail it in print. Briefly the story goes that the "Concerto" was composed on the spot in response to a challenge by an Italian musician - stated to have been Geminiani.

In fact Geminiani did live in Dublin in the early eighteenth century and it is certain that O'Carolan knew him and met him and there is an obvious Italianate influence in both the form and idiom of the "Concerto". In recent years the "Concerto" has become very popular with Irish traditional musicians due to its "rediscovery" by the Irish composer Sean O'Riada in the late 1950s. O'Carolan (Toirdhealbhach 0 Cearbhallain, 1670-1738) was a blind travelling harper and was the most famous of the Irish harpercomposers and a prolific song-writer. All of his music has come down to us - mostly tunes and songs in honour of his many patrons without whom the travelling harper could not live.

The Smiles and Tears of Erin

Trad.

The second selection of music, "The Smiles and Tears of Erin", takes its name from a famous Irish reel and is chosen as a composite title for the arrangement of airs and dance music with the mood changing from sadness to happiness. It includes "jigs" (dances in 6/8 time), a lament on the death of an eighteenth century Wexfordman, Staker Wallace, some lively "reels" (dances in 4/ 4 time). The music is played on Uilleann Pipes - bellows-blown pipes with a two octave chanter, three drones tuned in "0 " and three regulators (stopped, keyed chanters capable of playing accompanying chords when the keys are depressed). a nineteenth century simple system concert flute, an anglo chromatic concertina made in the last century

by Charles jeffries (a distinguishing feature is separate notes on 'push and pull'), fiddle, tin whistles and bodhran (goat-skin single sided drum played with a two-handed drum stick) .

Conductor: John Clark Soloist: Rosalind Hall Fanfare and National Anthem Edward Gregson Fantasia on Tico Tico Derek Bo~rgeois Londonderry Air Trad., arr. George Coleman Contest Music (3rd movement) Wilfred Heaton Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 Edward E/gar - "Land of Hope and Glory" The brass band is an integral part of the junior department at The Guildhall School of Music and Drama at The Barbican, London. The course provides an excellent opportunity for young musicians to realise their potential and prepares them for senior music college. The brass band, under its' music director john Clark has represented the college at every Schools Prom for the last five years. The group has also won the Pontins Youth Band Championships for two years.

Fantasia on Tieo Tico

Derek Bourgeois

Variations on a popular tune given some very special treatment from Derek Bourgeois. It is fast, fun and very difficult!

Londonderry Air

Trad" arr. George Coleman

A well loved melody that has been arranged for virtually every instrumental combination. This particularly beautiful arrangement by George Coleman features the tenor horn played by Rosalind Hall.

Contest Music (3rd movement) Wilfred Heaton A National Championship test piece in 1983 "Contest Music" is arguably the finest work in the bands repertoire. juxtaposing fearsome rhythmic motives with spacious lyricism and Heaton's unsurpassed orchestration presents a piece of awesome power and great beauty.

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

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RADCLIFFE ROLLERS, Milton Keynes Musical Director: Neil Davison Tutor: Richard Murphy Soloist: Joseph Servi Fanfare and National Anthem David Rudder The Hammer arr. ].S. Bachl Ave Maria } Charles Gounod Richard Murphy John Miles Music

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JUSTUS, WalsaII Flute Sonata No. 5 in E Minor G.F Handel (2nd movement) Franz Danzi Three Duos, Op. 64, No. 2

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"BRAVURA" VIOLIN AND VIOLA ENSEMBLE, Sutton Coldfield Musical Director: Heather Doust The Deil Amang the Tailors Trad., arr. J. Scott Skinner Salut D:Amour Edward Elgar, arr. Heather Doust

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OXFORDSHIRE YOUTH CHAMBER CHOIR Conductors: Anna Haxworth , Peter Hunt The Uriicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore: Introduction, Madrigal 1 Gian-Carlo Menotti and Madrigal 2 Negro Spiritual, Elijah Rock arr. Jester Hairston

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GREENPARK TRADITIONAL GROUP, Armagh Musical Director: Eithne Vallely Concerto O 'Carolan The Smiles and Tears of Erin Trad.

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BURY METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Anne Moss Soloist : Bernard Robertson Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Camille Saint-Saiins with organ and two pianos (3rd movement)

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

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

Thine equal laws, by Freedom gained, Have ruled thee well and long;

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

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are 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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INTERVAL - 25 MINUTES (Warning bells will sound 5 minutes before the end of the interval)

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STOCKPORT SCHOOLS' STAGESOUND Conductor: Bill Connor Opening Manhattan Skyline Foggy Day Peter Gunn Blaydon Races

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Bill Connor arr. Pat Nash George Gershwin, arr. Jo Riceman Henry Mancini Trad .. arr. Pat Nash

WAKEFIELD DISTRICT COLLEGE BRASS ENSEMBLE Tutor: L. Hepplestone Capriol Suite: Basse-Dance, Peter Warlock, Pieds-en-l'air, Mattachins arr. Donald Cheeseman (Sword Dance) On Ilkley Moor Yorkshire Trad. , arr. Colin Fanshawe

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Marvin Hamlisch arr. R. Lowden R.M . and R.B. Sherman, arr. N. Richardson

SURREY COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: John Forster The Wand of Youth, 2nd Suite: March, The Little Bells, Moths and Butterflies, The Tame Bear, The Wild Bears Edward Elgar Pomp and Circumstance Edward Elgar March No. 1 "Land of Hope and Glory"

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STOCKPORT SCHOOLS' SENIOR BRASS BAND Musical Director: Bob Wyatt Fanfare and National Anthem arr. Frank Wright Born Free /. Barry, arr. A. Catherall Leroy Anderson, Bugler's Holiday arr. Roger Barsotti Toccata /.S. Bach, arr. S. Sykes

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TORQUAY GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL SENIOR CHOIR Conductor: Valerie Barton Summertime This Little Light of Mine The Snow This Little Babe

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THE SUZUKI PIANO TRIO, Radlett Tutor: Anne Turner Le Secret

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Don Schamber Sammy Nestico arr. John Ellis

GRAMPIAN SCHOOLS' PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Musical Director: Ron Forbes The Sleigh Ride from Ice Mountain Festival Five

D. Baker and Pal Stone Jo Primrose } arr. P. Ray Henderson Severson

HAMPSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA

DONCASTER YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Musical Director: John ElIis Matchpoint All My Life Peanut Fender Bender!

THE DIANA KIVERSTEIN SINGERS, Kingsbury

FOUR BY FOUR, Edlington

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

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Musical Director: Diana Kiverstein Bingo Trad., arr. Douglas Coombes The Echoing Green William Matthias Running Set: Spring Elizabeth Poston "One" from "A Chorus Line" Marvin Hamlisch

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Progra1lJ1lJe Notes HAMPSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Edgar Holmes Soloists: The Barbican Piano Trio Triple Concerto in C for piano, Ludwig van Beethoven violin, cello and orchestra, Op. 56 (2nd and 3rd movements) Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 Edward Elgar - "Land of Hope and Glory" The Hampshire County Youth Orchestra is now in its seventeenth year. Formed in 1971 by the Hampshire Education Authority, it marked the beginning of a decade that saw the greatest increase in school instrumental provision in the history of music education in this country. Alternate Saturday rehearsals in Winchester and a week's residential course during the Easter holidays enable the Hampshire County Youth Orchestra to present some ten to twelve concerts each year. Every summer twenty-five or more members leave for university or college, whereupon a new orchestra has to be formed in September.

The quality and attainment of the orchestra is such that it represented this country overseas at the American Bicentennial celebration in 1976 and at the Australian Youth Music Festival in Melbourne in 1979. In 1982 the orchestra was invited to tour Alaska and the Pacific Northwest States and, three years later, visited New England giving concerts throughout the region, including New York where a special performance was given at the United Nations. This summer, the orchestra was invited to participate in the Aberdeen International Youth Festival with over a thousand other musicians, singers and dancers from sixteen different countries. Next summer the orchestra will re-visit Australia for that country's Bicentennial celebrations, the group leaving on 14 July for a thirtysix day tour, extending from Melbourne in the south to Cairns on the Great Barrier Reef in the north.

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 Edward Elgar - "Land of Hope and Glory" 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.

JUSTUS, WALSALL Flute Sonata No. 5 in E Minor G.F Handel (2nd movement) Franz Danzi Three Duos, Op. 64, No. 2 The duo Justus is exactly what it says: just us, Karen and Steve - no musical director, tutors or schools are directly involved in their performance. They formed a year ago to provide up-market street music for the people of their home town, Walsall.

G.F Handel Flute Sonata No. 5 in E Minor (2nd movement) This Baroque piece, though originally written for flute and harpsichord, is happily suited to Justus's combination of instruments.

Franz Danzi Three Duos, Op. 64, No. 2 As in life Handel is followed by Danzi. The Larghetto and Allegretto Vivo from the Op. 64, which is one of the few pieces specifically written for flute and cello, show both of the instruments to advantage and, what is more, are fun to play.

THE KENNEDY KLARINETTES, ATHERSTONE Conductor: Michele Kennedy El Clarinetto

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The Kennedy Klarinettes were formed two years ago with children from Baddesley Ensor Middle School and Polesworth Church of England Middle School.

All of the members of the group have sinc~ moved on to high school.

The group has made two appearances at the National Festival of Music for Youth and was delighted when they received an invitation to perform at the Schools Prom this year. They will fulfil their dream tonight when they play in the Royal Albert Hall .

El Clarinetto

I Sandland

This year, the group was expanded in order to perform "El Clarinetto", an opera in one act for clarinets. This opera was composed especially for the group by T. Sandland.

The orchestra will be appearing at the International Conference of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) in Canberra.

Triple Concerto in C for piano, Ludwig van Beethoven violin, cello and orchestra, Op. 56 (2nd & 3rd movements) "Disappointing; uninspired; raises expectations of great music, it never fulfills".

These are typical opinions of those who wish to dismiss the Triple Concerto. Its main misfortune is that Beethoven's other concertos are greater still. To write a concerto for such a combination of piano, violin and cello would present any composer with problems simply because the instruments do not match each other easily, particularly when accompanied by an orchestra.

The cello can easily be swamped so with considerable inventiveness, Beethoven gives it most of the melodies and places them in a high register. The violin and cello are more often playing together leaving the piano to perform by itself.

THE KENNEDY KLARINETTES

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Except in the tuttis, the orchestral forces are kept to a minimum. The Triple Concerto was begun in 1803 and is dedicated to his patron, Count Lichnowsky.

It is roughly contemporary with the Eroica Symphony.

Tonight we are to hear the final two movements - the short slow movement which gives the cello the main solo spot, the pianist being limited to rippling embellishments. The cello opens the last movement, Rondo alia Polacca. During this movement which is amongst Beethoven's wittiest, quiet trumpet fanfares and scintillating passages of broad humour, carry the music forward . The middle section is darker.

The change of rhythm towards the end, coupled with heavy chords and disruptive accents, provide further contrast before the work recovers with splendid panache.

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Progra1tJ1tJe Notes KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE SINFONIA, STOURBRIDGE

THE MANCHESTER BOYS' CHOIR

Conductor: John Griswold

Musical Director: Adrian Jessett

Conductors: Anna Haxworth, Peter Hunt

Soloist: Mark Bebbington

Ave Verum Metsan Siihkosanoma Songs from the Shows

w.A. Mozart Naissoo Various The Manchester Boys' Choir was formed in 1981 by their conductor Adrian Jessett to provide vocal experience and opportunities for boys within the Manchester Education Music Service.

In the choir's short existence over two hundred performances have been given throughout the British Isles and abroad, many with professional artists and orchestras.

Members from the choir regularly participate in productions at the region's premier theatres and in addition undertake television, radio and recording engagements.

Today the choir has a membership exceeding one hundred divided into four choirs - choristers, junior singers, training choir (all boy trebles) and a choir for boys whose voices are changing, the latter being a unique venture amongst education authorities and one which is already drawing much favourable comment.

Members of the choir do not attend anyone school, the only entrance requirement being enthusiasm and a desire to sing and perform to the best of their ability.

The Manchester Boys' Choir functions under the auspices of the City of Manchester Education Committee Music Department.

The Unicorn, The Gorgon and Gian-Carlo Menotti The Manticore: Introduction, Madrigall and Madrigal 2 Elijah Rock Negro Spiritual, arr. Jester Hairston

Piano Concerto in F (1st movement) George Gershwin 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 important part in the life of the college with ten concerts a year and the main activities are the orchestra, chamber orchestra, wind band and choir, The Sinfonia is essentially a holiday orchestra and includes past as well as present students, It gives two concerts a year.

The college has been a regular supporter of the National Festival of Music for Youth since 1978 and has been represented by at least one group every year since then . This year there were no fewer than seven groups from the college taking part and they received a total of three Outstanding Performance Awards and one Highly Commended Performance Award.

At the Festival this year the Sinfonia was conducted by one of its members, Stefan Asbury. The last appearance by the Sinfonia at the Schools Prom was in 1983, also with Mark Bebbington who is an exstudent of the college. They are delighted to be playing with him again.

Piano Concerto in F (1st movement) George Gershwin George Gershwin was born in Brooklyn, New York, in September 1898 and died in Hollywood in July 1937. His "Rhapsody in Blue", written for the Paul Whiteman Orchestra in 1924, was the first major work to successfully bridge the gap between jazz and serious music and as a result of its success Gershwin was asked to write a Piano Concerto by WaIter Damrosch, conductor of the New York Symphony Society. The first performance was given in December 1925 by the New York Symphony Orchestra with Gershwin himself as soloist. It is full of delightful melodies and rhythmic vitality, with jazz and blues elements to the fore.

OXFORDSHIRE YOUTH CHAMBER CHOIR

The Oxfordshire Youth Chamber Choir' was formed in October 1986 by Anna Haxworth and Peter Hunt.

As supporters of the British Federation of Young Choirs movement they wanted to give young people locally the opportunity to develop singing skills in the same way that youth orchestras encourage instrumental skills. The choir members are aged between fifteen and twenty years and are all pupils or recent ex-pupils of sixteen different schools in the county. Membership is by teacher recommendation of good singers with good sight-reading ability.

Since its formation, the choir has given several concerts in Oxford and has recorded for local radio.

This summer it was delighted to receive a commendation for its performance in the DES National Choral Competition at the National Festival of Music for Youth.

The Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore: Introduction, Madrigall and Madrigal 2

Gian-Carlo Menotti

The main part of Oxfordshire's programme tonight is excerpts from Menotti's madrigal opera ''The Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore" written in 1956. It consists of fourteen unaccompanied choruses linked by instrumental interludes. The choir takes the role of narrator and of individual characters in the story, which is an allegory. The first piece introduces the eccentric man in the castle. Madrigal 11 describes the townsfolk gossiping, while Madrigal 2 is a domestic argument - the Countess begs her husband for a manticore, since the man in the castle has one. He reflects on his hen-pecked state and only gives in after the Countess has slapped his face!

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STOCKPORT SCHOOLS' SENIOR BRASS BAND

STOCKPORT SCHOOLS' STAGESOUND

Musical Director: Neil Davison

Musical Director: Bob Wyatt

Conductor: Bill Con nor

Tutor: Richard Murphy

Fanfare and National Anthem arr. Frank Wright Born Free J. Barry, arr. A. Catherall Bugler's Holiday Leroy Anderson, arr. Roger Barsotti Toccata J.S. Bach, arr. S. Sykes

Opening Bill Connor Manhattan Skyline arr. Pat Nash Foggy Day George Gershwin, arr. Jo Riceman Peter Gunn Henry Mancini Blaydon Races Trad., arr. Pat Nash

Soloist: Joseph Servi Fanfare and National Anthem The Hammer David Rudder Ave Maria ]. S. Bach/Charles Gounod Music John Miles

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Richard Murphy The Radcliffe Rollers were formed in March 1985 at the Radcliffe School, Milton Keynes. Two months later they had given their first public performance and in July of the same year they had appeared on the BBC's "Look East". In the autumn of 1985 they successfully auditioned for the "Saturday Superstore Search for a Superstar" talent contest in which they were eventually placed third. This led to a number of appearances on national television including the "Children in Need" appeal and also Sky Channel Cable Television. The Rollers received certificates of merit at the 1986 and 1987 National Steelband Festival and were the only school band to play in last year's inaugural National Steel band Competition, sponsored by the Arts Council. Following successful appearances at the Shrewsbury International Festival in 1986 and the Harrogate International Youth Music Festival in 1986 and 1987, the Rollers were invited to perform in a Festival in Pavullo, Italy during August of this year.

The band's repertoire is extensive, covering calypsos, classical, popular and even chamber music. Most of their repertoire is to be heard on their first cassette which was recorded earlier this year with the assistance of their sponsors, Wolverton Motor Co. Ltd" who also enable the band to travel widely.

All the Rollers' "pans" are made by the Kent-based tuner, Michael Contant.

The Hammer David Rudder, arr. Richard Murphy This is a calypso from Trinidad - the birthplace of the steel band. It is intended to be performed outdoors for dancing but should just as easily entice tonight's audience to dance.

Ave Maria J.S. Bach/ Charles Gounod, arr. Richard Murphy The band's repertoire includes a number of pieces which incorporate Joseph's singing talent but this is the first "classical" piece so used. It has been arranged especially for tonight's performance.

Music John Miles, arr. Richard Murphy The tremendous contrasts of this piece serve to illustrate the enormous dynamic and expressive range capable of being produced by steel bands.

The Stockport Schools' Senior Brass Band was formed in September 1978 to provide the opportunity for young brass players within the Borough of Stockport to gain experience in playing in a band as very few individual schools at that time had suHicient players to form their own band. Rehearsals take place on Saturday mornings during term-time and each year the members are coached by players from Williams Fairey Engineering Band during an intensive weekend course. Most of the concert work undertaken is on behalf of local and national charities.

The band has twice been to Germany on exchange visits with Stockport's twin town of Heilbronn and plans are being made for a tour of Austria next summer.

Born Free

J. Barry. arr. A. Catherall

Theme music from the film about Joy Adamson and EIsa, the lioness.

Bugler's Holiday Leroy Anderson, arr. Roger Barsotti Featured cornet players in this double-trio are Craig Bennett, Scott Shelton, Gareth Flanagan, Debbie Dyson, Andrew Lawton and Paul Holt.

J.S. Bach, arr. S. Sykes This arrangement for brass band was taken from the Sky 2 Album.

Toccata

The orchestra was formed in 1977 under the auspices of the education division of Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council to provide an outlet for young musicians from Stockport and the surrounding area who wished to play orchestral jazz and big band music.

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

Stagesound have appeared six times at the National Festival of Music for Youth over the last ten years and have been awarded the Outstanding Performance Award on three occasions. This will be their fifth appearance at the Schools Prom.

Opening

Bill Connor

Composed and arranged by Bill Connor for the Granada Television series "Celebration" in which Stagesound appeared with Ronnie Scott in March 1981.

Manhattan Skyline

arr. Pat Nash

From the 1970s film "Scoundrel Days", featuring the trombones, woodwind and rhythm section.

Foggy Day

George Gershwin, arr. Jo Riceman

George Gershwin's classic "standard". All that is missing is "Ole blue-eyes" to sing it!

Peter Gunn

Henry Mancini

Henry Mancini's theme from the television series of the same name featuring the "raunchier" aspects of the ensemble.

Blaydon Races

Trad., arr. Pat Nash

No jackets required ... just flat caps and ferrets in this fresh treatment of the traditional song arranged by Pat Nash.

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Progra11J11Je Notes SURREY COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: John Forster The Wand of Youth, 2nd Suite: March, The Little Bells, Moths and Butterflies, The Tame Bear, The Wild Bears Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 - "Land of Hope and Glory"

Edward EIgar

Edward EIgar

The orchestra !irst came to prominence in 1977 when they were awarded the Queen's Silver Jubilee Presentation Cup for the most outstanding performance in the Open Orchestra Class of the National Festival of Music for Youth. Their reputation has steadily increased since that time as the result of very successful major concerts, broadcasts and television appearances.

During the intervening years the SCYO has performed under the baton of a number of conductors including Sir Charles Groves and Antony Hopkins and has played concertos with Jack Brymer, John Lill, Robert Cohen and the Chilingirian Quartet. Among more recent highlights have been performances of The Messiah at the Royal Albert Hall with a choir of one thousand voices and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in the Civic Hall, Guildford. A most successful concert tour of West Germany in 1982 was followed by a visit to Vienna, Salzburg and Munich in 1984 and a ten day tour of Yugoslavia in 1986. A visit to France is planned for 1988.

his childhood sketch books and orchestrated the two Wand of Youth suites. Like the Enigma Variations, these helped to concentrate his thinking and redefine some of the emotions soon to be evidenced in his two symphonies. Elgar wrote very little for children to perform, but his withdrawal into the adult world of childhood produced some of his best music.

Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 - "Land of Hope and Glory"

Edward Elgar

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路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.

THE SUZUKI PIANO TRIO, RADLETT Tutor: Anne Turner Le Secret

L. Gautier

The children who are now aged nine and ten all started learning the piano aged three and four using the Suzuki approach which encourages early musical and educational development by giving children the best possible musical environment and encouragement at home and in their lessons.

All three have a large solo repertoire ranging from Bach to Bartok and including concertos by Bach, Haydn and Mozart. They also enjoy playing together in duets and trios, especially if the pieces are lively and spirited like "Le Secret" by Gautier which they are playing this evening.

They have all taken part in festival and public concerts including playing in EPTA {European Piano Teachers' Association} conferences in England and Germany and at the last ISME conference in Innsbruck. All three belong to their school orchestras in which Emma plays flute, Timothy trumpet and Adrian french horn .

Le Secret

L. Gautier

A delightful and novel partY'piece, "Le Secret" was most probably composed for three daughters of a nineteenth路 or early twentieth路century French household to perform at musical soirees.

As a result of the auditions in the 1984 National Festival of Music for Youth the SCYO was invited to perform in the final Festival concert at the Royal Festival Hall. This concert was recorded by the BBC and later broadcast in the "Youth Orchestras of the World" series.

The present membership of one hundred players has an average age between fifteen and sixteen years. The SCYO is one of a number of orchestras and bands supported by Surrey Education Committee as part of their Education Department's instrumental music service. The orchestra rehearses each week and is staffed by a team of teachers and professional musicians who act as tutors to the various sections.

Young people who wish to study music seriously have found the intensive professional coaching available in the orchestra invaluable. An increasing number are finding their way into the music profession, a few as soloists, others as members of leading orchestras and many more as instrumental teachers in universities, colleges and schools.

SURREY COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA

John Forster is a professor at the Royal College of Music in London where he formerly had a distinguished career as a student. His work there includes conducting the Sinfonietta and taking conducting classes. He has also worked at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies {in conjunction with Sir Colin Davis, Sir Charles Groves, Vernon Handley, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Kurt Sanderling and many others} and has appeared as a guest conductor of the British Youth Symphony Orchestra and the' Essex and Hertfordshire Youth Orchestras. He holds regular appointments with the County of Avon Schools Orchestra and the Surrey County Youth Orchestra.

The Wand of Youth, 2nd Suite: March, The Little Bells, Moths and Butterflies, The Tame Bear, The Wild Bears

Edward EIgar

The music was originally written for a family play when Elgar was about ten years old, but it was not until 1907, when the challenge of a symphony could no longer be evaded, that the composer returned to THE SUZUKI PIANO TRIO

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Progra1lJ.1lJ.e Notes TORQUAY GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL SENIOR CHOIR

WAKEFIELD DISTRICT COLLEGE BRASS ENSEMBLE

Conductor: Barbara Turpin

Conductor: Valerie Barton

Tutor: L. Hepplestone

William Davies Formed twenty-one years ago, Swindon Young Musicians' Club began as a small music centre for local children. Since then, with the help of dedicated teachers and a Friends' Committee, it has grown in size and now boasts over seven hundred members.

The club attempts to give each child the chance to experience a wide variety of group music-making and an incentive to reach higher standards. Young musicians are encouraged to join a beginner group and to progress through intermediate groups on to the youth orchestra, youth brass band, or senior concert wind band as appropriate, all of which have participated in concerts and festivals at home and abroad.

WiIliam Davies Gymnopedie Specially written for Swindon Young Musicians' Junior Strings twenty-first birthday concert by Wiltshire's County Music Adviser, "Gymnopedie" combines four string groups of various standards, a few youth orchestra members and two percussionists.

The piece is in rondo form with canons and inversions, improvisation and a delightful Hornpipe.

"Gymnopedie" strives to give the young string players of differing levels of ability the experience of orchestral playing in an interesting and particularly stunning way.

Summertime This Little Light of Mine The Snow This Little Babe

George Gershwin arr. WaIter Ehret Edward Elgar Benjamin Britten Torquay Girls' Grammar School Senior Choir was very pleased to be presented with the Outstanding Performance Award in the newly created DES National Choral Competition. Mr Kenneth Baker, the Education Secretary, launched the competition and, at the prize winners' concert, presented them with their trophy.

This is the second time Torquay Girls' have made an appearance at the Schools Prom. Most of the choir's time is spent singing locally at charity concerts or entertaining at hospitals. They consider this work a very important part of their lives.

Summertime George Gershwin From the musical "Porgy and Bess" set in the southern states of America this song depicts a soporific summer's day.

This Little Light of Mine arr. WaIter Ehret The other extreme of American jazz - a foottapping, hand-clapping number.

The Snow Edward Elgar A highly sustained piece likening the soul to the snow but with the seriousness of the mood lightened by hope - unlike the snow the soul remains pure.

This Little Babe Benjamin Britten From the Ceremony of Carols this piece drives us forcefully forward into a better future through the power of the Christ Child.

Capriol Suite: Basse-Dance, Pied-en-l'air, Mattachins (Sword Dance) On I1kley Moor

SWINDON YOUNG MUSICIANS' JUNIOR STRINGS Gymnopedie

Peter Warlock. arr. Donald Cheeseman

. Yorkshire Trad. , arr. Colin Fanshawe Wakefield District College Brass Ensemble is a quintet of young men and women all of whom are students at the college on the two year course leading to "I\.'

Level. All, except Steven, are hoping to progress to music colleges and develop a career in music eventually. They all take part in the college's big band and perform regularly within the college and at concerts, mainly locally. The euphonium player Stephen Stockwell is the one year younger than his sister the horn player - Susanne - one can assume a degree of family competition perhaps! Susanne has already secured her place at the music department of Sheffield University. The quintet are joined on this Albert Hall occasion by a percussionist - Amy Outhwaite - a main-line violin student but she can turn her hand to percussion quite easily being an exceptional musician.

WAKEFlELD DISTRICT COLLEGE BRASS ENSEMBLE

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WIGAN YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA

WIRRAL SCHOOLS' CONCERT BAND

Conductor: Zoltan Lukacs

Musical Director: Ian Darrington Soloist: Eric Delaney

Conductor: David Straughan

Dances of Galanta (part)

arr. ]. Higgins The Wirral Schools' Concert Band is an area band comprising young musicians from seventeen local schools and is administered by Wirral Borough Council.

Woking Sinfonietta was formed in 1986 to give the music students of Woking College opportunities to play in instrumental ensembles which would stretch the best players, while not overtaxing any member.

Coconut Champagne Eric Delaney Medley

Denis di Blasio, arr. lan Darrington arr. Paul Mitchell Davidson

This award-winning orchestra was formed eleven years ago by the Wigan Metropolitan Borough with the aim of introducing its more advanced students 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.

In 1977, lan Darrington took over as musical director.

Under his experienced leadership the band's reputation grew quickly and is now in such great demand that lan's duties are now virtually fuIl time.

Since 1980, they have toured both the USA and Hong Kong, where they were Britain's sole representatives in an International Arts Festival. This was followed by a British tour, appearances at the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. the National Festival of Music for Youth, the Schools Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, a sixteen-day participation at the Edinburgh Festival and over two hundred and fifty concerts.

Artists with whom lan and the orchestra have appeared include Don Lusher, Kenny Baker, Bobby Shew, Georgie Fame, Barbara Thompson, Marian Montgomery, Eric Delaney, Maynard Ferguson, Elaine Delmar, Humphrey Lyttelton, Alan Price and the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Since September 1985 the orchestra have released two albums, "Steaming Jazz" and 'The Lion and the Dragon".

In July this year they travelled to Hungary on a tenday tour where they performed seven concerts. The orchestra travelled from Hungary to Aberdeen to make their third appearance at the International Youth Festival.

On returning from Aberdeen the orchestra recorded their third album with American trumpet player Bobby Shew as guest artist. Titled "Aim for the Heart" it will be released in December.

The Beatles: Echoes of an Era

Since its formation in September 1983 and its first performance at the International Garden Festival.

Liverpool. the band has played in Manchester, Beaumaris Castle, Caernarvon Castle and Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall as well as many more local venues on the Wirral. The band's performances are often for charity and over the years it has helped raise thousands of pounds, recent examples being the Children in Need Appeal and the United Nations' Refugee Appeal.

Highlights of the band's programme this year have been the making of its first cassette recording, the receiving of the Highly Commended Performance Award at the National Festival of Music for Youth and its first visit abroad, to Denmark during August.

The Beatles: Echoes of an Era

arr. J. Higgins

It was as part of its repertoire in Denmark that the band played tonight's musical presentation, "The Beatles: Echoes of an Era" and at all concerts, including the Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, this musical number was the most enthusiastically received.

The Wirral Band representing Merseyside in tonight's concert is proud to present twelve of John, Paul.

George and Ringe's hits from the sixties. Can you identify all twelve songs?

Zoltim Kodaly

Choosing the works needs great care. The Sinfonietta's conductor, Zoltan Lukacs, has a preference for twentieth century music and it was a definite policy to familiarise the students with the music of their own century. Works by Messiaen, Jolivet and Martinu have been performed this year a.nd next year's plans include concertos by Stravinsky, Bartok and Nielsen, The absence of vital instruments (e.g. the french horn) amongst their own students prompted the decision to import a small number of friends from outside the college for the larger orchestral works, such as tonight's "Dances of Galanta" by Kodaly, Dances of Galanta (part)

Zoltim Kodaly

The "Dances of Galanta" were written for the eightieth anniversary of the Budapest Philharmonic.

In the published score, Kodaly gave the following information: "Galanta is a small Hungarian market town known to travellers between Vienna and Budapest. The composer passed there seven years of his childhood.

There existed at that time a gypsy band which has since disappeared. Their music was the first 'orchestral sonority' which came to the ears of the child. The forebears of these gypsies were known more than a hundred years ago. About 1800, some books of Hungarian dances were published in Vienna, one of which contained music 'after several gypsies from Galanta'. They have preserved the old Hungarian traditions. In order to continue it, the composer took his principal subjects from these ancient editions:' There are five dances played without interruption; although each dance is independent, thematic ideas are repeated throughout to give the work integration.

After an introduction, the first dance is played on the solo clarinet; the second more rhythmic dance, on the flute. The third dance is first heard on the solo oboe.

The fourth is a simple tune for strings, while the fifth is a passionate gypsy melody shared by violins, violas and solo flute. The coda features the first dance and a cadenza for solo clarinet,

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List of Perfor111ers BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS' CONCERT ORCHESTRA Conductor: Robert Vivian Tutors: First Violin: Heath er Doust, Second Violin: lan e de Leysin Violas: Carol Millward Cello: lean Gubbins Bass: Ann Goodborn Woodwind: /ulie Schroder Horns: Andrew Sandham Brass: fan Rae Percussion: lames lones Age range of performers: 11-18 years 1st Violins Lucinda Wright Susan Coleman (Leader) Clare Waddington Jean-Pierre Charon Basses Jo Chickwe Tracey Smith Amanda Croft Michelle de Sousa Stuart England Carolyn Holden 10 Field Helen Baxter Samantha Green Anna Trahearn Elizabeth Griffin Ayse Hassan Flutes Alison MeNeil Melanie Hart Anclrew Mason Clare Hadley )0 Mood ie Margaret More Clare Smit h Samantha Smith Flute / Piccolo Clare Lindley Andrew Sutton Natalie Toon Oboes Catherine Walsh Bridget Aldridge Anne Weston Katy Watt Emm a Westo n Sarah Black Rachel Worsley Helen Herbert 2nd Violins Clarinets Laura Armstrong Calherine O'Riordan Esther Bowles Hayley War d Jenny Butwell Sarah Edwards Louise Cooke Richard Sail Rach eJ Dyson Bassoons Katy Galbraith Sharon Davies Andrew Le Feuvre Jenny Watt David Nagle Rachel FIetcher Claire Pakes Luey Pakes French Horns Matthew Perreau James Ranford Madelin e Rea d Charmian Hubbard John Sanders Rav;nder Josh; Abigail Stephens Heather MeNaugh ton Bill Stevens Yvonne Pardon Sam Tra inor Ju lie Ada ms Rachel Vickers Trumpets Adrian Hart Violas Dominic Johnson Mandy Snowdon Reuben Yau Claire Dauncey Charlotte Hillenbrand John Gardner RacheI Swene Helen lones lan Hadley Gavin Parish Karen Parkin Trombones Tracey Pearce Eirian Pugh Ruth Stringer Neil Parker Georgina Wiggin Clare Sumpner Cellos Sarah Alam Daniel Bradley Sarah Edwards Ruth Farrar Karen Harvey Sue Harvey Imogen Hess Jenny Leigh Hetty Storey Ruth Stewart

David Nash Bass Trombone Anne Oakley Tuba Paul Lucas Percussion Guy Derrington James Harbidge Steven L10yd Lesa Kingham

"BRAVURA" VIOLIN AND VIOLA ENSEMBLE, SUTTON COLDFIELD Musical Director: Heather Doust Accompanist: Fiona Goldingay Age range of performers: 7-17 years Violins Jenny C1ark Susan Coleman Joanne Cooke Louise Cooke Helen Feltrup Simon Feltrup Helen Gornall Victoria Hadley Gavin Hurley John Lawley Lyndsay Miller Julie Nash Jenny Newman John Nock Sarah Nock Mark Pickup Estella Roberts Rachel Seed

Claire Smith Ben Smith Natalie Toon Michael Vickers Rachel Vickers Stephanie Waite Elaine Wilson Charlotte Yates Violas Jane Coleman ClairI' Dauncey Charlotte Hillenbrand Sarah Mansell Sharon Miller Anneliese Nattrass Suzanne Newton Vicki Oram Ruth Stringer

Clarinets Catherine Aldersey Lesley Howarth Jane Townend Tracy McGee Simon Hooper Emma de Sousa

Trumpets Mark Jones Marc Gee John Murphy Donna Harrison Stuart Young Claire Murphy

Bassoons Deborah Stretton Fiona Carver Emma Mawson Michael Allinson

Trombones Gareth Hodge Philip Bailey Jonathan Fox

French Horns Margaret Duffy Joanne Parish Anne-Marie D:A.more Usa McGonigle Mark Davies Carl Bibby Helen Pass

Tuba Andrew Grady Percussion Paul Islam Christopher Edwards Johanna Saunders Steven Croston Piano Duet Jonathan Middleton Kirsty Ball

COLCHESTER INSTITUTE CONCERT ORCHESTRA BURY METROPOLITAN YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Anne Moss Soloist: Bernard Robertson Age range of performers: 13-19 years 1st Violins Fiona Robertson (Leader) lames Allerton Susan Bryan Julie Das Katie Geelan Sarah Gorton Clair Holden Deborah Lord Christian Robson Sarah McAndrew Susan McGuire Laura McTague Sarah Madeley Caroline Slack Craig Stuart Helen Summers Paula Townend Nicola Whitehouse loanna Wilding 2nd Violins Anita Bansal Aruna Bansal Clair Bean Julia Coen Karen Cooke Emma Crofts Emma Dawson Alistair Fox Martine Gee Jennifer Gray Helen Greenhalgh Claire Heaton Joanne Hill Simon Kay Alison McHugh Anthony Orme Caroline Rowland

Violas Michael Bailey Hereward Brown David Gorton Elizabeth Holland Judith Kay James Lavan Cia ire Postlewaite Edward Stoddard Sean Thomas Cellos Thomas Allerton Andrew Allinson Nigel Barker Suzanne Carr Isobel Griffin Barbara Hunt Amanda Raw Gabrielle Reddington Briony Saunders Michelle Simmonds Amanda Stott Martin West Basses James Cooper HyweI Roberts Karen Mildenhall lain Hubert Flutes Claire Harold Louise Healey Sian Price Lucy Mansfield Helen Morris

Conductor: Glyn Parfitt Soloist: Elenid Owen Age range of performers: 16-22 years 1st Violins James Hutchings (Leader) Maria Cassidy Sarah Edwards Susanne Esdell Richard Langley Diane Lysenico Dawn Nicholls Lara Pearson Alison White Julia Whitehouse 2nd Violins Helen Rattray Alien Elizabeth Anderton Wendy Blythe Raymond Chinn Anna Hallett Matthew Lee Ruth Metcalfe Robert Peoples Sarah Jane Stinton Christine Wilson Violas Ruth Attwood Judith Ayre Helen Blanthorn Julia Cotgreave Rebecca Nye Jon Simmons

Basses Peta Anderson Janet Cropton Sam Edwards Flutes Bruce Martin Paul Baterham Clarinets Jeannie Downes Sarah Beagley Oboe Philip Harmer Joanne Perkins Bassoons Helen Dove Kerry Williams French Horn Martin Childs Mark Staplehurst Trumpets Clare Duncan Aneel Soomary Timpani Christopher Price

Cellos Andrew Delaney AilIeen Hughes GabrieI Rochford Jennifer Turner

Oboes Nicola Cox Simon Lees Clare Mawson Julia Wilson

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List of Perfor1l1ers CORNWALL JEAL QUINTET LONDON Musical Director: Sheila Nelson Age range of performers: 9-13 years Violin 1 Lucy Jeal Violin 2 Rebecca EIton

Cello 1 Adrian Brendel Cello 2 Sheida Davis

Viola Rachel Atkinson

FLAT PAVAN, GLASGOW Musical Director: Richard Tedstone Tutor: Jennifer Hill Age range of performers: 11-21 years Rosina Ahmad Caroline Davidson Sally Jacobs Harriet Jones Angela Love Linda Love Kirsteen McCue

Victoria Morton lmogen Preston Graeme Simpson Jim Smiley Mary Ann Tedstone Jennifer Tedstone

DAVIS QUARTET, LONDON Musical Director: Sheila Nelson Age range of performers: 15-16 years Violin 1 Viola Farhad Davis David Lasserson Violin 2 Cello John Daly Jethro Herberg

THE DIANA KIVERSTEIN, SINGERS, KINGSBURY Musical Director: Diana Kiverstein Accompanist: Trevor Hughes Choreography: Janet Hart, Irene Jones President: Douglas Coombes Age range of performers: 12-21 years Holly Bennett Sarah Callaghan Chung Chan Susan Ch an Caroline Drummond Susie Drummond Heidi Ellis Emma Evans Alison Faint Sarita Fox Ninoska Georgiades Helen Gomm Melissa Grundy Sarah Hagglund Michelle Hammond Tania Harper Lisa Harris Pauline Hart Michelle Hind Anita Hotwani Lisa Hughes Judy Hulme

Dominique James Jacqui James Lynda Johnson Andrea Judelson Marianna Kyriacou Sarah Lawrence Sarah Jane Lokey Jayne Maddocks Dawn Maddocks Karen Mash Jayne Morgan Mandy Neal Laura O'Day Emma Potter Caroline Robinson Ann Sillery Cia ire Sillery Helen Smith Julie Vassiliou Marie Vassiliou Sarah White Helen Sparks

DONCASTER YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Musical Director: John El/is Soloists: Andy Gurnhil/, Mark Kerrigan, Simon Lockwood, Mark White, Jonathan White Associate Director: Philip Gibbons Age range of performers: 14-21 years Flute Karen Winks Saxophones Jane Daniels Kate Hemsworth lan Jenkins Paul Long Trumpets David Ashwood Damian Bell Carl LeVoguer Andrew Sellars

Trombones Robert Bear Step hen Cook Jonathan Grocock

FOUR BY FOUR, EDLINGTON Tutor: Mark Hird Age range of performers: 15-19 years Percussion / Bass Trombone Jonathan Grocock Piano John Meares Bass Guitar Kathryn Tanfield Drums Richard Nettleship

Alto Saxophone Alison Moyes Trumpet Helen Taylor Clarinet Helena Threadgold Trombone NeilDossor

GUILDHALL SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND DRAMA JUNIOR BRASS BAND, LONDON Conductor: John Clark Soloist: Rosalind Hall Age range of performers: 13-19 years Cornets K. Adshead M. Baker N. Betts P. Brown M. Down G. Lewis M. Maguire G. Moorhouse K. Nott G. Page M. Rooke A. Robinson

Trombones M . Kennedy A. Newman A. Sulston K. Webb Tubas J. Bailey A. Graham A. Hobbs S. Matthew S. Gregory

Horns K. Cotton K. Davies C. Pollendine

A. Bending C. James K. Waterman G. Will cox

Percussion

J. Applewhite

Euphonium / Baritones D. Darley S. Down M . Kearsey A. Nelson M. Wheatley

GRAMPIAN SCHOOLS' PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Musical Director: Ron Forbes Age range of performers: 13-18 years Louise Allardyce Patricia Allardyce Rebecca Ellis John Gurney Lisa Nicol

Andrew Paterson Becky Seddon William Taylor Keith Thomson

GREENPARK TRADITIONAL GROUP, ARMAGH Musical Director: Eithne Vallely Age range of performers: 15-18 years Fiddle Thomas Smith

Bodhran Niall Oates

Concertina Niall Vallely

Tin Whistles Edward Donnelly

Flute Donna Donnelly

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List of Perfor1lJers HAMPSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA Conductor: Edgar Holmes Soloists: The Barbican Piano Trio SECTION COACHES - First Violin: loan Schmeising, Second Violin: David Morris, Viola: Timothy Griffiths, Cello: Muriel Daniels, Raland Saggs; Double Bass: Margaret Fairfax, Flute: Robin Soldan , Oboe: Geoffrey Bridge, Clarinet: lanet Herson, Bassoon: lane Maskell, Horn: Peter Kane, Trumpet: David Andrews, AnthoTlY Waller, Trombone & Tuba: Clifford Bevan, Percussion: Jack Ric:hards Age range of performers: 13-19 years 1st Violins Lucy Moll eson Lucy Gould (Leader) Elisabeth Smith Helen Arnold Cyrus Young Elizabeth Cox Autes Georgina Dark A1exandra DaJey Alison Frank OaireO'Neill Clalre Hudnott Nico1a Luckhurst Claire Lewis Piccolo GabrielIe van Neste Joanna Selman Michael Parsons Susannah Reid Oboes Sophia RendelI Laura Lanfear Elizabeth Russell Michael Grieff Elizabeth Smalley Cor Anglais Karen Smith Timothy Redmond Katherine Watts Clarinets 2nd Violins Wendy Lance Harriet Rayfield Ruth Hamilton Fiona Barrow Sarah Miller Anna Betts Jus tine Scott Sophie Blume John Byers Bassoons Nina Collins Katharine Monk Lucy Davies Christine French Robert Hansen Contra Bassoon Elizabeth Jones Lisa Scott James Murphy Timothy Parsons Harp Katherine Rockhill Julia Block Sarah Sparks Horns Michael Silk Paul Bentall Jennifer Wharton David Hepworth Simon White Julia Cater Violas Richard Nicholson Imogen Burchett John Merriam Mark Chadwick Jennifer Poxon Jane D'Costa Trumpets Nicola Haswell Richard Hammond Heather McDougall Andrew Longley Ben Melior Adrian Muckley Paul Newbury Matthew Parry-Jones Suzanne Noel Jane Parker Trombones Deborah Sprott Gareth Hepworth Adrian Ward Philip Booker Sarah Winmill Andrew Hinton Cellos Bass Trombone Amanda Berry Step hen Flatt "Kate Could Tubas Elizabeth Blackstaff Christopher Cranham Ben Buffham OliverWest Antonia Carver Louise Dearsley Timpani Catherine Laws John Melbourne Felix Marks Percussion Hilary Martin Quentin Brook Alice Neary Nigel Buchanan Sarah Norris Michael Gillett Basses Organ Simon Oliver Phi lip Walsh Clarissa Bull Mark Frampton

JUSTUS, WALSALL Age range of performers: 17 years Karen Morgan Steve Haines

THE KENNEDY KLARINETTES, ATHERSTONE Conductor: Michele Kennedy Group rehearsed by: Michele Kennedy and T Sandland Staged by: John Burton Age range of performers: 9-13 years Cast Andrew Wright REEDOLPHO: CLAROLINA: Caroline Tarpey COUNTVON CHAMULEAU: Miranda Jones OMBUSHORA: Elisabeth Harrop DUEL ATTENDANT: David Harrop Pit Orchestra Clarinet 1 Clarinet 2 Clarinet 3 Clarinet 4

Joanne Callis Joanne Bustin Katie Eaton Linda Emms

KING EDWARD VI COLLEGE SINFONIA, STOURBRIOGE Conductor: John Griswold Soloist: Mark Bebbington Age range of performers: 16-22 years 1st Violins lan Teoh Robert Bishop (Leader) Piccolo Elizabeth Bailey Helen Foster Jonathan BarwelI Oboes Vickie Cresswell Sarah Bishop Christianne Evans Fiona Bailes Karen Holden Alison Murray Cor Anglais Jane Roberts Catherine Round Mark Watson Clarinets Kirsa White lisa Careless 2nd Violins Rachael Homer Sarah Aldington Bass Clarinet Jane Alien Jane Hill Christopher Brown Helen Griffiths Bassoons Stephanie Hardwick Nigel Moore Jo-Anne Lowe Richard Whitehouse Claire Partridge Sarah Shackleton French Horns Karen Leedham Violas Fiona McKay Fiona Glassock Natalie Spencer lan Jones Jeremy Bailes Sara Jones Anne-Marie Simpson Trumpets Edward Turner David Price Robert Hewitt Cellos Andrew Hale Richard Aldington Sarah Barley lan Hackett Louise Jones David Knight Janine Smith Michelle Spencer Paula Springer Basses Tom Stanbury Malcolm Cook Katherine Bishop Flutes Heather Brown

Trombones Matthew Careless Gavin Erry Adrian Hallowell Tuba Shaun Keasey Timpani Anthony Bradbury Percussion Philip Moss Katherine Workman Lisa Waldron

THE MANCHESTER BOYS' CHOIR Director: Adrian lessett Accompanist: Kathleen Hesford Age range of performers: 9-14 years Full Choristers Associate Choristers Daniel Bath David Clough Philip Beale Patrick Cullen Christopher Bradshaw Damian Fairbrother Gareth Davies Nicholas Fox Martin Fox Joseph Hancock Martin Glynn Stuart Harris Neil Haggerty Joseph Lomas Andrew Kay Hadley Newlove Adam Kelly Jonathan Picks tone Keith Mason Benedick Wild Andrew Monument Matthew Young Jonathan Monument Reserve Peter Roberts Jonathan Beale Martin Rogers Mark O'Brien Perry Staines Alan Strathern Hugh Strathern PaulWyatt

OXFORDSHIRE YOUTH CHAMBER CHOIR Conductors: Anna Haxworth, Peter Hunt Age range of performers: IS-20 years Tenors Sopranos Nicholas Brennan Kate Allport Hester Barrington-Ward Andrew Davidson Catherine Brennan Gustavo Dean Christian Devenish Cheryl Bundell Andrew Friedhoff Melanie Horsb'rugh Stephen Gray Bethan Jarman Stephen O 'Bri!!n Rebecca Ockendon Andrew Stone Sara Peacock Simon Stranks Caroline Sacks Kate Stinchcombe Basses Ann Thomas Charles Bond Altos Alison Bonasera Lucy Friend Tracey Gillham Hetty Haxworth Zoe Howard Hannah Jago Beverley Thompson Charlotte Tomlinson

Gary Clifton Ben Devenish Richard Everitt Sam Lewens David litt Stephen Patrick Ben Sa er Jake Smith Jonathan Smith Stephen Willcox

RAOCLIFFE ROLLERS MILTON KEYNES Director: Neil Davison Soloist: loseph Servi Tutor: Richard Murphy Age range of performers: 14-18 years Tenors Double Guitar Jemma Alyn-Gaylard Sarah Birchenough Karen Burch EmmaJudd Lisa Carrington Triple Cellos Nuala Friedman Rachel Hayward Marette John Rhoda Watson Debbie Teagle Bass Karen Teagle Andrew Williams Double Tenor Kit Joseph Servi Tristan Rogers Double Seconds Timpani Annabel Caulfield Andrew Tween Stacey Henry Jennie Williams

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List of Performers STOCKPORT SCHOOLS' SENIOR BRASS BAND

SURREY COUNTY YOUTH ORCHESTRA

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Musical Director: Bob Wyatt Admin.istrator: Gill Scourfield Librarian: Dauid Hope Age range of performers: 12-18 years

Conductor: John Forster Orchestra Manager: Philip Gorman Tutors: First Violin: Aidan Massey, Second Violin: lames Richmond, Violas: Timothy Callagill:m, Cellos: Mitchell Moore, Basses: Philip Batten, Harp: Louise Martin, Flutes: Patrick Taggart, Oboes: loanna. Lees, Oarinets: Derek lones, Bassoon: Zoltan Lllkacs, French Horns: lohn Whelan, Trumpets: Philip Gorman, Trombones &: Tubas: lan Morrish, Percussion: WilIiam Kitto.

Age range of performers: 13-22 years 1st Violins David Francis Alison L10yd (Leader) Kathryn Gifford Helen Betteridge Caroline Parke Therese Carr Rachel Townsend Toby Deller Kirsten Wright Jonathan Grover Harp Suzanne Hollaway Catherine Beynon Sarah Ioannides Flutes Catherine James Katy Bircher Vanessa Jennings Jennifer Barbour Julie Nuttall Gareth Davies Kim Piper Caroline Rodgers Anita Powell Anne Scarlett Piccolo Catherine Sparshott Gareth Davies Emma Welton Oboes Jill Wilson EmmaOram 2nd Violins Klara Toth Joanna Amey Richard Ashton Katherine Bignold Rufus Kendall Kathryn Blackwell Clarinets Caelia Bryn-Jacobsen Edward Littleton Gillian Chapman Victoria Fisher EmmaOark Michael Sheppard Sarah Currier Fiona Carson Katy Daniel Bassoons Deborah EIsdon Catherine Fisher Ann Forryan Matthew Jolley Sally Haimes Ruth Lomax Michelle Heath Carol West Wendy Hinkins Joanna May French Horns Zoe Nuttall James Wakeling Elizabeth Rhodes Katy Bowers Heidi Smith Graham Jennings Jill Wilson Matthew Lawson Anna Woods Anne Ollerenshaw Violas Andrew Yelland Simon Harvey Trumpets Lucy Hill Ailsa Palmer Rosemary Macro Catherine Mowat Jane Neville Tom Wallace Lorna Powell Trombones Zoe Smale Helen Summers Duncan Reynell Lucy Yendole James Davies Andrew Jefferys Cellos Sandra Lomax Anthea Beagley Elizabeth Gilchrist Bass Trombones Lorna Gray Robert Goodhew Naomi Gray Mark Wheatley Oliver Kraus Tuba Sophia Marriage Richard Fox Elizabeth Neville C1aire Nuttall Percussion Robin Smale Sheila Nolan Greg Champion Christopher Staines Alisdair Hawkins Clare Swanson Helen Tuckwell Neil Schofield Julia Yates Michael Betteridge Basses Timpani Robert Bircher Sheila Nolan Loren Coldicott Greg Champion

Tutor: Anne Turner Age range of performers: 9-10 years Adrian Kelly Emma McAllister Timothy Jackson

Soprano Cornet Andrew Tomlinson Solo Cornets Craig Bennett Mark Cress well Debbie Dyson Gareth Flanagan Paul Holt Andrew Lawton lan Maddock Scott Shelton Repiano Cornets Andrew Liles Joanne Mellor 2nd Cornets Richard Hall Elizabeth Walker Simon Westwood KayWilks Richard Willis 3rd Cornets Janine Jacobs Simon Jones Richard Knott Richard Mason F1ugel Horns Annabelle Jardine Christopher Maddock Simon Williams French Horns Lisa Ellison Sarah Fielding Judith Flanagan Andrew Gaskell

Steven Lancaster Stuart Nutton Jason Robinson Robert Sollis Phi lip Tomlinson Baritones Philip Jones Rachel Kimber Nigel Prydderch Graham Whitfield Euphoniums Nicholas Delleman Catherine Fielding Luke Goalen Paul Greenwood Louise Kitchin Michael Little Trombones Mark Bates Ros Davies Oaire Knighton Gordon Mottershead Michael Storey Matthew Walmsley Basses Andrew Goodier Michael Jones Simon Roberts Julie Robinson Andrew Scott DavidWild Percussion David Johnson Philip Westwood

STOCKPORT SCHOOLS' STAG ESOUND Conductor: Bill Connor Age range of performers: 13-21 years Rhythm Saxophones Robert Medina Gary Cox Jonathan Evans David Williams Andrew Gill Keyboard Daniel Trueman David Bradford Laurence Williams Robin Dewhurst Trombones Drums Michael Barlow Glyn Croft Peter Boxall Simon Brocklehurst Clarinets Martin Clark Kay Browning Mark Garland Karen Crofts Trumpets Susanne James Scott Arrowsmith Gail Santana Simon Greenwood Rachel Sollis Louise Medina Flutes Anthony Royle Selina Harris Violins Lindsey Hayward VippenGill Gabi Lipshen Tamsin Harvey Sarah Trueman Karen Jenkins Cello Ruth Malone Ann Lipshen Lucy Meewezen

SWINDON YOUNG MUSICIANS' JUNIOR STRINGS Conductor: Barbara Turpin Tutors: Stewarl Attwood, Tom Morter, Barbara Turpin , Bob Weam, Reg Smith, Bernard Crooks Age range of performers: 6-13 years Soloists Joanne Sheppard Christopher Keeble Violins Bridget Aisbitt Holly Aisbitt Stephen Algieri Matthew Arnold James Banks Deborah Barnes Katie Barr Stephanie Blanchard Joanne Broome Kate Brothwell Helena Buckingham Jenny Carter Sarah Carvey Ashley Chapman Emma Craven Daniel Darwall Ladan Davarpandh Lara Davey Claire Delicata Simon Dunkley Rachel Elliott Lucy Ellis Sarah Finlay Sarah Freeman Helen Fryer Joanne Fuller Cheryl Furber Adrian Garratt Luisa Gentilcore Nicholas Gentilcore Nicola Griffiths Matthew Grubb Sharon Harwood Jenny Hawarth Jenny Heywood Graham Hick Victoria Jarvis Helen Jones Sarah Judd Susan Keates Caroline Kent Dominic Keogh Michael Keogh Lisa Knight Katie Knighton Hannah Lammin Kieran Leddy Peter Lindgren Justin Lok Rebecca Lok Sonia Mason Luisa Mower

AmyNeill Laura Norman Lindsey Orme Sarah Palmer Karen Parsons Gillian Pearsall Clare Pearson Joanne Pleasant Amanda Plumb Helen Plumb Julie Pritchard Tina Radway Toby Randall-Sly James Reed Mark Rothery Daniel Shaw Nicole Shepherd Esther Stubbs Alison Taylor Karen Taylor Jillian Thomas Catherine Tuck Stephen Tuck Hilary Watts Clare Wilson Violas Rachael Birkin Victoria Fuller Cellos Rebecca Barr Ann Budniak Fiona Cullen Annwen Ellis Caleb Evans William Geddes Brett King ZoeKing Mark Reader Sarah Winterflood Elizabeth Wolstencroft Bass Christine Lamb Percussion Alastair Marshallsay Craig Strachan

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List of Perfor11Jers TORQUAY GIRLS' GRAMMAR SCHOOL SENIOR CHOIR

WIRRAL SCHOOLS' CONCERT BAND

Conductor: Valerie Barton Accompanist: Milly Bailey Age range of performers: 13-17 years

Conductor: David Straughan Age range of performers: 11-20 years

1st Sopranos Cathy Bailey Abigail Bick Emma Childs Cheryl Dyer Jody Green Lynne Hine Rachel Kay Rebecca Lane Clare Letheridge Marie Lackyer Sharon Moran Lucy Pearce Gabrielle Plews Deidre Quinn Fionnuala Quinn Angela Walker Rebecca Ward Jenny Willingham 2nd Sopranos Vicki Armitage Tracy Beadle Amanda Boxall Helen Bretheton loe Foulds Helen Goulden Kathryn Grant Joanna Huckle Adele Kirby Rachel Lumsden Lisa McCool Marianne Mead Sara Moxham

Sarah Pappin Sharon Phillips Rebecca Robins Kathy Sauer Gillian Seldon Amelia Thomas Jo Thompson Catherine Turl Nicola Wakeman Altos Emma Bayley Emma Bickford Annabelle Burrow Debbi Christophers Lucy Densham Caroline Densham Emma Dunn Anna Gough Emma Hoadley Claire Hughes Nicola Jones Louise Knapman Delphine Knott Angela Lacke Deborah Marquand Debby Nield Joanne Radford Samantha Stayte Rebecca Tretheway Wendy Turner Katie Turpin Joanna Warner Deborah Walker

WAKEFIELD DISTRICT COLLEGE BRASS ENSEMBLE

Flutes & Piccolos Pauline Fairclough Larna Flaherty Hilary Guy Rebecca Hewitt Sandra lones Rachel Kelvington Nicola Kerr-Munslow Sarah Lewis Clare McManus Kate Magnay lanine Marchant Sally Stuart Sara Wilkes Kate Wright Clarinets Sara Camm Helen Colebourne Helen Edwards Samantha Evans }udith Giles Ruth Giles Lama Hind Holly McFallon Christopher Maxim Kate Watson Bass Clarinets Elizabeth Hewitt Lucette Truscott Oboes Rachel Adams Helen Bushby Carolyn Jones Victoria Thomas Alto Saxophone }anice Brown Jayne Livesey

Tenor Saxophone Robin Dobbs Bassoon Debbie Barr Rebecca Lince Trumpets Timothy Crab tree Paula Fowler Jonathan Hayley Stephen Jones Gaynor Laird Brian McGregor Rachel Sweet Emma Williams Horns Jenny Barr Michael Edwards Mark Lane Trombones Patrick Madden Elizabeth Mayers Peter North Fraser Watson Euphonium Andrew Magnay Tuba David Reynolds

WOKING SINFONIETTA Conductor: loltan Lukacs Coach: ]. Richmond Age range of performers: 15-19 years 1st Violins Denise Powell (Leader) Edmund Butt Jonathan Grover Katie Potter Anita Powell 2nd Violins Helen Betteridge Theresa Carr Catherine James Kim Piper Anne Scarlett Violas Lisa Betteridge }enifer Casha Alison L10yd David Turner Cellos William Butt Celia James Andrew McGowen Claire Nuttall

Oboes Claire Morley Emma Oram Clarinets Rosalind Marns Helen Tonkins Bassoons Catherine Fisher Annette Dixon Ruth Lamax French Horns James Wakeling Katie Bowers Sarah Ioanides Andrew Yelland Trumpets Ailsa Palmer Neil Muggeridge Percussion Kate Ingram Jonathan Savage

Basses Robert Bircher Kate Brimstead Flutes Tracey Tonkins Katy Bircher

Double Bass Mark Starling Percussion Claire Magnay Claire Rogers Sarah Williams

Tutor: L. Hepplestone Age range of performers: 17-18 years Andrew Roe Nicola Haigh Susanne Stockwell

Helen Gill Steven Stock well Amy Outhwaite

WIGAN YOUTH JAZZ ORCHESTRA Musical Director: Ian Darrington Soloist: Eric Delaney Assistant: Paul Walker Age range of performers: 15-20 years Trumpets Andrea Connell Moira Green David Hitchen Rupert Gill Martin Malcolm Melling Sharon Pennington

Saxopho nes Amanda Darrington Nige l Hailwood David Humphreys Ma tthew Leaver Sheila Mason Gareth Robinson

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