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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