Schools Prom 1997

ROYAL ALBERT HALL

3-4-5 November 1997

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BACK COVER

Larry Westland CBE Pippa Cleeve Richard Butler Adrian Evans Alex Hearson HazelShaw

MUSIC FOR YOUTH DIRECTORS:

Geoffrey Potter, Chairman (Glaxo Wellcome) Dr. Phi lip Brown (PJB Publications Ltd) James Coppock (Music Industries Association) Andrew Finch (WH Smith) Keith Grant (Commercial Union) John Ladbrook (TES The Times Educational Supplement) Nicholas Mann (British Aerospace) Larry Westland CBE, Executive Director

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and supported by Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music Department for Education and Employment Department of Education for Northern Ireland Music Industries Association National Union of Teachers Trinity College London

Programme design by Julia Colwill Photographs by Andy Rowes Pianos and Cltlvinova kindly supplied by Yamaba-Ke71lble Music (UK) Ltd PC1'ctlSSio17 inst1"ll7llents kindly supplied by Premier Percussion and Impact Pel'cussion Amplificntion kindly supplied by Petel" Webbel' Hire Limited Adiemus scores kindly supplied by Boosey & Hawkes

MUSIC FOR 楼"OUTH is a charity Radio Presentation by BBC Radio 2

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sponsored and directed by BRITISH AEROSPACE, COMMERCIAL UNION, GLAXO WELLCOME, PJB PUBLICA TlONS and THE W H SMITH GROUP, in association with TES The Times Educational Supplement and supported by the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, Department for Education and Employment, Department of Education for Northern Ireland, Music Industries Association, National Union of Teachers and Trinity College London.

Support is also received from the Friends of Music for Youth (see list on back cover).

This year's Schools Prom is being recorded by Music for Youth. If you would like a cassette or CD of any evening's concert, please see page 37 for details.

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"Music for Youth inspires many thousands of young musicians every year to get involved in music of all kinds."

PHIL COLLINS

"Music for Youth has a distinguished record offocusing public attention on the vital issue of music education in this country." SIR SIMON RArrLE ''After one night of the Schools Prom you go home convinced - as I have been for years - that the next generation is more generous and talented than ours and far better equipped to drive our grubby planet through the car-wash of the future."

RICHARD STILGOE

Brass, blues, ceilidh and swing bands, marching bands, gospel, orchestral and folk - the richness and originality of music in Britain's schools continues to flourish. That it does so is due to the excellence of the teachers who foster its development and the commitment of the head teachers and local authorities who make it all possible. We hope that tonight's concert will show how that excellence can bring immeasurable benefits to the young people of this country.

This year over 40,000 young musicians, singers and dancers have performed in our nationwide series of auditions, festivals and concerts. Such is the growth in the numbers wishing to take part in these events that we are creating two new national festivals in 1998. In June and July next year the Bridgewater Hall and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Symphony Hall and the Conservatoire in Birmingham and the South Bank in London will ring to the sounds of up to twenty thousand young musicmakers.

The continuing development of our national framework of festivals and concerts is due in no small measure to the major funding we receive from our sponsors and supporters. Sadly, in 1997 we come to the end of a long and fruitful partnership with two of these sponsors - W H Smith and British Aerospace. This introduction gives me the opportunity to say a heartfelt thank

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you to both of these companies and their wonde.rful staff for their leading role in the success of music education in British schools.

We are delighted to announce that The Times Educational Supplement has decided to become a major sponsor in 1998. This, combined with additional financial backing from Anglian Water, the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, the National Union of Teachers, Trinity College London and Unison, will ensure Music for Youth's future well into the new millennium. We should like also to our existing sponsors thank Commercial Union, Glaxo Wellcome and PJB Publications for keeping faith with our cause and for support that amounts to far more than just money.

I would like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the untiring efforts of the National Union of Teachers in their campaign to keep music alive in our schools. They have been enormously effective in focusing public attention on the inroads that have been made into the provision of instrumental teaching over the past fifteen years.

Finally we should like to thank all the parents, teachers, music organisers and others who combine to make Britain's young musicians the envy of the world.

LARRY WESTLAND CBE DIRECTOR, MUSIC FOR YOUTH

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Serving the community is also the objective of our arts sponsorship programme, which aims to encourage the creation, performance and display of diverse and enlightening works, and to support innovative educational opportunities for young people.

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over 40,000 young perfonners from all over the country who take part in our series of festivals and concerts. The standard of music-making in our schools is the envy of the world and, through participation in all types of ensembles, bands, choirs and orchestras, young people learn to work together. The study of music provides them with a firm foundation for creativity, self-discipline, constructive thought and self-esteem, qualities essential to both personal and business life.

We are expanding our activities, to keep up with the demand from schools and music centres, by launching two new four-day Festivals: one on 23-26 June 1998 at Symphony Hall and the Conservatoire in Birmingham and the other on 14-17 July 1998 at the Bridgewater Hall and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. We are looking for sponsors and patrons for these events as well as support for the Music for Youth annual programme.

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NATIONAL UNION OF TEACHERS CAMPAIGNING FOR: • universal nursery education, available for every 3 and 4 year old whose parents want it; • improved safety and security for pupils and teachers in all schools; • smaller classes to ensure that children receive the individual attention they need; !r~~~ •

guaranteed support for pupils with special educational needs;

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SCHOOLS PROMS PERSONALITIES

Bob Holness, Presenter. Thirty-six years after making his television debut as host of Granada TV's early game shows, 'Take A Letter' and 'Junior Criss-Cross Quiz', Bob Holness is known to an average audience of some 12 million yjewers as host of Central TV's runaway success, 'Blockbusters'. Bob's special rapport with his eager young competitors and the consistently cliff-hanging intelligent nature of the show have twice won 'Blockbusters' the TV Times Readers' Favourite Game Show Award and five British Academy Award nominations for Best Children's Programme. After presenting the prime-time ITV show 'Raise the Roof' last autumn, Bob has changed channels and can now be seen on BBCl hosting a new daily version of one of Britain's ' most-loved panel games, 'Call My Bluff'. He has most recently been heard on Radio Two's 'Bob Holness and Friends', which featured a wealth of celebrity guests from the world of theatre and music and, to top it all, Bob's is one of the best known voices on BBC World Service, for whom he has worked, every week, since the mid '60s.

His enormously popular show, 'Anything Goes', which is transmitted three times a week, is now in its 21st year.

Antony Hopkins CBE, Guest Conductor, thinks he deserves a place in the Guinness Book of Records for hayjng conducted Land ofHope and Glory in the Royal A1bert Hall more times than anybody else; he has done it at every single Schools Prom, which means 90 times (counting encores as a half!).

Even a stroke in 1996 failed to halt the sequence and although still a little wobbly on his feet he is proud to be with you all yet again this year.

Recently he went on a cruise as far as Spitzbergen giyjng a few talks to the passengers; north of the Arctic Circle people were sunba thing on deck in a temperature of over 70 degrees (it was raining and miserable in England at the time!).

Composer, conductor, author and broadcaster he may be, but he still regards the Schools Proms as the highlight of his year.

Richard Stilgoe, Presenter, lives

ABOVE FROM TOP: BOB HOLNESS, ANTONY HOPKINS RICHARD STILGOE, LARRY WESTLAND', KARL ]ENKINS.

in Surrey (where he was born) and has five children. He writes musicals, runs The Orpheus Trust, builds houses, plays cricket and sails his boat. He was brought up in Liverpool, and progressed from St. Agnes' Church Choir through the Cavern Club to the Cambridge Footlights. Several spells singing his songs in London night-clubs led to appearances on the Today programme in the '60s, and thence to BBCl's Nationwide and That's Life, and several

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series of his own. Andrew L1oyd-Webber then invited him to write lyrics. He continues to make radio programmes and his New York Gold Award, three Monte Carlo Prizes and Prix Italia are unmatched in broadcasting.

In the last year he has performed for the Rothschild family and Her Majesty the Queen, played cricket on Goodwin Sands, conducted children's choirs at the Barbican, the Royal Festival Hall and the Royal A1bert Hall and passed his 100th appearance on Countdown.

This year he and Peter Skellern play 63 concerts throughout the UK and Ireland, and the Orpheus Trust will finish building its new arts centre for disabled people. Schools continue to perform his musical 'Brilliant the Dinosaur'.

'Cats', 'Starlight Express' and 'Phantom of the Opera', all of which contain his lyrics, keep playing all over the world. 'Cats' and 'Starliuht b Express' are now the longest and second-Ionu-cst b running shows in British theatre history.

Larry Westland CBE, Founder and Executive Director of Music for Youth, has directed and produced the Schools Prom concerts since their inception in 1975 . He is widely respected for his work with young musicians and was awarded the CBE in 1991 for his semces to music and education. Music for Youth's National Festival and Schools Prom are the largest and most successful events of their kind in Europe. They greatly enhance the musical life of the United Kingdom and are widely acclaimed throughout the world. Larry is involved in many other spheres of arts actiyjty for young people. In April 1996, he - along with BT - launched BT Dance '96, a national celebration of youth and dance. This highly successful project is now in its third year. At present he is busily looking for funding for a national competition to promote and develop music theatre in schools.

Karl Jenkins,

Guest Conductor, was born in 1944 in Penclawdd, a small yjlIage on the Gower Peninsula, South Wales, of mixed Welsh and Swedish parentage. Karl draws on a wide range of musical training and experience.

After a classical training at Cardiff University and the Royal Academy of Music, he went on to work as a jazz musician, with Nucleus and Ronnie Scott amongst others. In the 1970s he was a member of the progressive band Soft Machine.

His albums 'Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary', 'Adiemus IT - Cantata Mundi' and 'Diamond Music' have achieved outstanding success throughout the world.

HIGH WYCOMBE MUSIC CENTRE CONCERT BAND Musical Director & Conductor: John Davie & Simon Davie Age range of performers: 13-18 years FANFARE AND NATIONAL ANTHEM AMACKERETH ORIENT EXPRESS PHILIP SPARKE BARNARD CASTLE GaFF RICHARDS

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ST MARY'S GOSPEL CHOIR, LONDON Musical Director: Christopher Turner Conductor: Jennifer Layne Age range of performers: 9-11 years WHAT'S THE MEANING OF LIFE? C TuRNER TEACH ME TO DANCE

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ARR TuRNER/LAYNE FREEDOM TRAD COME ON ALL CHILDREN UNYQUIST FOR UNICEF You ARE MY BROTHER SHEILA WILSON

HILLS ROAD VI FORM COLLEGE BRASS QUINTET, CAMBRIDGE Musical Director: Age range of performers: SMALL TALK CHANSON DE MATIN

MONDAY

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Witli Wfltson 18-19years

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LONGLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL, SHEFFIELD Musical DirectorlConductor: Virginia White Age range of performers: 8-11 years COLOUR:

LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY j!,and o~ J-lope and Ljlo'l'f, /ltothe'l o~ the ~'lee, J-lOhJ shall hJe extol thee, hJho a'le bO'ln o~ thee?

WLde'l sull and hJLde'l shall th'f bounds be set; Ljod hJho made thee mL'jht'f' make thee mL'jhtLe'l 'fet, Ljod hJho made thee mL'jht'f' make thee mL'jhue'l 'fet.

THE CHILDREN OF LONGLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL MONOTONOUS GREY K BARKER, L WINGLE, J LlNDLEY, H STUART, S ELus YELLOW NJONES, K BARKER, M WILD COOL BLUE C POULTER, J LlNDLEY, CGROSSETT RED THE P ERCUSSION GROUP

COFFEY QUARTET, BELFAST Philip Davies 17-18 years STRING QUART ET IN F MAJOR Op 96: ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO DvolUK Musical Director: Age range of performers:

WARDLE HIGH SCHOOL YEAR 8 BRASS BAND, ROCHDALE Musical Director: Jonathan Peacock Age range of performers: 12-13 years MUSIC FOR THE ROYAL FIREWORKS: RE]OUISSANCE HANDEL, ARR WRlGHT LONDONDERRY AIR TRAD, ARRJABOWSKl CARMICHAEL & GEORGIA ON My MIND GORRELL, ARR MORRIS ON LORD OF THE DANCE TRAD, ARR BROADBENT

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH BIG BAND Musical DirectorlConductor:Richard Baker Age range of performers: 15-19 years IMPRESSIONS

JOHN COLTRANE, ARR MARK TAYLOR

GRANADA SMOOTIllE

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RIDING MILL FIDDLERS, NORTHUMBERLAND Musical Director: Age range of performers:

Magdalena Reid 11-17 years

POLSKA FROM STENSELE, SWEDEN ARR F PATTERSON ARR F CHARLTON ROWAN TREE KING OF THE FAIRIES ARRDHoBBS/ RIDING MILL FIDDLERS SPOOTISKERRY ARR RIDING MILL FIDDLERS DALAIGH'S POLKA ARR RIDING MILL FIDDLERS

SOUTH HAMPSTEAD STUDIO CHOIR, LONDON Musical Director/Conductor: Diana Kiverstein Age range of performers: 11-13 years TELL ME THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE EDWARDKAy OUR DOG ANDREW PARMLEY

NKS JAZZ, KENT Musical Director: Age range of performers:

John R Hall 15-17 years

WAY DOWN YONDER IN NEW ORLEANS CREAMER AND LAYTON CREOLE LOVE CALL DUKE ELLINGTON TIGER RAG LA ROCCA/SHIELDS

BERKSHIRE YOUTH ORCHESTRA Musical Director/Conductor: Robert Roscoe Age range of performers: 14-18 years CANDIDE: OVERTURE LEONARD BERNSTEIN WEST SIDE STORY: LEONARD BERNSTElN EXTRACTS FROM SYMPHONIC DANCES POMP & CrRCUMSTANCEMARcHNo. 1: 'LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY' ELGAR

Smoking is not allowed in the auditorium.

The use oftape recorders is strictly forbidden.

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PROGRAMME mGH WYCOMBE MUSIC CENTRECONCERTBAND Musical Director & Conductor: John Davie & Simon Davie 13-18 years

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he High Wycombe Music Centre Concert Band is the most senior of the music centre's

six wind bands and was founded by John Davie in 1969. Rehearsals take place on Friday evenings during the school term. It had the distinction of opening the first ever Schools Prom at the Royal Albert Hall in 1975. The Band has made some thirteen appearances at the National Festival of Music for Youth the last being in July 1997 when they won the Outstanding Performance Award for their category. The Band has made a number of overseas tours, the most recent to Sweden in 1994, and also performs in many venues in and

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he first piece, Orient Express, describes a trip on the famous luxury train that runs from London to Venice, starting amidst the hubbub of London's Victoria Station. The music subsides as the guard blows his whisde and the enormous

engine starts rolling. At last the train is underway, hurtling across the European countryside. A slower central section gives the passenger time to think about home, but the relendess journey continues, eventually slowing to a halt as the train reaches its destination. Barnard Castle describes the charms of the picturesque town of the same name in County Durham, in the North of

around the High Wycombe area, raising large sums of money for local charities.

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ST MARY'S GOSPEL CHOIR, LONDON

t\ 11 the members of this choir are pupils at St L"U1ary's Church of England Primary School

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Musical Director: Christopher Turner Conductor: Jennifer Layne Age range of performers: 9-11 years WHAT'S THE MEANING OF LIFE? C TuRNER TEACH ME TO DANCE G KENDRICK,

in Willesden, North West London. The Gospel Choir was founded in 1994 by Christopher Turner, the school's music teacher, and rehearses

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HILLS ROAD VI FORM COLLEGE BRASS QUINTET, CAMBRIDGE Musical Director: Age range of performers: SMALL TALK CHANSON DE MATIN SIXTEEN TONS

Willi Watson 18-19years

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after school. The Gospel Choir exists to praise God and celebrate the presence of his love in our lives. The choir sings regularly at St Mary's Church in Willesden and has recendy performed for the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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he Hills Road Brass Quintet was formed in 1995 when all five players began their A Level studies at Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge. It includes two principal players from the National Youth Orchestra in addition to three

Cambridgeshire County Youth Orchestra players.

The players have recendy embarked on undergraduate studies, three at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and two at Oxford University.

Hills Road enjoys a thriving musical life and

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raditional Afro-American and Caribbean Gospel music are their musical starting points, but the repertoire of the choir reflects contemporary Christian composers as well. They have selected a medley of some of their favourite songs to share with you tonight. Movement and choreography are a standard feature of modern adult gospel choirs, helping to feel the music and express the meaning of the words, and as such are an important part of their performance.

mall Talk by American horn player and composer Lowell Shaw is a tighdy written jazz piece demanding style and rhythmic precision . Roger Harvey's skilful arrangement of Chanson de Matin presents the work in vivid and refreshing new colours. Sixteen Tons is a fun arrangement of 'Tennessee' Ernie Ford's 1955

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No 1 hit, allowing the group to 'let their hair down'!

members of the Quintet recendy gave four concerts in the Czech Republic, together with the College Chamber Choir and Chamber Orchestra.

LONGLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL, SHEFFIELD Musical Director/Conductor: Age range of performers: COLOUR:

Virginia White 8-11 years

THE CHILDREN OF LONGLEY PRIMARY SCHOOL MONOTONOUS GREY K BARKER, L WINGLE, J LINDLEY, H STUART, S ELLIS YELLOW NJONES, K BARKER, M WILD COOL ELUE C POULTER, J LINDLEY, CGROSSETT RED THE PERCUSSION GROUP

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he children performing in the 'Colour Project' are drawn from the junior classes at Longley Primary School, Sheffield. This innerciry school has limited resources, but encourages composing and devising through class music, workshops and singing clubs. The school has performed in the National Festival of Music for Youth in London for six consecutive years, and has been presented with two Highly Commended Performance Awards.

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he music was written and devised by the children during class music and music club time. Poems written by Year 5 children were the inspiration for the work. The score for Grey was composed during Year 6 topic on the body, concentrating on the everyday monotonous rhythms and movements of the body. Music for Red sprang from the same topic. Yellow developed from investigations into 3 beats in a bar and Cool Blue out of class work on 'Hot and Cold' and 'Weather' topics. All the colours fight for supremacy. The piece ends by acknowledging the equal importance of each colour.

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PROGRAMME COFFEY QUARTET, BELFAST Philip Davies 17-18 years STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR Op 96: ALLEGRO MA NON TROPPO DVOMK

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WARDLE HIGH SCHOOL YEAR 8 BRASS BAND, ROCHDALE Musical Director: Jonathan Peacock Age range of performers: 12-13 years MUSIC FOR THE ROYAL FIREWORKS: HANDEL, ARR WRlGHT RE]OUISSANCE LONDONDERRY AIR TRAD, ARRJABOWSKI GEORGIA ON My MIND CARMICHAEL & GORRELL, ARR MORRlSON LORD OF THE DANCE TRAD, ARR BROADBENT

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH BIG BAND Musical Director/Conductor: Age range of performers:

Richard Baker 15-19 years

IMPRESSIONS JOHN COLTRANE, ARR MARK TAYLOR GRANADA SMOOTHIE MARK TAYLOR

RIDING MILL FIDDLERS, NORTHUMBERLAND Musical Director: Age range of performers:

Magdalena Reid 11-17 years

POLSKA FROM STENSELE, SWEDEN ARR F PATTERSON ROWAN TREE ARR F CHARLTON KING OF THE FAIRIES ARR D HOBBS/RiDING MILL FIDDLERS SPOOTISKERRY ARR RiDING MILL FIDDLERS DALAIGH'S POLKA

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he City of Belfast School of Music provides a range of bands, choirs and orchestras for students of differing ages and stages of musical development.

Chamber music study opportunities are provided in addition for some students. The Coffey String Quartet is the most senior of the present quartets. Its members are principals in the City of Belfast Youth Orchestra.

The quartet rehearses weekly and has a busy schedule of performances.

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ardle High School is situated at the foot of the Lancashire Pennines about two miles east of Rochdale. The School opened in September 1977. By Christmas 1977 a' band of forty beginners aged eleven, were performing in concerts. From these small beginnings a tradition of brass bands has grown within the school. At Wardle High School every pupil is given the opportunity to learn to play a musical instrument; a policy devised by the first Headteacher Mr William Anderson. This level of participation means that today there is a brass band in each year group - plus two wind bands, orchestra, two bigbands and woodwind ensembles - which adds up to twelve major bands and involves over 500 players.

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orthamptonshire County Youth Big Band is the most senior of three jazz ensembles provided by Northamptonshire Music Service.

The band has achieved much since it was founded. Last year was particularly successful when, under the direction of their previous conductor John Long, they earned the top awards in the Boosey and Hawkes Competition, the BBC Big Band Competition Gunior Section) and the National Festival of Music for Youth. The band rehearses once a week and most of the musicians are members of at least one other County Group.

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ll tunes in tonight's performance are traditional. The group's tutor who is Swedish has introduced the fiddlers to Scandinavian fiddle music and this has become an exciting feature of their repertoire. The first tune is a polska dance from Sweden and the second set features two British tunes in Northumberland arrangements. The third set is the Riding Mill Fiddlers' own arrangement of a Shetland reel and an Irish polka.

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he Riding Mill Fiddlers come from Tynedale in Northumberland. The group, which was formed five years ago, consists of five fiddle players and is known for its rich fiddle sound, its unusual repertoire of British and Scandinavian folk music and its successful arrangements for fiddles on their own. The group has performed at many local events including the Rothbury Festival, Folkworks Concerts and for BBC Radio Scotland.

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he American Quartet Op 96 was written by Dvorak during a stay in the United States.

It was first performed in 1893, about the same time as the Ninth Symphony 'From the New World'.

It displays a mixture of American and Slavonic styles in music.

ritten in 1749, Music for the Royal Fireworks was first performed in Green

Park, London and is a joyous opening to the programme. The Londonderry Air, a popular traditional Irish Air, features the Euphonium section, and explores the warm sonorities of the lower end of the brass band. Georgia On My Mind is a favourite Jazz standard, covered by artists as diverse as Thomas 'Fats' Wailer and Ray Charles.

Thought to be an old shape-note melody from The Shaker Faith, Simple Gifts (or Lord of the Dance) provides an up-tempo and noisy finale to the programme.

ohn Coltrane was one of the greatest saxophonists of all time and the modal composition Impressions is one of his most famous tunes. This arrangement features Stephen Burnley as the tenor soloist. Granada Smoothie is a lively samba involving improvised solos.

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PROGRAMME SOUTH HAMPSTEAD STUDIO CHOIR, LONDON Musical Director/Conductor: Diana Kiverstein Age range of performers: 11-13 years TELL ME THE TRUTH ABoUT LOVE EOWARO/{Ay ANDREW PARMLEY

OUR DOG

NKSJAZZ, KENT John R Hall 15-17 years

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ell Me The Truth About Love is a new composition written for the choir by the Director of Music, Edward Kay. It gives the choir

throughout the Junior and Senior Schools.

The girls have sung on radio and television, and have performed successfully in many major competitions, as well as singing in many concerts for charities. The senior choirs had a thrilling concert tour to America and are now trying to save up for another trip abroad.

a chance to really communicate with the audience in expressing some amusing ideas about love. Our Dog has been composed for the choir by Andrew Parmley especially for the Schools Prom where it will have its first performance.

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is the senior jazz band from the Knatchbull School in Ashford,

Kent and its members have been playing together for about two years. Past bands from the school have played at Schools Proms on five previous occasions. The present band has appeared on BBCl and BBC2 Television, national radio, local radio and at many other high-profile concerts.

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he Berkshire Youth Orchestra provides rehearsal and performing experience at the highest level for the most able string, wind, brass and percussion players in Berkshire. Members of the Orchestra are drawn from all parts of the

County and are usually aged between 14 and 18 years. Students attend their respective Area Music Centres each week and come together during holiday periods for intensive 3-day courses. In July the Orchestra was awarded the Outstanding Performance Award for their performance of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite and have been invited to take part in the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Banff, Canada next Easter.

he programme tonight is chosen from the band's extensive repertoire of traditional

jazz numbers and gives plenty of solo opportunities for each band member. The chorus and solos are all improvised, making each performance unique. The band hopes that you enjoy the lively performance which - they hope is keeping the New Orleans tradition very much alive.

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he overture to the comic operetta, Candide, based on Voltaire's book and adapted by Lillian Hellman, had its first concert performance by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of the composer on 26 January 1957. The extracts from West Side Story begin

with Somewhere (Adagio), a dream ballet in which the two gangs er ets and Sharks) are united in friendship. The Scherzo (Vivace e leggiero) which follows continues the same dream and the gangs break away from the city walls, suddenly finding themselves in a playful world of space, air and sun.

In Mambo (Meno Presto) the gangs are in the real world again, fighting each other in a competitive dance at the gym.

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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

flat." In that same year, the march was played at a London Promenade concert conducted by Henry Wood. The march was indeed a knock-out, the audience calling for three encores.

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Musical Director: Age range of performers: BIRDLAND

JSS JUNIOR ENSEMBLE, SUSSEX Musical Director: Jan Spooner-Swabey Choreographer: Keryie Vickers Piano: Julie Windwood Drums: Hayley Cramer 6-14 years Age range of performers: THE WIZ

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Age of performers:

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J ZAWINUL, ARRJ HIGGINS W DONALDSON/ G KAHN, ARR D WOLPE WOODCHOPPERS' BALL J BISHOP/ W HERMAN, ARR G OSSER

MAKIN' WHOOPEE!

ST JOHN'S COMPREHENSIVE SCHOOL SENIOR PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE, KENT Musical Director: John Warwick Stone Age range of performers: 12-18 years DRUMMING PART 4 STEVE REiCH

SMITHILLS SYMPHONIC WIND BAND, BOLTON Musical Director: Christopher Wormald Age range of performers: 11-18 years AJAMES BOND FANTASY VARIOUS, ARR WORMALD

Musical Director/Conductor: Tony Lloyd Age range of performers: 9-12 years A SELECTION OF DANCE TuNEs AND AIRS ARR TONY LwYD

Age range of performers:

SEA IMAGE (PADDY MALONE)

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LONDON FUSION ORCHESTRA 17-20years JOEZAWINUL

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THE TOM ARTHURS QUINTET, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Age range of performers: ONE FOOT WRONG

LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY

15-18 years TOMARTHURS

EGGLESCLIFFE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA, STOCKTON-ONTEES

SURREY HEATH YOUTH ORCHESTRA Musical Director/Conductor: Age range of performers: RADETZKY MARCH

Paul Hams 11-19 years

JOHANN STRAUSS

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PROGRAMME NEWPORT MUSIC CENTRE BRASS BAND, SOUTH WALES Musical Director/Conductor: Alun Williams Age range of performers: 10-18 years FANFARE AND N ATIONAL ANTHEM

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he Newport Music Centre Brass Band was formed in September 1994. The music centre is organised by the Greater Gwent Music Support Service and has been in existence for a

he Bass in the Ballroom features KateJameswho is principal Eb Bass in the Gwent Youth Band, the National Youth Band of Wales and the National Youth Band of Great Britain.

number of years. The band performed at the Royal Festival Hall in July 1995, following their first attempt in Music for Youth's Regional Festival series. Nearly all the members play with their local area Youth Bands. Thirty-four members of tonight's band are also members of the Greater Gwent Youth Band and six players attended this year's National Youth Brass Band of

Following a very slow and mysterious beginning, Doyen is a rhythmic and exciting piece by Goff Richards.

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JSS JUNIOR ENSEMBLE, SUSSEX Musical Director: Jan Spooner-Swabey Choreographer: Keryie Vickers Piano: Julie Windwood Drums: Hayley Cramer Age range of performers: 6-14 years THE WIZ

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he Wiz combines the music of 'The WIzard of Oz' and the modern version of The Wiz.

It shows off the group's ability to switch moods and styles, and features some excellent solo performers as well as the chorus - watch out for the WIcked WItch of the West!

Awards. Their choreographer, now studying at the Arts Educational Schools, is an ex-member of the group.

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Age of performers:

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he Johl Quartet was formed just over a year ago by four members of the Nottingham Youth Orchestra who all attended different secondary schools in Nottinghamshire. Their name is made up from the initial letters of the first names of each of the members, judiciously arranged.

he last movement of Christopher Headington's first string quartet contrasts strong rhythms played by all four players together, with spiky fragments of tune that are passed from player to player. There is a brief, mysterious passage, pianissimo, in the middle

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before the music heads for its abrasive and rugged climax. By contrast, the Dvoi'ak waltz is full of charm and delicacy, with its singing melody and gently lilting pulse.

ST GREGORY'S IRISH TRADITIONAL MUSIC GROUP, MERSEYSIDE Musical Director/Conductor: Tony Lloyd Age range of performers: 9-12 years A SELECTION OF DANCE TuNEs AND AIRS ARR TONY LwYD

SEA IMAGE (PADDY MALONE) ARR TONY LwYD

t Gregory's Irish Traditional Music Group was formed in 1988 and is dedicated to preserving the beauty ofIrish music. The present band has been together since September 1996.

The school has had considerable success in performing at the South Bank with its Swing Band (1992 and 1996) and Irish Band (selected six times since 1991) as part of the National Festival of Music for Youth. The school also has an excellent reputation for dance and drama and was

he programme begins with a selection of dance tunes and airs, which are all learned by heart, in the traditional manner. During the final tune two members of the band will dance a reel. The second piece was written by the uillean pipes player from The Chieftains, Paddy Malone.

It describes through the medium of airs and slip jigs the contrasting gentle and wild moods of the sea. The waves build higher and higher until they finally crash against the rocky shore. The music is

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PROGRAMME THE TOM ARTHURS QUINTET, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Age range of perfonners: ONE FOOT WRONG

15-18 years TOMARTHURS

l J EGGLESCLIFFE SCHOOL ORCHESTRA, STOCKTON-ONTEES Conductor: Keith Hewson Age range of perfonners: 11-18 years SINFONIETTA Op 68, 1ST MOvr KENNETH PLATIS

A RIvERDANCE FANTASY FOR ORCHESTRA BILL WHELAN, ARR K HEWSON

JAZZ VEHICLE, LINCOLNSHIRE Musical Director: Age range of performers: BIRDLAND

John Crouch 14-18 years

J ZAWINUL, ARR J HIGGINS

MA.KIN' WHOOPEE!

W DONALDSON/ GKAHN,ARRD WOLPE

WOODCHOPPERS' BALL

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'"T"'om formed this independent quintet in .1. November 1996 as a vehicle for the rhythm of the section and section leaders Northamptonshire County Youth Big Band. The band is made up of Tom (tnnnpet and flugel), Kate Mlynar (saxes), Graham Dixon (piano), Chris Mapp (bass) and Chris Nugent (drums).

They are joined tonight, as they were at the Festival, by percussionist Tom Mlynar. The band was delighted to be awarded an Outstanding Award at this year's Festival. In the Big Band class, both Tom and Kate received scholarships to the Guildhall Summer School.

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ne Foot Wrong was written in January '97 for the quintet to play in the Festival where Tom received a New Composition award for the piece. The writing shows off the band's talents well: the head is mostly in 714 time, progressing into a 4/4 Latin groove for the improvised solos.

A percussion solo leads back into the head.

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~th 1,200 pupils.

gglescliffe School is an 11-18 comprehensive Music plays a very important part III the life of the school. In addition to presenting concerts locally, the school's Brass Band, Chamber Orchestra, Choir, Orchestra and Chamber Ensembles have collectively made thirty-two appearances at the Royal Festival Hall as part of the National Festival of Music for Youth. This year the orchestra, which was formed by Keith Hewson in 1981, was awarded the Outstanding Performance Award for the fifth year in succession, setting a Festival record.

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azz Vehicle was established by John Crouch in 1987 to provide a platform for students from schools and colleges throughout Lincolnshire.

The aim was to present an opportunity for students to perform in a more specialised ensemble than was available at the time. The Big Band started with 24 musicians and has expanded to 32 members, now incorporating flutes and more recently three young female vocalists. Jazz Vehicle has performed at many venues over the years and has raised many thousands of pounds for charities. The band does not receive any funding other than the use of rehearsal facilities at North Kesteven School.

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tJohn's Percussion has performed extensively the music of American and British Minimalist composers during the last six years, playing at the Royal Festival Hall, the Royal Albert Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room as well as in France. They were award winners at the final of the British Federation of Festivals' anniversary concert at Warwick University and represented Great Britain at the ISME World Conference in Amsterdam during July 1996. St John's Percussion has recorded Drumming by Steve Reich and Graham Fitkin's Hook for the Open University this year.

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injonietta was commissioned in 1975 by Lindsey School, Cleethorpes with funds made available by the Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts Association. It is exciting, modem music written with young people in mind, producing challenging rhythms and syncopated passages. Platts manages to provide interesting sections for everyone in the orchestra throughout the work. The arrangement of Riverdance began in an A Level music lesson as a direct result of discussions regarding a student's project on Irish flute folk music. Its haunting melodies and Irish dance rhythms soon made it a favourite with both the orchestra and the audience at the school's recent concert.

he programme this evening is taken from Jazz Vehicle's successful performance at this year's National Festival of Music for Youth's Jazz Festival where they were presented with an Outstanding Performance Award. They will open with Birdland, originally by Weather Report. The band's three vocalists will sing Makin' Whoopee! and the closing number is called the Woodcboppers' Ball. There is a chance for various solos in this, including percussionist Damian Waters, who was awarded a scholarship to the Guildhall Summer School.

laying the music of Steve Reich is like watching a slow-motion film. Every tiny movement becomes a moment of fascination; every small change, significant. Experiencing a performance of Drumming is rather like observing a huge machine in operation. The various components repeat their actions endlessly and fit together to create a pulsating web of movement that appears, at first glance, to be without change. Only by concentrating upon the active machine does one become aware of the gradual process taking place.

PROGRAMME SMITHILLS SYMPHONIC WIND BAND, BOLTON Musical Director: Christopher Wormald Age range of performers: 11-18 years AJAMES BOND FANTASY "0JRIOUS, ARR WORMALD

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with 1,600 students. All its award-winning ensembles were formed after 1991 and the appointment of Christopher Wormald as Head of

he Jmnes Bond Fantasy was arranged for Smithills by Christopher Wormald some years ago and took six weeks to write, seventeen letters of permission and an equal number of

Music. No less than four of these senior bands performed this July in the National Festival of Music for Youth in London, achieving two

signed contracts to be exchanged between the copyright department at EM! and himself. The full work lasts almost twelve minutes and was

Outstanding and one Highly Commended Performance Awards. The Senior Concert Band was formed in 1993 and won a Gold Award in the

performed most successfully by the Smithills musicians in the Royal Festival Hall this July.

Smithills musicians were last represented at the

Boosey & Hawkes National Concert Band Festival in 1994.

Royal Albert Hall Schools Prom in November 1995 when the Senior Brass Band, all of whom are playing in the Senior Concert Band this evening, performed The Firebi1·d by Stravinsky.

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n 1982 the London Fusion Orchestra was set up by one of Europe's leading jazz musicians and composers, !an Carr, from a workshop of advanced jazz music students at the Weekend Arts College. LFO has proved itself to be a stepping stone for musicians to finely tune their techniques and to gain experience performing and touring before embarking on their professional careers.

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Previous members include Julian Joseph, Jason Rebello and the Mondesir brothers to name but a few.

r-r-'onight's piece set by the LFO displays in .1 miniature some of the key elements of the band. The piece, as played by the fusion group Weather Report and the Miles Davis Quintet in the early 1970s, was chosen as it exemplifies the Jazz-Rock sound, one of the many important influences on the group. Directions was deliberately chosen as it contains minimal written material, with the work comprising a single melodic phrase and having no particular harmonic definition. This leaves the band with maximum freedom to improvise the rest of the piece.

SURREY HEATH YOUTH ORCHESTRA Musical Director/Conductor: Paul Harris Age range of performers: 11-19years RADETZKY MARCH

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he Radetzky Manh was written in 1848 to commemorate the Austrian victory against Italy, and is named after Count Radetzky, who commanded the Austrian Army. P1·ocession of the Nobles comes from the last movement of the operatic suite Mlada, completed in 1890. The music opens the opera's second act, with fanfares and drums, leading to a splendid march.

be a successful one as it was presented with the Highly Commended Performance award.

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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 to the first march in D major for a Gala performance to commemorate the Coronation of King Edward Vll.

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NORTHAMPTONSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH CONCERT BAND Conductor: Age range of performers:

Adele Sellers 15-18 years

FANFARE AND NATIONAL ANTHEM STAR WARS SAGA

ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS GOSPEL CHOIR, LONDON

Musical Director/Conductor: Phil Garlick Age range of performers: 12-18 years

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THE MAYFIELD PIANO TRIO, SHEFFIELD

THE GROVES HIGH SCHOOL BLUES BAND, WREXHAM

Musical Director: Age range of performers: TRIO No 2, Op 67

Benjamin Frith 17-18years

Musical Director: Age range of performers:

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NORTH LONDON CHOIRS Conductor: Age range of performers:

THE TEDDY BEARS' PICNIC J W BRATTON,

ADIEMUS:

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Shirley Court Howard Gregory 12-19 years

BERNSTEIN, ARR STICKLES

AVE MARIAII BELIEVE

KARLJENKINS

TINTINNABULUM, HYMN

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DRYZABONE, INVERNESS

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David Wootton 16-18 yean

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A W Bailey 9-12 years FOLLYWOOD OR BUST MEDLEY A W BAILEY Musical Director: Age range of performers:

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HOLME VALLEY MUSIC CENTRE BIG BAND, HUDDERSFIELD

Musical Director/Conductor: Alison MeardonlDaniel Thomas Age range of performers: 14-16 years SOMETHING INSIDE ARR D THOMAS CAN'T NOBODY ARR D THOMAS

THE FALCONERS MARCHING BAND, NORWICH

LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY

25 MINUTES (warning bells will sound 5 minutes before the end ofthe interval)

JOHN WILLIAMS, ARR JOHAN DE MEI]

WEDNESDAY

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TAPTON SCHOOL BRASS BAND, SHEFFIELD Musical Director: Age range of performers:

Pat Phillips 11-18years

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BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Musical Director/Conductor: Peter Bridle Age range of performers: 14-18 years SYMPHONIC DANCES, Op 45, 1ST MOVT RACHMANINOV

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Adele Sellas 15-18 years

FANFARE AND NATIONAL ANTHEM STAR WARS SAGA

JOHN WILLIAMS, ARR JOHAN DE MEI]

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he County Youth Concert Band is organised and supported by Northamptonshire County Council's Music Service. It combines musical education with performance at the highest level and is firmly established as one of the country's finest youth concert bands. At full strength the band numbers 72 musicians with performers accepted on merit alone through an established procedure. Successes over the years include multiple top awards at both Boosey and Hawkes Wind Band Festival and the National Festival of Music for Youth. The band has also

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he music of Stm' Wim Saga is drawn from the movie-picrnres 'Star Wars' and 'The

Empire Strikes Back' and was composed by John Williams, one of the most important composers of film music of the last decade. Star Wa" Saga was arranged by Johan de Meij who srndied the trombone and wind band conducting at the Royal Conservatory at The Hague. His arrangements of film music and musicals has earned widespread popularity.

appeared several times at the Schools Prom.

ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS GOSPEL CHOIR, LONDON Musical Director/Conductor: Alison MeardonlDaniel Thomas 14-16 yea1"s

Age range of performers: SOMETHING INSIDE

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he choir members have been singing together for approximately two years. They have performed at many special services at St Martin's church in Trafalgar Square and will be performing for the first time at St Paul's Cathedral later this year. They were winners of the Royal Mail/Choice FM Gospel Competition in 1996 and were delighted to receive an Outstanding Performance Award at this year's National Festival of Music for Youth - their first appearance at the event.

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his trio was formed in 1996 from an idea of their solo instrument teachers who thought it might be interesting to put these individually talented youngsters together. It worked' Their name was inspired by the beautiful Mayfield Valley which their rehearsal room in Sheffield overlooks. They have been very well received at recitals given during the last year and were awarded an Outstanding Performance Award at the National Festival of Music for Youth, at the Roya l Festival Hall in the summer.

THE FALCONERS MARCHING BAND, NORWICH Musical Director: Age range of performers:

A WBailey 9-12years

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he band was formed in 1993 with just 25 members and has since doubled in size. All the children are pupils from Falcon Middle School in Norwich and meet to rehearse at lunchtimes and one day a week after school. It is a working band that performs at fetes, theatres, special ceremonies, parades, processions, carnivals, church services and concerts. Each Whitsun the band goes on tour and has visited Germany (twice), the Isle of Wight and North Wales. In addition, the band contains a traditional dance team (The Falcon Swordpipers) and a choir (The Falcon Chorale) .

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he two song arrangements fearnred in tonight's performance show two sides of Gospel singing. The first arrangement illustrates the contemplative, thought-provoking aspect. while the second shows the more up-be.1t enthusiastic narnre with which Gospel singing is usually associated. The choir is accompanied tonight, but is equally at home singing a cap el/a.

ome of Shostakovich's early work was denounced by the Soviet authorities as bourgeois and decadent. After modifying his style he established himself as the leading Russian composer of the day. This trio was written in 1944 following his horror at learning that Jewish prisoners were made to dance at their gravesides prior to execution by the Nazis. It is an odd jumble of diverse styles used with a bitter

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o1lywood 01' Bust was written for the school theatre group comprising some 90 children.

Space, time and faciliry restrictions (and experience from a ten year-old tradition) have given rise to a modular approach to composition.

The medley performed tonight contains extracts from three units: A1Jte1'ica - the opening, Cba1"lie's Dance - a young girl's dream of stardom, and the self-explanatory Friday Nigbt Rock '11' Roll. The ever popular Teddy Bear's Picnic concludes the band's offering tonight.

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TONIGHT BERNSTEIN, ARR STICKLES AVE MARIAII BELIEVE GOUNOD, ARR GRAHAM, SHIRL, STILLMAN HAVA NAGEELA TRAD, ARR GOLDMAN

TAPTON SCHOOL BRASS BAND, SHEFFIELD Musical Director: Age range of performers:

Pat Phillips 11-18 years

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HOLME VALLEY MUSIC CENTRE BIG BAND, HUDDERSFIELD Musical Director/Conductor: Phil Garlick Age range of performers: 12-18 years BLUE BONES

DOMINIC SPERA

AzURE EYES TOM CAT

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he Chanterelles was formed in 1991 as part of the Leicester & Leicestershire Arts in Education. They are a dedicated and enthusiastic choir made up of 55 girls who come from schools and colleges throughout Leicester and Leicestershire. A non-auditioned group, the choir sings for enjoyment whilst aiming to achieve the highest possible standards. The Chanterelles have participated in many local concerts including Gala concerts at De Montfort Hall, and last November they reached the semi路 final stage of the Sainsbury's Choir of the Year Competition.

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Following their success at the Royal Festival Hall this year a recording of the band is being made and a tour of Europe is planned for 1998.

onciertD de Amnjuez, arranged here as a flugel horn solo, is played by seventeen-year-old Isobel Radford. The melancholic melody, which lends itself to the warm, sonorous tone of the flugel horn, creates a mysterious and sultry atmosphere.

The original TieD Tieo melody provides the basis for the fast and exciting Fantasia. Each section of the band is given the opportunity to display their technical ability as the theme becomes more varied and intricately woven, providing a dramatic conclusion to the band's programme.

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he Holme Valley Big Band is one of the many different ensembles operating at Holme Valley Music Centre which is one of seven centres within the Kirklees Music School. In recent years the band has enjoyed success at various competitions and Jazz Festivals, including two appearances at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London as part of the National Festival of Music for Youth. The band was presented with a Highly Commended Performance Award in 1996 and an Outstanding Petformance Award in 1997 as well as receiving various soloist scholarships for the Guildhall Summer School. The band has established links with a music school in France and is looking forward to performing in Europe next year.

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he Groves High School Blues Band was formed late in 1992 and developed from classroom stimuli into a successful ensemble with a focus on both composition and performance.

The band has enjoyed wonderful involvement with Music for Youth and tonight's concert marks their move on to study music at higher levels.

They have won Outstanding Petformance Awards each year from 1994 to 1997, played at the Schools Prom on two other occasions and at the Schools Prom Wales in Cardiff. They have won the Urdd National Eisteddfod - Rock Section on four occasions and performed widely in school, around Wrexham and on radio and TV The Band plays all its own original material and composing is an important aspect of its work and identity.

The Groves High School is a mixed comprehensive in Wrexham, North Wales with an enviable reputation in music-making and was recently featured in the TES.

his evening's programme includes the wellknown Tonight from Bernstein's West Side StOI), the beautiful setting of Gounod's Ave Mm'ia and the popular song I Believe and the rousing Israeli folk song, Hava Nageela.

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AZZ/1'e Eyes is a slow ballad which combines haunting sounds with a relaxed style. This features Oliver Dyson on alto saxophone, who received a scholarship for the Guildhall Summer School at the National Festival of Music for Youth this year. The band's final piece and one of their firm favourites, is called Tom Cat with its powerful funky rock style and exciting ensemble wri ting which includes a disco fugue section.

Nichols (lead guitar and vocals), Steffan Owens (kit and vocals), Ben Trow (bass and vocals) and Craig Leedham (guitar, keyboards and vocals).

The Choice is a fusion of '90s rock with Asian influences, followed by Beautifid You which is an acoustic ballad and the programme finishes with Too Late, a modern interpretation of R 'n' B. The band are currently discussing possi bilities for their future development with representatives from the music industry.

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The music from Karl Jenkins' best-selling rronight's perfonnance is a culmination of two months' work in .1 schools all over North London to produce a mixture of song, music and dance. The instrumental accompaniment will be presented primarily on synthesisers, using live percussion and recorder and Fortismere School has created a dance especially for this piece. The production was the joint work of Leonora Davies, Annie Cartwright, Richard Frostick, Peter West, Joe Read and Mick Read. The five hundred singers come from the London Boroughs of Camden, Hacmey, Haringey, Islington and Redbridge.

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* * * * * eographically this specially organised North London Choir is drawn from schools which cover an area from Holborn to Hacmey Marshes through Gants Hill and along the North Circular Road to Tottenham, then on to Alexandra Palace, returning down the Archway Road to Highbury Corner. The young singers are drawn from sixteen schools in five North London authorities. They represent that special pot pourri of social and cultural mix that can only really be found in a fusion such as this from inner-city schools.

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t is not unusual these days for Arts teachers to be frustrated by the academic demands, ofren deemed more important, made on pupils and the resistance to flexible timetable arrangements that are needed in order to realise an educational opportunity such as this. We must thank the foresight and vision of Larry Westland for inviting us to sing. It is important both to preserve and promote this kind of collaborative activity not only between schools but across LEA boundaries.

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he schools singing in tonight's perfOl71101lce. ore lW.aria Fidelis Convent School, Parliament Hill School and Willillm Ellis School from Camden; Lauriston Primary School, Millfields Primary School, Our Lady &- St Joseph RC Primary School, Skinners Secondary School and Stoke Newington School from Hackney; Fortismere School, Northumberland Park Community School and St Thomas More RC School from Haringey; Ambler Primary School, Highbury Fields School and Mount Carmel Girls' School from Islington and Woodbridge School from Redbridge. The dancers are from Fortis-mere School in Haringey.

MUSIC FOR YOUTH

Providing A National Platform For Young Musicians Our exciting programme of events in 1998 includes the following: Free concerts for local primary school children during February and March in London, Birmingham, Colchester, Peterborough, Scunthorpe and Northampton.

LOLLIPOP PROMS

41 Festivals at approximately thirty venues around the country during March.

MUSIC FOR YOUTH REGIONAL FESTIVAL SERIES

Acelebratory concert in March at St David's Hall, Cardiff.

SCHOOLS PROM WALES

Anew concert for young people in Edinburgh during June.

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At Symphony Hall and the Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire 23 to 26 June.

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At the South Bank Centre 6 to 9July.

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At Bridgewater Hall and the Northern College of Music 14 to 17 July.

The highly acclaimed concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in November.

SCHOOLS PROMS

Another record breaking attempt at Symphony Hall, Birmingham in November with Simon Rattle.

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BIRMINGHAM SCHOOLS' SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Musical Director/Conductor: Peter Bridle Age range of performers: 14-18 years SYMPHONIC DANCES, Op 45, 1ST MOvr RACHMANINOV

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he members of Dryzabone are all pupils of Charleston Academy, Inverness. Although they have been playing together for under two years they have built up a reputation locally for the quality of their performance, resulting in a high demand at gigs/ceilidhs around their home area. Dryzabone's style is a fusion of traditional Celtic music and rock, with the arrangements planned by the band members themselves.

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he Birmingham Schools' Symphony Orchestra comprises around 85 members drawn from schools around the city, offering experienced players the opportunity to perform music from the Classical, Romantic and 20th Century symphonic repertoire. Following a recent concert which included Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 with Peter Donohoe as soloist, a newspaper review stated: "The strength of the Birmingham Schools' Symphony Orchestra is based on a striking maturity of string sound, vibrant, good and rich in tone."

raditional Celtic music has enjoyed a worldwide re~birth over recent years due to the continuing trend of experimenting with combining traditional with other world styles.

The pieces on tonight's programme are from a variety of sources and of course, being traditional, are known in several versions - the band hopes that you enjoy their interpretation.

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he Pomp & 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 A C Benson's words with his music in his Coronation Ode for the Coronation of Edward VII in 1902.

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TONBRIDGE SCHOOL

Up to NINE Music Scholarships of up to half fees, with free tuition in music, are offered in February 1998 to candidates of suitable calibre. Music may also be offered as an option in the School's Academic Scholarship Examination in May. The value of any Award may be increased, by any amount up to the full school fee, if assessment of the parents' means indicates a need.

DIRECTOR OF MUSIC: HILARY DAVAN WETTON

Choral Exhibitions worth one-sixth fees are also available without examination to choristers of Cathedral and Collegiate Schools. Choristers can hold these awards and Music Scholarships simultaneously. The Chapel Choir maintains an exceptional choral tradition; the magnificent rebuilt Chapel with an outstanding 4 manual organ by Marcussen was re-dedicated in 1995.

Choral Scholarships worth approximately ÂŁ1,284 are awarded to the trebles of the Chapel Choir who attend either Hilden Grange or Yardley Court Preparatory Schools in Tonbridge.

Boys holding Music Awards are given extra time for practising within the curriculum. Special consideration will be given to string players although awards have also been made to other orchestral and keyboard players at every recent audition. More than half the School receive music tuition from 6 full time and 30 visiting staff. Two orchestras, three bands, a large choral society and a vast array of smaller ensembles provide a wide panorama of opportunity for high quality music making, both within and beyond the School.

Tonbridge School is a charitable foundation for the education of boys.

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Full details of all Scholarships are available from : The Music Secretary, Tonbridge School, Kent TN9 1]P. Telephone: 01732 365555

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