PROGRAMME WAUNCEIRCH BRASS, PORT TALBOT AlynJames 10-11 years
Conductor: Age range of performers: SHIPS
ARR ERNIE WAITE
LARGO
DvoRAK, ARR CLlFFORD BEVAN
POLKA
ARR ERNIE WAITE
SLAPSTICK
ARR ERNIE WAITE
OLl ROCKBERGER TRIO, LONDON Andy Hampton 16-18 years
Musical Director: Age range of performers: LATINO LIFE
OLl ROCKBERGER,
ARR ROCKBERGER, KRAN7Z, ALLEN
CANTELOUPE ISLAND
HERBIE liANCOCK,
ARR ROCKBERGER, KRAN7Z, ALLEN
BILBO'S BAG GINS
OLl ROCKBERGER,
ARR ROCKBERGER, KRAN7Z, ALLEN
SOUTHAMPTON YOUTH ORCHESTRA
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ome 200 children attend Waunceirch Primary, a school situated on the outskirts of Neath, South Wales. Brass playing began at the school jlist three years ago when four players began to learn using instruments loaned by Glynneath, a local brass band. Since then Waunceirch Brass has grown steadily so that it now comprises twenty brass players and two percussionists. Band members were thrilled to receive an Outstanding Performance Award for their performance at the Symphony Hall, Binningham.
he aim ofErnie Waites' band arrangements is to encourage group playing in the early stages of learning. Children can therefore recognise, from the start, the value of teamwork in music making. Waunceirch Brass will open with Ships, an arrangement loosely based on The Sloop John B. Next comes the deceptively challenging Largo from Dvorak's New Wodd Symphony. A 'contrasting mood is achieved with Polka, and then it's party time as the band closes with Slapstick.
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he Oli Rockberger Trio comes from the King Alfred School in North London. King Alfred School has a strong jazz tradition and has had bands at the National Festival of Music for Youth for four years running. This trio is based around the prodigious piano and composition skills of Oli Rockberger who left the school this summer and will take up a scholarship at Berklee School of Jazz in Boston, USA in September 1999. Oli won a New Composition Award as well as the Roland Piano Award at this year's National Festival.
rrangement is an important factor in a jazz .L1piano trio's programme and all three members of the Oli Rockberger Trio contribute ideas to the repertoire. Latino Life and Bilbo's Baggins are both original compositions by Oli Rockberger with short, contained sections of improvisation. By contrast Canteloupe Island is an expansive arrangement allowing greater freedom of expression for all three musicians.
outhampton Youth Orchestra was founded in 1965 and is now administered by the new Southampton Unitary Authority. Members are selected annually by audition and many join after having played in related training groups. They have played under the conductorship of Keith Smith since 1979. An annual series of concerts is given in Southampton and Hampshire and each year a foreign tour is undertaken - this summer they went to Poland and the Czech Republic.
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Keith Smith 12-19 years SUITE 'THE CROWN OF INDIA', OP. 66: Conductor:
Age range of performers:
ELGAR INTRODUCTION AND DANCE OF THE NA UTCH GIRLS,
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WARRIORS'DANCE, MARCH OF THE MOGUL EMPERORS
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he colourful music of this suite was taken from a large-scale theatrical masque, written between 1911 and 1912 to celebrate the Great The quietest moments are Delhi Durbah. characteristic of Elgar's scoring at its most refined, as in the Dance of the Nautch Girls whereas, in complete contrast, The March of the MO[Jul Empero1"S portrays the noise, exotic colour and regal splendour of the great march past at the Durbah. One can imagine all the trappings of horses, bands and the swaying of imperial elephants.
POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE MARCH No. 1: LAND OF HOPE AND GLORY
ELGAR
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he 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 193 o. 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 VII.
SPECIAL GUESTS 6.25pm - Rostrum
AUGMENTED FIFTHS Age range of performers:
16-18 years
6.25pm - Door 6 Foyer
BYMT CHIEVELEY SAXOPHONIC Musical Director: Age range of performers:
Charles Henwood 16-17 years
Catherine Asquith, Jennifer Asquith, Rachel Bagshaw, Elisa Barker and Sarah Bowden have been singing together for almost three years. This is their second visit to the Schools Prom and they are delighted to be asked back. Last year the group was invited to take part in the Aberdeen International Youth Festival. They have sung in Huddersfield Town Hall on many occasions and
are in demand locally for concerts and weddings. They released a CD in December 1997. Their current repertoire includes two pieces written by members of the group, Jennifer and Elisa, for which they received New Composition Awards at this year's National Festival of Music for Youth.
All the members of BYMT Chieveley Saxophonic live in the village of Chieveley in Berkshire and have been playing together as a quartet for two years. They began playing the
saxophone in Year 8 at secondary school and they are all members of the BYMT West Berkshire Music Centre Concert Band and the BYMT Berkshire Youth Wind Orchestra.