PROGRAMME THESOUNDWAVES-LYTTON HOUSE CHOIR, PUTNEY Musical Directors:
Diana Thompson and Trisha Proctor Choreographer: Catherine Beck Age range of performers: 9-11 years Soloists: Sophie Bicknell, Rosie Higgins, Alice Hubbard, Lydia Jenkins, Alexandra Le Maigre, Miranda Martin, Kate Seddon, Kimbedey Williams MEDLEY OF SONGS FROM OLIVER LIONEL BART, ARR D THOMPSON
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY YOUTH BAND Conductor: Leighton Rich Age range of performers: 13-18 years Soloists: Rachel Hughes, Richm'd Strake1; William Small and Charis Snell CRY OF THE CELTS:
RONAN HARDIMAN,
LORD OF THE DANCE
ARR PETER GRAHAM
STOLEN Kiss BREAKOur LAMENT VICTORY: LORD OF THE DANCE
REAL STEEL, PLYMOUTH Dave Pe1'1-ett 14-19 years
Conductor: Age range of performers: CARMEN: OVERTURE
BIZET, ARR DAVE PERRETT
ONE FOR THE SAVANNAH
S SHALY,
ARR TOUSSAINT CLARKE
ELEKTRA, SHEFFIELD Musical Director: Age range of performers: SCOT'S SONG
Nina Martin 17-18years
JAMES McMILLAN, ARR SARAH FLETCHER
LIQUORICE ALLSORTS JAMES LHATHERBARROW
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ytton House is the junior department of Putney High School and consists of 240 girls aged 4-11. There is a strong tradition of music throughout the school and all the children experience a balance of creative work based on the Orff approach and a variety of singing and performing opportunities. A high percentage of the girls play a musical instrument. Good voice production and solo singing from an early age encourage confidence and projection and the children's natural energy is channelled into a lively and exciting performance.
ver 90 girls are performing tonight, .this includes everyone in Years 5 and 6! They are singing a medley of songs taken from the ever-popular musical Olivel" which was performed at the end of the summer term. There were so many girls capable of having solo singing roles for the production that a double cast was formed to give them all the opportunity.
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he Hampshire County Youth Band was formed in 1963 and membership is drawn from schools and colleges in Hampshire following annual auditions. Even though concerts are given of popular music, encouragement is given to new music and a number of composers have been commissioned to write for the band. The band received an Outstanding Performance Award in July for the first performance of Time Lines by the London composer Kit Turnbull. The band was the National Youth Brass Band Champion last year and runner-up this year.
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of the Celts is based on the music of Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance show. It was commissioned by the Yorkshire Building Society Band in 1997 and arranged by Peter Graham. The movements played tonight commence with Lord of the Dance featuring Rachel Hughes on soprano cornet after which principal cornet, Richard Straker, plays the lilting Stolen Kiss. Bl-eakout gives the whole band a chance to show its full energy before a beautiful, haunting euphonium duet, Lament, which leads dramatically into the finale, with the full band reaching the climax with the return of the opening theme.
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eal Steel, an all-female ensemble based at Estover Community College, is one of Europe's most versatile and excltmg young steel orchestras. The band has travelled throughout the UK, Europe and even as far afield as Barbados, bringing the true flavour of the steel pan to a wide range of audiences. Real Steel has recently collaborated with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra in a ground-breaking commission for steel band and orchestra which was premiered to wide acclaim at the Plymouth Pavilions on 3 July 1998.
eal Steel's programme aims to ftdemonstrate the versatility, lyrical capacity and sheer rhythmic drive of a full steel orchestra. The pieces jlL"{tapose two widely divergent cultures and show the technical range of the individual players as well as the band's strong ensemble playing. The Overture to Carmen requires a full understanding of the piece's dynamic range whilst maintaining lyrical momentum. One for the Savannah is structured around the driving soca beat from Trinidad, creating that special carnival fever but still requiring precision and dynamic definition. Enjoy!
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arah Fletcher arranged the beautiful, haunting melody of James McMillan's Scot~ Song for four violins which adapts extraordinarily well to electric violins. Liquorice AIlsorts was written in February of this year by James Leatherbarrow who studied composition at Huddersfield University with Richard Steinetz. He makes full use of the stunning pizzicato of the electric violins and the strong rhythm throughout the piece gives it electric energy!
was formed in 1998 when the ~olin quartet 'The Pennine Players' went "electric". Their members are Nina Cockburn, Gita Langley, Sarah Fletcher and Lizzie Ball and they have been playing together for four years. Concert venues have included the Royal Albert Hall at the 1996 Schools Prom, Sheffield Cathedral and Crucible Studio - an appearance on Calendar YTV and in July they played in Manchester at the Royal Northern College of Music in the National Festival of Music for Youth.
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