NYOS Senior Orchestra Summer Programme 2016

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The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland

Conducted by

James Lowe

WAGNER | TCHAIKOVSKY | BERNSTEIN Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Suite

Swan Lake Suite

Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

And a new work by Oliver Searle Accidental Dances

Thu 28 July, 3pm Greyfriars Kirk Edinburgh

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WAGNER arr. Hutschenruyter Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Suite (13') Page 8

SEARLE Accidental Dances (14") Page 9

INTERVAL - TBC TCHAIKOVSKY Swan Lake Suite Op. 20a (30')

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BERNSTEIN Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (24')

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Dance is the theme for all the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland’s classical ensembles throughout the year, as each orchestra performs a wonderful range of dance-infused repertoire.

This summer NYOS Senior Orchestra welcome back James Lowe as conductor. ThIS summer concert will conclude James’ residency with the Senior Orchestra. We thank him for the magnificent work he has done with NYOS, establishing the Senior Orchestra and bringing it to the incredibly high standard it is today. We wish him all the very best for the future as he takes on new and exciting projects with the Prussian Chamber Orchestra, Germany and the Vassa Sinfonia, Finland.

This afternoon you will hear the Orchestra perform Bernstein’s much-loved Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, whose Mambo features as part of the BBC Ten Pieces Secondary repertoire. This is part two of the exciting initiative to open up the world of classical music to a new generation of young people, and we are delighted to be involved once again.

The concert in Edinburgh’s stunning Greyfriars Kirk is the Orchestra’s second performance of the summer. Just last night, NYOS Senior Orchestra performed, as part of the International Society for Music Education’s annual conference, where the Orchestra had the honour of performing a new work by Oliver Searle, Accidental Dances, a musical investigation into the spontaneity of dance, which you will also hear this afternoon.

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Now in its fourth season, NYOS Senior Orchestra is for musicians aged 13 and over. It is the second-stage orchestra on the classical education pathway for aspiring members of NYOS Symphony Orchestra, and a critically acclaimed performing ensemble in its own right.

‘This summer we continue to explore dance in orchestral form, with the passions of Bernstein’s modern-day Romeo and Juliet forming the core of this afternoon’s repertoire, alongside a new work from Oliver Searle. We also pay tribute to Tchaikovsky, surely one of the finest of all ballet composers.’

Conductor James Lowe.

James has established a great rapport with the Senior Orchestra players based on trust, mutual respect and hard work, and he never fails to bring out the very best in these young, talented instrumentalists.

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CONFERENCE 20 Stirling University, Thursday 1st and Friday 2nd September 2016

co 20 SAME’S 20/20 ViSion nf th er for MuSic EducATion en ce with Sponsorship from Trinity College London Transforming lives through learning; looking inwards, looking outwards, looking forwards with Keynoter Speaker and Presenter – Ken Burton, Conductor, Educator, Composer Presenters invited include: Aileen Monaghan Stephen Cowan Jane Rimmer Ivy Partridge Matthew Chinn Andrew Dickie Andy Gleadhill Alan Friel Dougie Pincock Mandy Miller

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Topics confirmed to be covered include: Performing Assessment, SQA – suitable for Instrumental and Classroom staff; Windband Repertoire – with conference and Delegate band; Kick Start any learning and ensemble; Understanding Music, NQ Senior Phase; Exploring Composition, NQ Senior Phase; Drums for Schools; Trad music in the classroom; Primary Music Making; Singing Repertoire; Working with a choir – with demo choir; Gospel Singing; Beatboxing; Flipsnack; Sonic Pi; Currently in Scottish Music Education; Ukulele in BGE; Primary Resources – Out of the Ark; Inclusion; Tune up your body with Dalcroze; TCL Pop and Rock; Syllabus and Inclusion.

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Prizewinner in international conducting competitions, James Lowe is Chief Conductor of the Prussian Chamber Orchestra, Germany, and the Vaasa Sinfonia, Finland. His work as Artistic Director of the Hallé Harmony Youth Orchestra was featured in a four-part documentary shown in the UK on Channel 4 in 2010. A recipient of the Bernard Haitink Fund for Young Talent, Lowe is Principal Conductor of the Edinburgh Contemporary Music Ensemble, Principal Guest Conductor of Music for Everyone and Orchestras Advisor and conductor of the Senior Orchestra of the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland, and he held the position of Associate Conductor of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.

Educated at the University of Edinburgh, Lowe continued his development as Benjamin Zander Conducting Fellow with the Boston Philharmonic, and has studied with leading conductors in masterclasses, including Jorma Panula, Neeme Järvi and Bernard Haitink, and with Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has worked as Assistant Conductor to Haitink in performances with the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.

One of two prizewinners in the Tokyo International Competition for Conductors and special prizewinner in the Jorma Panula International Competition, he has appeared in performance with the Osaka and Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestras, the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the St Petersburg Academic Symphony Orchestra, the New Japan Philharmonic, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Hallé Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, Scottish Ballet, the Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, as well as working with numerous other ensembles in many European countries, South Africa and the USA. In addition to his conducting work, James is active as an educator and teacher of conducting and, is undertaking research exploring ways in which orchestras can meaningfully engage with a greater public.

Y“outh orchestras embody a kind of energy and enthusiasm that we easily lose as we age. We too easily adopt an attitude that confuses cynicism with sophistication, but this Orchestra has an energy, enthusiasm and curiosity that I find deeply inspiring.”

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg Suite (1867) Introduction to the Act 3 Dance of the Apprentices Procession of the Mastersingers Comedy was no more Wagner’s forte than it was Verdi’s. Yet like Verdi, Wagner produced a comic opera that is not only one of the greatest works of its kind, but also one of the greatest, most warm-hearted of all operas.

This was Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg), a score as glowingly German as Falstaff is Italian. Its characters are real: the ordinary townsfolk of Nuremberg in the 16th century, caught in the act of deciding who should win the local song contest that forms the work’s sumptuous climax.

Ordinary? Well, Hans Sachs, the cobbler who is the pivot of the opera, is rather more than that, but he is undoubtedly a person, not a Wagnerian god, dwarf or superhuman. The story, with its wealth of characterisation – the philosophical Sachs, the crabbily academic Beckmesser (a caricature of the Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick), the ten other mastersingers, the young lovers, the jovial apprentices – drew from Wagner a fine-spun web of melodic counterpoint, full of vitality and with a classical clarity of texture. The Mastersingers has been called a Haydnesque opera, and the comparison is by no means as ridiculous as it might seem.

The Overture says it all. Wagner’s glorious procession of marches sounds sonorous and sublime. Upon these, the gentle love music intrudes sweetly, and the theme of the apprentices is a jaunty, saucy parody. The genius of comedy, as a distinguished critic once remarked, is what presides over this Overture, warning us not to interpret it in too serious and ponderous a spirit.

The work, we should always remember, was composed as an interlude – but what an interlude! –between Tristan and Isolde and The Ring.

Programme note by Conrad Wilson

Oliver Searle (b.1977)

Accidental Dances (2016)

Occasionally in a film, there is a moment when somebody starts moving in a certain way, and everyone around them interprets it as a dance manoeuvre, so begins to join in (a good example exists in the 1980s comedy Airplane!).

I am not particularly gifted at co-ordinating body movements in a rhythmic way, and do not regularly go anywhere with the sole intention of dancing. But over the years, I have found myself in several situations where spontaneous dancing has erupted around me, and there was little I could do but join in, in my own slightly awkward and disjointed manner.

This piece explores some of those situations, by amalgamating cultural references and styles of music gathered while on trips abroad, presenting these experiences in four distinct sections: • Dallas Line Dance: failed attempts at integrating into a linedance, while at a conference in Texas.

• Rathaus Waltz: trying to waltz badly to Strauss at a function in the Vienna City Hall, then giving up and proudly settling for a rather awkward fandango.

• Chicago Slowdown: dancing more slowly than the music in a blues club in Chicago.

• Chaophraya Disco: joyous dancing to 1980s pop songs on a Bangkok river-boat tour.

Programme note by Oliver Searle

Leader Sophie Williams, Midlothian

First Violin Lisa Abraham, Aberdeen City Emma Baird, South Ayrshire Sophie Curren, Glasgow City Ken Fairbrother, City of Edinburgh Matthew Farren, Cumbria Matthew Guy Henderson, Aberdeenshire Zoe Hodi, Highland Amy Hutchison, Western Isles Chrissie Johnson, Scottish Borders Chun-Wei Kang, East Dunbartonshire Molly McGregor, Highland Iona Quilter, West Lothian Lucrezia Nina Schmid-Kempter, Scottish Borders Eleanor Scott, Angus Florence Sharkey, Glasgow City

Cello

Lorna Doyle, Perth & Kinross Verity MacInnes, Glasgow City Emily Mander, City of Edinburgh Finn Mannion, Perth & Kinross Sarah Newman, Fife David Shanks, Glasgow City Christopher Summers, South Ayrshire Matthew Terras, South Ayrshire

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Second Violin

Luke Barjoti, Stirling Sophie Boyd, East Renfrewshire Martha Cole, Stirling Paul Ersfeld, East Dunbartonshire Chloe Ghiro, East Renfrewshire Mark Green, Highland Ivan Ma, Fife Anna J Mackenzie, Glasgow City Catriona M Mackenzie, Highland David McDonald, Dumfries & Galloway Lara J Polson, Shetland Islands Sara Qureshi, Aberdeen City Rebecca Steven, South Lanarkshire Rachel Whitelaw, East Dunbartonshire

Viola

Jodie Cameron, Darlington Sophie Carroll, Aberdeen City Gordon Cronshaw, City of Edinburgh Nico Ersfeld, East Dunbartonshire Elsie Haldane, Perth & Kinross Gavin Marnoch, Western Isles Jamie Turnbull, Perth & Kinross

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Double Bass

Emily Addis, City of Edinburgh Cameron W Duff, Falkirk Callum McCluskey, Stirling Joseph Standley, North Ayrshire

Flute

Rebecca Coffey, Perth & Kinross Laura Macfarlane, South Lanarkshire Christopher Michie, West Dunbartonshire Nicola Stevenson, City of Edinburgh

Oboe

Stephanie Kozlowski, Highland Lewis Sinclair, Stirling Christopher Smith, Aberdeenshire Christopher Vettraino, East Renfrewshire

Bassoon

Amy Laurenson, Shetland Islands Emma Macrae, Stirling Douglas McDonald, City of Edinburgh

French Horn

David CW Loh, East Dunbartonshire Carly McCready, Aberdeen City Peter McNeill, East Lothian Rachel Naylor, South Lanarkshire

Trumpet

Simon Archer, East Lothian Calum Blair, South Lanarkshire Juliette Murphy, East Renfrewshire Euan Scott, East Dunbartonshire

Trombone

Anthony Connolly, West Dunbartonshire Dylan Findlay, Aberdeen City

Tuba

Anthony Hook, Highland Micah Scott, Fife

Bass Kieran Smith, Aberdeen City

Timpani & Percussion

Clarinet

Eve Burgoyne, East Renfrewshire Iain Clarke, Glasgow City Alice Gowenlock, West Lothian Iona Jackson, South Lanarkshire

Joshua Dunbar, Renfrewshire Eden Mikula, Argyll & Bute Michael O’Rourke, Inverclyde Max Rodney, East Renfrewshire Fraser Sharp, Aberdeenshire Adam Stanley, East Dunbartonshire

Harp

Abigail Millar Todd, Highland

Piano & Celeste (Bernstein) TBC

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 -1893)

Swan Lake Suite (1877) Scene, Act 2 Waltz, Act 1 Dance of the Little Swans, Act 2 Scene, Act 2 Czardas, Hungarian Dance, Act 3 Spanish Dance, Act 3 Neapolitan Dance, Act 3 Mazurka, Act 3

Even more than The Nutcracker, even more than The Sleeping Beauty, Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is the ballet whose story and music people have come to love. The plot is so simple that many modern directors and choreographers set out to complicate it. But they, for their part, would doubtless claim that the composer himself, along with his advisers, complicated the German folk-tale employed as inspiration, adding a variety of psychological undertones that may or may not have been there in the first place, but were given new significance by the deeply responsive Tchaikovsky.

In essence, however, Swan Lake concerns the Princess Odette, who is transformed into a swan by an evil sorcerer but allowed, with her ladiesin-waiting, to regain her human form for a few hours each night.

The romantic Prince Siegfried, happening upon her at such a time, falls in love with her and plans to rescue her. The sorcerer reacts by disguising his daughter Odile as Odette, thus causing Siegfried, in contradiction of his pledge, to pursue the wrong swan-woman. But though the truth comes out, and Siegfried is forgiven for his error, it all ends tragically when the sorcerer prompts the death of the lovers by drowning.

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Various versions of Tchaikovsky’s four-act ballet have been staged (including one with a happy ending) and various concert suites have been compiled from the magical music, some of them longer and more elaborate than others. On this occasion we shall hear some of the finest movements, starting with the ballet’s greatest musical inspiration, the shimmering waterscape famously conjuring up the atmosphere of the supernatural lake and of Odette’s and Siegfried’s burgeoning love for each other. With poetic use of oboe and harp, Tchaikovsky evokes a haunting vision of the scene, as the main theme builds gradually to its climax.

In the luscious waltz from Act One, with its hesitantly nudging rhythms and grand array of melodies, courtiers and villagers welcome the ardent young prince. The Dance of the Little Swans is a brief movement where softly clucking woodwind evokes the transformed dancers.

A further atmospheric scene leads in this performance to the divertissement of national dances – Hungarian, Spanish, Italian, Polish – that lighten the tone of the third act and display Tchaikovsky’s rhythmic flair at its most brilliantly colourful.

Yet it is the music of the swan lake itself that broods darkly over the score as a whole, and that haunts the memory after every staging of this study in mistaken identity.

Swan Lake was first performed in 1877 at the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, where it was ungraciously received. It was neither the first time, nor the last, that a Tchaikovsky masterpiece would be cold-shouldered. But when the work’s fortunes changed, thanks to the intervention of the great dancer Marius Petipa, they changed forever. Of all Tchaikovsky’s ballets, it remains the most ardently moving.

Programme note by Conrad Wilson

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Leonard Bernstein 1918-1990 Symphonic Dances from West Side Story (1961) In 1957 West Side Story opened on Broadway. It was an orchestrator’s dream to work with Leonard Bernstein; Lenny, Irwin Kostal and I discussed every note in every bar of the score at great length, fully aware of the limitations that the theatre orchestra would impose upon us.

With five standard five reeds (woodwinds, including bassoon chair who played only bassoon!) having to negotiate 14 instruments among them, its no wonder that we hoped someday to be able to re-orchestrate this very inventive and difficult music. We got our chance when Lenny asked Irv to do a suite based on the ballet music from the show.

We were in ecstasy! Every orchestral colour was ours for the asking; strings could be subdivided ad infinitum, percussion could be spread out among many players, wind and brass were expanded; and our only concern was whether the classically oriented symphonic player could handle the “jazzier” elements of the score. Cool, for example: Lenny assured us that symphonic orchestras could play the Cool Fugue stylistically, and indeed they have.

In retrospect, I now realise that Lenny himself, because he had a foot in both camps, was a classically trained musician who knew just how far we could go with popular styles.

As for the form of the suite, Lenny knew it should certainly begin with the famous signature tritone on which so much of the show’s music is based, and go directly into the Prologue (including finger snaps in the orchestra). The order of the rest of the material in the suite is based on “feel” rather than on the plot of the show. Ergo, Somewhere finds itself in between the Prologue and the Mambo. The Meeting Scene gets compressed into an atmospheric lead-in to the Cool Fugue – that tritone ties everything together. Finally, after the Rumble Lenny inserted a flute solo unique to these Symphonic Dances, which makes a dramatic and beautiful change to I Have a Love, which was Jack Gottlieb’s suggestion to end the suite (and which is the only music in the suite that is not a dance in the show). The suite ends with subdivided strings, which I’m sure was the orchestration in everyone’s mind when the show was originally scored.

Somehow, the Symphonic Dances manage to be both “serious” and “popular”. This suite brings music of Broadway into the concert hall, orchestrating with symphonic character the music every theatregoer loves. Miraculously, Lenny could do it all. I’ll always consider myself extraordinarily lucky to have been one of his devoted helpers.

Sid Ramin 1992

SUMMER | AUTUMN 2016 NYOS JAZZ ORCHESTRA SUMMER TOUR – SECOND LEG 4 August at 8pm, Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford-on-Avon 5 August at 10.15pm, Royal Albert Hall, London part of the BBC Proms 2016

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NYOS CAMERATA with Hebrides Ensemble in Association with Nationaal Jeugd Orkest, the Netherlands 13 August at 7.30pm, Church of the Holy Rude, Stirling 14 August at 7.30pm, Glasgow Cathedral

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NYOS FUTURES with Mark Lockheart’s ‘Elllington in Anticipation’

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Course Manager Arlene Cochrane Tutors Strings, Christopher George First Violin, Tim Ewart Second Violin, Chris Latham Viola, Joanna Petrie Cello, Jessica Kerr Double Bass, John Clark Flute & Wind, John Grant Oboe, Anne Rankin Clarinet, Jean Johnson Bassoon, Alison Green Horn, Alison Murray Trumpet, Tom Poulson Trombone & Brass, Tom Smith Tuba, Mark Reynolds Harp, Helen Thomson Timpani & Percussion, Kate Openshaw Pastoral Staff Andy Langford (Head) Yla Garvie Caitlin Kennedy Paul Middleton Michael Sherry Orchestra Logistics Manager Ronnie Herd Logistics Cameron Logistics

Interested in MUSIC? The Music School of Douglas Academy could be the place for you!

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Applications close 30 January 2017 Individual weekly lessons, ensembles and small tutorial classes Orchestral and choral experience Generous practice facilities Residential accommodation Applications from Primary 7 to Secondary 5 Broad academic curriculum within a highly successful comprehensive school

Further information tel: 0141 955 2365 web: www.douglas.e-dunbarton.sch.uk email: office@douglas.e-dunbarton.sch.uk

Training Ensembles String | Wind | Brass | Percussion

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Tickets available from Queens Hall Box Office: Call: 0131-668 2019 or visit www.thequeenshall.net

The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland

The National Youth Orchestras of Scotland

Conductor

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BRITTEN

BORODIN Conducted by

James Lowe 9th April at 3pm Greyfriars Kirk Edinburgh

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Tickets £10/£5

Image: Raymonda by Lousine Hogtanian

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