Dame Bradbury's Spring Concert 2024 by Stephen Perse Foundation

DAME BRADBURY’S SCHOOL

is proud to present their

SPRING CONCERT

21st March 2024 at 7pm

Saffron Hall

Dame Bradbury’s Part

Brass Group

Kenneth J. Alford

Dmitri Shostakovich Waltz from Jazz Suite No. 2

Frankie Sullivan & Jim Peterik

Drums

Dancing in the Moonlight (performed by Theo Salisbury)

Lenny Kravitz Are you gonna go my way? (performed by Wing Wai)

Wind Band

Piano

(performed by Jack Poole)

Voice

Over The Rainbow (performed by Lily Canepa)

Spring Concert ‘24

One

Clarinet Choir

Guitars

Highway to Hell (performed by Pelham Buck )

One Republic Rescue Me (performed by Patrick Stannard)

James Uings Get Off (performed by Cooper Rayward-Smith)

Saxophone Ensemble

The Water Music

String Group Orchestra

Sumer is icumen in! Autumn (solo quintet) Winter (solo quintet)

Part Two “Green Song

A Sequence of music, dance, film and poetry about saving our planet

Errolyn Wallen

Florence and the Machine

I am looking at a map of the world

Cosmic (Dance)

Benjamin Harris Green Song

Camille Saint-Saens (arr.)

Dawn Chorus ‘..au fond des bois…’

Russell Hepplewhite: Us

Matthew Crossley & Tom Kirkham: One world together

Anna Corcoran: Arctic Home

Julian Winn

George Douglas & George David Wright

Save our planet

What a wonderful world

Christine McVie Don’t Stop

Can you hear me…?

The power

Benjamin Britten, one of the twentieth-century’s greatest composers, took great pride in writing for the community. Music, he felt, should serve a genuine purpose and he returned to this theme again and again. He once said:

I believe that music has the power to change the world. It has the ability to stir our souls and connect us to something greater than ourselves.

Tonight’s concert has that belief very much at its heart. In the first half, the Dame Bradbury’s ensembles and soloists perform a wide range of music, varying in style and moods. There is something here for everyone, from heavy metal to traditional folksong, from music theatre to Classical.

to change…

Green Song Synopsis

THE CHILD, alone, marvels at the beauty of the Earth, while studying a map [Solo: I am looking at a map of the world] The FOUR ELEMENTS, Fire, Earth, Air and Water, come together to invoke the SPIRIT OF THE EARTH [Year 4 Dance: Cosmic] who takes their hand, leading them away from their books to experience the loveliness of the woods at sunrise.

The SPIRIT tells the CHILD that a forest sings inside every seed [Song: Green Song] and that ‘we are of one kin you and me, the bird, the beetle and the tree’. They stand and wonder at the peace in the woods [Ensemble: Dawn Chorus in the depths of the woods].

After reminding the CHILD of the beauty of even the smallest things and that ‘you are never too small to make a difference’ the CHILDREN, inspired, sing about their potential future impact [Song: Us].

But they are warned that ‘things are changing’ and there are those who choose to ‘dominate nature’. The CHILDREN sing, ‘How long can this carry on?’ [Song: One World Together].

An Arctic landscape appears [Song: Arctic Home] and the polar bears sing ‘Can you hear me? Can you help me to save my Arctic Home?’. The CHILDREN demand action to be taken [Song: Save our Planet!].

The VOICES OF THE EARTH are heard and together they hand the CHILD the EARTH [Ensemble: What a wonderful world]. Finally the SPIRIT OF THE EARTH speaks the words of Greta Thunberg: ‘All we have to do is wake up and change’. The CHILD, carrying the Earth, takes their place in the CHORUS OF CHILDREN to sing ‘Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow’ [Song: Don’t Stop].