Gala Concert Anvil Theatre by King Edward VI School

King Edward VI School Gala Concert Wednesday 14th March 2012 7.30pm Anvil Concert Hall //Basingstoke

King Edward VI Gala Concert

Welcome King Edward VI School Gala Concert is being staged in celebration of the Cultural Olympiad. The 2012 Cultural Olympiad aims to celebrate the nation’s rich and diverse cultural life. It encourages participants to build new audiences, involve the community, try something new and think big. The Olympic year provides a magnificent opportunity for KES musicians, joined by those from partner schools, to demonstrate their talents and share their music with a wider audience in the magnificent setting of the Anvil. We are delighted that we can share this Olympic concert with guest choirs from feeder prep and partnership schools; Prince’s Mead, Sherborne House, Springhill RC Primary, Stroud and Twyford. We have 240 junior pupils taking part and 250 KES performers. The range of music will be exciting and varied, a real musical feast from well-known pieces such as Jupiter to more experimental music with Titan’s Forge. I hope you enjoy the concert and trust that it will provide a memorable and exciting highlight for what will be an extraordinary year as Great Britain hosts the Olympic Games.

Julian Thould Head Master

Over the past term it has been great fun watching this evening’s concert unfold and a huge pleasure for us to work with Matthew Barley and our junior guest musicians. The sheer energy and commitment of all performers on this large scale project has been quite remarkable. From a King Edward’s perspective it has given us the opportunity to try something new and to push our boundaries in every sense of the word. KES students are renowned for immersing themselves in a whole array of curricular and co-curricular pursuits and the number of musicians performing this evening is testament to the value they place on Music. Each year we have senior pupils move on to pursue Music at degree level at Music Conservatoires or Universities while many others continue to enjoy their music making as they study for a wide range of careers. Whichever path they choose, we hope they will take with them that special sense of self-expression, communication, fulfilment and enjoyment which comes with the pursuit of musical excellence and is at the heart of what it is to be a musician.

Heather Freemantle

Director of Music and Head of Creative Arts

KES Symphony Orchestra Directed by

Mrs Freemantle Violin I Madeleine Normand Leader Sang-Hoon Oh Zoë Carter Tai Jin Ho Yim Sophie Arthur Caitlin Gordon Luke Roberts Jonathan Smith Leah Jones Emmy Huang Seonaid Carson Oisin Shaw Niall Earley Charlie Spargo Huw Edwards Violin II Bi Jia Wu Seungyeon Oh Maya Garside Juliet Fox Iman Elsheikh Toby Hill Jessica Holt Victoria Diaper Natalya Evans Kathryn Elliot

Jana Billington Ali Diaper Viola Nicole CoutinhoGarrido Stephen Peckham Cello Anna Roberts Kathryn Roberts Mike Huang Catherine Whitby George Plater Issie Elliott Double Bass Will Holmes Jonathan Brown George Gadd Flute I Jenny Whitby Tom Edwards Imogen Tyrrell Naomi Gordon Jessica Thew Isabelle Fuller Emily Killip

Flute II Kim Ward Julia Roope Sophie Proud Heather White Emily Elliott Lucy Porter Oboe Liberty Roberts Cor Anglais Luke Roberts Clarinet I Harry McGhee Nick Francis Charlotte Jones Kieran Bassi Harriet Burwood Steven Hunt Jemima Dunnett Clarinet II Alex Jones Curtis Crowley Tina Wu Ina Cho Ben Routledge

Will Sheard Ellie Alveyn Bass Clarinet Tom Capper Bassoon Peter Budden Ali Watson Harry Uglow Trumpet I Oliver Ferec Dayson Philip Normand Joe Chalmers Toby Saer Tom Slattery Andy Thompson Trumpet II Gus Woolley James Mitchell Mhairi Carson Ellie MacLeod Tom Fay

Murray Watson Trombone Peter Thompson Guy Ripper Peter Astbury Ed Osmond Tuba Patrick Herklots Percussion Jonathan Millar Carl Wikeley Sam Routledge Sachin Croker Alex Ferriman Piano Ishika Prachee

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MadelEine Normand

Leader of Symphony Orchestra I am in my fifth year and currently studying for my GCSEs. I have recently achieved grade 8 on my violin and have been in the Symphony Orchestra since first year and have slowly made my way up to leader! As well as this orchestra I have played in various others outside school, including Hampshire County Youth Orchestra which I am in at the moment. There are 95 players in the King Edward’s Symphony Orchestra and every Monday for an hour, we get together to rehearse. Last July we took part in the Music for Youth National Festival and had the chance to play at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham, an amazing experience for us all to play in such a large theatre. When we were up in Birmingham, we also had the opportunity to play with some players from the National Youth Orchestra in an orchestral workshop. Also, I play with the school String Orchestra which has been very successful since its recent formation. We played at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham and were awarded the Music Education Council’s Award for Chamber Orchestra at the National Festival in 2009. This summer we will be on tour in Prague in the Czech Republic.

KES Choir Directed by

Mrs Freemantle Jordan Abbott Mary Amos Charlie Baker Penelope Bielckus Harriet Billington Emma Blackman Josh Blunsden Tabitha Burbidge Charlie Callaghan Miriam ChapmanRosenfield Anna Clark Anjelica Cleaver Florence Coath Benedict Cole Rebecca Collins Anna Cooke Elisabeth Curzen

Maddie Deakin Meg Dunlop Tom Durham Olivia Ellis Natalie Fairhurst Alex Ferriman Beth Gaunt Ameena Hamid Susannah Hill Will Hurrell Mariadaria IanniRavn Ellie Jones Clara Jordan Reem Katifi Georgia Kelly Sophie Khakoo Laura Kingshott

KES Chamber Choir

Hannah Larkin Olivia Leask Bronwyn Lee Naomi Lee Alice Liardet Darra McCarthy-Paul Julia Mead-Briggs Andrew Morgan Tim Oddie Rhiannon Paine Luka Peart Katrina PennNewman Lily Percival Caja Perris Tabitha Piggott Daisy Porter Liana Price

Olivia Reeves Angus Reid Anjali Reid Mitali Reid Dominik Reynolds Lily Schofield Abi Searle Ali Shanker Ethan Sharpe Jack Shaw-Downie Abigail Sheppard Shreya Shetty Harriet Smith Iolanta Spanner Tabitha Sparks Ellie Stephens Georgia Stonadge Sara Talwar

Barnaby Taylor Emma Taylor Emily Thompson Amy Tizard Zeid Truscott Erica Tsang George Tuck David Veres Austen Wallis Louis Warnes Sacha Warnes Aliyah Warshow Heather Watts-Brooke Claudia Wyatt

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Natalie fairhurst Charlie Baker Josh Blunsden Anna Clark Benedict Cole Tom Durham Olivia Ellis

Natalie Fairhurst Alex Ferriman Charlotte Jones Leah Jones Reem Katifi Andy Morgan

Natalie Fairhurst School Music Captain

I am currently studying A level music and have recently achieved distinction in my grade 8 singing. I have held the Victoria Colton singing scholarship and now have a Sixth Form Music Award. At school I assist with the First Year Choir and Adult Choir and also direct the school Chamber Choir who perform in assemblies, services and events such as this Gala Concert. As part of the school choir I have sung in numerous concerts and also evensong at St Johnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and St Peterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, Oxford. Out of school I have sung in the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and worked as a volunteer for the Southampton Festival of Music and Drama.

Tabitha Piggott Anna Roberts Liberty Roberts Peter Thompson Gus Woolley

Big Band Directed by

Dr Leaman Tenor Saxophone Anna Roberts Nick Willsher Caitlin Gordon

Trumpet Oliver Ferec-Dayson Toby Saer Phil Normand Joe Chalmers Tom Slattery Tom Martin Gus Woolley Kosta Hodson

Baritone Saxophone Charlie Spargo Piano Harry Andrews

Trombone Peter Astbury Peter Thompson Patrick Herklots Peter Budden Alto Saxophone Harry McGhee Charlotte Jones Riki Ohri Alasdair Stone Alex Ward

Harry McGhee

Chant Music Scholar I am in the LVI and play the saxophone and clarinet at grade 8 standard and participate in the School Orchestra, Big Band, Wind Octet/Quartet, and Sax Quartet. I also enjoy playing the guitar, piano and drums, and play in the Southampton Youth Jazz Orchestra. I’m very much looking forward to this evening’s concert and the highlight will be playing a clarinet solo with the Big Band. It should be an amazing experience to play in front of so many people at such a great venue.

Flute Quartet Directed by

Guitar Simon McCormick-Cox

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Bass Tom Capper Jonathan Brown

Jenny Whitby Zoë Carter Tai

Tom Edwards Emily Killip

Percussion Sachin Croker Jonathan Millar

Sax Quintet Directed by

Dr Leaman Harry McGhee Charlie Spargo Anna Roberts

Charlotte Jones Nick Willsher

Wind Octet Directed by

Mr Watson & DR LEAMAN Harry McGhee Anna Roberts Charlotte Jones Nick Willsher

Jenny Whitby Liberty Roberts Peter Budden Zoë Carter Tai

ZoË Carter Tai

Upper School Music Scholar I joined King Edward VI as first year music scholar and from there I have taken part in the school Flute Quartet who won the ABRSM Chamber Music award at the National Festival in 2011. I am currently taking GCSE music and I also take part in many more school groups such as String Quartet and Wind Octet. When I came to the school in 2008 I was part of the National Children’s Orchestra, and thanks to the school in 2011 I also took part in the English Schools Orchestra which I am also doing again this year. As well as school orchestras I also participate in Hampshire Flute Choir, Hampshire County Youth Wind Band, of which I’m principal flute, and Winchester Youth Orchestra. I was part of Primary Academy at the Royal Academy of Music, where I started to learn viola and joined a course called Arpeggione for two years. Recently I took part in a Southampton run String Chamber music course on viola, and I currently learn the violin, flute and piano and achieved grade 7 distinction, grade 8 and grade 6 merit respectively.

Dancers Amelia Abraham Marsha Allan-Burns Harry Andrews Harvey Armstrong Gemma Asher James Brooks Jenny Budden

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Ellen Watson

Ed Cain George Cartwright Charlotte Crompton Lauren Crowley Julian Ellis-Brown Phoebe FarrellPaulton

Hannah Hill Rebecca Hogg Georgia Hoile Alice James Rhianna Jones Lucia Laverty Natalia Laverty

Second Orchestra Directed by

Mr Watson Violin Zara Gordon Charlotte Lisle Lucy Allinson Myfanwy Allen Cello/Double Bass James Thomson Belinda Groom Lucy Coles Jonathan Brown* Flute I Eva Carlyle Oliver Boyland Flute II Mary-Kate Searles Anna Brooks Sara Wilson Maya Smale

Oboe Alex Ayres Luke Roberts* Clarinet 1 Raja Ohri Katy Billington Sterling Roberts Clarinet 2 Mathew Man Bijan Nader-Sepahi Amber Westley Patrick Miller Bassoon Ali Watson* Harry Uglow * Saxophone I Zak Berry Cameron Roberts

Saxophone II Joe Arthur Trumpet I Kosta Hodson James Osman Trumpet II Oliver Rose Tom Hardwick Ewan Williams Will Thompson Baritone Horn Jacob Fay Percussion Carl Wikeley* Oscar Shaheen PIANO Ishika Prachee *Guest Player

Jacqueline Man Sam Miles Sam Oliver Sarah Romilly Julia Roope Bethany Rose Hanan Sharkh

Molly Shaw-Downie Danielle Townsend Bella Turner Annabel Winsor

Matthew Barley

Musician -in-residence I wish more people would think about music the way Matthew Barley does The Times (London)

Cello playing is at the centre of Matthew Barley’s career, while his musical world has virtually no geographical, social or stylistic boundaries. Music Director of BBC2 TV’s Classical Star programme, Matthew Barley is passionate about education, improvisation, cross-disciplinary projects, composition, and pioneering community programmes. He is also a world-renowned cellist, who has performed in over 50 countries, including concertos with the BBC Philharmonic, BBC Scottish Symphony, London Sinfonietta, Hong Kong Sinfonietta, Royal Scottish National, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Athens Camerata, Zagreb Solosits, Czech Philharmonic, and Melbourne and

Over the course of the last two terms we have been delighted to welcome Matthew Barley to the Music department to work with a range of our musicians. He has led workshops with our string orchestra, GCSE and A-level musicians, cello ensemble, woodwind soloists, A-level Music Tech class and the Music Tech Club. The piece you will hear this evening is the culmination of a composition project with pupils from the GCSE and A-level music classes. Matthew was educated at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Moscow Conservatoire. He thinks big: his first gesture when he returned to the UK was to hire 12 cathedrals in England and Wales, playing solo recitals and in the middle of each concert, performing a work with 15 schoolchildren that had

been written during the three previous days in workshops. Since then he has worked with London Sinfonietta, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Association of British Orchestras, the Purcell School, the Royal College of Music, the South Bank Centre, the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and as a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for the postgraduate course of Performance and Communication Skills. Given his background it is no surprise that he has brought an exciting new dimension to our work at KES this year. With his depth of specialist knowledge he has given the students an insight into the way in which a practising artist works with the main focus of the residency on creativity in composition through improvisation and performance.

New Zealand Symphonies. Matthew Barley’s non-classical collaborations include Amjad Ali Khan, Davud Azad, Talvin Singh, Sultan Khan and Ross Daly, appearing in venues ranging from Ronnie Scott’s and the WOMAD festivals to London’s Southbank Centre. Matthew’s new music group, Between The Notes, has undertaken over 60 creative projects with young musicians and orchestral players around the world. Recent engagements have included Tan Dun’s The Map at the Launaudière Festival in Canada, performances with the Netherlands Radio Chamber Orchestra and Metropole Jazz Orchestra, a residency at Kings Place in London, and a new project with Viktoria Mullova called The Peasant Girl.

Constant Filter (John Metcalfe’s music for cello and electronics) has just been released following the five-star success of The Dance of the Three Legged Elephants with jazz pianist Julian Joseph. Future plans include performances at London’s Wigmore Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the Vienna Konzerthaus, concerts with the Kremerata Baltica, BBC Scottish and Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, tours in Europe, Mexico and Siberia, the inaugural concert at the Barefoot Concert Hall in the Maldives, and in 2013 a residency at the Spitalfield’s Festival in London in June and a 100-event tour of the UK to celebrate Britten’s centenary.

I have been delighted with the response from the students at KES who are a joy to work with. They have been intelligent, disciplined, and eager to learn new ways of making music. The composition was created by the students during several days of workshop sessions. An Indian Tihai (a rhythmic pattern often used to conclude a section on Indian music), called Takita, was used as a starting point for composition because the students enjoyed learning it so much. We explored the way a small amount of material can be used to make a lot of music, with a healthy dose of imagination and creativity.

Photograph by Nick White

Progra GALA CONCERT

Part 1 Symphony Jupiter GUSTAV Holst Orchestra arr. Ling Massed Choirs Firefly Andy Beck The Lily and the Rose Bob Chilcott Wind Octet The Thieving Magpie GIOACHINO Rossini arr. Watson Twyford SCHOOL Furaha! Sally Albrecht Choir Yo le Canto todo el dia David Brunner Second GEORGES Bizet Orchestra Carmen arr. Watson Sherborne House At last I see the light Alan Menken Choir Double Trouble John Williams Saxophone Sevilla Isaac Albeniz Quintet arr. Mule/Leaman Symphony SERGEI ProkoFIEV Orchestra Montagues & Capulets arr. Siennicki Stroud School Swing Low Spiritual arr. Fay Choir I’m a believer Neil Diamond arr. Rick Hein Matthew Barley Prelude from suite No.1

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Ensemble Titan’s Forge OLIVER Leaman

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Part 2

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Symphony Pirates of the KALUS Baldelt Orchestra Caribbean arr. Ricketts Springhill Engine Engine Arr. Jo McNally School Choir Roller Ghoster Alan Simmons Takita GCSE & AS Composition project with Matthew Barley Massed Choir The Rose Amanda McBroom arr. Julie Knowles Flute Quartet Aux bords du torrent Eugene Bozza Princes Mead Voices Calling Stephen Chadwick Choir All Through The Nightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Welsh Trad, arr. Emmott-Dart. I Turn On The Tap / I Walk To The Stream RICHARD StilgOE Big Band Haitian Fight Song Charles Mingus arr. Johnson Clarinade Mel Powell arr. As Played by Benny Goodman Gray/Glasscock Soloist Harry McGhee Anvil Chorus Verdi arr. As played by Glenn Miller Gray/Glasscock Orchestra Chamber Choir Hide and Seek IMOGEN Heap Ensemble Summertime Gershwin arr. Soloists Natalie Fairhurst Leaman & Andy Morgan

Titan’s Titan’s Forge by OLIVER LEAMAN

Lifeboats; twenty, should be plenty

and importance. In this, the year of the 2012 London Olympics, it is interesting to note that the RMS Titanic had a sister ship, the RMS Olympic, named due to the 1908 London Games. This allusion resounds further when one realises that the Olympians overthrew the Titans. There are two final thoughts of interest connected to this piece. Firstly, the other occasion London hosted the Games was in 1948. Due to the post-war economic climate in the UK and wider Europe they were known as the Austerity Games. Secondly, the Titanic is the story of a luxury ocean liner wrecked at sea, the gravity of the situation ignored until a tragedy was unavoidable and the lifeboats that were deployed falling well short of their capacity. Plus ça change …

About the piece

When asked to write a piece for the Anvil gala concert, a considerable time was spent searching for a subject that would unite the differing performers. After much consideration two elements kept returning. One was that the concert was to take place in the Anvil. The other that all of the schools represented here tonight have an SO postcode and as such are unified by Southampton. Once it had been realised that the concert would fall a month before the centenary of the RMS Titanic’s departure from Southampton Docks, the link that combined these two factors had been found. The Titan of the title refers to the powerful race of deities in Greek Mythology who ruled in the Golden Age. As such, the word titan has become synonymous with strength

About the music

Composing a piece for large ensemble is no easy task, and one for seven choirs and two orchestras provides any number of logistical problems. It is for this reason that the material you will hear is created out of fragmented cues that build together as if being created in a sonic foundry. In three obvious sections, the piece begins with the KES Choir and Orchestra developing ideas on the theme of the anvil, an item full of musical connotations. The original Germanic root of the word has the noun beat at its core and it is also the name of the bone in the ear that transmits vibrations allowing us to hear. The opening fanfare-esque calls from brass are obscure quotes from sections of the melody from ‘The Song of the Blacksmith’ from

Gustav Holst’s Second Suite in F, op. 28. Bubbling out of these calls are textures on flutes, clarinets and then full woodwind, suggesting the initial awakening of the forge into life. Completing the texture are samples recorded by the composer at Southampton Docks. The second section features the 5 junior choirs reading short stories that the performers have themselves penned. Each child reads their work simultaneously thus creating a cacophony of voices. The themes of the stories are unified in that they follow that of the Titanic before she set sail on her maiden voyage from Southampton. The stories are from many differing perspectives; the men who forged the massive structure together, a bystander seeing the structure for the first time; an hotelier remarking on the increased business the arrival of the ship has brought. These are stories of hope and excitement, before any knowledge of the tragedy that was to strike on April 15th 1912. In the third part of the piece the forging of the great boat begins, with rhythmical textures and effects building up until all 450+ performers escalate to a climax. In amongst the slowly building rhythmic complexity you will hear technical details of the ship from the KES Male Choir, included in the table opposite. The hammering of iron girders is represented by the Springhill and KES percussionists and you may also hear the ship’s blast from various sections of the orchestras. The piece ends with all vocalists chanting the most prescient of all facts; “lifeboats; twenty, should be plenty” before a final call from the ship’s foghorn.

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Name: RMS Titanic Owner: White Star Line Port of registry: Liverpool Builder: Harland and Wolff Yard number: 401 Official Number: 131428 Designed: June 1907 Keel Laid: 31 March 1909 Launched: 31 May 1911 Completed: 31 March 1912 Sea Trials: 2nd April 1912 Arrival at Southampton: 3rd April 1912 Maiden voyage: 10 April 1912 Tonnage: 46,328 tons Length: 882 ft 9 in Beam: 92 ft Height: 175 ft Draught: 34 ft 7 in Depth: 64 ft 6 in Decks: 9 Top Speed: 23 knots Funnels: 4 Propellers: 3 Anchors: 2 Capacity: 2,453 Lifeboats in design: 32 Lifeboats included: 20 Capacity of Lifeboats: 1,178

On returning to Britain in 2003, Oliver was appointed Head of Music Technology in the Junior Department of Trinity College of Music where he went on to lecture in the Composition Department on Undergraduate and Masters courses as well as teaching in the Education Department. He has also guest-lectured at Huddersfield and Reading Universities and has taught at King Edward VI School since 2004. Oliver’s PhD in pedagogic composition using Max/MSP to develop interactive software was

awarded by Brunel University in June 2011. Recent compositions and commissions have included pieces for The Southbank Sinfonia, Piano Circus, Winchester Cathedral and collaborations with Lawrence Herklots on Einstein The Musical and That Certain Uncertainty, to be performed at Theatre Royal Winchester in July 2012. Oliver continues to perform and record with the experimental group Bash-O. He is also a published author of analysis for the Naxos record label.

Prince’s Mead School Conductor

ACCOMPANIST

Sue Williams

DEBBIE EMMOTT-DART

The Prince’s Mead Chamber Choir is an accessible lunchtime singing club which is open for membership to any child in Year 4-6. We perform in school throughout the year in special assemblies, concerts, and in the Southampton festival of music and drama. Kitty Atherton Annabel Malony Amelia Brown Jessica Miller Charlotte Philips Coco MorrisMarsham Skye Ayling India Childs Lucy McMillan Kate Wimbush

Bryony Renwick Arabella Weiglhofer Jemima Brown Isabelle Grant Alexandra Witter Agnes Roberts-West Tiana Baily Robyn Jones Isobel Andrews Conrad Geake William Booth

Sophie Wilkinson Maddie Holden Thea Leeming Henry Pawsey Tom Hastie Alex Chandler Humphrey Cristofoli Jessica Wooster Eve Henley Georgia Wooster Clara Wessely

Brass Group Directed by

Sue Williams

Alice Booth Isobel Finchum Mia Stares Perdy Harvey Eleanor Ring Locryn Geake Mia Kanani Isobel Wolf Ellen Campbell Amelia Murphy Eliza Winter

Darcy Cleland Lucy McMillan William Warwick-Smith Conrad Geake Ciara Pitt Madelaine Holden

Josie Colvin Lili Stavonhagen SECOND orchestra GUEST PLAYERS Lockryn Geake Mia Stares Clara Wessley

Josie Colvin Isobel Wolf Eve Henley William Sanvoisin Arabella Weiglhofer

Sherborne House School Conductor

SHELAGH LEE

ACCOMPANIST

CATH BERRY

Sherborne House School believes that singing and music should be an integral part of school life. We have several choirs and a wide range of instrumental ensembles. We attained Platinum Sing Up status in 2011 and perform both locally and nationally. Alexandra Hopkins Amelia Altenburger Anamika Ramkumar Aneesh Banerjee Annabel Panaech Anoushka Umranikar Anusha Gauba Caleb Lester Carol Naoum Christian Brooks Eleanor Dunlop Elizabeth Wealdon

Ella Ritchie Ella Wright Ellie Barnfather Faith Powers Felicity Lang Finbar Ditchfield Francis Hoghton Gee Pone Gus Berry Hannah Kimber Harry Pizzey Harry Wheadon

Indie Chungh Isabella Bartlett Izabela Zienkiewicz Jack Hickson Jaskirit Gill Joseph Mills Jovan Dhariwal Katya Seifert Louis Scrivener Luke Deacon Manish Arunachalam Matthew Crossley

Mihir Thakrar Oliver Newcombe Rachael Locke Rebecca Colyer Rory Holm Sam Brown Sarah Hassan Thomas Sanders William Crossley William Dunford

SECOND orchestra GUEST PLAYERS Anamika Ramkumar Anusha Gauba Kalya Sieber Indie Chungh Frances Hogton Louis Scrivener

Springhill RC Primary Conductor

ACCOMPANIST

NICOLA MANNING

MARTIN PENROSE

Springhill School choir is made up of boys and girls from years 4.5 and 6 who meet once a week after school to sing together. We sing a variety of songs in unison and in parts and particularly enjoy action songs and songs from musicals. The choir regularly take part in concerts and other events. Last year we were lucky enough to sing for the Lord Mayor’s Toy Appeal and to open the festivities at the Bedford Place Christmas Party. We also regularly take part in the Southampton Music Festival. We are really looking forward to taking part in tonight’s concert and having the opportunity to sing with so many other choirs. Kendra Attard Charrett Clare Bignell Charlotte Clarke Emma Gourlay Grace Reavey Avina Benny Alisha Giby Liam Ray Shannon Voller Iga Osipowicz Alvina Tom

Georgia Campbell Sherlyn Sherwin Grace O’Mara Naveena Stephen Jordan Kibuuka Jacob Gooding Isobel Lovell Jeremiah Scariya Olivia Axton Angel Stockley Jack Mongan Munpreet Potiwal

Patrycja Sypula Lia D’Abbraccio Hannah Triggs Anna Byron Butler Klaudia Biernacka Ola Kaszyca Andre Vicente Ivan Alves Oliver Walsh Serena Pahal Daniel Cunio Browne Hannah Cowap

Percussion Group MR ALEX POPE Directed by

Amy Boyle Bonita Chong Tia Fishlock Isabella Cox Elizabeth Elliott Caitlin Maby Cecilia Barnes Amena Rahman Ula Kalinowska Axara Noguero Timmy Cunio Browne Aoife Dougan

Olivia O’Mara Annie Barraclough Ania Mazurkiewicz Laura Ray James Tidbury Maria Prentice Jennifer Kibuuka Olivia Reavey Macrina Alasah

Mariya Idiculla Luke Bennett Harrison Pitts Daniel Ekpo Giovanni Appleyard

Elliott Connelly Leo Payyappilly Oliver Walsh

Twyford School ACCOMPANIST

Conductor

David Hall

Ben Watson

The Senior Choir of Twyford School, under the direction of David Hall, enriches the worship in our regular morning chapel services and more formal services throughout the year. There are currently thirty-two members selected from Years 6, 7 and 8. All of the choristers receive a singing lesson each term and many choose to have weekly lessons in singing and on instruments. Recently, the Senior Choir has sung choral evensong at Christ Church, Oxford and at St Mary’s, Twyford and a charity concert at Romsey Abbey. The choir has also combined forces with parents, friends and professional musicians to perform Parry’s I was Glad, Fauré’s Requiem and Vivaldi’s Gloria. Twyford Senior Choir is affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music. Nine of the children are also members of the National Children’s Choir of Great Britain. Tristan Behrens Alasdair Fleming Pippa Barlow Grace Gammell Eleanor Hill Rosie Marcus Sophie Ridley

Amanda Roe Luciana Rosell Felix de Merode Harry Harper Henry McCoy Louis Matovu Annabelle Budd

Phoebe Burdett Miranda Dibden Consuelo Haynes Alice Ridley Annabelle Woodman Gerard Cloke Browne James Diaper

Will Fleming Archie Lawrence Jack Woosman Freddie Worth Amira Douglas Todd Katie Harvey Matilda Hubble

Ella Mason Imogen Nicholls Charlotte Petter Constance Turner

Stroud School Conductor

ANNIE SANGER-DAVIES ACCOMPANIST

TANYA FAY Stroud School choir meets once a week as a fun after school activity and is open to anyone who wishes to take part. Its ethos is to encourage an enjoyment of music and group singing. The choir has opportunities to perform throughout the year in fundraising concerts and at the School Carol Service in Romsey Abbey. We are very excited about this fantastic opportunity to perform with all the other choirs and orchestra at the Anvil. William Barker Samuel Burton Robyn Cooper Alice Dyer Joshua Golledge Finn McCullagh Florence Peters Amy Ritchie Theo Sweeney Emily Wann

George Fennell Zoe Henderson Sarah MacLeod Holly Oscroft Oliver Simmonds Zoe Whatley Grace Woolaway William Billington Joshua Hillier John Joyce

Edward Moody Benedict Parker Anna Poller Samuel Rachman Sophie Thompson Tusca Alavi Roma Creedon Millie Hargreaves Abigail James Fergus Phelan

Georgina Pugh Jake Rowland Elizabeth Ryan Benjamin Smith Charles Waring Madeleine Burton Ben Millar Archie Millar William Osborne Henry Waring

George McMenemy Niamh Phelan Oliver Woolaway SECOND orchestra GUEST PLAYER Ben Millar

Songs Firefly

The Rose

Firefly, shining in the night. Firefly, spectacle of light. Flashing and flickering, oh so bright Firefly, shining in the night. Why are you hiding in the light of the day? Only igniting when the sun goes away. Flashing, flickering, flicking, flashing, flashing, flickering. Firefly.

Some say love it is a river that drowns the tender reed. Some say love it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. Some say love it is a hunger an endless aching need. I say love it is a flower, and you its only seed.

Words & Music by Andy Beck

Firefly, Firefly, shining in the night. Firefly, Firefly, spectacle of light. Flashing and flickering, oh so bright. Firefly, shining in the night. Why are you hiding till the moon’s in the sky? Only igniting when the evening is nigh. Flashing, flickering, flicking, flashing, flashing, flickering. Firefly.

Words & Music by Amanda McBroom, arranged by Julie Knowles

It’s the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It’s the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance. It’s the one who won’t be taken who cannot seem to give, And the soul afraid of dyin’ that never learns to live. When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows. Lies the seed that with the sun’s love in the spring becomes the rose.

The Lily and the Rose Anon. 16th century English with Music by Bob Chilcott

The meaning of this enchanting medieval poem remains elusive. The oldest known source is a sixteenth-century British Library manuscript (Harley 7578), and the text was first printed in a modern edition in 1907. It also appears in The Oxford Book of English Verse, edited by Helen Gardner, with the title ‘The Bridal Morn’. The Lily and the Rose can be read as a symbol of the Virgin Mary, and perhaps the most convincing interpretation of the poem is that of Mary mourning the death of her son. References to ‘bearing the bell away’ and to the ‘bailey’ could be seen to support this; in the Middle Ages, bells were rung over a body to confirm death, and bailey is a synonym for ‘keep’, the place where a body might be buried. However, the most compelling modern interpretation is that the text is concerned with the fear and excitement of a young girl on her wedding day, hence the title in The Oxford Book of English Verse. Certainly, references to mother, windows, and sunshine can be read as images of protection and freedom.

The maidens came when I was in my mother’s bower, The maidens came when I was in my mother’s bower, I had all that I would. The bailey beareth the bell away; The lily, the rose, the rose I lay. The silver is white, Red is the gold; The silver is white, Red is the gold; The robes they lay in fold. The bailey beareth the bell away; The lily, the rose, the rose I lay And through the glass windows shines the sun. How should I love, How should I love, and I so young, so young? The bailey beareth the bell away; The lily, the rose, the rose I lay.

King Edward VI Music Scholars Emmy Huang Tom Edwards Nichole Coutinho Garrido Philip Normand ZoĂŤ Carter-Tai Bi Jia Wu Jennifer Whitby Liberty Roberts

First Year Second Year Third Year Third Year Fourth Year Fourth Year Fifth Year Firth Year

Sixth Form Music Award Holders

Sachin Croker Peter Budden Emily Killip Charlotte Baker Anna Roberts Natalie Fairhurst Peter Thompson Reem Katifi Tom Capper Olivia Ellis Penelope Bielckus Kathryn Roberts

Chant Sixth Form Scholar

School Music Captain Natalie Fairhurst

Upper School Music Captain Sang-Hoon Oh

Lower School Music Captain Caitlin Gordon

Production Manager Mr Havers

Production Team Mrs Henderson Mr Putt Miss Campbell Mrs Cook

Miss Smith Miss Collier Mrs Cottrell-Ferrat

Harry McGhee

Production Assistants

JRTA String Prize

Photography

Sang Hoon Oh Jin Ho-Yim

Sampson Singing Prize Leah Jones

Victoria Colton Singing Prize Emma Taylor Darra McCarthy-Paul Luke Roberts

Miriam Graham Flute Prize Isabelle Fuller

Daria Crowley, Reece Bridger & Murray Watson

Mr Piggott

Dance

Miss Watson

Cameraman James Consterdine

Programme Indigo Press

Music Staff Mrs Freemantle Dr Leaman Mr Watson

Music ADMINISTRATOR

Reuniting points for parents and performers at the end of the Concert:

Mrs Cook

Sherborne House Upper Foyer near interval drinks shelf

Visiting Music Staff

Springhill Upper Foyer near Linden Room

Miss Bettle Mr Williams Mr Lyon Miss Braga Miss Collier Mr Osman Mr Cox Mr Worsfold Miss Rowlinson Mrs Davis Mr Thompson Mr Hall Mr Webb Mrs Handy Mrs Williams Mrs Andreou Mr Hall Mrs Nolan-Stone

Mrs Bolton Mr Morgan Mr Cleaver Miss Burns Mrs Salmon Mrs Felton Mr Kotch Mr Lamprell

Forthcoming Music Events at King Edward VI March 28th 6.00pm

Opening of Sea City Museum Chamber Groups

Princeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mead Upper Foyer in front of bar Stroud Stalls Foyer by wooden floor Twyford Box Office area King Edward VI Choir Stalls Foyer by Door A King Edward VI Instrumentalists Main auditorium in front of stage King Edward VI Dancers Main Auditorium in front of stage

April 24th 7.30pm

5th Year GCSE Music performance evening in the Recital Room

May 2nd 7.30pm

Fusion Concert for emerging bands and young musical talent. Dobson Theatre

June 25th All day Music Competition

July 11th and 12th 2pm / 7.30pm That Certain Uncertainty Theatre Royal, Winchester

July 13th - 19th

Music Tour to Prague

The KES Music staff would like to thank all pupils and teachers from participating schools, Matthew Barley, pupils and staff of King Edward VI, the Anvil staff, KES Site Staff and not least parents and friends who have supported this evening.

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