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KING EDWARD VI SCHOOL CONCERT WEDNESDAY 19 MARCH 2014

TURNER SIMS, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON

Welcome to this evening’s Spring Concert which features the School’s senior instrumental and vocal groups.

It is our first visit to Turner Sims and we are very grateful to the management for making us so welcome. I would also like to take this opportunity to record my sincere thanks to Dr Leaman and Mr Watson for all their wonderful work in the Department. In September Dr Leaman will be taking up the post of Director of Music at Blundell’s School in Devon, and Mr Watson the post of Assistant Director of Music at Fettes College, Edinburgh. We wish them both success and happiness in their new posts.

Thank you for your support this evening, and throughout the year.

Heather Freemantle

Director of Music and Head of Creative Arts

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programme Chamber Orchestra

Symphony 5 First Movement

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Piano Concerto No. 2 Andante Played by BiJia Wu

Dmitri Shostakovich

Hoe Down

Aaron Copland

Sonata in C Slow movement Played by Carl Wikeley

Joseph Haydn

I Got Rhythm Played by Sophie Proud

George Gershwin

Oboe Quartet

Allegro

W.A. Mozart

Duo

American Boy/Beggin’ Mash up Ben Carden-Jones and Luke Green

Estelle / Madcon

The Turtle Dove

Ralph Vaughan-Williams

I’m a Train

Albert Hammond, Mike Hazelwood Arr. Knight

Piano Solo

Piano Solo

Chamber Choir

Cello Solo

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The Long Day Closes

Arthur Sullivan

Cello Concerto First Movement Played by Mike Huang

Edward Elgar

INTERVAL Symphony Orchestra

Prelude to Meistersingers

Richard Wagner Arr. Watson

Radetzky March

Johann Strauss

Vocal Solo

Automne Sung By Miriam Chapman-Rosenfeld

Gabriel Fauré

Vocal Quartet

Interlude Dissolve Me

Alt-J

Telemann Octet

Vivace

Georg Philipp Telemann

Jazz Octet

Summertime

George Gershwin

Flute Trio

Curves Second Movement

Ian Clarke

Big Band

Mercy Mercy Mercy Take The A Train Sing Sing Sing

Josef Zawinul Billy Strayhorn Louis Prima

Big Band and Orchestras

It’s Not Unusual Sung by Andy Morgan

Les Reed and Gordon Mills

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Chamber Orchestra Violin I Maddy Normand Zoe Carter Tai Jin Ho Yim Sophie Arthur Ben Atherton Caitlin Gordon Emmy Huang Seonaid Carson Diana Williams Violin II BiJia Wu Seungyeon Oh Maya Garside Toby Hill Natalya Evans Iman Elsheikh Emily Atherton Alice Booth Emma Clarke Viola Joanna Seaby Erica Tsang Jane Andrews Cello Mike Huang Cathering Whitby Issie Elliott George Plater Anna Roberts Bass Jonny Brown Alice Ridley 6

Flute Jenny Whitby Thomas Edwards Clarinet Nick Francis Curtis Crowley Kieran Bassi Oboe Luke Roberts Liberty Roberts Bassoon Ben Watson Trumpet Mhairi Carson Phil Normand Toby Saer Tim Warren Trombone Guy Ripper Edward Fletcher Peter Thompson Tuba Chris Lotery Percussion Jonny Millar Carl Wikeley Sam Routledge Piano Sophie Proud 7

Symphony Orchestra Violin I Alla Garside Maddy Normand Jin Ho Yim Jana Billington Juliet Fox Emmy Huang Natalya Evans Yuqing Chen Seonaid Carson Alice Booth Flute I Isabelle Fuller Tom Edwards Claudia Tam Sophie Proud Flute II Charlotte Percival Tabitha Burbidge Julia Roope Heather White Lucy Porter Rhianna Jones Flute I/Piccolo Jenny Whitby Trombone Ben Atherton Guy Ripper Edward Fletcher Baritone Horn Jacob Fay Tuba Chris Lotery

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Violin II Yasmine El Sheikh Zoe Carter Tai Jessica Holt Seungyeon Oh Henry Tsang Maya Garside Eve Henley Iman Elsheikh Tusca Alavi BiJia Wu Miffy Allen Emily Atherton Toby Hill Emma Clarke

Viola Erica Tsang Joanna Seaby Jane Andrews

Clarinet I Joan Chen Ben Routledge Curtis Crowley Nick Francis

Oboe Luke Roberts Liberty Roberts

Clarinet II Ina Cho Daisy Porter Nick Neves Katy Billington Bass Clarinet Will Sheard Percussion Jonny Millar Carl Wikeley Sam Routledge Alto Saxophone Caitlin Gordon Kieran Bassi Piano Sophie Proud

Cello Rachel Crawford Mike Huang James Thomson Catherine Whitby Frankie Hoghton Issie Elliott Bass Jonny Brown Alice Ridley

Chamber Choir Anna Roberts Julia Roope Jinni Tang Gabby Walker Tom Durham Andy Morgan Anna Cooke Liberty Roberts Emily Thompson Jenny Whitby Tabby Piggott Josh Blunsden

Miriam Chapman-Rosenfeld Zoe Carter Tai Emily Atherton Emma Blackman Darra McCarthy-Paul Barney Venable Phil Normand Beth Gaunt Keeya Saund Sara Wilson Lucia Laverty Ollie Uglow

Rosa Sparks Emer Healy Rhianna Jones Emma Taylor Meg Dunlop Luke Roberts Bi Jia Wu Maddy Normand Evie Marshall

Trumpet I Jackson Taylor Philip Normand Trumpet II James Mitchell Ben Millar Mhairi Carson Trumpet III Ellie MacLeod Toby Saer French Horn ChloĂŤ Plater Alexander Liu Nick White

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Cello Mike Huang

Flute Jenny Whitby Zoe Carter-Tai Oboe Luke Roberts Liberty Roberts Basso Continuo BiJia Wu Anna Roberts Bass Alice Ridley Percussion Joe Winter Trumpet Mhairi Carson Saxophones Jordon Abbott Daisy Porter Claudia Tam Trombone Guy Ripper

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Trumpet Toby Saer Phil Normand Mhairi Carson Tom Martin Tom Slattery Tristan Holt Trombone Ben Atherton Guy Ripper Edward Fletcher Chris Lotery Peter Thompson Alto Saxophone Caitlin Gordon Jordon Abbott Kieran Bassi

Flute Trio

Viola Joanna Seaby

Vocal Quartet

Violin Emmy Huang

Josh Blunsden Tom Durham Phil Normand Andy Morgan

Big Band

Oboe Quartet Telemann Octet

Violin Joanna Seaby Sophie Arthur

jazz Octet

Oboe Luke Roberts

Jenny Whitby Zoe Carter-Tai Thomas Edwards Piano Bi Jia Wu

Tenor Saxophone Claudia Tam Daisy Porter Baritone Saxophone Will Sheard Rhythm Section Jonny Millar Jonny Brown Bi Jia Wu Anna Cooke Luke Roberts

School Music Captain Sam Routledge Upper School Music Captain Rihanna Jones Lower School Music Captain Mhairi Carson King Edward VI Music Scholars Second Year Alla Garside Third Year Emmy Huang Fourth Year Maya Garside Fifth Year Luke Roberts

Mike Huang Music Exhibitioner Alice Ridley Chant Music Scholarship Jenny Whitby BiJia Wu Sixth Form Music Award Holders Tabitha Piggott Liberty Roberts Jonathan Millar Maddy Normand Carl Wikeley Miriam Chapman-Rosenfeld Joanna Seaby Jonny Brown Zoe Carter Tai Sophie Arthur JRTA String Award Caitlin Gordon Seungyeon Oh Ben Atherton Issie Elliott Iman Elsheikh

Members of National, County and Town Orchestras NYO National Youth Orchestra NCBBGB National Children’s Brass Band of Great Britain NCO National Children’s Orchestra HCYC Hampshire County Youth Choir HCYO Hampshire County Youth Orchestra HCYCO Hampshire County Youth Chamber Orchestra SYCO Southampton Youth Chamber Orchestra SYO Southampton Youth Orchestra WYO Wessex Youth Orchestra EFO English Schools Orchestra Jon Brown Double Bass SYO Zoë Carter Tai Violin/flute HCYO, WYO, ESO, HCYCO Ina Cho Clarinet SYCS Nick Francis Clarinet Principal HCWB Emmy Huang Violin SYO, NPSO, NRO (regional) Mike Huang ‘Cello NCO, SYO, NPSO Phil Normand Trumpet WYO Luke Roberts Oboe HCYO, Pops Orchestra Jenny Whitby Flute NYO, Principal ESO and HCYO, HCYCO Carl Wikeley Percussion Principal ESO, LSSO, Junior Academy Symphony Principal at NYWE Jin-Ho Yim Violin SYO Chris Lotery Tuba NCBBGB Joanna Seaby Prinicipal Viola WYO

Miriam Graham Flute Award Tom Edwards 11

Individual Instrumental Successes: Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music and Guildhall Instrumental Examinations 2013-14

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Grade 1 Anna Maria-Shenouda Natalie Gunner

Piano Clarinet

Pass Merit

Grade 2 James Lesnik Maya Smale Callum Price Jess Mills James Lander Himani Arora Blake Miller Eleanor Dye Ella Ritchie

Piano Piano Piano Piano Clarinet Singing Piano Flute Clarinet

Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Merit Merit Merit Distinction

Grade 3 Mia Kanani Eleanor Turner Elizabeth Cook Lewis Wildsmith Katrina Penn-Newman Andrew Crawford Mia Kanani Alexander Moore Daisy Fillbrook Emily Downes Rebecca Crawley Elena Sinclair Rachel Cook Jessica Mills Ella Ritchie Elizabeth Fletcher Aditya Rokade

Violin Clarinet Trumpet Jazz saxophone Singing Trumpet Singing Piano Piano Piano Clarinet Horn Singing Piano Singing Singing Violin

Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Distinction

Grade 4 Annabella Turner Mihir Thakrar Lucy Allinson Annabella Turner Hannah Loran Himani Arora Anamikar Ramkumar Patrick Lotery Robert Mcfarlane Ewan Williams Lucy Coles Eve Henley Oliver Boyland

Piano Clarinet Violin Violin Violin Violin Violin Clarinet Clarinet Trumpet Cello Trumpet Alto Saxophone

Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass

Eleanor Page Kelvin Xie Luka Peart Mattieu Livingston Oscar Bowdidge Abigail Sheppard Maya Smale Keeya Saund Alexander Lui Rory Saunders Natalie Oldfield Elizabeth Ryan James Thomson Charlotte Lisle Georgina Hanson Lily Schofield Angus Reid

Singing Viola Piano Piano Violin Flute Flute Flute Horn Trumpet Singing Singing Cello Singing Singing Singing Singing

Pass Pass Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Distinction Distinction Distinction

Grade 5 Elliot D’Souza Henry Harris Jana Billington Oliver Tait Oliver Boyland Emma Hill Patrick Miller Kelvin Xie Oliver Martin Jana Billington Meg Dunlop Barney Venable Ben Millar Rebecca Williams Bethan Self Lucia Laverty Robert Dye Sebastian Sheath Harriet Billington Emma Blackman Alice Booth Yuqing Chen Ben Routledge

Piano Piano Violin Violin Flute Flute Clarinet Viola Trumpet Alto Saxophone Flute Singing Trumpet Flute Singing Singing Clarinet Saxophone Singing Violin Violin Violin Jazz saxophone

Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Distinction Distinction Distinction

Grade 6 James Mitchell Yasmine Elsheikh Isobel Bartholomew Rachel Crawford Ellie Macleod Darra McCarthy-Paul Keeya Saund Cameron Roberts Ellie Macleod Seungyeon Oh Emma Blackman Claudia Tam Nicolas Neves

Trumpet Violin Singing Cello Piano Singing Singing Jazz saxophone Trumpet Piano Singing Flute Clarinet

Pass Pass Pass Pass Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit Merit

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PROGRAMME NOTES Beethoven - Symphony No.5 in C minor – Allegro First performed in Vienna in 1808, this movement has become the most widely recognised piece of orchestral music in history. Beethoven himself described the opening four-note motif as “fate knocking at the door” and both analysis and performance of the work has been plagued for 200 years by conflicting interpretations of this motif.

The power, concentration and white-hot compression of Beethoven’s music is staggering. The first movement creates its tumultuous organic chemistry of interrelationships from the atomic particles of the notes it started with; in different guises, the four-note rhythmic idea permeates the rest of the symphony as well.

The Fifth incarnated the romantic axiom that orchestral music, untethered to words or other worldly concepts, could glimpse “the realm of the infinite”. This symphony, Hoffman wrote, “sets in motion the machinery of awe, of fear, of terror, of pain, and awakens that infinite yearning which is the essence of Romanticism”.

Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 2 in F – Adagio Shostakovich composed this concerto in 1957 for his son Maxim’s 19th birthday and the boy performed as part of his graduation from the Moscow conservatoire. The piece as a whole has a very conservative orchestration and style, especially given that Shostakovich composed the 11th Symphony and the 6th String Quartet around the same time. The composer himself is quoted as having said that the work had “no redeeming artistic merits”, however, it has been suggested that he wanted to pre-empt criticism by deprecating the work himself (having been the victim of official censure numerous times), and that the remark was actually meant to be tongue-in-cheek.

Copland - Hoe Down Emer Healy Ben Thorne Niamh Phelan Rosa Sparks

Singing Jazz clarinet Singing Singing

Distinction Distinction Distinction Distinction

Grade 7 Ina Cho David Veres Emily Atherton Isobel Bartholomew Natalya Evans Katy Billington Emily Thompson Selena Cox Seungyeon Oh

Clarinet Piano Violin Singing Violin Jazz clarinet Singing Singing Violin

Pass Pass Pass Pass Pass Merit Merit Merit Distinction

Grade 8 Julia Roope Josh Blunsden Liberty Roberts Thomas Edwards Miriam Chapman-Rosenfeld Philip Normand Luke Roberts Jordon Abbott

Singing Singing Singing Flute Singing Singing Singing Alto Saxophone

Pass Merit Merit Distinction Distinction Distinction Distinction Distinction

Post Grade 8 – Diploma ABRSM Sophie Proud Piano 14

Pass

This is the final movement of Copland’s ballet Rodeo, which premiered in 1942. Although many of Copland’s works incorporate traditional American folk tunes, Rodeo is unique in that it leaves them quite intact in the score, with very little alteration on the part of the composer.

The “Hoe-Down” opens by vamping the first bar of William H. Stepp’s interpretation of the folk tune “Bonaparte’s Retreat”, which will become a major theme of the section. After a reprisal of the Rodeo theme, the melody proper begins in the strings, as the horns play a simple counterpoint. Instead of building to a climax, this section segues into “McLeod’s Reel”, performed by various solo instruments. Copland briefly introduces the Irish theme “Gilderoy” in the clarinet and oboe.

Building toward the end, Copland reintroduces “Bonaparte’s Retreat” in canon, before returning to the Rodeo theme, which slows into the climactic kiss between the Cowgirl and the Roper. “Bonaparte’s Retreat” is then resumed by the full orchestra, which ends the piece with a grand fanfare.

Haydn - Sonata in C Switching to an Adagio tempo and the key of the subdominant, the second movement of this C major sonata is technically and emotionally challenging. The style of the movement is quite intricate and amply shows the intellectual prowess of its composer. Set in ternary form, the lyrical opening F major melody is contrasted by a middle section beginning with graceful descending C major scales. An embellished and somewhat altered return of the opening F major section rounds out the movement.

Gershwin - I got rhythm I Got Rhythm was composed by George Gershwin with lyrics by his brother Ira in 1930. Its chord progression, known as the “rhythm changes”, is the foundation for many other popular jazz tunes such as Charlie Parker’s and Dizzy Gillespie’s Bebop standard “Anthropology (Thrivin’ From a Riff)”.

Although this version of the song came from the musical Girl Crazy, it was originally written as a slow song for Treasure Girl (1928). The song is also featured in the 1951 musical film An American in Paris. Gene Kelly sang the song and tap-danced, while French-speaking children whom he had just taught a few words of English shouted the words “I got” each time they appeared in the lyrics.

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Mozart - Oboe Quartet The 24-year-old Mozart spent the second half of 1780 working on his opera Idomeneo and then went to Munich in January of the following year for rehearsals and the première; it was while he was in Munich in early 1781 that he composed this Oboe Quartet. Mozart wrote it for Friedrich Ramm, the virtuoso solo oboist of the Electoral Orchestra in Munich. Ramm was admired for the purity of his sound, and he must have been a most distinguished player, for the Quartet demands a fluid technique and the ability to make wide melodic skips gracefully, as well as to draw out a cantabile line to great length.

Mozart gives the oboist ample opportunity for virtuoso display while the strings merely accompany it, but there are also many passages of true ensemble playing where the melodic line moves easily between oboist and strings. The Allegro opens with a jaunty theme for oboe that comes to dominate the movement. The graceful development of this sonata-form movement leads to a quiet close.

Pop mix “American Boy” is a song recorded by British rapper and singer Estelle for her second studio album Shine (2008). It features vocals from American rapper Kanye West. The song in its original incarnation is a breezy disco-funk song that lyrically describes a romance with an American suitor.

“Beggin’” is a song composed by Bob Gaudio and Peggy Farina and popularized by The Four Seasons in 1967. In 2007, the song received new popularity when it was remixed by the French DJ Pilooski and then covered by the Norwegian hip-hop band Madcon.

Vaughan-Williams - Turtle Dove Perhaps it was in response to Hubert Parry’s advice to “write choral music as befits an Englishman and a democrat,” that Vaughan Williams developed his lifelong interest in the folk music of his native England. Nowhere can this interest be seen more clearly than in his choral arrangements of folk songs: music of the people for the people. He came across the melody of The Turtle Dove in November of 1904, while on a folksong collecting expedition in Sussex. In 1919 he published it in an arrangement for male chorus, but it is more commonly heard in a setting for mixed chorus, published in 1924. The melody is first introduced by the solo baritone, who takes on the role of the traveller, destined to roam the earth while the love of his heart is to remain behind. As the intensity of the lyrics grow, so does the texture in the choir.

This continues until the third verse, where the choir’s florid lines take on the character of the seas that the traveller must traverse. The work ends quietly, as it began, with the solo baritone bemoaning the loss of his love.

Kings Singers - Train “I’m a Train” is a song written by Albert Hammond and Mike Hazlewood and first performed by Hammond in 1968.

In 1973 The Kings Singers worked with Hammond on a BBC programme for which he performed the song and they immediately set about writing an acapella arrangement in which various nonsense syllables and clever rhythmic details depict the journey of a locomotive.

Sullivan - The Long day closes The Long Day Closes is a part song by Arthur Sullivan with words by Henry Fothergill Chorley, published in 1868. This song is one of seven part songs that Sullivan published that year, and it became the best-known. Sullivan wrote most of his twenty part songs prior to the beginning of his long collaboration with W. S. Gilbert.

The plaintive harmonies of The Long Day Closes and the text’s touching meditation on death have made the song a frequent selection at events of mourning, and in particular it was often sung at funerals of members of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company.

Elgar - Cello Concerto Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto in E minor, his last notable work, is a cornerstone of the solo cello repertoire. Elgar composed it in the aftermath of the First World War, when his music had already gone out of fashion with the concertgoing public. In contrast with his earlier Violin Concerto, which is lyrical and passionate, the Cello Concerto is for the most part contemplative and elegiac.

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The first performance was a debacle because Elgar and the performers had been deprived of adequate rehearsal time.

The work did not achieve wide popularity until the 1960s, when a recording by Jacqueline du Pré caught the public imagination and became a classical best-seller.

The first movement is in ternary form with introduction. It opens with a recitative in the solo cello, immediately followed by a short answer from the clarinets, bassoons and horn. The viola section then presents a rendition of the main theme in Moderato, then passes it to the solo cello who repeats it. The string section plays the theme a third time and then the solo cello modifies it into a fortissimo restatement. The orchestra reiterates, and the cello presents the theme a final time before moving directly into a lyrical E major middle section. This transitions into a similar repetition of the first section.

Wagner - Mastersingers Wagner conceived the idea of a comic opera on the subject of the legendary German Meistersingers in 1845 after undertaking the deeply serious religious projects of Lohengrin and Parsifal. However, by the time of the first performance in 1868, Wagner wrote to his patron King Ludwig saying “It is impossible that you should not have sensed, under the opera’s quaint superfices of popular humour, the profound melancholy…the cry of distress of poetry in chains… and its irresistible magic power achieving mastery of the common and the base.”

The grand theme of the Mastersingers opens the Prelude, setting the scene for this solid, bourgeois guild of artistry. The flutes then introduce the courting motif of the young protagonist Walther which is brushed magisterially aside by the fanfare-like anthem of the Mastersingers Guild. The texture and grandeur swells as these trustees of the arts swell with pride before, in the final section, Wagner weaves his three main themes together in a rich tapestry that, in its operatic form, leads straight into the opening scene.

Strauss - Radetsky March The Radetzky March was composed by Johann Strauss Sr. in 1848. It was dedicated to the Field Marshal Joseph Radetzky von Radetz and soon became quite popular among regimented marching soldiers. It has been remarked that its tone is more celebratory than martial; Strauss was commissioned to write the piece to commemorate Radetsky’s victory at the Battle of Custoza.

When it was first played in front of Austrian officers they spontaneously clapped and stamped their feet when they heard the chorus. This tradition, with quiet rhythmic clapping on the first iteration of the melody, followed by thunderous clapping on the second, is kept alive today when the march is played in classical music venues in Vienna, among members of the audience who are familiar with the custom. It is almost always played as the last piece at the Neujahrskonzert of the Vienna Philharmonic.

Faure - Automne Automne (1878), the third of the three songs in Gabriel Fauré’s Op. 18, dates from a pivotal time in the composer’s life: he had recently completed a pilgrimage to Cologne to attend performances of Wagner’s Das Rheingold and Die Walküre and was just gaining enough acclaim as a composer that, in the year following, he received his first contract from a music publisher. And while the dramatic turbulence and harmonic tension of Wagner, as well as Fauré’s increasingly acute sense of musical expression, can both be detected in Automne, it is difficult to not also read into the song’s themes of sorrow and regret. Fauré’s personal circumstances, namely the termination a few months before of his engagement to Marianne Viardot must surely have had an impact on the composition of this song: “Autumn...I watch rushing past, like a torrent/all your melancholy days.” The speaker wanders off daydreaming, “carried away on the wings of regret” into the idyllic past of youth, the “sunny glow of memory triumphant,” but even there finds only bittersweet repose.

Telemann Octet The KES Telemann Octet was formed in 2012 and has continued to work on ‘lost’ repertoire of the great composer. The piece performed tonight does not exist in currently published recorded format and there are no records online of any public concerts including the work. Musically the piece contains the delightful counterpoint and question and answer motifs that one would expect from the composer and provides the group with an excellent opportunity to explore their communication in the chamber music setting.

AltJ - Interlude 1 / Dissolve Me arranged by Dr Leaman Alt-J [which if you press together on a Mac computer gives the character ∆] were formed in Leeds in 2007 by English and Art students at the university. In 2012 they released their first album An Awesome Wave and received instant critical acclaim for their artistic creations that fused folk, trip-hop, indie rock and electronica, alongside liberal film and literary lyrical references. The album won the prestigious Mercury Music Prize and Ivor Novello Award in 2012 and they were also nominated for three Brit Awards.

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Gershwin - Summertime

Box Office

Mrs Meager, Mrs Crane-Whatmore

Summertime is one of the most popular numbers from George Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, which the composer called a folk opera and which many consider his finest achievement. He was inspired to compose the work after reading Edwin Dubose Heyward’s novel Porgy in 1926. It was not until 1934, however, that Gershwin, his librettist brother Ira, and Heyward collaborated on the effort. Sung by the character Clara, this lullaby is presented shortly after the brief overture that opens the opera and is the first vocal number heard. Its theme is striking in the way it conveys a lazy, heat-soaked serenity. Gershwin’s highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of negro communities in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century.

Programme Notes

Mr Watson

Programme

Indigo Press (www.indigo-press.com)

Photography

Mr Piggott

Front of House

Dr Purves

Stage Manager

Sam Routledge

Accompanying

Mr Belassie

Visiting Music Teachers

Mr Allen Mrs Andreou Mrs Bolton Miss Braga Miss Collier Mr Cleaver Mr Worsfold Mrs Davis Mrs Salmon Mrs Felton Ms Willsher Mr Kotch Mr Lamprell Ms Potts

Music Administrator

Miss Roberts

Music Staff

Mr Belassie Dr Leaman

Clarke - Curves Plaintive Ian Clarke is a flautist and composer and has been professor of flute at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama since 2000. He has played a pivotal role in taking the classical flute into the new sound world of extended techniques through his compositions for solo flute, duo, trio and larger flute ensembles. Curves, written in 2012 for three flutes and piano, explores the more experimental sounds of extended techniques for flute, using alternative fingerings, note sliding, embouchure manipulations of pitch and timbre and singing and playing simultaneously. In the 2nd Movement, Clarke explores the sound worlds between notes, of quartertones and slides, creating an ethereal atmosphere, which is both highly virtuosic and deeply emotive.

The flute quartet [3 flutes and piano] performed this alongside the third movement in this year’s National Pro Corda Chamber Music Festival reaching the semi-finals.

Mercy Mercy Mercy “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” is a song written by Joe Zawinul in 1966 for Julian “Cannonball” Adderley and his album ‘Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at ‘The Club’. The first part of the theme is played two times and is completely made of notes from the major pentatonic scale. The song has a rather unusual 20 bar structure with four distinct and rather unique sections within the 20 bar form. The chord progression is mainly made of dominant seventh chords, giving the whole song a bluesy feeling, although it is not a typical blues progression.

Ellington – ‘A’ train Billy Stayhorn’s Take the ‘A’ Train is one of the most famous jazz standards of all time, made famous by Duke Ellington.

The song almost never saw the light of day, being retrieved from the wastepaper basket by Ellington’s arranger. The band plays a transcription of the original and most famous Ellington recording session from 1941. The title refers to the then relatively new A subway service that runs through New York from Brooklyn to Harlem.

Prima - Sing sing sing “Sing, Sing, Sing (With a Swing)” is a 1936 song written by Louis Prima and first recorded by him with the New Orleans Gang. Benny Goodman is quoted as saying, “’Sing, Sing, Sing’ (which we started doing back at the Palomar on our second trip there in 1936) was a big thing, and no one-nighter was complete without it”. The roots of the hot jazz associated with “Sing, Sing, Sing” can be traced back to that performance by Goodman at the Palomar. The current diet of the big band performance was mild pop tunes, which were held to be what audiences favoured. However, faced with a listless, indifferent crowd, Goodman turned to the band and said something like, “To hell with it, if we’re going to sink, we might as well go down swinging,” and launched into “King Porter Stomp.” The crowd went wild, and from that point on, the medium tempo, “sweet” numbers took a back seat to the “hot” numbers.

It’s not unusual It’s Not Unusual is a song written by Les Reed and Gordon Mills, first recorded by a then-unknown Tom Jones after having first been offered to Sandie Shaw. Jones recorded what was intended to be a demo for Shaw, but when she heard it she was so impressed with Jones’ delivery that she declined the song and recommended that Jones release it himself.

Supposedly, the BBC found the result too hot when the single came out in early 1965, but that didn’t keep “It’s Not Unusual” from topping the British charts in March, and a subsequent American release took it into the U.S. Top Ten in May.

Mr Williams Mr Hanchett Mr Lyon Mr Morgan Mr Osman Mr Cox Miss Burns Miss Rowlinson Mr Thompson Miss Stocker Mrs Handy Mrs Williams Mrs Andrews

Mr Watson Mrs Freemantle

The Music staff would like to thank the Upper Sixth pupils who will be leaving at the end of the year. They have been excellent ambassadors for music in the School, great fun to teach and will be missed by us all. We wish them every success in their future careers.

Emily Atherton Josh Blunsden Tom Durham Jonathan Millar Maddy Normand Liberty Roberts Jinni Tang Jenny Whitby

Joan Chen Andy Morgan Julia Roope Carl Wikeley

Congratulations to Anna Roberts will be reading Music at Kings College London and Carl Wikeley who will reading Music at Trinity Hall College Cambridge in September.

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Forthcoming Events at king edward vi 30th April 2014, 7.30pm

Ensembles Concert

22nd May 2014, 7.30pm

Third Year Music Concert

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Music Competition

Week commencing 23rd June

ABRSM practical exams 2014

26th June 2014, 7.30pm

First and Second Year Concert

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