UNITED YOUTH ORCHESTRA
Winter concert
GALLAGHER ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO SUNDAY 18 JUNE 2017 - 3 PM proudly supported by
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Music Director: Yoshi Tatsumi Leader: Chelsea Lin
Music by Sullivan | Dvorak | Schumann | Anderson www.orchestras.org.nz
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Orchestra 1st Violin: Lisa Zhang (OL), Chelsea Lin (DL), Annabel Zhou, Tony Wu, Michael Zhang, Lydia Han, Michelle Tiang. 2nd Violin: Matilda Griffiths (SL), Tina Jiang, Joanne Zhang, Diny Zhou, Youran Wang, Yiran Wang, Jovan Xin. Viola: Devya Parshotam, Mark Zhang, Ione Mooney (G), Julie Lummus (G), Steve Zhang (G). Cello: Ron Zhang (SL), Veda Parshotam, Alex Gil. Double Bass: Yuri Tatsumi (OB). Flute: Alice Nie, Takashi Aota (G). Clarinet: Joshua Taylor (SL), Alice Ke. Bassoon: Rosalie Croxford (OG). Horn: Grace Bartholomew, Danny Roguski (G). Trumpet: Adam Hasan-Stein, Sophia Hasan-Stein, Yousuke Suto (G). Trombone: Robert Lummus (G). Timpani/Percussion: Natalie Gil. Keyboard: Kevin Li.
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Programme Notes A.Sullivan/arr.Wicken: Gondoliers Suite The Gondoliers is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very successful 554 performances (at that time the fifth longest-running piece of musical theatre in history), closing on 30 June 1891. There was a command performance of The Gondoliers for Queen Victoria and the royal family at Windsor Castle on 6 March 1891, the first performance of a Gilbert and Sullivan opera to be so honoured and the first theatrical entertainment to take place at Windsor since the death of Prince Albert thirty years earlier. The story of the opera concerns the young bride of the heir to the throne of the fictional kingdom of Barataria who arrives in Venice to join her husband. It turns out, however, that he cannot be identified, since he was entrusted to the care of a drunken gondolier who mixed up the prince with his own son. To complicate matters, the King of Barataria has just been killed. The two young gondoliers must now jointly rule the kingdom until the nurse of the prince can be brought in to determine which of them is the rightful king. Moreover, when the young queen arrives to claim her husband, she finds that the two gondoliers have both recently married local girls. A last complicating factor is that she, herself, is in love with another man. Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (1842 – 1900) was an English composer. He is best known for his series of 14 operaticcollaborations with the dramatist W. S. Gilbert, including the Gondoliers. This Gondoliers suite includes all the best tunes from the operetta with original introduction.
R.Schumann/arr.Glazunov et al: Carnaval suite Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856) was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. Carnaval, Op. 9 (1834) is one of Schumann's most characteristic piano works. Each piece has a title, and the work as a whole is a musical representation of an elaborate and imaginative masked ball during carnival season. 1. Préambule (B-flat; Quasi maestoso) The Préambule was taken from the incomplete Variations on a Theme of Schubert's Sehnsuchtswalzer, Op. 9/2, D. 365. 2. Pierrot (E-flat; Moderato) This is a depiction of Pierrot, a character from the Commedia dell'arte, commonly represented in costume at a ball. 3. Arlequin (B-flat; Vivo) This is a depiction of Harlequin, another character from the Commedia dell'arte. 4. Valse noble (B-flat; Un poco maestoso) 11. Chiarina (C minor; Passionato) A depiction of Schumann's wife, Clara Schumann. 21. Marche des "Davidsbündler" contre les Philistins (B-flat; Non allegro) The work comes to a close with a march of the Davidsbündler — the league of King David's men against the Philistines — in which may be heard the clear accents of truth in contest with the dull clamour of falsehood embodied in a quotation from the seventeenth century Grandfather's Dance. The march ends in joy and a degree of mock-triumph in Prestissimo. In 1910, Carnaval was choreographed for a ballet for a production by Sergei Diaghilev, with
Leroy Anderson - Favourites Leroy Anderson (1908 – 1975) was an American composer of short, light concert pieces. He was a master of melody and style, and his compositions for the Boston Pops Orchestra brought #1 hits, one after another. John Williams described him as "one of the great American masters of light orchestral music. This Leroy Anderson Favorites includes five of these hits in a medley for full orchestra. Included are "The Syncopated Clock (1945)", "Sleigh Ride (1948)", "Blue Tango (1951)", "Plink, Plank, Plunk! (1951)", and "Serenata (1947)".