Summer Family Concert 2010

Saturday 10 July 2010

St Marys Church, Banbury

Music from the Movies

Programme 1

Welcome to our concert!

Hello and welcome to our Summer 2010 concert.
This evening's exciting family concert features film music, ranging from
recent highly popular films such as Pirates of the Caribbean, Harry Potter,
The Lord of the Rings plus The Sorcerers Apprentice by Dukas, used in the
famous Disney film Fantasia, to other pieces of music that are extremely
well known but perhaps not immediately linked with the movies: such as the
soaring Barber's 'Adagio for Strings', which has been used in Oliver
Stone's Platoon, The Elephant Man and Amlie, and the familiar 'Young
Person's Guide to the Orchestra', which Britten wrote for a documentary
film, cleverly introducing each orchestral instrument that then knits together
in a rousing finale.
Ireland The Overlanders Suite (5 movements)
Barber Adagio for Strings
Dukas The Sorcerers Apprentice
Harry Potter

Interval

Britten Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra

Lord of the Rings
James Bond Medley
Pirates of the Caribbean

Paul Willett Conductor

Paul Willett studied violin, singing and piano as a
student but his main instrument was the French
horn.
When Paul was 16, he gained his
Performance Diploma from The Royal College of
Music playing French horn. Paul then went on to
read music on scholarship at The Queens College,
Oxford, and studied for his teaching certificate in
Music and Physical Education at Reading
University.
For several years Paul combined teaching and freelance playing. He has given solo
recitals and performed concertos throughout the country. He was a member of The
Five Winds, a group that performed both at home and abroad, and also on BBC
radio. Paul also worked as a brass teacher for Oxfordshire Music Service and was
director of a Saturday Music School of 200 students.
Paul now combines class teaching with conducting various ensembles, both adult
and youth. He is also in demand as an adjudicator for both adult and student
competitions. Paul is currently acting deputy head teacher at Didcot Girls School.
Anna Fleming - Leader
Anna was born in South Africa where she started
playing the violin at the age of ten. While studying
music at secondary school, Anna became a
member of the South African National Youth
Orchestra. After successfully completing her music
degree, majoring in orchestral studies, Anna joined
the Cape Philharmonic Orchestra in 1992.
Anna moved to England in late 1996. Keen to continue her orchestral playing, Anna
joined the Banbury Symphony Orchestra in 1997 and became the leader of the
orchestra in 2000, a post that she has held ever since. As a committed Christian,
Anna plays an active role in church music. Focusing primarily on private violin
tuition, Anna particularly enjoys helping adults to learn to play and she can be
contacted on 01295 780017.

Ireland The Overlanders Suite (5 movements)

During its heyday, Ealing Studios
produced five films in Australia, of
which this was the first and best. It
also provided them with one of their
biggest box office successes. Its a
visually ambitious tale of a resilient
drover (played by the affable, sundried Chips Rafferty), who, in the face
of a Japanese invasion of the Northern
Territories at the beginning of Australias involvement in World War II, elects to
drive a thousand head of cattle 2000 miles cross-country to Brisbane rather than
have them slaughtered. The Overlanders gazes in wonderment at the open spaces
of the outback landscape and marvels at its sunlit pockets of adventure. Leslie
Halliwell called it a semi-western, and thats a fair description: its more a paean to
the trials of frontier life than a war movie. Theres also a pervading sense of postwar optimism, as if a victorious but battle-fatigued England is looking to the New
World in its hope for the future.
John Nicholson Ireland (13 August 1879 12 June 1962) was an English composer.
From Charles Villiers Stanford, Ireland inherited a thorough knowledge of the music
of Beethoven, Brahms and other German classical composers, but as a young man
he was also strongly influenced by Debussy and Ravel as well as by the earlier works
of Stravinsky and Bartk. From these influences, he developed his own brand of
"English Impressionism", related more closely to French and Russian models than to
the folk-song style then prevailing in English music.
Barber - Adagio for Strings
Barber's Adagio for Strings originated as the second movement in his String Quartet,
Op. 11, composed in 1936. The piece uses an arch form, employing and then
inverting, expanding, and varying a stepwise ascending melody. The long, flowing
melodic line moves freely between the voices in the string choir culminating in a
fortissimo-forte climax followed by sudden silence. The last section is a restatement
of the original theme; the piece ends with first violins slowly restating the first five

notes of the melody, holding the last note over a brief silence and a fading
accompaniment.
Barber's 'Adagio for Strings', has been used
in Oliver Stone's Platoon, The Elephant
Man and Amlie. The piece was played at
the funeral of Princess Grace of Monaco and
at the funeral of Albert Einstein. It was
broadcast over the radio at the
announcement of Franklin D. Roosevelt's
death. It was performed in 2001 at Last
Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall
to commemorate the victims of the
September 11 attacks. In 2004, listeners of
the BBC's Today program voted Adagio the
"saddest classical" work ever, ahead of
"Dido's Lament" from Dido and neas by
Henry Purcell. Get your tissues ready!

Dukas - The Sorcerers Apprentice

The Sorcerer's Apprentice is the English
name of a poem by Goethe, Der
Zauberlehrling, written in 1797. The
poem is a ballad in fourteen stanzas. Paul
Dukas composed his L'apprenti sorcier (a
symphonic poem) in 1897. Subtitled
"Scherzo after a ballad by Goethe, the
poem begins as an old sorcerer departs
his workshop, leaving his apprentice with
chores to perform. Tired of fetching water by pail, the apprentice enchants a broom
to do the work for him using magic he is not yet fully trained in. The floor is soon
awash with water, and the apprentice realizes that he cannot stop the broom
because he does not know how.
Not knowing how to control the enchanted broom, the apprentice splits it in two
with an axe, but each of the pieces becomes a new broom and takes up a pail and

continues fetching water, now at twice the speed. When all seems lost, the old
sorcerer returns, quickly breaks the spell and saves the day. The poem finishes with
the old sorcerer's statement that powerful spirits should only be called by the
master himself.
The acclaimed animated dialogue-free 1940 Disney film Fantasia popularized the
story from Goethe's poem, and the Paul Dukas symphonic poem based on it, in one
of eight animated shorts based on classical music. In the piece, which retains the
title "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," Mickey Mouse plays the apprentice, and the story
follows Goethe's original closely. The segment proved so popular that it was
repeated, in its original form, in the sequel Fantasia 2000.
Harry Potter
Jerry Brubaker has captured all the excitement from the Patrick Doyle film score of
the box office hit, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. This medley-style
arrangement not only includes John Williams' "Hedwig's Theme" from the first three
films, but incorporates the brand new "Foreign Visitors Arrive," "Potter Waltz,"
"Harry in Winter," "The Quidditch World Cup (The Irish)," "Voldemort!/Hedwig's
Theme" and "Hogwarts' Hymn." A medley that is sure to please.

Britten - Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra

The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, opus 34, is a musical composition by
Benjamin Britten in 1946 with a subtitle "Variations and Fugue on a Theme of
Purcell". It was originally commissioned for an educational documentary film called
The Instruments of the Orchestra, directed by Muir Mathieson and featuring the
London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Sargent. The work is one of the
best-known pieces by the composer, and is one of the three popularly used scores in

children's music education, together with Saint-Sans' The Carnival of the Animals
and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf.
The work is based on the Rondeau from Abdelazar, written by Henry Purcell, and is
structured, in accordance with the plan of the original documentary film, as a way of
showing off the tone colors and capacities of the various sections of the orchestra.
In the introduction, the theme is initially played by the
entire orchestra, then by each major family of
instruments of the orchestra: first the woodwinds,
then the strings, then the brass, and finally by the
percussion. Each variation then features a particular
instrument in depth, in the same family order, and
generally moving through each family from high to
low. So, for example, the first variation features the
piccolo and flutes; each member of the woodwind
family then gets a variation, ending with the bassoon;
and so on, through the strings, brass, and finally the
percussion.
After the whole orchestra has been effectively taken to pieces in this way, it is
reassembled using an original fugue which starts with the piccolo, followed by all
the woodwinds, strings, brass and percussion in turn. Once everyone has entered,
the brass are re-introduced with Purcells original melody while the remainder
continue the fugue theme until the piece finally comes to an end after building up to
a fortissimo finish.
Lord of the Rings
The music of the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy was
composed, orchestrated, conducted and produced by
Howard Shore. Shore wrote many hours of music for The
Lord of the Rings.
Shore composed the music in an emotional, operatic way,
threading through the scores over 80 specific leitmotifs,
which are categorized by the Middle-earth cultures to
which they relate. Shore began his work on the music for
The Fellowship of the Ring in late 2000 and recorded the
first pieces of music (the Moria sequence) in spring of

2001. Additional music for the extended DVD version was recorded in March, 2002.
A similar pattern was followed for The Two Towers and The Return of the King, with
the final sessions taking place in London on March 20, 2004.
The music was performed primarily by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the
London Voices, with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra contributing some of the
early Moria music. A wide variety of instrumental and vocal soloists contributed to
the scores as well.
James Bond Medley
In his James Bond Medley arrangement,
Victor Lopez shows that the 007 agent is
alive and well. The medley features five
classic hits, the "James Bond Theme," "For
Your Eyes Only," "Goldfinger," "Live and Let
Die," and "Nobody Does it Better."
Pirates of the Caribbean
Klaus Badelt (born 1967) is a German composer, best known for composing film
scores. One of his more famous and popular scores is the score to the 2003 film
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl.
Pirates of the Caribbean is a series of
adventure films directed by Gore
Verbinski, written by Ted Elliott and
Terry Rossio and produced by Jerry
Bruckheimer. They are based on a
Walt Disney theme park ride of the
same name, and follow Captain Jack
Sparrow (portrayed by Johnny
Depp), Will Turner (portrayed by
Orlando Bloom), and Elizabeth
Swann (portrayed by Keira
Knightley).
All programme notes taken from Wikipedia

Banbury Symphony Orchestra

Management Committee:
Jonathan Rowe (Chair), Kathryn Hayman (Secretary), Jenny Maynard (Treasurer)
Emma Callery, Estevan Ellul, Anna Fleming, Helen Payne, Andrew Waite
Conductor - Paul Willett
Violin I
Anna Fleming (Leader)
Jenny Maynard
Geoff Kent
Penny Tolmie
Kathryn Hayman
Marianne Robinson
Trish Evans
Emma Blunt
Norman Filleul

Violin II
Ian Smith
Conrad Woolley
Andrew Waite
Imogen Mead
Emma Callery
Rachel Sansome
Gill Walker
Bryony Yelloly
Rachel Greene
Kim Williams
Viola
David Bolton-King
John Maksinski
Catherine Smith

Cello
Miranda Ricardo
Sarah Turnock
Janet Parsons
John Pimm
Ruth Mankelow
Paul Morley
Jennifer Hubble
Rosi Callery
Double Bass
Robert Gilchrist
Jo Hammond
Jane Martin
Flute
Rachel McCubbin
Nick Planas
Amy Lockwood
Piccolo
Nick Planas
Oboe
Lyn Gosney
Clarinet
Helen Payne
Alice Palmer
Jo Williams

Bassoon
Ian McCubbin
Rachel James
Contra bassoon
Ian White
Horn
David Settle
Simon Mead
Richard Hartree
Edward Bolton-King
Helen Barnby-Porritt
Trumpet
Tony Chittock
Ron Barnett
Terry Mayo
Martin Mills
Trombone
Paul Macey
Gary Clifton
Malcolm Saunders
Tuba
John Beer
Percussion
Justin Rhodes
Sue Woolhouse
Dave Martin
Dave Hadland
Huw Morgan
Harp
Nia Williams

Dates for your diary

Saturday 20 November 2010 Autumn Concert

7.30pm St. Marys Church Banbury

Balakirev Overture on 3 Russian Themes

Bruch Violin Concerto No.1
Brahms Symphony No.4
Sue Lynn: violin

The highlight of Banbury Symphony Orchestras autumn concert is Bruchs everpopular violin concerto, performed by talented Oxford-based violinst, Sue Lynn. Sue
is a soloist with the esteemed Academy of St Martins in the Fields as well as playing
with the English Chamber Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra, so BSO is
delighted to welcome her to Banbury for what will no doubt be a thrilling
performance of this concerto. Topped and tailed by Balakirevs Overture on Three
Russian Themes and the mighty symphony no. 4 by Brahms, this is a concert
guaranteed to provide that tingle factor.
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