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7:30pm Saturday9th October 2010St Peter’s Church,Burwood Road,

Hersham,Surrey KT12 4AA

Brass and OrganSpectacular

Tickets £10Available from Parish Office

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ConductorGraham Chambers

Organ S

oloist

Adrian

Warren


Our Thanks

• To The Charity of Robert Phillips for sponsoring this event.

• St. Peters Church for their inspiring venue.

• To our hard working Conductor Graham Chambers.

• To the volunteers in the Parish Office for their great support.

• To Church Members who organised Tickets and Refreshments.

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Surrey Brass is most grateful to The Charity of Robert Phillips for their generous sponsorship of this event.

The Charity aims to promote education in the appreciation of music, drama and the fine arts in The Ancient Parish of Walton-on-Thames.

Programme compiled by John Goodwin

Adrian Warren, Organ Soloist

Adrian Warren and his musical family live in Woking. His wife Caroline plays violin, daughter Jacqueline also plays violin and son Nicholas plays French Horn. This makes it entirely logical that Adrian is an Organist, Tuba player and in between manages to squeeze in working during the day as a Petrochemicals Business Manager for the Japanese trading house, Mitsui. Adrian claims that he took up organ “by accident” – as the organist at the church at which he was a chorister, forgot to put his clock forward, and at short notice he deputised! From such an auspicious early start, his reputation spread rapidly and since then he has been organist in St Katherines Knockholt in Kent, Holy Trinity Anglican Pro-Cathedral in Brussels, The American Church at Waterloo, Belgium, St Mary Coity, Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, and St Peters Church, Hersham as well as having a busy time freelancing throughout the Elmbridge area. He started playing tuba at 11, when the instrument was larger than he was. One of his many claims to fame was that while in Belgium, he was only the second non-national to play with Pandore, the orchestra of the Belgian Gendarmarie, the National Police force! [The first non-national player was his wife Caroline]. Adrian currently plays tuba for Surrey Brass, and freelances in London and the Home Counties.


Programme Notes Pavane pour une infante défunte - Maurice Ravel The pavane was a slow processional dance that enjoyed great popularity in the courts of Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Pavane pour une infante défunte (Pavane for a Dead Princess) is a well-known piece written for solo piano by the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1899 when he was studying composition at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré. Ravel described the piece as "an evocation of a pavane that a little princess might, in former times, have danced at the Spanish court".

Sabre Dance - Aram Khatchaturian Perhaps the best known piece by this Armenian composer, it evokes a whirling war dance in an Armenian dance, where the dancers display their skill with sabres. Its middle section incorporates an Armenian folk song. The music from the ballet Gayane, completed in 1942 has been traditionally used to accompany travelling circuses. For example, the tune is frequently featured on the TV series “The Simpsons”, usually to emphasise fast pace of some situation. It has also been used as the theme tune for the “Keystone Kops”! Sabre Dance has been covered by many performers and genres such as jazz musician Woody Herman, The Andrews Sisters, Vanessa Mae, the string quartet Bond, and British punk rock bands UK Subs - and many others!

Golden Jubilee Fanfare - John Hughes The winning fanfare in a fanfare contest, and performed at the inaugural concert by Surrey Brass in 2001, which celebrated the Golden Jubilee of HM Queen Elizabeth II. John is a prolific composer and arranger, with a particular talent for accessible, light music. He has collaborated with Surrey Brass on numerous occasions and wrote several pieces of music to accompany the innovative live performance of silent films by Cecil Hepworth, which were performed in The Playhouse at Walton, the last remaining building of the Hepworth studio, which produced hundreds of internationally acclaimed films between 1896 and 1924, predating the rise of Hollywood.

About Surrey Brass

Surrey Brass was founded in August 2001 by John Goodwin and aims to develop the fine tradition of ensemble brass performance originated by the internationally famous Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, by widening the audience for brass ensemble music, enlarging the repertoire, and providing enjoyment for everyone. Surrey Brass plays a wide, innovative and entertaining

repertoire to a high standard, incorporating fresh influences from diverse musical sources including Classical, Jazz, Film, and World Music. Our talented musicians are some of the best players in the county of Surrey. We are particularly keen on encouraging young brass players and every year performs at least one concert involving them - hopefully some will join us in future. Surrey Brass aims to promote the Arts in all its forms and is keen to form new performing relationships with local Arts organisations, composers and arrangers in the county of Surrey. We publish sheet music of our own and other peoples’ arrangements for brass ensemble on our website to help widen the performance of this music. We also try to perform at least one Charity concert every year and have raised many thousands of pounds for various causes including Tsunami relief, help to the Third World, and fundraising for a new Village Hall. We are self-supporting, but would like to do much more than our resources currently permit. We invite sponsorship for future projects, so if you know someone who might help please contact us! Event Information, Instant Tickets, Sheet Music, CD sales and much more are available from our website at http://www.surreybrass.co.uk/

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Grand Choeur Dialogué - Eugène Gigout Eugène Gigout (1844 –1925) was a French organist and a composer of European late-romantic music for organ. A pupil of Camille Saint-Saëns, he served as the organist of Saint-Augustin Church in Paris for an astonishing 62 years. He became widely known as a teacher and his output as a composer was considerable. Renowned as an expert improviser, he also founded his own music school. His pupils included Léon Boëllmann, André Messager, and Albert Roussel. The 10 pièces pour orgue (composed 1890) are Gigout's most celebrated compositions and the Toccata in B minor is his best-known creation, which turns up as a frequent encore at organ recitals. Grand Choeur Dialogué is also frequently featured, and this evening marks the first performance of the arrangement of this piece by tonight’s organ soloist Adrian Warren.

Theme from “The Big Country” - Jerome Moross

Everything about this 1958 classic is Big. The tag line for the movie is “Big they fought! Big they loved! Big their story!” The characters are larger than life, the huge vistas of the American Midwest provide a great backdrop to the strong screenplay featuring a star-studded cast including Charlton Heston, Gregory Peck, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker, Charlton Heston and Burl Ives. Then there is the theme tune, which helped to made the movie a smash hit from the opening title sequence and is one of the greatest pieces of movie music ever written.

The Magnificent Seven - Elmer Bernstein

This Oscar-nominated was perhaps one of the first Spaghetti Westerns, set in Mexico. It featured music by Elmer Bernstein. The score is, of course, one of the all-time classics. An oppressed Mexican peasant village assembles seven gunfighters to help defend their homes. They must prepare the town to repulse an army of over 100 bandits who will arrive wanting food. This gave the perfect excuse to use seven major stars in one film, guaranteeing its success. Ironically, composer John Williams who later wrote the music for “Star Wars” was a member of the orchestra that recorded Elmer Bernstein's score; he played the piano.

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Children of Sanchez - Chuck Mangione

The Children of Sanchez is a 1961 book by American anthropologist Oscar Lewis about a Mexican family living in the Mexico City slum of Tepito, which he studied as part of his program to develop his concept of culture of poverty. Due to criticisms expressed by members of the family regarding the Government and Mexican presidents such as Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Adolfo López Mateos, and its being written by a foreigner, the book was banned in Mexico for a few years before pressure from literary figures resulted in its publication. The film based on the book and with the same title was directed by Hall Bartlett and was released in 1979. The musical score of the movie was written by Chuck Mangione and won a Grammy award. This is the title track, in a brilliant arrangement by Surrey Brass trumpeter Michael Chapple.

Molly on the Shore - Percy Grainger

"Molly on the Shore" was written in 1907 by Grainger as a birthday gift for his mother. Originally composed for string quartet or string orchestra, this piece was arranged in 1920 for wind band by the composer, as well as for orchestra. It is an arrangement of two contrasting Irish reels, "Temple Hill" and "Molly on the Shore" that present the melodies in a variety of textures and orchestrations, giving each section of the ensemble long stretches of thematic and countermelodic material. In a letter to Frederick Fennell (who would later go on to create the definitive full score edition of Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy), Grainger says that: "in setting Molly on the Shore, I strove to imbue the accompanying parts that made up the harmonic texture with a melodic character not too unlike that of the underlying reel tune. Melody seems to me to provide music with initiative, wheras {sic} rhythm appears to me to exert an enslaving influence. For that reason I have tried to avoid regular rhythmic domination in my music - always excepting irregular rhythms, such as those of Gregorian Chant, which seem to me to make for freedom. Equally with melody, I prize discordant harmony, because of the emotional and compassionate sway it exerts".

Blades of Toledo - Trevor Sharpe arr. Michael Straker

The evergreen Brass Band favourite was written by one of the eminent men in brass band music. Born in 1921, Trevor Sharpe was Director of Music of the Coldstream Guards (1963-1974) and of The Royal Military School of Music (1974-1978) after which he remained at Kneller Hall as Professor of Instrumentation . His name was familiar to millions of television viewers as it appeared in the final credits of the ‘Dad’Army’ television programme, conducting the Coldstream Guards in the theme tune. With Bernard Keefe, he was one of the adjudicators on the BBC television series ‘Best of Brass’ which started in 1978 and ended in 1986. Trevor died earlier this year and this is our tribute to him.

The Earle of Oxford’s March - William Byrd arr. Elgar Howarth

'The Earle of Oxford's March' is one of the pieces most requested by Surrey Brass audiences – so we are playing it tonight! It is also known as “The Batell” or “The March before the Battle”. Being purely programme music, The Battell is rare in Byrd’s output, which largely comprises set musical forms. It was probably written after 1588 when England was in a mood of national celebration after victory over the Spanish and French Armadas. The movement which Byrd calls Marche Before The Battell became known as The Earl of Oxford’s March, though it is not entirely clear why – it appears with that title in an early manuscript copy of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. Written while Byrd was at the height of its powers, it still stirs the soul to this day.

Greensleeves - Trad arr. Elgar Howarth

"Greensleeves" is a traditional English folk song and tune, a ground of the form called a romanesca. A broadside ballad by this name was registered at the London Stationer's Company in 1580 as "A New Northern Dittye of the Lady Greene Sleeves". It then appears in the surviving A Handful of Pleasant Delights (1584) as "A New Courtly Sonnet of the Lady Green Sleeves. To the new tune of Green sleeves." There is a persistent belief that Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Boleyn allegedly rejected King Henry's attempts to seduce her and this rejection may be referred to in the song when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously". However, Henry did not compose "Greensleeves". The arrangement performed tonight is by Elgar Howarth, trumpet player of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, and uses a number of interesting effects to add innovative colours to this familiar tune.


The Shepherd’s Song - Trad arr. Goff Richards adapted Michael Chapple

Canteloube took more than thirty years (1924 to 1955) to complete the compilation of his most admired and famous collection of songs, Chants d'Auvergne. Passionate, sometimes to excess, the songs reflect the landscapes of the Auvergne in lush orchestral colors and have enabled French folklore and rustic melodies to become better known. This folk tune tells the story of a woman teasing a shepherd who is on the other side of a river but who cannot cross to join her.

Prelude Air and Gigue – Robin Wells

This little suite for trumpet was written for Will Spencer to play at the wedding of Robin’s daughter Alison to Matthew. The pieces are very loosely based upon the letters of their names, and there is an unabashed reference in the second and third movement to Gershwin's song "The man I love". Tonight it is performed by the trumpeter it was written for.

Hymn to the Fallen – John Williams

With Saving Private Ryan, John Williams has written a memorial for all the soldiers who sacrificed themselves on the altar of freedom in the Normandy Invasion of June 6, 1944. "Hymn to the Fallen," never appears anywhere in the main text of the film, only at the end credit roll. It's a piece of music and a testament to John Williams' sensitivity and brilliance that will stand the test of time and honour forever the fallen of this war and possibly all wars.

Stardust - Hoagy Carmichael

"Stardust" is an American popular song composed in 1927 by Hoagy Carmichael with lyrics added in 1929 by Mitchell Parish. Bing Crosby released a version in 1931 and by the following year over two dozen bands had recorded "Stardust". It was then covered by almost every prominent band of that era. It became an American “standard”, and is considered one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 1,500 total recordings to date. Tonight it features horn soloist Tim Costen in an arrangement by John Iveson, trombonist with the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.

Graham Chambers - Conductor Graham Chambers started playing the trombone as a boy at school in Oxfordshire. He started lessons with Denis Wick at the age of 14 and at the same time gaining a place in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain where he was principal trombone for three years, and later represented Great Britain in the Jeunesses Musicales World Orchestra playing under such conductors as Leonard Bernstein and Pierre Boulez.

A degree in music followed at Surrey University where he studied conducting under Brian Brockless and conducted the University Wind Band. After University Graham spent some time as a freelance trombone player and brass instrument teacher before joining the BBC music department in 1981 where he worked for Radio 3 and later BBC TV Music and Arts Department. During this time he became musical director of the Redbridge Brass Band which under his coaching became the leading brass band in the London and Southern region – a position it still holds today. Graham ceased playing and conducting activities in

the late 1980’s when he took on the role of librarian for the London Symphony Orchestra. During this time he travelled worldwide with the LSO and worked closely with some of the world’s greatest conductors e.g. Leonard Bernstein, Sir Georg Solti, Mstislav Rostropovich, Pierre Boulez, Sir Colin Davies, André Previn, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Antonio Pappano, Sir Simon Rattle and Valery Gergiev, to name but a few. His work with the LSO included preparing performing materials for the extremely busy recording schedule, including a vast number of film recordings including films such as Brave Heart by James Horner, and the more recent much famed Star Wars recordings composed by John Williams and Patrick Doyle and many other well known film composers such as Jerry Goldsmith. He also worked closely with a wide variety of popular recording artists such as Paul McCartney, Diana Ross, Shirley Bassey, Luciano Pavarotti and many many others. He also programmed film music concerts and made a number of arrangements that the LSO and LSO Brass Ensemble played regularly at film music and children’s concerts. Graham left the LSO in 2007 and currently works as a freelance music editor and has had the time to rekindle his love of conducting brass and is delighted to have been asked to direct Surrey Brass.


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The Players

Trumpets Trombones

Michael Chapple Michael Straker

Will Spencer Dave Gale

Steve Dawes Evatt Gibson

John Goodwin Hannah Buswell

Bass Trombone

Horn Tony Somerville

Tim Costen Lisa Ridgway

Percussion

Tuba Neil Marshall

Adrian Warren Katriona Pett

Organ Conductor Adrian Warren Graham Chambers

Surrey Brass thanks their regular players who are unable to play tonight and whose loyal support is gratefully acknowledged. We also thank our talented deputies, whose assistance is vital to our performance tonight.

The Committee

President: Denis Wick Chairman: Steve Dawes Secretary: Huw Evans Treasurer: Michael Straker


The Programme

“A Golden Jubilee Fanfare”: John Hughes Surrey Brass

“Stardust”: Hoagy Carmichael arr John Iveson Horn Soloist Tim Costen

“Grand Choeur Dialogue”: Eugene Gigout Organ Soloist Adrian Warren

“Prelude Air and Gigue”: Robin Wells Trumpet Soloist

Will Spencer

“The Big Country”: Jerome Moross Surrey Brass

"Sabre Dance": Aram Khatchaturian Surrey Brass

“Hymn to the Fallen”: John Williams Organ Solo

Adrian Warren

“The Magnificent Seven”: Elmer Bernstein Surrey Brass

INTERVAL (Approximately 20 minutes) Bar Open

“The Earle of Oxford’s March”: William Byrd Surrey Brass

“Greensleeves”: Trad arr Elgar Howarth Surrey Brass

“Molly on the Shore”: Percy Grainger Surrey Brass

“Pavane pour une infante défunte”: Ravel Surrey Brass

“Blades of Toledo”: Trevor Sharpe The Trombones

“The Shepherd’s Song”: Trad Surrey Brass

“Children of Sanchez”: Chuck Mangione Flugelhorn Soloist

John Goodwin

In the interests of SAFETY we ask all members of the audience to ensure they are familiar with the clearly marked location of

FIRE EXITS.

SWITCH OFF MOBILE PHONES and other noisy devices to avoid

embarrassment. Thank you.

“Hangar at 3am” – B lack n ight outs ide , but ins ide l ights b laze as Concorde s leeps. A smal l army o f eng ineers go about the i r tasks quie t ly and e f f i c ient ly , making preparat ions for the f l ight ahead.

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”Departure Lounge” – A buzz o f ant i c ipat ion. Many languages are heard. Urgency and exc i tement increases but sereni ty i s mainta ined.

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”Afterburner” – Concorde takes o f f and swi tches on the a f terburner wi th a roar . Passengers fee l a k i ck in the back, and the a i rcra f t speeds up and c l imb steeply and quick ly d i sappears out o f s ight . Peace re turns.

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”Mach 2” – Fo l lowing a monst rous sonic boom, Concorde acce lerates to Mach 2. Screaming through the a i r at h igh a l t i tude, ins ide, a l l i s ca lm and gentee l .

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”Droop Snoot”- A jazzy sophis t i cated cosmopol i tan fee l , showing Concorde f rom a d i f fe rent ang le .

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”Arr iva l ” – A d is tant rumble . Concorde i s spotted in the sk ies over the dest inat ion. Peop le s top to turn and stare at the beaut i fu l s ight coming ever c loser . Tr iumphant ly, the ambassador o f the sky lands at i t s dest inat ion.

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