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enfield citadel bandBandmaster Jonathan Corry

annual pre-contest festival

special guests

wilfred pyper - compere

programme £3

friday 16th october 2009, 7.45pm st. john’s, smith square, london

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Welcome to the beautiful surroundings of St. John’s, Smith Square for our Annual Pre-Contest Festival. This is the band’s 63rd consecutive band contest weekend event.

Band Secretary Vic Jakeway got the ball rolling in 1947 with a ‘Meet the People’ event over the band contest weekend and by 1960s this had evolved into a Friday night pre-contest festival. By then the band was under the leadership of Bandmaster James Williams who is in the unique position of having attended all 62 previous events!

A feature of the pre contest festivals has been the quality of the soloists which are really too numerous to mention but include Don Lusher, Wilf Mountain, Ian Bousfield, English Brass Ensemble, Charlie Baker, Alan Morrison, Sheona White, Steve Sykes, Steven Mead, Roger Webster, Derick Kane, Aaron VanderWeele, Philip Cobb and of course our very own Richard Martin, Michael Savage, Peter Wise and Keith Hutchinson.

A tremendous heritage and one that the current crop of Enfield Citadel Bandsmen and it’s Bandmaster, Jonathan Corry, feel privileged to be a part of and determined to continue.

We hope you enjoy this evening’s festival and invite you to join with us again on Sunday at The Salvation Army, Churchbury Lane, Enfield when the band will be leading morning worship at 10am and presenting a festival of music at 4.30pm.

Enfield Citadel Band

For more than 100 years, Enfield Citadel Band has proclaimed the gospel message in the suburbs of North London. Founded in Tottenham, in 1892, the band gained early recognition as one of The Salvation Army’s leading musical groups and, in the years that followed, a rich history and tradition was established. In 1972, with the merging of two Salvation Army corps, the band moved to Enfield, on the outskirts of North London, and assumed its present title. There, as before, the band’s service has continued within the corps, in open-air activities and in visits to hospitals etc. in the same way as Salvation Army bands throughout the world.

In addition to service within it’s own locality Enfield Citadel Band travels extensively to present its ministry in music making. It has performed in most of the major concert venues in the British Isles and has shared programmes with some of the leading contesting bands including Black Dyke, Fairey’s and Foden’s. Visits to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA have also been undertaken. Enfield Citadel Band is also regularly involved in broadcasting and recording activities: a number of recent recordings on compact disc are available tonight.

A wide range of professions are represented by its members from accountants to architects and civil servants to salesmen, but all are united by the desire to use their talents in the Lord’s service.

Band News and Future Events

We are sorry to have recently lost the services of bandsmen Keith Loxley, Andrew Scott and Nick Marshallsay. We wish them all well for the future.

We are pleased to welcome Paul Williams, Paul Baker and Chris Avison who have all taken their place in the band having moved to the Corps in September.

November 15th Barnados Musical Heritage Concert with guests Richard Marshall and David Thornton at Queens Theatre, Hornchurch

November 21st Wombwell, Yorkshire

December 5th Helen Rollason Christmas Concert, Chelmsford

December 13th Community Carol Concert, Enfield

March 20th Concert with Brighouse and Rastrick, Huddersfield

April 17th Spring Festival, The Abbey, Waltham Abbey

June 12th Concert with Polysteel Band, Bristol

July 18th Songs from the Musicals, Broxbourne Theatre

For more information on band news and other events please visit www.enfieldband.org.uk

�Bandmaster Jonathan Corry

Having commenced cornet lessons with his father, John, he quickly progressed and took trumpet lessons with Paul Young (a former Enfield bandsman) and became Principal Trumpet of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain.

He studied trumpet at the Royal Northern College of Music with John Miller and John Dickinson during which time he performed and recorded with bands such as the Black Dyke Band. An advocate for brass bands, Jonathan developed a keen interest in conducting whilst at the RNCM which led to him being appointed at a young age as Musical Director of Besses O’th Barn Brass Band, during this time he featured as a guest soloist at Enfield Citadel Band’s Spring Festival.

Jonathan regularly guests within the trumpet section of the Ulster Orchestra, Ulster Brass and is a member of Artemis Brass. He performs frequently for the BBC and independent networks both on radio and television. Concerto appearances have included JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No.2, Hummel and Haydn Trumpet Concertos with the Nottingham Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Ireland and Ulster Orchestra respectively.

Jonathan studied with James Gourlay and Clark Rundell for an M.Mus degree in conducting and became a semi-finalist of the 2005 European Conductor’s competition held in Groningen, Holland. He was privileged in 2006 to work as Conductor of the European Youth Brass Band. Further work with youth ensembles include workshops at SA music schools and at present Jonathan is brass professor/rehearsal conductor for the National Youth Orchestra of Ireland where he works alongside conductors such as Diego Masson, Eri Klas and Christophe Mangou. He receives many invitations to conduct youth ensembles such as the Danish National Youth Brass Band.

Jonathan has appeared as guest conductor for bands throughout the UK including Fairey and Brighouse & Rastrick Bands and has recently received an invitation to conduct French champions, Brass Band Nord Pas-de-Calais. His first commitment is to the unique music ministry of Enfield Citadel Band and using his talent ‘Ad Optimum’ - To The Highest.

A fifth generation Salvationist, Jonathan originally hails from Belfast Temple and was appointed Bandmaster of Enfield Citadel Band in January 2009 after a move to London to facilitate new employment as brass co-ordinator for Brent Music Service.

Wilfred Pyper Wilfred is delighted to be sharing the stage with the Enfield Citadel Band. As a former Salvationist and Songster Leader at Belfast Temple he is no stranger to Salvation Army events.

He is regarded as one of Ireland‘s leading musical theatre directors and is in constant demand to direct throughout the Island. His work has been recognized by the Association of Irish Music societies who have awarded him and his productions numerous awards including Best Director on a number of occasions and most especially for his work on the Irish premier of the Broadway musical Titanic. He has also directed for the internationally renowned Castleward Opera and recently received a Best Male Performer nomination in the multi award winning Dublin based Festival Production Company’s Gondoliers at the prestigious international Gilbert and Sullivan festival in Buxton. As a retired Deputy Head Teacher he still works extensively on school productions throughout the Province and is regularly called upon as an adjudicator at Ulster drama Association festivals.

He first broadcast in BBC drama at the age of 13 and in recent years he went on to host a popular children’s Saturday morning radio show as well as a weekly arts programme. He has also worked with the Ulster Orchestra and was invited by their education department to co-ordinate a major composition event involving some 200 school children, the orchestra and aspiring young composers and to host the event in Belfast’s Waterfront Hall.

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Praise

They Shall Come From The East

Prayer And Introductions

Beatrice And Benedict

Excerpts From Carmen

Fugue In D MinorPremiere performance

Three Preludes

Resurgam

INTERVAL

Torchbearers

My Funny Valentine

The Stars And Stripes Forever

The Magic Flute

Soul OriginPremiere performance

I Will Follow Him

Wondrous CrossPremiere performance

Bible Reading

Shine As The Light

March

Overture

Bones Apart

Bones Apart

Tone Poem

March

Bones Apart

Bones Apart

Overture

Bones Apart

Bones Apart

Wilfred Heaton

John Larsson arr. Ray Steadman-Allen

Berlioz arr. Keith Wilkinson

Bizet arr. Vollam

JS Bach arr. Ray Farr

George Gershwin arr. McDonald

Eric Ball

Eric Ball

Rogers/Hart arr. John Challis

JP Sousa arr. Simon Wills

Mozart arr. Michael Kenyon

Dorothy Gates

arr. Goff Richards

Philip Wilby

Peter Graham

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PROGRAMME

�March Praise

First published in 1949 but composed in 1934 (at the early age of 16), Wilfred Heaton’s festival march has become his most performed work, played by brass bands of all kinds and abilities all over the world.

They shall come from the East

From the 1979 musical play that visualises William Booth entering Heaven we have this inspirational picture of the group of people gathered at the gates of Heaven, who represent every nation, race, colour and creed. The words and music of the two Generals - John Gowans and John Larsson are renowned throughout the world.

Beatrice & Benedict

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) completed the two act opera with his own libretto, loosely based on Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing. This brass band arrangement is by Dr Keith Wilkinson.

Excerpts from ‘Carmen’

The first production of Carmen took place at the Opera Comique, Paris, on 3rd March 1875. There was a capacity audience but nobody seems to have thought much of the opera. Carmen came upon them like a shock - ‘Its passionate force’, says one authority, ‘was miscalled brutality, and the suspicion of German influence which Bizet’s (1838-1875) clever use of guiding themes excited, was in itself enough to alienate the sympathies of the average Frenchman in the early seventies.’ Bizet, in short, had broken loose from the classical French style. His music displayed some startling, novel features, and for these the polite tastes of the French public were not prepared. Sadly, Bizet died three months after Carmen’s initial poor reception, and was not able to see his opera achieve the success it deserved. It was really with Carmen’s first performance in England, on 22nd June 1878, that its now enormous popularity may be said to have begun. Excerpts from this great opera feature on Bones Apart’s third album Enigma and include the Prelude, Aragonaise, Les Dragons D’alcala, Seguedille and Danse Bohème, all which have since become loved by opera-goers.

Fugue in D Minor

The well known music from Bach’s Organ Toccata and Fugue has been interpreted in many different ways. Here is an arrangement for brass, written this year, especially for the Enfield Citadel Band... ‘with fond memories and much admiration’ by Ray Farr. Enfield Citadel Band warmly remembers him as a former member of the Tottenham Citadel Band. Now renowned as a conductor, Ray has over 70 works published as an arranger and composer. He currently holds the position of Conductor in Residence at the University of Durham.

Three Preludes

George Gershwin (1898-1937) was born Jacob Gershowitz, of Russian Jewish parentage. After leaving school at 15 he became a songwriter for a publishing firm on Tin Pan Alley in New York. He was strongly influenced by jazz and popular music and probably his finest work is the ‘folk-opera’ Porgy and Bess set in a black community in South Carolina. It contains arguably his most famous song Summertime. The Three Preludes were written in 1926 and premiered by Gershwin himself at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. They have since been arranged for almost every combination - string quartet, brass band, wind quintet and jazz orchestra. The movements are entitled Allegro ben ritmato e deciso, Blue Lullaby and Spanish Prelude. Lorna has a solo feature in Blue Lullaby.

Tone Poem Resurgam

Deeply affected by the death at an early age of his sister-in-law in 1942, Eric Ball dedicated one of his most moving compositions to her memory. Resurgam can be translated as ‘I shall rise again!’ and takes as its inspiration a quotation from the Book of Wisdom: ‘The souls of the righteous are in the hands of God and no torment shall touch them...’

�Torchbearers

Recognising that Peter Graham’s Test Piece for this year’s National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain has references to this march along with other recollections of Eric Ball’s work, Enfield Citadel Band salutes the 1932 vintage with this vibrant echo of Salvationist marching hosts.

My Funny Valentine

New York-born Broadway songwriters Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) collaborated on 28 musicals and wrote over 500 songs. My Funny Valentine is from the 1937 musical Babes in Arms and has been recorded by hundreds of artists from Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Chet Baker, to The Supremes, Barbra Streisand and Kanye West. This arrangement for trombone quartet is by the late John Challis, who studied trombone at the RNCM. He arranged a wealth of pieces for trombone quartet and was kind enough to give his entire collection to Bones Apart. Sadly he lost his battle with cancer in September 2003. In this performance Helen is the featured soloist.

The Stars and Stripes Forever

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932) was known as the ‘March King’ and wrote over 100 marches, notably The Washington Post and The Liberty Bell. He toured Europe extensively with his own military band, and represented the United States at the 1900 Paris Exposition, marching his band along the Champs-Elysees. This arrangement is by Simon Wills, Professor of Trombone at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and former member of the London Symphony Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Bones Apart recorded his composition Sonata for Trombones on their four4four CD. The Stars and Stripes forever has become synonymous with Bones Apart Trombone Quartet over the last ten years, featuring as an enjoyable yet unforgiving encore to concert performances! Helen and Becky take on the infamous ‘piccolo’ solos.

The Magic Flute

Mozart’s (1756-1791) last opera was premiered in Vienna on 30 September 1791 and was an instant success. This transcription for band is by Michael Kenyon.

Soul Origin

Belfast-born Dorothy Gates is now principal trombone of the New York Staff Band, and wrote Soul Origin especially for Bones Apart at the request of Jonathan Corry. She describes her composition as taking the form of slow, fast, slow and the music seeks to encapsulate the thoughts found in 1 Corinthians (Chapter 12). The outer sections are intended to describe verse 13, ‘For we were all baptised by one spirit into one body’, while the middle movement is a funky bossa nova, loosely based on the musical notes found within the name ‘Bones Apart’. The music toys with the trombone quartet as individuals, a quartet in it’s own right, and a quartet as part of the ‘body’ - in this case, the band - where the full sonorities of the work will be achieved.

I Will Follow Him

The very first outing of the song had been an instrumental, entitled Chariot, recorded in 1961 by Franck Pourcel, one of the composers alongside Paul Mauriat. It was later released as a vocal recorded by Petula Clark (earning her a Gold Label in France). In 1992 Whoopi Goldberg starred in the film Sister Act in which, as a gangster’s moll sheltering in a convent, she and her choir sang the rejuvenated song before the Pope. The rest is history!

Wondrous Cross

Philip Wilby was Professor of Composition at Leeds University in 2004 when he was a guest at the Salvation Army Composers’ Symposium. This renowned brass band composer and arranger brought, and generously gave this sensitive arrangement of Isaac Watts’ unforgettable words; ‘When I survey the wondrous cross on which the prince of Glory died’ for Salvation Army use. Tonight you hear his impeccable new scoring of the original choral arrangement - dedicated to Bandmaster Jonathan Corry and the Enfield Citadel Band.

Shine as the Light

Peter Graham’s 1996 work uses a number of songs that highlight the Divine requirement to ‘Let our light shine’. Major Joy Webb’s sensitive request, ‘I am the Candle of the Lord... LIGHT ME’ is countered by Chick Yuill’s strong song: ‘King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Son of God exalted name above every name, Lamb upon the throne; This King will come again, the Father’s only Son, No more a world in darkness. The light has come’. Here is excitement which has a confidence for both the present and the future.

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�Bones Apart Trombone Quartet

Bones Apart Trombone Quartet is celebrating its 10th Anniversary

this year with a nationwide tour and the release of its fifth album,

ten, made up of repertoire performed during the quartet’s first

ten years. Formed as a student ensemble at the Royal Northern

College of Music in 1999, the original members - Carol Jarvis,

Becca Harper, Becky Smith and Camilla Tveit - performed

regularly at the college, and in concerts across the northwest. In

2000 the quartet recorded its first album Out & About and joined

Yehudi Menuhin’s ‘Live Music Now!’ scheme.

A landmark achievement in 2001 was winning the chamber music

award in the Royal Overseas League Competition, against a variety

of chamber ensembles. This resulted in numerous performing

opportunities, including recitals at St Martin-in-the-fields, the

Royal Festival Hall, at many national festivals as well as broadcasts

on national TV and radio.

In 2002 Bones Apart took part in the International Trombone

Festival in Texas, USA. The response from the audience was

unprecedented and brought the group to the attention of the

international trombone fraternity. The video of Bones Apart

performing Sousa’s The Stars and Stripes Forever was filmed during

the festival and continues to be the most popular trombone clip

on YouTube.

In 2003 Bones Apart commissioned two new works from the composers Gary Carpenter and John Kenny. Gary Carpenter’s Secret

Love Songs was premiered in May at the Royal Northern College of Music. Secret Love Songs was used as the set work for the ITF

Trombone Quartet competition in 2006. John Kenny’s Trombone Quartet, supported by the Royal Overseas League, was given its first

performance in a candlelit concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields in September 2003. Later that year Bones Apart released the album No

More Blues. David Whitehouse (trombonist with the London Philharmonic Orchestra) reviewed the CD describing it as displaying ‘...

great virtuosity, dazzling dexterity and versatile style and sound.’

Perhaps the biggest highlight for the group over the ten years was the collaboration in 2005 with Swedish trombone virtuoso Christian

Lindberg at the Wigmore Hall in London. This was part of the ‘From Sweden’ festival where Bones Apart premiered a commission

from Lindberg entitled Vivencies. Bones Apart undertook its first trip to the Far East in May 2005 performing at the International

Festa in Osaka.

Bones Apart continued its busy schedule over the following three years performing all over the world, including the US, Carribbean,

and Europe, and releasing its third album Enigma. 2008 was a pivotal year for Bones Apart, during which time the group began

recording its fourth album, travelled to Holland, Sweden, Finland and Spain and also embarked on a ‘Music in the Round’ UK tour

to great critical acclaim.

And so on to 2009. Bones Apart released two albums, four4four and ten, completed the second leg of the ‘Music in the Round’ series

and organised a 10th Anniversary national tour. 2010 starts the second decade of Bones Apart with tours to the US, Canada and Czech

Republic as well as performances around the UK.

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