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DOY CD345 A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

THE EARLY YEARS 1. The Victors Return © Wright and Round Ltd. 3.29 2. Overture to “Der Freischütz” M/s 9.18 SOLO SHOWCASE 2015 3. Summertime © Rakeway Music 3.55 Soprano Soloist Richard Poole 4. Glorious Ventures © Gramercy Music 2.27 Cornet Soloist Mark Wilkinson 5. The Summer Knows © Kirklees Music 3.53 Trombone Soloist John Barber 6. Tarantella (from Concertino for Flugel Horn and Brass Band) © Studio Music Company 2.56 Flugel Horn Soloist Helen Williams 7. Chaplin © Obrasso 3.31 Vibraphone Soloist Mark Landon THE HOWARD SNELL YEARS 8. Fanfare © Rakeway Music 3.17 9. Bolero © Rakeway Music 2.06 featuring Glyn Williams () 10. Canzonetta © Rakeway Music 4.12 11. Tarantella © Rakeway Music 4.56 INTO THE FUTURE 12. Atrium Phase © Morthanveld Publishing Ltd. 6.09 THE PRESENT AGE 13. Marsch oder “Die Versuchung” © Maecenas Music 3.37 14. The Golden Horn © Astute Music 2.27 15. Fragile Oasis © Peter Meechan Music 14.53 Total CD Playing Time 72.52

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A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME PERSONNEL

As the current custodians of a very famous points in the timeline of the band together Principal Cornet Flugel Horn Solo Trombone name we are constantly aware of the history with a glimpse into the future, and a showcase Mark Wilkinson Helen Williams John Barber and heritage of Foden’s Band. Throughout of the current soloists. From this came the Solo Horn 2nd Trombone its history there has been acknowledgement idea of featuring music written or arranged Solo Cornet Jonathan Bates Robert Wilshaw of the past as well as an eye on the future. by Musical Directors and the current creative Paul McDonald It is this ethos that sparked the thoughts for team, all of whom have had their music Anna Hughes-Williams 1st Horn Bass Trombone this volume of our Patrons’ Choice series – a enjoyed by audiences and loyal followers of Andrew Stevenson Neil Raisbeck Shaun Farrington collection of musical snapshots from different the band. Soprano Cornet 2nd Horn Eb Bass THE EARLY YEARS Richard Poole Andrew Howard-Smith Stewart Baglin Solo Euphonium Sam Minshall Our journey begins in traditional fashion with Overture to Der Repiano Cornet arranged Weber’s wonderful “ Glyn Williams a march and an overture written by two of the Freischütz’’; indeed the manuscripts have the Mel Whyle Bb Bass earliest conductors of the band. inscription “Foden’s 1918”. The opera was Dave McGlynn 2nd Cornet 2nd Euphonium an instant success on its first performance in Mark Bousie Jonny Shaw In 1902 Edwin Foden hired William Rimmer Berlin in 1821 and within a few years it had Ian Raisbeck to conduct the band. Many people consider been performed in every major opera house in Joe Murtagh Solo Baritone Percussion Rimmer to be the “March King” and his work Europe. The Overture condenses the narrative Sarah Lenton Mark Landon is represented here by The Victors Return. complexities of the three acts of the opera 3rd Cornet Anthony Mann into a masterfully constructed miniature tone Robin Basu 2nd Baritone Andrea Price In 1910 William Halliwell became poem. It is recorded here as Halliwell arranged Lottie Groves Mike Warriner Holly Raynor Musical Director, a position he held for it with no timpani part and the percussion 18 years. It was during this period that he parts he created. Purists will argue that Weber only wrote a timpani part but we present it as the audience in 1918 would have heard it.

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SOLO SHOWCASE 2015

Throughout the band’s history, principal standard, being recorded by such artists as players have entertained audiences with Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, beautiful tone quality, virtuosic technique and Oscar Peterson and Barbra Streisand. sheer musicianship. The class of 2015 is no exception! Another original composition follows with music by William Himes. He is the music George Gershwin wrote Summertime for director of the Salvation Army’s Central the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. An attempt Territory, which encompasses the eleven to create his own spiritual in the style of the Midwestern states of the USA. In this capacity African American folk music of the period, it he is also conductor of the Chicago Staff Band. is recognized as one of the most covered songs This dancing Tarantella is the last movement in the history of recorded music, with more of his Concertino for Flugel Horn that was than 33,000 versions by groups and solo commissioned by Pittsburgh’s River City Brass performers. Band in 1992.

By contrast, Glorious Ventures is not only an Our showcase closes with a return to opportunity for the soloist to display quality music from the cinema. Chaplin is a 1992 of tone but it also requires nimble dexterity. biographical film about the life of the British It is a set of variations on Lily of the Valley and comedian. John Barry’s slow music very often is dedicated to Brian Taylor, the long serving has an almost haunting quality and this is Executive Producer: Trevor Caffull Project Co-ordinator: Mari Malm Mørkved cornet player of Fairey Band. no exception. This reflective music carries Producer: Adam Goldsmith Programme Notes: Michael Fowles the tinge of tragedy that seemed to haunt Engineer: Melissa Dee Artwork & Design: GK Graphic Design Film scores have proved to be a source of Chaplin’s silent films. Post-Production: World of Sound Recorded by World of Sound on 6 & 7 December 2014 Project Manager: Nicki Tonge at William Hulme’s Grammar School, . many popular arrangements for the band. The Summer of 42 is a 1971 American coming-of-age comedy drama based on the memoirs of screenwriter Herman Raucher. Michel Legrand’s theme song for the film, The Summer Knows, has since become a pop

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THE HOWARD SNELL YEARS FODEN’S BAND One of the things that marked this period are a perfect example of this with two of them of time was the ability of Howard Snell the originally written for solo piano and two for In the year 1900, when a small village named as well as stepping outside the boundaries of the arranger to find material that brass band solo voice with piano accompaniment. They Elworth in , Cheshire wanted a brass usual brass band concert repertoire. band to celebrate the relief of Mafeking in the musicians may not have come into contact come from two different collections of pieces. Boer War, Foden’s Band was born. The band In 2012 Foden’s set up a youth band to nurture with before. This not only enriched the Rossini, having composed no fewer than 40 was then adopted by Edwin Foden, a local the very best youth musicians in the area to repertoire with high quality music but also operas between the ages of 19 and 37, wrote industrialist (from whom the band took its become the future of the brass industry. The helped to give the band a clear musical identity. none in the next 40 years. However these name) at the Foden’s Motorworks. From these Foden’s Solo Competition (held annually in Howard’s ability to create a brass arrangement years were not barren of music. Les Soirées humble beginnings few would have thought November and staffed by players of the band) from music written for instruments other than Musicales and Péchés de vieillesse (‘Sins of old that this band would go on to win twelve British regularly attracts over 170 players from around brass is second to none due to his creative age’) were the musical fruits of salon evenings Open titles, thirteen National Championships of the world to compete against each other at the imagination. held weekly in his Parisian home. They are Great Britain and an unparalleled double hat- highest level. trick there in 1932, ’33 and ’34 and in 1936, collections of songs or instrumental pieces for ’37 and ’38. The band currently holds the record Most recently the band has cemented its position The four short character pieces by Rossini, solo piano or small chamber groups, elegant, for the number of area contest wins with an as one of the leading Brass Bands in the world Fanfare, Bolero, Canzonetta and Tarantella, witty, charming and often delicately ironic. unprecedented 18 North West Area titles. winning a rare and exceptional ‘Double’, being crowned 2012 British Open champions and the Around the world Foden’s Band is a trademark 2012 National Champions of Great Britain. In INTO THE FUTURE that musicians associate with inestimable class doing so the band defeated the very best bands and musicianship. This fact is reflected in the in Britain at the world’s two most prestigious In 2014 the band launched a competition for Contemporary Music Festival in the atrium wide variety of countries that the band has competitions. composers to encourage the next generation of the University Creative Arts Building. toured; Italy, Switzerland, America, Ireland, of writers for brass band. The winning entry The atrium, despite being a functional area France, Norway, Finland and Israel to name but As well as being very successful on the contest came from composer Andrew Baker. incorporating meeting areas and a café, has a few. front the band has also won numerous awards almost coincidentally evolved into a fantastic for various CD releases and regularly appears on The association which Foden’s has with the most BBC TV and Radio. “Atrium Phase was inspired by listening to (if somewhat resonant) performance space. respected and renowned conductors, Bramwell works performed at the 2013 Huddersfield Performers can be positioned on three Tovey, Allan Withington, Howard Snell and For further information visit different sides and three different levels, Michael Fowles, has developed the band’s ever www.fodensband.co.uk making the atrium ideally suited to spatially increasing repertoire and also its standards to separated performances of a variety of music unprecedented levels, allowing it to provide from Gabrieli to Christian Wolff. In Atrium audiences with musically aesthetic performances Phase the band is separated into four groups.

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The music “phases” between the groups in accelerates using metrical modulations to TOM FOSTER the manner of contemporary electroacoustic finish at considerable speed.” music, with the bass group acting as a kind of (Andrew Baker) Harry Thomas Foster, better known to everyone “subwoofer”. Starting very slowly, the music as “Tom” was born in Toronto, Canada on 23 April 1932, son to John and Agnes. In 1939 the family THE PRESENT AGE moved back to their home town of Congleton where Tom lived with his parents, his two brothers Our journey finishes with three pieces from The disc closes with a highly descriptive, Jack and George and his four sisters Annie, musicians working with the band today: cinematic extended work for brass band: Agnes, Ethel and Dorothy. Musical Director Michael Fowles; Composer “Fragile Oasis is the name of a collective Tom started School in 1939 aged seven at St Peter’s in Residence, Andy Scott; and Musical who describe themselves as ‘…a grass- in Congleton and was a member of the choir. At Associate Dr Peter Meechan. roots participatory initiative that connects the age of 11 years he went to Congleton Senior the shared perspective of astronauts from Boys’ school. At 14, he left school and held various Originally for wind band, Marcel Wengler’s different countries and cultures with people jobs including working at Silversprings Bleaching Marsch is subtitled oder “Die Versuchung’’ on Earth, encouraging all to work together so and Dying, a local engineering company, the co-op the band to all engagements across the country (The Temptation) and is written in the style of that our planet is not only visibly beautiful, and as a market gardener. until he left the company in 1980, making lifelong Charles Ives. The march begins in traditional but beautiful for all’. friends along the way. fashion, but as the work progresses the In 1950 Tom joined the Royal Engineers and composer succumbs more and more to the Many involved in the project are astronauts on in 1951 sailed out on the HMS Empire Orwell In 1980 Tom started his own Market Stall business temptation to make fun of the march idea. The the International Space Station (I.S.S.), who where he fought in the Korean War, returning before becoming a delivery driver for liberty listener can sense that something is amiss, but post, on their website (www.fragileoasis.org) in 1952 on the HMS Empire Pride. Upon his cosmetics in 1989. finds it difficult to identify due to Wengler’s many different details of their experiments, return from duty, Tom joined Foden’s in 1953 inventive writing. photos from space, and some incredible video where he started work as an internal truck driver In 2003, Tom went to work with his brother which involved moving two stroke engines from Jack who had his own transport company; they footage of our Earth. test beds to the paint shop. He then moved to remained a working partnership over many To continue, a high-spirited Turkish dance test driving Foden’s trucks before going on to do years. It was during this time that Tom returned depicts a bustling historic harbour. The One such time lapse video (a video made demonstration work and tuition. It was during this back to Foden’s Band as their driver until 2013 Golden Horn is the horn-shaped estuary up many still images) was posted on time that he met his late wife Georgina and they when he retired. Following his retirement Tom that joins Bosphorus Strait with the Sea of their website by astronaut Ron Garan went on to have four children Mark, Andrew, was made a life Patron of the band as a ‘thank you’ Marmara in Istanbul, Turkey. It separates the Peter and Karen. Tom became associated for his loyal services. Since retiring from work Tom historic centre of Istanbul from the rest of the with Foden’s Band when he has kept a close association with the band along city, and forms a natural, sheltered harbour became the band’s coach with his bother Jack, supporting them all over the that has protected maritime trade ships for driver in 1968, taking country. thousands of years.

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(www.fragileoasis.org/blog/2011/11/coming- iii: Freya has its roots in personal family back-down-to-our-fragile-oasis-2/) in 2011. tragedy. The name Freya derives from a Norse MICHAEL FOWLES It is made up of images taken from the I.S.S. goddess who was associated with both beauty of what Garan described as ‘…a couple of and love, and in this central section I wanted Widely regarded as one of the leading laps around our Fragile Oasis before coming to write music that not only acknowledged conductors of his generation, Michael hails back down [to Earth]’ and features all kinds of how fragile life itself is, but that every day of it from the rich musical tradition of North amazing views from space. counts and should be celebrated. Staffordshire and is an honours and post- graduate of the Royal Northern College of Each of the five sections of this work relate iv: The Storm from Above (part ii) is again a Music. to an aspect of the video – either something reference to the lightning storms, but also to literal or something more metaphorical: the huge hurricanes we see in the video. He is Musical Director of both Foden’s Band and Ratby Co-operative Band. He i: The lights from Above is a musical description v: The Oasis from Above – a description of the is also a member of the Association of of the view of the Aurora Australis from above size and grandeur of Earth, our Fragile Oasis.” Brass Band adjudicators. Having worked the lights. (Dr Peter Meechan) with many of the country’s leading bands Michael has a reputation for entertaining Michael has written for both Brass Band ii: The Storm from Above (part i) is also a concert programming and high standards in World and British Bandsman, given many musical portrayal of portions of the video competition. As such he is much in demand as première performances, conducted concerto clip – in this case the many lightning storms a freelance conductor and adjudicator both in appearances of eminent soloists and directed we see from above. The storms that are so the UK and abroad. many commercial CDs and broadcasts for powerful on Earth appear as small bolts of Educational work also forms an important both BBC Radio 2 and 3. electricity dancing through the clouds. part of Michael’s musical life. He is Course Director of both the Wessex Band Summer The relationship with Foden’s Band has School and Foden’s Armagh Summer School. produced high quality concerts and recordings As well as returning to the RNCM as a regular that have been met with critical acclaim and guest conductor he undertakes much training awards from the banding press, in addition to work throughout the UK with bands of all a continued dominance of the Tameside Whit levels from championship to youth including Friday circuit. being Musical Director of Foden’s Youth Band and Associate Conductor and Musical Adviser of Lions Youth Band.

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