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Sensational Stage & Screen Spectacular THE MASSED VOICES OF INSPIRATION AND ROYAL NORTHERN SINFONIA SENSATIONAL STAGE & SCREEN SPECTACULAR SUNDAY 26 MARCH 2017 SAGE ONE, SAGE GATESHEAD MUSIC DIRECTOR: GARY GRIFFITHS NARRATOR: LIZ GREEN THE MUSIC OF SATURDAY 29 APRIL 7.30PM | SAGE ONE Stars past and present from West End hit musical We Will Rock You join Royal Northern Sinfonia for a celebration of Queen’s greatest hits, including Bohemian Rhapsody, Don’t Stop Me Now and We are the Champions. 0191 443 4661 sagegateshead.com Queen A5.indd 1 01/02/2017 14:37 GLORIOUS, BEAUTIFUL MUSIC This term we are adding yet another language to our repertoire in this concert - Tokelauan! No, I hadn’t heard of it before either. It’s the language of a tiny South Pacific island nation of Tokelau, which is a territory of New Zealand. But even so, in our selection from the new hit Disney movie Moana, it’s a joy to sing, with lovely open vowels in the Lion King mould. This new music sits alongside the classic scores of My Fair Lady, Showboat and Oklahoma, which also have Box-office smash been a joy to rehearse and sing. Such classic songs are Oklahoma! is the first so well known in the original versions, it’s good to sing musical written by them in full choir versions. It’s not often that ladies get Richard Rodgers and to sing ‘Old Man River’. Oscar Hammerstein II. The There’s lots in this concert to make you, the audience, sit musical is based on Lynn Riggs’ 1931 play, Green back and enjoy. – well known songs, but also some new Grow The Lilacs. songs that we think will be future classics. Gary Griffiths, Inspiration Music Director and Founder About Gary… I have been singing for as long as I can remember. Wolverhampton Grammar School was my major musical influence – School Choir, Choral Society, Musical Theatre Group, Jazz Band – alongside the Youth Orchestra and the Concert Band. When it came to University it had to be music, and so to York. Three wonderful years of music making also included being Chorus Master for York Light Opera and MD for Pickering Musical Society. I then became a tenor in the Choir of York Minster with all that entails; daily services as well as many world tours, concerts and recordings. After 18 years , I left and became part of the creative team behind the formation of SingLive. Now, with Inspiration as my sole focus, I really do have my dream job. Weekly rehearsals and trips around the country and abroad are a joy. Lars Vogt, Music Director ROYAL Julian Rachlin, Principal Guest Conductor NORTHERN Thomas Zehetmair, Conductor Laureate SINFONIA Royal Northern Sinfonia, Orchestra of Sage Gateshead, is the UK’s only full-time chamber orchestra. Founded in 1958, RNS has built a reputation for the North East through the quality of its music-making and the immediacy of the connections the musicians make with audiences. The orchestra regularly flies the flag for the region at the BBC Proms, Edinburgh Festival and further afield, last year touring to Brazil and in Europe. In recent seasons RNS has worked with conductors and soloists Christian Tetzlaff, Christian Lindberg, Olli Mustonen, Paul McCreesh, Robert Levin; a host of world-class singers including Sally Matthews, Karen Cargill and Elizabeth Watts, and also collaborated with leading popular voices such as Sting, Ben Folds and John Grant. It has commissioned new music, recently by Benedict Mason, David Lang, John Casken and Kathryn Tickell, and in the 2015/16 season launched a new Young Composers Competition. RNS has always been actively involved in local communities and in education. This season the orchestra will perform across the region in Kendal, Middlesbrough, Carlisle, Berwick, Barnard Castle and Sunderland, as well as in Gateshead. Musicians support young people learning musical instruments through Sage Gateshead’s Centre for Advanced Training and through In Harmony, a long-term programme in Hawthorn Primary School in which every child in the school learns a musical instrument and plays in an orchestra. ‘O Fortuna’, a medieval For more information about the orchestra and its home, Latin Goliardic poem visit sagegateshead.com written early in the 13th century, is part of the collection known as the Carmina Burana. It was set to music by German composer Carl Orff in 1935 – 36. Cliff is an experienced BSL communicator who has CLIFF LEE worked with Sage Gateshead since 2004. Amongst SIGNED SONG other projects, Cliff has set up several signed song INTERPRETER choirs within the North East. He also runs courses for teachers and other trainers and facilitates Sign Song workshops across the community. Cliff holds a BSL Level 3 certificate, and has completed a teaching degree. In his spare time he is learning to play the piano and enjoys nothing more than looking after his twin grandsons. Cliff has been working with Inspiration since they started in 2009. He loves working with the choir and is looking forward to introducing more people to the joy of song through the beauty of sign language. Liz Green is a multi-award winning broadcaster and LIZ GREEN journalist. She presents the Breakfast Show on BBC NARRATOR Radio Leeds and makes dark radio documentaries which have twice won awards at the New York International Radio Festival. Her Breakfast Show was nominated in 2016 for an ‘ARIA’ award, the industry’s highest accolade. Liz has a long time association with Inspiration, hosting concerts in Leeds and at Sage Gatehead. She also travelled with the company to New York when they appeared on Broadway and at Carnegie Hall. When Liz isn’t broadcasting or hosting concerts and award ceremonies, she has been a speaker at the House of Commons and chaired a debate on legalised You can follow Liz on sex working at the Sorbonne in Paris. Twitter @lizgreenlive You may also find her clutching paint colour charts and dealing with builders as she is renovating her new house, a money pit built in 1820 which may well be haunted… It is her absolute pleasure to be with Inspiration today and she wishes everyone a fantastic concert. Mark has a wealth of experience as a MARK DEEKS pianist, performer, arranger, musical DEPUTY director and lecturer. He released a solo album of original piano music MUSIC DIRECTOR in 2016 called ‘lightburst’ and his www.markdeeks.co.uk award-winning company Music Newcastle is a recommended supplier of live music to some of the North East’s top venues. Mark’s MD credits include the ‘Stepping Out’ autobiographical show of Faye Tozer (Steps), running Christmas choirs for BBC Newcastle and Magic Radio, local productions of ‘West Side Story’, ‘Buddy’ and ’The Sound Of Music’, and co-writing the music for ‘Monopolise’, the one-man comedy musical by Alfie Joey (BBC, The Mimic Men). Mark was also commissioned to write arrangements for the 2016 ‘Sunday for Sammy’ shows and is the MD for Inspiration’s ‘sister’ choir, Echo. Wow! I’ve loved rehearsing for this SUE MITCHELL concert. I asked Gary if we could DIRECTOR OF just call it ‘Sue’s favourites’ but he didn’t seem to buy that idea. COMMUNITY It seems strange to talk about INVOLVEMENT Christmas but I’m really excited that we are taking 140 singers to Vienna and Salzburg at the end of November. Planning is well underway. Charity and Church concerts are our way of helping others with their fundraising and we look forward to these smaller, more intimate concerts just as much as our Sage concerts. We already have dates in the diary but if you would like us to help you raise funds through our singing then please get in touch and hopefully we can arrange this. Hi, I’m Mallory, of the ‘Sue n’ Mal’ MALLORY SMITH team and part of a little gang REHEARSAL who sign 260 or so people in on rehearsal nights. Big thanks to MANAGER Sheila, Jill and Lindsay and Anna too! We are back to tongue twisting foreign languages. Luckily for some of us we’ve managed to re-learn or remember the German, Latin and Zulu without too many tears. I am saving those for learning the Tokelauan lyrics in Moana! Tokelau is a tiny South Pacific nation so it’s unlikely I’ll be going there on holiday to astound them with my language skills. Shame. But we are singing in Vienna and Salzburg later in the year, so perhaps I can use the odd German word from ‘Ode to Joy’ while I’m there instead? How long have you been singing? SINGER When Anjanette met Pete, she’d only sung in church. SPOTLIGHT After watching him with Sing Live, she signed up ANJANETTE AND straight away! PETE BERRIE What made you join Inspiration? It was a no-brainer! With Gary and Mark at the helm, we knew Inspiration would be something special. They both care so much about the music and about the singers. Do you sing with any other groups or choirs? We’ve both sung with Inspiration’s sister choir Echo and enjoyed the contrasting style of the music and the MDs! Pete’s sung in lots of other choirs, including in BT’s Christmas Concert at the Royal Albert Hall. He also sang a solo in a one-off musical performance of Anastasia in 2010. What kind of music do you most enjoy singing? That’s a difficult one! We both love all the music we Anjanette and Pete live in sing with Inspiration. It’s about finding your personal Whitley Bay and they’ve been connection with a song; any song can have special singing with Inspiration since meaning.
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