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bsw BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONIC WINDS Birmingham Symphonic Winds ...an exciting concert of British & American music Keith Allen conductor Juliette Bausor flute Birmingham Symphonic Winds Keith Allen conductor Simone Rebello percussion David Childs euphonium Saturday 9 April 2011 ~ 7.30 pm CBSO Centre, Birmingham, UK Sunday 17 April 2011 ~ 2.00 pm Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, USA supported by bsw BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONIC WINDS Birmingham Symphonic Winds ...an exciting concert of British & American music Keith Allen conductor Juliette Bausor flute Birmingham Symphonic Winds Keith Allen conductor Simone Rebello percussion David Childs euphonium Saturday 9 April 2011 ~ 7.30 pm CBSO Centre, Birmingham, UK Sunday 17 April 2011 ~ 2.00 pm Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, USA supported by PROGRAMME Second City Ceremony .............. Philip Sparke Shakespeare Pictures .............. Nigel Hess Much Ado About Nothing A Winter's Tale – The Statue Julius Caesar – The Entry To The Senate th Prelude from 49 Parallel .............. Ralph Vaughan Williams Divertimento for Band .............. Guy Woolfenden Toccata “an ingeniously themed concert drew a capacity audience Aubade into a creative programme by this highly-skilled wind orchestra Scherzo . high standards, originality and style . splendid entertainment ...Birmingham Symphonic Winds delivered with flair and skill” A Weekend in New York .............. Philip Sparke The Birmingham Post The Canticle of the Sun .............. Martin Ellerby “a well prepared, neat and tidy performance . wit, charm and exuberance ... enthusiastically embraced by BSW INTERVAL . high octane ...exuded confidence ...impressive.” Winds Music Magazine Jupiter (The Bringer of Jollity) from The Planets .......Gustav Holst “well-devised and excellently played programme, given by Keith Allen and Birmingham Symphonic Winds Euphonium Concerto .............. Karl Jenkins ...deftness and energy ...a delight in craftsmanship and colour.” Romanza The Birmingham Post A Troika? Tidy Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) .............. Eric Whitacre Danceries (set II) .............. Kenneth Hesketh Jennie's Bawbee Tom Tinker's Toye Heart's Ease Peascod's Galliarda Humoresque on Swanee .............. George Gershwin/J. P. Sousa bsw BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONIC WINDS PROGRAMME Second City Ceremony .............. Philip Sparke Shakespeare Pictures .............. Nigel Hess Much Ado About Nothing A Winter's Tale – The Statue Julius Caesar – The Entry To The Senate th Prelude from 49 Parallel .............. Ralph Vaughan Williams Divertimento for Band .............. Guy Woolfenden Toccata “an ingeniously themed concert drew a capacity audience Aubade into a creative programme by this highly-skilled wind orchestra Scherzo . high standards, originality and style . splendid entertainment ...Birmingham Symphonic Winds delivered with flair and skill” A Weekend in New York .............. Philip Sparke The Birmingham Post The Canticle of the Sun .............. Martin Ellerby “a well prepared, neat and tidy performance . wit, charm and exuberance ... enthusiastically embraced by BSW INTERVAL . high octane ...exuded confidence ...impressive.” Winds Music Magazine Jupiter (The Bringer of Jollity) from The Planets .......Gustav Holst “well-devised and excellently played programme, given by Keith Allen and Birmingham Symphonic Winds Euphonium Concerto .............. Karl Jenkins ...deftness and energy ...a delight in craftsmanship and colour.” Romanza The Birmingham Post A Troika? Tidy Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) .............. Eric Whitacre Danceries (set II) .............. Kenneth Hesketh Jennie's Bawbee Tom Tinker's Toye Heart's Ease Peascod's Galliarda Humoresque on Swanee .............. George Gershwin/J. P. Sousa bsw BIRMINGHAM SYMPHONIC WINDS Second City Ceremony ............... Philip Sparke Second City Ceremony was commissioned by Keith Allen and Birmingham Symphonic Winds and received its first performance in June 2010 at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham. It is the fourth piece this enterprising ensemble has commissioned as part of a 5 year project which began in 2006. The composer writes: “Birmingham is proud of its nickname as the ‘Second City’ in the UK, only London having a greater geographical area and larger population. Second City Ceremony is designed as a concert-opener and is full of nervous energy, contrasts and syncopated rhythms. It opens with a modal fanfare on the brass and saxophones, which is repeated with woodwind flourishes. A more lyrical theme in the middle of the band is again accompanied by upper woodwinds and develops into a climax for the whole band before the fanfare returns. A waltz-like second subject provides a moment of elegance but the fanfare keeps returning in various guises and orchestrations and eventually brings the piece crashing to a close.” Shakespeare Pictures ............... Nigel Hess Much Ado About Nothing A Winter’s Tale – The Statue Julius Caesar – The Entry to the Senate This is the third piece of BSWs 5 year commissioning project and was given its first performance by BSW in November 2008. Shakespeare Pictures originates from incidental music written by Nigel Hess for productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, and is now expanded and re-orchestrated to form a new suite for symphonic wind orchestra. Much Ado About Nothing: Actually used as the entr’acte in the production itself, this concert overture uses material from the joyous dance sequences scattered throughout the well-known love story of Beatrice and Benedict, played on this occasion by Sinead Cusack and Derek Jacobi. A Winter’s Tale – The Statue: “Music, awake her strike!” So says Paulina as the statue of Hermione comes to life at the end of this magical play. “Descend: be stone no more; approach; strike all that look upon with marvel.” In this production, Jeremy Irons played a memorable Leontes. Julius Caesar – The Entry to the Senate: starring Peter McEnery and David Schofield, this production featured a spectacular Senate scene, complete with Cathedral organ and a battalion of brass players fanfaring the imminent death of Caesar himself. th Prelude from 49 Parallel ............... Ralph Vaughan Williams Ralph Vaughan Williams was in his sixties when in 1941 he produced his first film score for the Michael Powell/Emeric Pressburger film 49th Parallel. The Prelude, an orchestral hymn in praise of freedom and mutual trust, accompanies the film’s prologue which is spoken over majestic shots of the Canadian Rockies. This orchestration by Leroy Osmon retains the rich texture of the original, written for strings and utilizing thick scoring throughout. Divertimento for Band ............... Guy Woolfenden Toccata Aubade Scherzo Divertimento for Band was given its first performance by Birmingham Symphonic Winds conducted by the composer at the WASBE Conference (World Association for Symphonic Bands & Ensembles) in Killarney, Ireland in July 2007. It was commissioned by BSW with financial assistance from The John Feeney Charitable Trust. The composer writes: “Many of the principal ideas for Divertimento for Band are derived from music I composed for a documentary film called Country Camera, which celebrated the work of the earliest photographers who recorded a way of life which vanished at the outset of the First World War. The three movements are played without a break. The Toccata pits a four-note motif (which always appears with its mirror image) against several other derived ideas, including a sour horn (later trumpet) figure, a tiny lyrical passage initiated by a solo alto saxophone, and a more gentle, but still staccato episode. Many polytonal Second City Ceremony ............... Philip Sparke Second City Ceremony was commissioned by Keith Allen and Birmingham Symphonic Winds and received its first performance in June 2010 at the CBSO Centre, Birmingham. It is the fourth piece this enterprising ensemble has commissioned as part of a 5 year project which began in 2006. The composer writes: “Birmingham is proud of its nickname as the ‘Second City’ in the UK, only London having a greater geographical area and larger population. Second City Ceremony is designed as a concert-opener and is full of nervous energy, contrasts and syncopated rhythms. It opens with a modal fanfare on the brass and saxophones, which is repeated with woodwind flourishes. A more lyrical theme in the middle of the band is again accompanied by upper woodwinds and develops into a climax for the whole band before the fanfare returns. A waltz-like second subject provides a moment of elegance but the fanfare keeps returning in various guises and orchestrations and eventually brings the piece crashing to a close.” Shakespeare Pictures ............... Nigel Hess Much Ado About Nothing A Winter’s Tale – The Statue Julius Caesar – The Entry to the Senate This is the third piece of BSWs 5 year commissioning project and was given its first performance by BSW in November 2008. Shakespeare Pictures originates from incidental music written by Nigel Hess for productions by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon and London, and is now expanded and re-orchestrated to form a new suite for symphonic wind orchestra. Much Ado About Nothing: Actually used as the entr’acte in the production itself, this concert overture uses material from the joyous dance sequences scattered throughout the well-known love story of Beatrice and Benedict, played on this occasion by Sinead Cusack and Derek Jacobi. A Winter’s Tale – The Statue: “Music,