HACKNEY MUSIC DEVELOPMENT TRUST’S 10 TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF EXCELLENCE IN MUSIC EDUCATION

SUNDAY 20TH NOVEMBER 2005 Musical anniversaries are always happy Ten years ago, HMDT was created with a the past decade.Their hard work and occasions as well as being important vision to provide stability for Hackney’s new inspiration have been responsible for our milestones. When Hackney Music Centre for Young Musicians. Since then, the success. Without them, HMDT would not Development Trust was set up ten years ago Company has changed and grown into a have been able to achieve what it has. For we little expected that it would fill such an well-respected, award-winning arts my part I would also like to extend a big essential gap in the musical life of Hackney, or organisation, creating and delivering music thank you to my dedicated staff,Tertia that this year we would win the Royal education projects not only locally, but Sefton-Green, Sarah Godfrey and Charlotte Philharmonic Society’s award for Education for internationally. Warner, whose hard work has made this our community project On evening’s celebration possible. Fields.This honour, which demonstrates the As we now celebrate HMDT’s 10th Company’s commitment to excellence in all of anniversary, the Centre for Young Musicians Ten years is just the beginning. With the its activities, is shared by our dedicated team Hackney, with which we share this birthday, is continued help of our many supporters, of staff, artists, project managers and teachers, just one of over twenty projects we run each HMDT will continue to explore new ways of ably led I might add, by our indefatigable year, all of which offer music education to a using music as a means to enhance learning, Director Adam Eisenberg, and the many broad range of people – from the under 5s, foster community cohesion, promote our thousands of people, young and old, who have who, with their parents, are part of The Music multi-cultural heritage, and provide participated in our programmes. Box programme, to the over 60s who make sustainable projects as a means of ensuring a up The Hoxton Singers. As the evening musical future for Hackney! Over the past ten years, we have enjoyed unfolds, I hope you will share the pride we creating music projects incorporating a variety feel in the scope and breadth of our projects, Adam S. Eisenberg of genres, which have introduced the serene and the high level of inspiration and DIRECTOR, HMDT Turkish Saz, the tap and slap of the Mandinka innovation, which challenges conventional drummer, the joys of youthful jazz ideas of music education. improvisation, not to mention original operatic works for children and adults alike, which As fun and entertaining as our work seems, it bring to life the songs of the Blitz and the is all very much rooted in the belief that musical Gods of ancient India. music has a valuable role to play in education. We were all especially proud to Today we are a vibrant musical organisation have been awarded the Royal Philharmonic which has gained in confidence, with each new Society Award for Education for our project seeming more ambitious than the last. community opera On London Fields (an Elsewhere you will read about all our current OPERACTION HACKNEY programme) which activities, but tonight you will enjoy a sample, premiered one year ago here at The Hackney on stage, of all that is best in the work we do Empire, and demonstrated the impact music and the wonderful people we work with. In and arts education can have upon adult short a musical treat. learning of language and literacy.

I and my fellow Trustees wish the Trust every None of this would be possible without the success for the next ten years and feel tireless support of friends and colleagues. privileged to be associated with its ambitious Tremendous thanks go to the many mission of bringing the very best of musical supporters, partners, musicians, artists and opportunities to all who come within its orbit. project managers we have worked with over

Patrick Maddams CHAIRMAN, HMDT DIRECTOR Adam Eisenberg

PRESENTS 10 TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

APOLLO Excerpts BY Philip Cashian ORIGINAL TEXT BY Mick Gowar

Moon Tales (Old legends about the origin of the “Man in the Moon”) Home from Home (Transcript of broadcast from Neil Armstrong aboard Apollo 11) Moon Spell (A list of the moon’s magical powers)

Centre for Young Musicians Hackney MUSIC DIRECTOR Simon Foxley

SCENE CHANGE Excerpt from The World Was All Before Us THE HACKNEY CHRONICLES ACT III – THE VICTORIANS MUSIC BY Jonathan Dove LIBRETTO BY Alasdair Middleton

DIRECTOR Dylan Lowthian MUSIC DIRECTOR Liz Rowe TECHNICAL DIRECTOR Cis O’Boyle DESIGNER Andrea Carr With students from Jubilee Primary School

SCENE CHANGE Excerpt from On London Fields SUPER JAZZ In the Mood Glen Miller I Got You Under My Skin Cole Porter Splanky Count Basie Land of Make Believe Chuck Mangione

Young Jazz Hackney MUSIC DIRECTOR Phil Revens

INTERVAL

I’ll BE SEEING YOU WORLD PREMIERE MUSIC BY Matthew King LIBRETTO BY Alasdair Middleton

Commissioned by Hackney Music Development Trust with support from The Big Lottery Fund

MUSIC DIRECTOR Tim Sutton DIRECTOR Dylan Lowthian COSTUMES Hilary Lewis With The People of Hackney,The Hoxton Singers, Students from Gayhurst School,Young Jazz Hackney

The Hackney Chronicles courtesy of Hinrichsen Edition, Peters Edition Ltd, London. CENTRE FOR YOUNG MUSICIANS HACKNEY

CYMH opened its doors for Saturday music making in 1995, and is sharing its 10th birthday with HMDT this year. Staffed by a dedicated team of professional musicians under the expert guidance of the Head of Centre, Simon Foxley, CYMH provides a well-rounded curriculum including singing, musicianship, instrumental ensemble and group instrumental tuition, and is affiliated to the Centre for Young Musicians (CYM) based at Morley College. CYM Hackney students play a prominent part in the community, frequently performing in public venues in Hackney and neighbouring boroughs. It is particularly proud of its impressive record of involvement in new music, having taken part in a number of first performances/world premieres including Roald Dahl’s Cinderella by Philip Cashian Philip Cashian’s many Vladimir Tarnopolski with the London Schools’ Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican; commissioned works The Palace in the Sky, a joint community opera initiative between ENO Baylis and include pieces for the HMDT, written by Jonathan Dove and Nick Dear; A Summa Caelo by Paul Robinson London Symphony with the London Schools’ Symphony Orchestra; World Upon World by Daryl Runswick Orchestra, the BBC with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (broadcast on BBC Radio 3) and A Charm of National Orchestra of Blessings by David Bedford with the choir and orchestra of Trinity College at the Wales, the Britten Sinfonia, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group and the Spitalfields Festival. CYMH performs regularly at the Spitalfields Festival and as part Composers Ensemble. His music has been of the Hackney Music Service’s Schools‘ Music Festival. Last year it performed in the performed and broadcast worldwide premiere of HMDT’s Community Opera On London Fields and in May 2005, it including a tour of Japan with the BBC premiered tonight’s performance work Apollo. National Orchestra of Wales, the Ojai Festival in California, Musikmonat in Basle, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and the Park Lane Group Young Artists Series where he PERFORMERS was the featured composer in 2001. Last Juliet Acheampong Boateng, Susie Billie Myers, James O'Connor, Sochima year the Northern Sinfonia premiered Acheampong Boateng, Serife-Seren Onyenemelu, Ella O'Regan, Matilda Tableaux in the BBC Proms and have Ahmet-Tekbas, Serhan Ahmet-Tekbas, O'Regan, Louis Pope, Elisheba Santulu, subsequently toured the work around Rosa Armitstead, Melissa Arslan, Kojo Sasha Scarlett, Shalby Scarlett, Ivan Europe. Future projects include a Piano Concerto for Sarah Nicolls, a new work for Awotwi, Kwesi Awotwi, Susannah Spence, Andrew Telfer, Devinya Thomas, Janice Graham and the English Sinfonia and a Ayodele, James Baird Hutchinson, Joshua Timson, Dora Willcock, Molly piece for 10 instruments for the BCMG. He Connor Baldwin, Elyna Banemeck, Akil Willcock teaches at Royal Holloway and the Royal Barry, Jelani Barry, Shakilah Barry, Isaac Academy of Music. Bassey, Oliver Beal, Patrick Beal, CYMH TUTORS Sebastian Benson, Joshua Bignell, Louis Jeremy Birchall, Andrew Callan, Emilia Carpenter, Helen Caulfield, Coralie Crawford, Simon Foxley (Head of Datta, Ellie Dawson, Rori Dean-Dodson, Centre),Tom Gregory, Nicky Jenkins, Apollo was commissioned by the Rosa Dennis, Precious Drackett, Miriam Martyn Lewington, Hannah Marshall, Centre for Young Musicians with funds Essilfie-Botchway, Florence Flood, Molly Coren Miles, Alan Mills, Katherine Shave, from the Esmée Fairburn Foundation Flood, Marguerite Frisby, Amani Grant, Kate Shortt and first performed at the Royal Festival Shaquel Grant, Josephine Grinell, Joshua Hall on May 9, 2005 conducted by Gualtieri, Clare Harding, Bridie Simon Foxley. Hembury-Stroud, Isabelle Holland, Letticia Irvine, Spencer Irvine, Rashaan CYM IS SUPPORTED BY Jackson-Wade, Charley Jess, Calum Leys Johnston, Callum Jones, Molly Joule, Natasha Kounna, Joseph Lane, Chloe Lewin, Joseph Martin, Joe Mason, Emilio Masotti-Black, Aisha Meade, Ella Muir, THE FOYLE FOUNDATION

and The Friends of CYM Hackney I CAN SING! – THE HACKNEY CHRONICLES Act III The Victorians Bodysnatchers are killing children to sell their bodies to doctors who use them for experiments. Beppo and Nancy are some of their innocent victims...

The Hackney Chronicles, written by leading British composer

Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton, uses music as Peters Edition is proud to publish Jonathan a means of developing skills and creative expression while Dove and to be associated with his working on the Key Stage 2 curriculum using a specially contribution to the music for children and created teachers’ pack.This commissioned piece is his commitment to the community with performed, stage-managed, designed, marketed and produced works such as The Hackney Chronicles, The Palace in the Sky, On Spital Fields and The by the students on the school site with the aid of a small Crocodiamond (or Rita and the Wolf) a guide professional team.The project focuses on four stories from Hackney’s history, and has to the orchestra based on an original text by a proven record of boosting students’ confidence, creativity and imagination, best-selling children’s author developing their knowledge and skills in acting and singing, and helping them to Anthony Horowitz. discover how history can be learnt in an artistic environment. Students also visit Peters Edition has developed a burgeoning catalogue of important education relevant sites such as the Imperial War Museum, Shakespeare’s Globe,The Museum of titles for major English examining boards, London and Hackney Museum, organisations with whom partnerships have been Edexcel, AQA & Rockschool at GCSE and forged to offer specially designed activities to participating schools. GCE Advanced Levels. Also, at Foundation The programme has flourished over the past five years, and has been at the centre Stage, KS1 and Lower KS2, Language Through of a number of articles on primary school music and education.The project has met Music (a series of 3 songbooks with CDs), with critical acclaim in The Times,The Guardian, Opera Now, Opera Magazine, as well as brings to life, through song and actions, the process of developing and nurturing The Music Teacher, BBC Music Magazine and a number of on-line opera reviewers. knowledge and understanding of the The Hackney Chronicles is a living, breathing, all-singing example of how music is English Language. www.editionpeters.com actively bringing a multi-cultural and diverse community together, creating a greater understanding of its present by celebrating its past in song.

PERFORMERS FROM JUBILEE SCHOOL,YEAR 5 Nancy Neslihan Karakoy Jonathan Dove Beppo Solomon Rose Jonathan’s include Madge Jahmala Exton the airport-comedy Flight premiered at Body snatchers Tanaie Bailey, Quwaine Dantes-McPherson, Jemila Green-Okoloba, Glyndebourne in 1998 and Omari Greenaway-Lackrage broadcast on Channel 4 Doctors Shaloma Abraham, Bushra Jogee, George Raymond, James Seekings which has toured to Ghosts Bethany Allen, Amrita Bhaker, Mumta Digpal, Roche Hector- St Louis, Boston and next year Adelaide, Siren McQueen, Ma'az Hikmatulla, Mert Kirdag, Sherdelle Miller- Song, L’Augellino Belverde, four large-scale community operas (including Palace in the Ferdinand, Patrick Narine-Turnbull, Hamza Soorty, Shanice Talukder, Sky for English National Opera and HMDT), Siddika Tandel a church opera, Tobias and the Angel and the Victorian Citizens Naeem Ahmed, Muammer Alpetkin,Tanaie Bailey, Sufyan Balesaria, television opera When She Died… (2002). Ashmell Bristol, Obai Carew, Cata,Yassine El Touijeni, Roma Gajre, His choral music includes the song cycle The Bushra Hussain, Maryam Huq, Zohrina Idris, Berivan Kanidaglli, Passing of the Year, Köthener Messe for SATB Sohnam Kaur, Conor Keyes, Bobbi McGregor, Ilyas Merecan, James choir and chamber ensemble, The Far Theatricals of Day, settings of Emily Dickinson Moore, Burak Mounsell, Jenny Nguyen, Arif Patel, Selin Safi, Jagdeep for soloists, choir, brass quintet and organ, Singh,Tahklima Sultana, Safa Zina and several anthems and carols, among them Technicians Roeshane Dockery,Tunila Do Nascimento, Humayrah Hafeji, The Three Kings, In beauty may I walk, I am the Mariam Haji, Fatima Jalalpuria, Shayek Miah, Humza Sheikh day and Run, shepherds, run! Theatre work includes music for The National Theatre,The Royal Shakespeare Company and the COMMISSIONED BY SUPPORTED BY Almeida Theatre. Artistic Director of the HMDT with funds from The Britten-Pears Foundation Spitalfields Festival, his recent community The Woodroffe Benton cantata On Spital Fields was premiered there Foundation with great success this year. YOUNG JAZZ HACKNEY

Young Jazz Hackney (YJH) is HMDT’s Big Band music school for young people between the ages of 10 and 23. Led by trumpeter and coach, Phil Revens,YJH addresses the need for learning practical skills in jazz, offering students opportunities to work with professional jazz musicians to develop their musical creativity and technical skills. YJH has taken part in workshops with Courtney Pine, John Surman, and musicians from the Lincoln Centre Jazz Orchestra. In addition, members of the band learn about the history and development of jazz, and learn to embrace the artform’s unique qualities – encouraging students to develop both their group and solo artistry and make informed musical decisions. Each element of YJH offers challenging personal and community outcomes for students, gives students the opportunity to perform in community and professional environments, and builds a strong sense of self-achievement in every student.The level of musicianship of Super Jazz,YJH’s performing Big Band is exceptional and it plays at a number of outdoor and indoor events throughout the year. Last year it performed in the premiere of HMDT’s Community Opera On London Fields. For booking information call HMDT on 020 8820 7410.

PERFORMERS Martin Bourdages Drum Kit Jay Darwish Electric Bass Zac Gvirtzman Piano Mark Crown Trumpet Gabriel Bristow Trumpet Phil Revens Trumpet Henry Amberger Jennings Trumpet James Johnson Alto Saxophone Jack Hughes Alto Saxophone Tommy Lawrence Alto Saxophone Nick Carter Tenor Saxophone Robin Sell Tenor Saxophone Lawrence Bowen Baritone Saxophone Martin Fourie Trombone Jesse Cusack Trombone Atty Huseyin Vocals

SUPPORTED BY THE PEOPLE OF HACKNEY

Formed by popular demand after the success of HMDT’s PERFORMERS award winning community opera project On London Fields at Jenny Bernard Judith Olley The Hackney Empire in 2004, The People of Hackney music Steve Bond Simon Robert theatre group is now one of HMDT’s key Adult Learning Simone Bowen Samantha Robert projects. Open to anyone interested in singing and performing, Stan Champion Noelia Rufete-Gil the aims of the group are to develop skills and techniques, Clare Comely Frances Sexton gain performance experience and to enjoy music making in a Tatsuya Fujii Sasha Scarlett variety of styles working with a range of professional artists. Nicola Gabriel Shelby Scarlett Julie Howell Natalie Shefer Fran Isherwood Andrea Sinclair Bola Kadara Coral Sinclair-Fenn Nigel Knapp Steven Singh Dawn Lawrence Nancy Smith Troy Lawrence Jane Sugarman Gina Long Khadijat Tandoh Jessica Long Adam Thompson Denise Marshall Eleanor Walker-Jung Farquhar McKay Suzanne Widdup THE HOXTON SINGERS

Formed by ENO Baylis in 1996, HMDT now runs The Hoxton MUSIC DIRECTOR Singers as part of its Adult Learning Courses.The choir’s Elfyn Jones performances include Radio Show at Hoxton Hall, a series of songs entitled Memories, a pantomime based on Cinderella, PERFORMERS and various Christmas concerts, Hoxton Songs,an Pat Arnold Tex Marsh intergenerational performance with pupils from Haggerston Barbara Bearfield John Meader School, The Firebucket (created by the performers) and The Irene Belnavis Dee Neville Palace in the Sky, an HMDT/ENO Baylis Community Opera at Frederick Bone Avis Rathbone The Hackney Empire in 2000. In 2004, the group appeared in Joyce Carroll Doreen Read HMDT’s production of On London Fields at The Hackney Celesta Chapman Stanley Rose Empire. Future plans include a recording project with Young Pat Charnock Irene Samain Jazz Hackney in 2006. Grace Cook Edna Singers Charlotte Cox Gerry Skinner Cissy Gardener Lynda Sparks Betty Gostling Jessie Thomason SUPPORTED BY Paul Higgins Vera Welch Daisy Isaacson Joanna Judge I’LL BE SEEING YOU

I’ll Be Seeing You is HMDT’s tribute to the Home Front, commissioned to celebrate SUPPORTED BY the 60th Anniversary of the end of World War 11. Designed as an intergenerational project, the piece is performed by three HMDT groups; The People of Hackney, The Hoxton Singers and students from Gayhurst School who have developed cross-curricular learning to support their work. Librettist Alasdair Middleton researched many different aspects of the Home Front in order to present a piece which touched on as many issues which affected people as possible. I’ll Be Seeing You is the culmination of this process of research and Alasdair Middleton includes scenes depicting the crucial aspects of home life such as rationing, Alasdair’s works include evacuation, the introduction of women into the workplace, the Land Army, the Blitz, plays; Casta Diva, Aeschylean Nasty, Shame scrap collecting for the War Effort and the Armed Forces going off to fight. on you, Charlotte and When We Were Good (at B.A.C.) librettos for children’s operas The Hackney Chronicles (Jonathan THE PAST IS A FOREIGN Dove) and The World Was All Before Them COUNTRY;THEY DO THINGS (Matthew King) a community opera On London Fields (Matthew King) for Hackney DIFFERENTLY THERE. Music Development Trust and Red Riding Hood (Jonathan Dove) for The Knack/Baylis One reads about the behaviour of the Blitz in London – horrific, hilarious Programme, He has compiled texts for people during the Blitz and their and practical. performance pieces; Polite Conversation; behaviour strikes one as odd – behaving What I’ll Be Seeing You is trying to Lachrymae and All InThe Dark and a community cantata for the Spitalfields in a way that one cannot possibly do in a very modest way is celebrate Festival, On Spital Fields (Jonathan Dove). imagine oneself or half of the people those people, living and dead, for whom one knows behaving under similar those horrific events were part of every circumstances.These people who were day life. one’s grandparents, one’s parents, one’s Nothing is easier than to Matthew King self, experienced a life unlike our own. sentimentalise the past and the Blitz is Matthew’s works include Take this, for example: no stranger to the sentimental. Stevie the operas The Snow Queen for ’s “A warden brought in a basket and said, Smith, who was unruffled by the Minstrels (QEH 1994); ‘You’re to have these’. Well, we asked bombing wrote of what has become Jonah, for soloists, massed what it was and he took the paper off known as the Myth of the Blitz: choirs and double and it was all fingers and toes. “People say people were heroic in the orchestra with organ and electro-acoustic ‘The hospital won’t take it because it’s raids.They were certainly good sound (Canterbury Festival 1996); a Passion setting Gethsemane for vocal quartet and not a casualty and the mortuary won’t humoured and plucky and baroque orchestra (Spitalfields Festival1998, take it because it’s not a corpse. So it’s uncomplaining, but is it heroism to Sydney Opera House1999); ...And Dream of yours to do what you like with.’ Well, endure the unavoidable? Is not heroism London (St Paul’s Cathedral 2000); a cycle of talk about red tape! rather to seek an end through danger? new pieces written for the Fitzwilliam String The basket was there for two days. There was no end thought of or Quartet; Handel’s Ghost, for 80 recorders Eventually an ambulance driver buried it sought.” ( and Handel House Museum 2003). Commissions for HMDT include the on the Common.” We can never be sure how we children’s opera The World Was All Before Imagine yourself as the speaker or would behave under similar Them, with Alasdair Middleton for Jubilee as the warden with a basket of fingers circumstances, but if after celebrating Primary School, the community opera On and toes slung over your arm or as the them, we wish to emulate the people of London Fields (Alasdair Middleton) Hackney ambulance driver digging a hole in the London who endured the Blitz, let us Empire 2004 and Hear Our Voice in collaboration with Jonathan Dove for 2006. common. Would you have told it all emulate their good humour. Let us Future works include Brunel, (librettist quite the way the woman telling the emulate their ‘pluck.’ Michael Irwin and electronic composer story did? This story, for me, epitomises ALASDAIR MIDDLETON Nye Parry). everything I have heard or read about Members of The Hoxton Singers talked Irene Samain Jessie Thomason to the children at Gayhurst School I was a factory worker I was made to be a fire about their wartime memories. in the clothing trade fighter when I was but most of the 5 months pregnant Gerry Skinner factories were burnt and taught how to use I joined the Air Training out by incendiary a big hose wearing a Corps before the war bombs, so when I was big grey helmet. and learnt Morse 16, I went to the Labour Exchange and was One day a bomb caught our house. I got Code. When the Blitz put on war work. We made bits for planes my back all cut up and had splinters in my started you could hear and were welding and engineering. It was feet. My father-in-law was a mine-sweeper the bombs coming very hard work, but very rewarding especially and suddenly lost his nerve. We heard a down. One day as they started up, I threw when the Officers came round to look at our fellow calling for help, but he just couldn’t go myself to the ground and when I got up I work. We worked two weeks on the day out there and help. Our dog ran out and we was soaking wet. I was outside a pub and in shift and one on nights and on nights you never saw him again. The doors caved in and front of an overflowing man’s toilet.You can had to go onto the roof when the bombs a fireman rushed in to help us. All I could imagine the state of my uniform! went, with a helmet and bucket of sand and think about was my makeup – my bra was I joined the Air Force in 1942 and one watch out for the bombs coming down. hanging out of the window and I rushed day I came home to find a letter calling me Fortunately, most of the bombs went into to put it on. When we got to the hospital up to service. I went to Skegness to do all the street but one night, one fell on the roof. I realised it was covered in dirt and my square bashing and was then shipped to Without thinking, I told my friend to kick it black smoke! Blackpool where I did aircraft maintenance to off and she was lucky it didn’t ignite, I did enjoy dancing and while I was living check for oil leaks and repairs. After the otherwise she would have lost her leg. We with my parents-in-law they didn’t want me course they didn’t tell us where we were just went on instinct. to go out as my husband was posted in going but put us on a ship towards Canada. There was one incident I was involved in Iceland. One night when they were out I In the straits of Gibraltar we got really when I was sheltering in a brewery. A bomb slipped out to go dancing and as I was bombed and lost a ship. It was terrible. hit the ammonia tank and created a huge coming back I saw them coming down the On each staircase of my boat, there was an white vapour, so there was a cry of ‘Gas street. I rushed into bed fully clothed and officer stopping people running away. One Attack’ and we were told to put on our gas heard them man was covered in crude oil but thank masks.There was so much debris covering come in saying God it didn’t catch light... we were lucky, the entrance that we couldn’t get out. ‘don’t disturb we were alright. Eventually they had to chisel out the her, she’s fast We docked in Port Said, got a rickety windows the next day to get us out. Lots of asleep!’ wooden train to Alexandria and were then people were trampled on and killed, but we transferred to a pilot training camp. were lucky to get out. Although the war was a terrible time, we had some laughs. We went dancing with all the soldiers whenever we could. Out of disaster comes laughter.

CHILDREN FROM GAYHURST SCHOOL,YEAR 6 THE BAND

Michael Adewale Cherie Gibbons Rumal Rahman Liz Rowe Piano Renissa Allen-Rhoden Bertie Holloway Daniel Rowe Gabriel Bristow Trumpet Lucia Barthelmy Cerys Jones Tyannabre Samuda Robin Sell Tenor Sax Sohail Barits Kirstie-Anne Kemp Rowan Senior Martin Fourie Trombone Youssef Boucetta Sarah Langford Layla Smith Jay Darwish Electric Bass Abdullah Boulis Calum Manby Ivan Spence Martin Bourdages Drum Kit Esen Cofgezici Alfie Maun Haile Tifari Sara Diafi Renais Mejeh Tommy Vu George Dyson Tomilola Ojo Teresa Ward Daniel Francis Jabedur Rahman Meshech Wright Photographs courtesy of The Imperial War Museum, London. HACKNEY MUSIC DEVELOPMENT TRUST

HACKNEY MUSIC HMDT aims to: DEVELOPMENT TRUST ■ Create and support music HMDT continues to be a creative force in the community, (HMDT) is a dynamic charity, education projects for ensuring that musical and cultural diversity flourish both in which creates a variety of people of all ages, raising Hackney and beyond. Its unique initiatives offer opportunities music projects encompassing a their aspirations and levels to a broad range of people, from the under 5s to over 60s, who broad range of cultural of achievement. want to develop their potential, either as a first experience or traditions and talents, working ■ Broaden the role of music a step towards a musical career. closely with schools and many in the educational and other organisations to sustain cultural life of communities, OPERACTION HACKNEY a legacy of music education for ensuring access to ON LONDON FIELDS people of all ages and abilities performing and enjoying in Hackney and beyond. music, regardless of OPERACTION HMDT is a leader in experience and HACKNEY is developing inspiring arts circumstance. HMDT’s core Adult Learning initiative providing a fun way to projects which support other ■ Explore methods of making THE MUSIC BOX learn through the arts.This award areas of learning, and works to music an integral part of winning programme offering increase access to high quality learning across academic HMDT’s programme for accredited Skills For Life courses the under 5s is rooted in musical experiences, raise disciplines, and demonstrate resulted in the creation and the belief that you’re achievement and harness the positive impact of music performances of On London Fields never too young to begin creative energy. and the arts on other forms – a new community opera making music. The Music Box offers of learning. performed at the Hackney Empire parents/carers and children an HMDT’s comprehensive ■ Value the musical traditions in 2004 by 250 local performers. opportunity to explore the approach includes of all communities, seeking foundations of music in a fun THE HOXTON SINGERS commissioning new to celebrate excellence and and interactive way. Participants THE PEOPLE OF HACKNEY performance works, creating diversity through education work with a variety of music from enduring partnerships with and performance. many different cultural traditions HMDT continues to other arts organisations, ■ Help individuals and allowing under 5s to explore basic offer exciting planning music initiatives organisations to plan rhythms and melodies, and helping opportunities for Adult Learning. according to identified need in-school and community- adults to gain confidence to The Hoxton Singers choir for the experiment with making music and bringing professional based music projects over 60s cheers the soul with a with their children. artists and other music according to identified need. variety of repertoire chosen by the industry professionals together ■ Develop and sustain participants, whilst The People of OPPORTUNITIES to work with schools and the partnerships which bring Hackney music-theatre programme THROUGH MUSIC wider community. professional musicians and offers performers of all ages an This programme of workshops for opportunity to perform under the other music industry residents of Hackney’s housing guidance of theatre professionals HMDT supports initiatives professionals together to estates includes choirs, music as well as share their talents with which broaden the role of help enrich music-making in technology courses,Turkish Saz and each other. music in the educational and schools and communities. Song, as well as song writing, and cultural life of the community, ■ Open new opportunities for African dance and drumming. designing long-term sustainable people of all ages to projects to continue ensuring achieve careers in music a musical future. and music-related activities.

COMMUNITY HMDT brings the finest quality arts programming to schools, One of HMDT’s important goals is to support long-term ranging from composition and singing projects to initiatives that enable students to realise and develop their instrumental tuition and full-scale musical productions. All of musical talents. Its two music schools – The Centre for Young HMDT’s in-school projects involve experienced workshop Musicians Hackney and Young Jazz Hackney, provide consistent leaders and fine musicians who engage and challenge both weekly lessons for students interested in studying music and students and teachers. playing an instrument. Each school has a unique musical style and teaching emphasis – offering students a wealth of choices I CAN SING! SPECIAL SCHOOLS with which to further their talents. THE HACKNEY CHRONICLES PROGRAMME This programme involves a range CYM HACKNEY This award of music projects specially designed nominated opera by for Hackney’s Special Schools. CYM offers composer Jonathan Projects for each school are over 200 students Dove about the devised in consultation, taking into aged 5-14 history of Hackney, gives primary account the varied abilities of all of instrumental classes, general schools the chance to become their the children involved.The activities musicianship, singing, ensemble own opera company during an include a range of specialised experience and an orchestra with in-school residency with three opera workshops and school regular performances at a variety professionals.The project includes performances during which of venues. work with a cross-curricular students gain confidence, have fun teachers’ pack, visits to relevant and develop their musical skills. YOUNG JAZZ HACKNEY museums and sites, and professionally SUPER JAZZ made sets and costumes. THE WORLD WAS ALL BEFORE THEM Young Jazz Hackney’s HEAR OUR VOICE big band Super Jazz, This new offers free training, HOV is a schools’ opera, masterclasses with unique music based on stories professional jazz musicians, and education of parents’ performance opportunities ranging project, which uses the arts to journeys to the UK, involved the from private parties to theatre gigs increase young people’s awareness whole of Hackney’s Jubilee Primary and outdoor venues. and understanding of the dangers School in a professional production of prejudice and persecution, and and curricular development. express their own feelings towards current issues of racial hatred and intolerance. It culminates in performances of an inspiring new music-theatre piece comprising poems, diaries and letters written by children during the Holocaust, set to music by Jonathan Dove and Matthew King.

SCHOOLS MUSIC CENTRES HAPPY BIRTHDAY HMDT!

Some of the Through its collaboration with HMDT I have always found greatest nights on Operaction Hackney the Academy has working in East London I have ever seen at first hand how this innovative to be an especially experienced at The and inspiring organisation helps people rewarding experience Hackney Empire of all ages and backgrounds discover with the added bonus of have been thanks to and develop their talents in and through having attended school at the Hackney HMDT. It is such a music.Their vision, passion and Free & Parochial School in the seventies. buzz to see the determination have achieved The chance to put something back into place filled with such enthusiasm: extraordinary things in Hackney. Long the community from where I started reflecting the community, reflecting a may it continue! has been made all the more easy by simple adoration of music and reflecting ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN working with HMDT on the various the future of the theatre as a hub for THE FIELDS interesting and innovative programmes people-performance. I am always happy they have initiated. to see them back in the Empire. ORPHY ROBINSON, MUSICIAN GRIFF RHYS-JONES, ACTOR

The work of HMDT is pioneering and inspiring, Barratt East London and its production of On Barratt East London, London Fields was one of which has been the most exciting As a composer always on the lookout responsible for all community events I’ve for ways of working within my own Barratt activity in the ever seen – a great show, community, I have had great experiences eastern half of Greater great teamwork, bold and with HMDT. For The Palace in the Sky,a London for almost 25 years and has exciting material, and a community opera at The Hackney completed a number of important really keen audience. It was a most Empire, they knew exactly where to find regeneration schemes in Hackney, most enjoyable evening, a fine showcase for the right musicians and animateurs; and recently the acclaimed East Central all the hard work HMDT does writing a children’s opera for them (The development in Mare Street, is part of all the year round in schools and Hackney Chronicles) was a joy from start Barratt Developments, the UK's largest the community. to finish. I particularly enjoy working housebuilder and most prolific urban MARGARET DRABBLE, AUTHOR with HMDT because they have such regenerator. good ideas for projects. By combining Barratt is proud that it is delivering Working for HMDT lots of different types of learning within more homes, more urban renewal, more was a most a creative process, they literally as well social housing, more skills training and unexpectedly joyous as metaphorically take children to places more innovation through partnerships experience... the they’ve never been. I believe some of with local authorities, housing production evolved into their ideas are ground-breaking, and I’ve associations and many other bodies, something quite special, with all sorts of certainly used them as models in and, in so doing, helping to revitalise and people from the Hackney area involved. working with other arts organisations. develop communities. There was an amazing mix of talent, I’m proud of the work we’ve done ambition and aspiration in the large together. As part of that partnership approach, chorus of all ages, and it was a pleasure JONATHAN DOVE, COMPOSER Barratt East London wholeheartedly to have taken part. endorses the outstanding work of SALLY BURGESS, MEZZO-SOPRANO Hackney Music Development Trust and is pleased to support this concert. HEAR OUR VOICE

But anyway, I still believe I only sleep today, That I’ll wake up, a child again, and start to laugh and play.

Hanus Hachenburg was 13 when he was deported to Terezin.Whilst in the ghetto, he produced a wealth of extraordinary poetry. His voice was silenced in Auschwitz on December 18, 1943.

Hear Our Voice is HMDT’s new, unique music education project, which uses the arts to increase young people’s awareness and understanding of the dangers of prejudice and persecution and express their own feelings towards current issues of racial hatred and intolerance.Working in partnership with the Internationales Kammermusik Festival (Nürnberg) and the Jewish Museum (), it culminates in an international tour of an inspiring new music-theatre piece comprising poems, diaries and letters written by children during the Holocaust and performed by students from all three cities, accompanied by an exhibition of their artwork.

The project falls into three phases:

■ Newly designed teachers’ materials ■ Composers Jonathan Dove and SUPPORTED BY will use literature, music, art and Matthew King will incorporate drama to introduce the subject musical ideas developed by the matter through the arts and provide students into an uplifting drama in sustainable resources for long-term which young people of the present use. Students will visit relevant will give voice to the words of historic heritage sites and museums, children whose voices were and meet with Holocaust survivors. prematurely silenced – children of the Holocaust. ■ Artists will lead workshops in each country to develop students’ creative THE HAROLD HYAM WINGATE FOUNDATION responses to the libretto, enabling and private donations them to develop a range of skills and PERFORMANCES techniques in the areas of composition, vocal and dramatic 15 July 7.30pm and 16 July 2006 2.30pm interpretation, instrumental work, Bloomsbury Theatre visual arts and film making. Exhibition at The Jewish Museum

18 July 2006 Fürth Stadtstheater Germany Exhibition at Nürnberg Dokuzentrum

20 July 2006 Prague State Opera HACKNEY MUSIC DEVELOPMENT TRUST STAGE MANAGEMENT THANKS

DIRECTOR PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATOR Guildhall School of Adam Eisenberg Charlotte Warner Music and Drama for their generous loan of props PROJECT DIRECTOR DEPUTY STAGE MANAGER Tertia Sefton-Green Wendy Griffin-Reid The Questors Theatre Ealing

MANAGER ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS Angie Hudson Sarah Godfrey Georgina Bottomley for assistance with costumes Chris Hill ADMINISTRATOR Stephanie Joab JUBILEE PRIMARY SCHOOL Charlotte Warner Tilly Stokes

HEAD TEACHER LIGHTING TRUSTEES Jacqueline Bruton-Simmonds Nathan Gummow Patrick Maddams (Chair) ARTS CO-ORDINATOR Fiona Bryce Nick Cannon SOUND DESIGN Tony Clark James West STAFF Michael Helston Lesley Faulkener Tina Jones John Lane Farquhar McKay Sue Collard HACKNEY EMPIRE

MUSIC ADVISOR THEATRE DIRECTOR GAYHURST SCHOOL Jonathan Dove Roland Muldoon HEAD TEACHER GENERAL MANAGER PROGRAMME DESIGN Diane Roome Simon Thomsett Raphael Whittle STAFF HEAD OF PROGRAMMING Cheryl Jeffers Claire Muldoon PHOTO CREDITS: Rosemarie Francis Ken Howard HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT Gulay Bozdogan Hazel Durrant Angela Hunte benedictjohnson.com Andy Morley-Hall CHIEF ELECTRICIAN Alastair Fyfe Othman Read HOUSE MANAGER Liz Holder

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