HAZEL GROVE MUSICAL FESTIVAL COMMITTEE
President Simon Bottomley
Chairman Gordon Nightingale
General Secretary Susan Mather
Treasurer Janet Nightingale
Competitors' Secretaries: Speech & Drama Corinne Lawrence Instrumental Eileen Rigg Vocal Carolyn Watson Choral Ruth Wells
Syllabus & Programme Mark Rigg
Results Co-ordinator Kath Penney
House Managers Alan Briggs & Barclay Jackson
Chief Stewards Donald & Bobbie Sykes
Trophy Secretary Brenda Moseley
Catering Brenda Moseley
Subscriptions Secretary Gwyneth Robinson
The Committee thanks the many members and volunteers who provide assistance and advice throughout the year, including Trevor Moseley, Elaine Godfrey, Barry Watson and Maurice Hargreaves
ADJUDICATORS AND ACCOMPANISTS
Music Marilynne Davies, BA, MEd, LRAM, PGCE, FRSA Philip Dewhurst, BA(Hons), PGCE Graeme Humphrey, ARAM Maria Jagusz, GRNCM Kathryn Page, LRAM, ARCM, DipRCM Angela Rowley, BA(Hons), ARCM, PGCE, MISM
Speech and Drama Mia Ball, BA(Hons), LGSM, PGVS, PGCA Stephen R. Owen, BA(Hons), BA(Ed), MA MEd, PGDip(Ed), FRSA, FESB,FLCM, LGSM(Perf), LTCL(Perf), LLCM(TD), LLAM(Hons), ATCL Cert Ed(Drama)
Accompanists Stewart Death, BSc(Hons), PPRNCM Catherine Hall-Smith, GBSM, PGRNCM Tim Kennedy, MA, FRC
1 LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN
Welcome to the 93rd Hazel Grove Musical Festival.
Firstly, my thanks must go to the dedicated committee and all the many other volunteers who help in bringing this event together, whether behind the scenes, stewarding, serving teas or baking amazing cakes. This creates the basis for the professional and friendly atmosphere that we pride ourselves on in supporting competitors to perform their talents.
If you feel you could help in any way we always welcome new volunteers to join our happy band; please speak to myself or any member of the Committee.
I look forward to my second year as Chairman and wish you all a very enjoyable Festival.
Gordon Nightingale
SPONSORS AND FRIENDS OF HAZEL GROVE MUSICAL FESTIVAL
We greatly appreciate the support of our sponsors and friends, some of whom may have been too late for inclusion in the programme FRIENDS
Margaret Adshead Barbara Lister Margaret and Ralph Ashling Brenda and Trevor Moseley Pat Baldwin (in memory of Lily Bray) Simon Mei Eric Coates Kate Oldfield Ann Cliffe Margaret Rutherford Muriel Ferns Patricia Sharpe Francis Fletcher Brenda Taylor Muriel Gray Janet Vockings Margaret Greenup Margaret White Eileen Halsall Margaret Whittingham Maurice Hargreaves Janet & Gordon Nightingale Katie Huddie C. Zoe Huang
SPONSORS OF CLASSES
Irene Agnew (in memory of Joe Agnew) Class 400 Junior Choirs (under 12 yrs) Ian Chesters Class 267 Solo Descant or Treble Recorder Glazier Family (in memory of Laurence & Christine Glazier) Class 405 Choral Recital Pat Hunt Class 206 Pianoforte Solo (under 10 yrs) Sylvia Meade Class 369 Vocal Solo (over 21 yrs) Glenda Miller Class 357 Folk Song Open Stella Molton Class 367 Oratorio Solo Any Voice Open Sheila Mycock Class 205 Pianoforte Solo (8 yrs and under) Monica Pickles Class 200 Pianoforte Solo Prep Test Margaret Roberts Class 313 Folk Song (18 yrs & under) Gwyn Robinson Class 362 Vocal Duet Open Carolyn & Barry Watson (in memory of John Riches) Class 405 Choral Recital John Stimpfig (in memory) Class 239 Pianoforte Concerto & Championship Eileen Rigg Class 301 British Composer (under 10 yrs)
The Committee also wish to thank the following for their generous donations to the Festival: The Smithy Belles Choir Waitrose of Poynton Round Table
2 NOTICES TO ALL FESTIVAL ATTENDEES
- Child Protection, Data Protection and Safer Festivals Policies are available on the Hazel Grove Musical Festival website (www.hazelgrovemusicalfestival.org.uk) and in the entrance lobby at each venue.
- Video/audio recording or photography is not allowed during the Festival.
- Please note that there is limited parking available at Wesley Street, and there are parking restrictions on streets adjacent to the Festival sites. Competitors and audience members are advised to allow sufficient time to access the classes on time.
- Light refreshments (hot and cold drinks, crisps and cakes) will be available, but competitors, volunteers and audience members are invited to bring their own lunches and snacks. Hazel Grove has a number of shops and coffee lounges where sandwiches and hot snacks can be purchased. These include Asda, Sainsbury’s, Aldi, M&S Simply Food, Parry’s Bakery, McDonalds, the Wilfred Wood (Wetherspoons) and O’Hares.
WINNERS’ CONCERT
Competitors may be asked to participate in the Winners’ Concert which will be held on Saturday 07 March 2020 at 7pm at Hazel Grove Methodist Church. Tickets: Adults £5.00; Children £1.00 (inc refreshments). Proceeds from the concert will go to the Hazel Grove Musical Festival.
COPYRIGHT and PHOTOCOPYING
1. The Music Publishers' Association Code of Practice on Photocopying Copyright Works makes the following concession for copying own choice pieces from volumes only for the use of the adjudicator at a festival, provided that the entrant or participant has already purchased his/her own copy and that the copy made is retained and destroyed by the Administrator of the festival immediately after the event.
2. The Hazel Grove Festival is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement with the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society. This means that the entrants do not have to seek copyright permission for any poetry, prose or solo dramatic items (*) performed, to a time limit of 10 minutes. Performers and teachers will be delighted to know that their participation in the festival means that authors will be reimbursed directly as a consequence of their work being performed at this festival. Duologues and group dramatic activity are not covered by this agreement, and copyright for these items should be sought by performers at the time of entry.
(*) Solo dramatic items must be announced with title and author at the time of performance to qualify for copyright indemnity, and the performer must not change the words or gender of the character.
DESCRIPTORS FOR GRADING PERFORMANCES
The festival uses the marks system:
90+ or OUTSTANDING An exceptional performance, both technically and artistically 87-89 or DISTINCTION An excellent performance technically and artistically 84-86 or COMMENDED A convincing performance technically and artistically 81-83 or MERIT A capable performance showing some artistic appreciation and/or technical ability 78-80 or MODERATE A performance showing development of technique and/or communication 75-77 or FAIR A performance limited in its communication
3 NATIONAL CURRICULUM YEAR GROUPS
The school year runs from 1st September to 31st August; where National Curriculum (NC) Year Groups apply corresponding ages are as follows
NC Rec Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Year 6
Age achieved 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 during year
NC Year 7 Year 8 Year 9 Year 10 Year 11 Year 12 Year 13
Age achieved 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 during year
TROPHY AND MEDAL POLICY
All certificates, medals, trophies and plaques are awarded at the discretion of the adjudicator and the Festival Committee.
First, Second, and Third Prize certificates will be awarded in all Music and Speech and Drama classes where sufficient merit is shown.
In junior classes a keepsake Medal will be awarded to winners in the younger age groups, an enhanced First Prize Certificate will be awarded in the older age groups.
In Adult Classes an enhanced First Prize Certificate will be awarded to the winner of the class. A Trophy/Shield may be awarded to certain Adult Championship classes featuring Pianoforte, Vocal and Choral performances. Any such award will be for a period of up to a year and be returnable to the festival at the end of this period. The winner will bear the cost of any engraving.
4 SPEECH & DRAMA ADJUDICATORS
MIA BALL BA(Hons), LGSM, PGVS, PGCA
Mia has been involved with drama since the age of nine. She studied for her LGSM while reading for an Honours degree in English, and then worked for BBC Radio drama. Having a family encouraged her to go into teaching and she has taught “A” Level and GCSE Drama, directed plays, and prepared students for grade examinations in several independent schools. She holds the MA in Voice Studies from the Central School and now works for LAMDA, examining, running workshops and teachers’ courses in the UK and across the world, including Hong Kong, as well as preparing students for the LAMDA Teachers’ Diploma. She is also an adjudicator member of the British Federation of Festivals.
This will be Mia’s first visit to the Hazel Grove Festival, and she is looking forward to being entertained by all the competitors.
STEPHEN R OWEN BA(Hons), BA(Ed), MA, MEd, PGDip(Ed), FRSA, FESB, FLCM, LRAM, LGSM(Perf) LTCL(Perf), LLCM(TD), LLAM (Hons), ATCL, Cert Ed(Drama)
Stephen trained as a teacher of Drama, Speech and Movement at Trinity and All Saints’ College, University of Leeds. After qualifying, he then studied for a number of years with Eliner Rutherford, gaining specialist teaching and performance diplomas in all aspects of Speech and Drama studies. As well as being responsible for the drama curriculum in the schools where he worked, he also taught pupils of all ages and abilities privately, from complete beginners to Licentiate (RAM) and Fellowship (LCM) level. He became an examiner for The English Speaking Board and The Poetry Society and has adjudicated at many Festivals throughout the country.
In 1985 he was appointed to the headship of a primary school in Derbyshire, an experience he thoroughly enjoyed for the next twenty-two years. It was during this period that he became a Religious Education inspector for the Roman Catholic diocese of Hallam. After retiring from school in 2007 he was appointed as an examiner for The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and also resumed his work as an adjudicator for The British and International Federation of Festivals.
When not examining or adjudicating, Stephen’s leisure time consists of seeing as many plays and operas as possible and also teaching his young grandchildren to swim properly and ride bikes (without stabilisers).
MUSIC ADJUDICATORS
MARILYNNE DAVIES BA, MEd, LRAM, PGCE, FRSA
Having studied Voice ‘cello and Piano at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama Marilynne began her career in education and later studied for a Masters Degree in Education.
Her experience in teaching ranges from nursery to post-graduate levels and she has been external examiner and assessor in performance for a number of universities at graduate and post graduate levels. She was until recently Head of the School of Performance at the York St. John University –a post that included Music, Dance, Drama, Film and Television.
She now has a busy freelance career as an adjudicator for the British and International Federation of Festivals, as a voice consultant, teacher and conductor, and as a leader of a variety of workshops. She is Deputy Music Director of the 140 strong Harrogate Choral Society, founder of the Harrogate Polyphonic Choir and director of a small group of female voices called Beati. In 2011 she was honoured to be the first of two Music adjudicators to be created a Fellow of the British and Federation of Festivals.
Her membership of a consortium of European Conservatoires has led her to research into the Practice of Performance. The results of that research have been implemented across the conservatoires. As a singer she has performed in opera and oratorio and as a recitalist. She has sung with a small professional choir of 20 voices with whom she gave first performances of newly commissioned works.
In her spare time Marilynne enjoys walking – preferably contour walks – playing social Bridge and collecting enamel patch boxes!
5 PHILIP DEWHURST, BA(Hons), PGCE
Philip Dewhurst was born in Bolton, Lancashire. He read music at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne under Professor Denis Matthews where he specialised in performance of the oboe. After finishing his degree he completed a Post Graduate Certificate of Education and went into teaching.
Philip gives occasional recitals and enjoys orchestral and chamber music playing on a freelance basis when his teaching commitments permit. Philip also has a passion for choral music and has conducted and directed choirs and choral societies throughout his career.
As well as adjudicating at music festivals around the country, Philip is an examiner for Trinity Guildhall and an experienced GCSE and A level moderator. At present he is Director of Music at Cheadle Hulme School, Cheshire.
GRAEME HUMPHREY, ARAM
Graeme Humphrey has been a teacher of piano all his professional life, both at the Royal Academy of Music for thirty-six years from 1974 – 2010, and privately. He has also been very actively involved in festival adjudicating and examining – work which has taken him all over the world.
He was awarded an Associated Board Scholarship on the piano from New Zealand to study at the Royal Academy of Music. He regularly teaches in Hong Kong, and was external examiner at National Academy of Fine Arts in Singapore from 2009 – 2011.
In 1988 he founded the Blackheath Music Festival in London. From 1993 – 2010 he tutored at the Shrewsbury International Summer School and was Music Director of the Summer School from 2004 – 2010.
In 1997 he was elected Warden of the Private Teachers’ Section of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, and in 2002 was elected President of the Royal Academy of Music Club.
Graeme Humphrey is an Adjudicator member of the British and Internal Federation of Festivals and in 2013 was made a Fellow of British and International Federation of Festivals.
MARIA JAGUSZ, GRNCM
Maria Jagusz trained at the Royal Northern College of Music where she was awarded the Ricordi Prize for Opera. Further scholarships enabled her to continue her studies at the National Opera Studio where she worked with Solti, Dame Janet Baker and Martin Isepp.
Since then she has performed as an operatic soloist for leading opera companies in the U.K. and Europe working alongside artists like Freni, Carreras, Domingo, Dame Felicity Lott and Dame Kiri Te Kanawa.
As a concert artist she has performed in many leading venues including The Albert Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, St John’s Smith Square, The Barbican, and Bonn Cathedral. In 2010 she was awarded honorary chairman of the Silurian Consort for her contribution to music in the Cotswolds.
When she is not performing Maria runs a very busy teaching practise and many past students have gone on to have successful careers in the world of Opera and the performing arts. She is a much sort after singing workshop leader for both children and choirs. Her directing credits include Carmen (Swindon Opera and the Playhouse Cheltenham) Little Sweep, Dido and Aneas, Sweeney Todd, La Boheme and Orpheus et Euridice (Longborough Festival Opera), West Side Story, Secret Garden and Jesus Christ Superstar (MJ-UK) .
Future work includes devising and directing Offenbach’s “Orpheus in the Underworld” for Longborough Festival Operas newly formed Youth Opera group.
6 KATHRYN PAGE, LRAM, ARCM, DipRCM
Kathryn Page has given over 20 recitals at the South Bank and Wigmore Hall, both as soloist and chamber music pianist. She has toured Norway, Italy, Ireland and Australia where she gave seven recitals at the Sydney Festival and broadcast for ABC.
At home Kathryn has performed at many of the leading music festivals and has given numerous live broadcasts for BBC radio 3 from Broadcasting House, St Georges, Bristol and St David’s Hall, Cardiff. Her interest in contemporary music has led to many world premieres including works by Gary Carpenter, Alisdair Nicholson and Django Bates. She has worked with many established artists including David Campbell, John Lenehan, Joanna MacGregor and Sting! TV work has ranged from a live recital from Paris on CNN, an appearance on the Korean broadcasting network, several performances on Irish TV and a much treasured Blue Peter badge.
In 1991 she recorded the complete set of six Mozart-Grieg duo sonatas for BBC Radio Three. In recent years Kathryn has worked prolifically as a popular and busy adjudicator for the British Federation of Festivals, ABRSM examiner, and administrator for EPTA UK, the Chetham’s International Summer School for Pianists and the Manchester International Concerto Competition. She recorded Bartok’s Sonata for 2 Pianos, Stravinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’ and Camilleri’s Concerto for 2 Pianos and Percussion with Murray McLachlan, and gave an acclaimed performance of Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time at Chetham’s.
ANGELA ROWLEY, BA(Hons), ARCM, PGCE, MISM
Angela is a graduate in German from University College, London and after a period in teaching, began private singing training with, among others, Paul Hamburger, leading to the ARCM and a successful singing career.
Angela has performed throughout the UK and Europe and still performs regularly in recital, concert and oratorio. For several years Angela taught singing in a large comprehensive school and later in a Sixth Form College where she formed a choir, assisted in the production of musicals and initiated the development of music in the curriculum for students with both mild and severe learning difficulties.
Angela now has a thriving private practice, leading residential workshops and masterclasses and is Musical Director of Eccles Community Choir and co-ordinator and MD of Harmony ’96 choir.
Angela has worked with the BBC Philharmonic Education Projects including a programme in the ‘Discovering Music’ series on Radio 3 and helped to produce a piece of music performed by the Salford Family Orchestra and Chorus at the BBC Proms and is an adjudicator with the British and International Federation of Festivals.
7 SPEECH AND DRAMA SECTION
FRIDAY MORNING 21st FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Stephen Owen ROOM: M1
9.00 am CLASS 185 Acted Scene, NC Y6 & under Own Choice No costumes allowed – small hand props only Not less than 3 characters Time limit: 6 minutes (time to include introduction)
1 AB Academy Stockport The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe C.S. Lewis
9.30 am CLASS 102 Verse Speaking, NC Y3 & Y4 Own Choice Time limit: 2 minutes
1 Thalia Cooper Wilmslow I Opened A Book Julia Donaldson 2 Abigail Clark Wilmslow Flowers Are A Silly Bunch Arnold Spilka 3 James Murphy Wilmslow Waking Lilian Moore 4 Rose Garvin Wilmslow Cross Katy Julia Donaldson 5 Leo Garvin Wilmslow The Painting Lesson Trevor Harvey 6 Olivia Bradbury Wilmslow Yuck! Paul Rogers 7 Sacha Kasmi Wilmslow Sam Spook Peter Dixon 8 Jack McDermott Stockport After The Football Match Ian Souter
10.10 am CLASS 121 Verse Speaking, NC Y1 & Y2 Any poem by Gareth Owen Time limit: 2 minutes
1 Harry Clark Wilmslow Crocodile Gareth Owen 2 William Styles Wilmslow The Owl And The Astronaut Gareth Owen 3 Anoushka Chatterjee Wilmslow Don’t Look Round Gareth Owen 4 Benjamin Wright Wilmslow Crocodile Gareth Owen
10.35 am BREAK
10.50 am CLASS 108 Verse Speaking, NC Y7 & Y8 Own Choice Time limit: 3 minutes
1 William Clark Wilmslow Hide And Seek Vernon Scannell
11.00 am CLASS 112 Verse Speaking, NC Y11 & above Own Choice – see Regulation 5 Time limit: 4 minutes
1 Joss Abbs-Brown Hayfield Stealing Carol Ann Duffy
2 David Cullis Alderley Edge Contemplating Growing Murray Lachlan A Beard? Young
The winner giving the best performance of Classes 108, 111 & 112 will be awarded the Huw Lloyd Rowlands Trophy
8 11.35 am CLASS 142 Write and Speak a Poem, NC Y6 & under Entrants are to write a poem on a subject of their own choice which they will read aloud at the Festival. 50% of marks will be given for the Poem and 50% for the Reading.
1 James Murphy Wilmslow Me and My Cat James Murphy 2 Jainam Chatterjee Wilmslow Stranded Jainam Chatterjee
11.50 am CLASS 103 Verse Speaking, NC Y5 & Y6 Own Choice Time limit: 2 minutes
1 Joshua Clark Wilmslow Creative Writing Gervais Phinn 2 Hisham Butt Wilmslow Bad Day At The Ark Roger McGough 3 Max Hillgrove Wilmslow Mrs Mather Colin McNaughton 4 Alexander Dawson Bramhall You’d Forget Your Head Eric Finney
12.15 pm CLASS 141 Shakespeare Solo, NC Y9 & above Own Choice from any play No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 7 minutes
1 David Cullis Alderley Edge The Merchant of Venice Act 3 Scene 1 William Shakespeare 2 Joss Abbs-Brown Hayfield Macbeth William Shakespeare 3 Rebecca Duckworth Stockport As You Like It William Shakespeare
LUNCH
9 FRIDAY AFTERNOON 21st FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Mia Ball ROOM: M1
2.00 pm CLASS 180 Duologues, NC Y6 & under Own Choice No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction)
1 Madeline McCormick & Stockport Beauty And The Beast Olivia Criscuolo Nicholas Stuart Gray 2 Joseph Hibbert & Wilmslow Greenhouse Effect Clare Price Kavan Cooper 3 Lexi Regnett & Stockport Alice in Wonderland William Glenman Lottie Morton
2.35 pm CLASS 190 Creative Performance – NC 7 & under Groups to devise a piece of work on a theme of their own choice. The title must be announced at the beginning. All members of the group must speak some dialogue. The piece must include one of the following conventions: narration, monologue, tableaux. The group may include music and/or sound effects but must provide and operate their own sound equipment. Time limit for groups of 10 or less: 10 mins Time limit for groups of 11 or more: 15 mins
1 AB Academy Stockport
3.05 pm CLASS 159 Prose Reading, NC Y10 & above Own Choice Time limit: 3 minutes
1 Joss Abbs-Brown Hayfield Animal Farm George Orwell 2 David Cullis Alderley Edge The Four Loves C S Lewis
3.25 pm BREAK
3.45 pm CLASS 183 Duologues, NC Y11 & above Own Choice No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 5 minutes (time to include introduction)
1 Katelyn Ellis & Stockport In Need Of Care David Rowley Rebecca Duckworth
4.05 pm CLASS 175 Solo Comedy, NC Y7, Y8 & Y9 Own Choice No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction)
1 Eliza Dawson Bramhall Missing Presumed Dead Heather Stephens 2 Sofia Criscuolo Stockport The Power Of The Dog Ellen Dryden 3 Aaron Richardson Stockport Plum Pudding Flea Ruskin and Wood
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4.30 pm CLASS 186 Acted Scene, NC Y7, Y8 & Y9 Own Choice No costumes allowed – small hand props only Not less than 3 characters Time limit: 10 minutes
1 AB Academy Stockport Toad Of Toad Hall Kenneth Grahame
11 FRIDAY MORNING 21st FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Mia Ball ROOM: M4
9.00 am CLASS 101 Verse Speaking NC Y1 & Y2 Own Choice Time limit: 2 minutes
1 Eris Cooper Wilmslow Ballet Lesson Eleanor McCleod 2 William Styles Wilmslow Grown Out Of Tony Mitton 3 Anoushka Chatterjee Wilmslow The Door Richard Edwards 4 Frederick Smith Wilmslow Drinking Fountain Marchette Chute 5 Benjamin Wright Wilmslow Farewell Pete Roger Stevens 6 Harry Clark Wilmslow I Don’t Want To Go To School Colin McNaughton
9.30 am CLASS 153 Prose Reading, NC Y3 & under Own Choice Time limit: 2 minutes
1 Sacha Kasmi Wilmslow George’s Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl
9.40 am CLASS 100 Verse Speaking, Non-competitive Own Choice. Each performance will receive a certificate and adjudicator’s comments Time limit: 2 minutes
1 Lexi Bradbury Wilmslow The Queen Bee Rose Fyleman 2 Tomos Whalley Wilmslow On The Beach Marian Swinger 3 Molly Mateszko Stockport Baking Gervais Phinn 4 Simar Sandher Wilmslow Wrong Trolley Eric Finney 5 Max Coleman Stockport Trickle Rhyme Ian Serraillier 6 Bailey Hunter Wilmslow Three Bears Julia Donaldson 7 Isabella Flynn Wilmslow Dormouse Lilian McCrea 8 Orlando Watling Stockport My Sister Laura Spike Milligan 9 Beau Todd Wilmslow Ask Mummy, Ask Daddy John Agard 10 Lottie Morton Stockport Shirley Said Dennis Doyle 11 Zara Fineberg Wilmslow A Baby Sardine Spike Milligan
10.30 am BREAK
10.45 am CLASS 154 Prose Reading, NC Y4 & Y5 Own Choice – see Regulation 5 Time limit: 2 minutes
1 Hisham Butt Wilmslow Gangsta Granny David Walliams 2 Max Hillgrove Wilmslow James And The Giant Peach Roald Dahl 3 Jainam Chatterjee Wilmslow Charlie And The Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl 4 Joseph Hibbert Wilmslow The Wind In The Willows Kenneth Grahame
11.00 am CLASS 123 Verse Speaking, NC Y3 & Y4 Any poem by Kit Wright Time limit: 2 minutes
1 Abigail Clarke Wilmslow Applause Kit Wright 2 Olivia Bradbury Wilmslow If You’re No Good At Cooking Kit Wright 3 Charles Smith Wilmslow My Dad, Your Dad Kit Wright
12 11.20 am CLASS 170 Solo Drama, NC Y6 & under Own Choice No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 3 minutes (time to include introduction)
1 Madeline McCormick Stockport The Demon Headmaster Gillian Cross 2 Daniel Holub Stockport The Railway Children E.Nesbit 3 Olivia Criscuolo Stockport The Borrowers Mary Norton 4 Lexi Rignett Stockport Cheeky Poo Margaret Gibbs
11.45 am CLASS 125 Verse Speaking, NC Y5 & Y6 Any poem by Brian Patten Time limit: 3 minutes
1 Joshua Clark Wilmslow Dear Mum Brian Patten 2 Jainam Chatterjee Wilmslow The Rival Arrives Brian Patten 3 Joseph Hibbert Wilmslow The Trouble With My Sister Brian Patten 4 Alexander Dawson Bramhall The Rival Arrives Brian Patten
LUNCH
13 FRIDAY AFTERNOON 21st FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Stephen Owen ROOM: M4
2.00 pm CLASS 181 Duologues, NC Y7, & Y8 Own Choice No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 5 minutes (time to include introduction)
1 Tarkhan Pelivan & Stockport I’m The King of The Castle Susan Hill Paddy Christy 2 Oliver Passant & Stockport The Gentle Knight Willis Hall Daniel Holub 3 Alex Cummins & Stockport The Circus Boy Michael Redgrave Emmie Anderson 4 Jack McDermott & Stockport Minnow On The Say Philippa Pearce Aaron Richardson
2.40 pm CLASS 172 Solo Drama, NC Y10 & above Own Choice No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction)
1 David Cullis Alderley Edge The Bonfire of the Vanities Tom Wolfe
2.55 pm CLASS 191 Creative Performance – Year NC Y8, Y9 & Y10 Groups to devise a piece of work on a theme of their own choice based on a piece of music. The title must be announced at the beginning. All members of the group must speak some dialogue. The piece must include two of the following dramatic conventions: prologue and/or epilogue, tableaux, narration, monologue, chorus. The group may include music and/or sound effects but must provide and operate their own sound equipment. Time limit for groups of 10 or less: 10 minutes Time limit for groups of 11 or more: 15 min
1 AB Academy Stockport
3.30 pm BREAK
3.45 pm CLASS 182 Duologues, NC Y9 & Y10 Own Choice No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction)
1 Sofia Criscuolo & Stockport The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain Logan Ellis
14 4.10 pm CLASS 130 Verse Recital, Y10 & above Competitors to introduce and present three poems, one of which must be a sonnet, on a theme of their own choice to show contrasting styles of verse. The time allowed includes brief words of introduction and/or links between the poems. Time limit: 10 minutes
1 David Cullis Alderley Edge They Should Have Asked My Wife Pam Ayres Sonnet 138 William Shakespeare Annie McClue Murray-Lachlan Young
4.30 pm CLASS 171 Solo Drama, NC Y7 Y8 & Y9 Own Choice No costumes allowed – small hand props only Time limit: 4 minutes (time to include introduction
1 Tarkan Pelivan Stockport The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe C.S. Lewis 2 Paddy Christy Stockport James And The Giant Peach Roald Dahl 3 Oliver Passant Stockport The Voyage Of The Dawn Trader C.S. Lewis 4 Alex Cummins Stockport Sammy’s Consent Vincent Tilsley 5 Logan Ellis Stockport Noah Claypole from Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 6 Emmy Anderson Stockport Conversations With A Golliwog Alexander Guyan
15 INSTRUMENTAL AND PIANO SECTION
FRIDAY MORNING 21st FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: 1 WINDSOR ROAD Adjudicator: Kathryn Page Accompanist: Tim Kennedy
9.30 am CLASS 270 Woodwind Instrument Solo, 11 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 3 minutes
1 Louis Cooke Handforth Hot Chilli Wedgwood 2 Lottie Alcock Handforth The Entertainer Joplin
9.40 am CLASS 276 Wind Instrument (Woodwind or Brass) Solo, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Cassia Drummond Bolton Sonatina, 1st movement Arnold 2 Tom Leighton-Jones Lymm Morceau de Concert Pennequin
10.00 am CLASS 272 Woodwind Instrument Solo, 14 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 6 minutes
1 Francesca Lea Chesterfield Allegro Taffanel
10.30 am CLASS 200 Pianoforte Solo, Prep Test Own Choice Piece from ABRSM Prep Test or piece of similar standard
1 Evie Ryan Hale Barns Train Ride Watts
10.40 am CLASS 201 Pianoforte Solo, Grades I & II Own Choice Piece from current Examination Boards’ Syllabuses
1 Nell Riley Hazel Grove Night Journey Gurlitt 2 Emily Guo Chorley Dusty Blue Armstrong 3 Joseph Powell Glossop Quasi Adagio Bartok 4 Liam O’Brien Handforth Walking and Talking Charlton 5 Felix Heaton Wilmslow Dusty Blue Armstrong 6 Thomas Harris Wilmslow I’m Happy Grill 7 Ling Zhu Manchester Lesson in C Diabelli
11.10 am CLASS 202 Pianoforte Solo, Grades III & IV Own Choice Piece from current Examination Boards’ Syllabuses
1 Jurand Dlugolecki Chorley Holiday in Paris Gillock 2 Beatrice Powell Glossop Old French Song Tchaikovsky 3 Charlotte Cwiklinska Heald Green Sunrise on the Matterhorn Rollin
16 11.25 am CLASS 203 Pianoforte Solo, Grades V & VI Own Choice Piece from current Examination Boards’ Syllabuses
1 Patience Murphy Tintwistle Andante in A Haydn 2 Naomi Galbraith Marple Plauderei Kirchner 3 Maryclare Tan Hale Barns Jouer de Harpe Sibelius 4 Imogen Pooley Chapel Allegro Dussek
11.50 am CLASS 204 Pianoforte Solo, Grades VII and VIII Own Choice Piece from current Examination Boards’ Syllabuses
1. Alice Jiehua Song Hazel Grove Sonata, Op. 79, 1st movement Beethoven
12.00 am CLASS 205 Pianoforte Solo, 8 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit: 3 minutes
1. Emily Guo Chorley Good Mood Boogie Hammond 2. Ling Zhu Manchester Caterpillar Blue Iles
12.10 am CLASS 206 Pianoforte Solo, 10 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 4 minutes
1. Charlotte Cwiklinska Heald Green Sugar Plum Fairy Tchaikovsky 2. Liam O’Brien Handforth Test Drive Wedgwood 3. Priscilla Weng Salford Sonatina, 3rd movement Kabalevsky 4. Cameron Yuxuan Liu Worsley Gigue Bach
LUNCH
17 FRIDAY MORNING 21st FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Graeme Humphrey ROOM: M2 Accompanist: Stewart Death
9.30 am CLASS 240 String Instrument Solo, 9 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 3 minutes
1 Annee Grover Wilmslow Skye boat Song Trad. 2 Ryan Jagger Bramhall Chase in the Dark Blackwell
9.40 am CLASS 241 String Instrument Solo, 11 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 5 minutes
1 Sean Jagger Bramhall Russian Fantasia. No.2 Portnoff 2 Olivia Pimlott Hazel Grove America Bernstein
9.50 am CLASS 242 String Instrument Solo, 14 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 6 minutes
1 Nazgol Mahmoud Alavi Hazel Grove Take 5 Brubeck 2 James Allen Woodsmoor Sonatina Schubert
10.05 am CLASS 243 String Instrument Solo, 16 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 6 minutes
1 Mele Gadzama Hazel Grove Bolero Böhm
10.15 am CLASS 244 String Instrument Solo, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Daniel Gascoyne Davenport Praeludium & Allegro Pugrani
10.25 am BREAK
10.40 am CLASS 245 String Instrument Duet 11 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 4 minutes
1 Ryan Jagger & Bramhall Minuet Handel Finlay Wilson Bramhall
2. Olivia Pimlott & Hazel Grove Marche Militaire Schubert Sean Jagger Bramhall
18 10.50 am CLASS 246 String Instrument Duet, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 6 minutes
1 Amy Winterbone & Bramhall Festival March Mazas Nazgol Mahmoud Alavi Hazel Grove
2. Mele Gadzama & Hazel Grove Sarabande Böhm James Allen Woodsmoor
11.10 am CLASS 253 String Instrument Solo, Grades I & II Own Choice Piece from current Examination Boards’ Syllabus
1 Finlay Wilson Bramhall Minuett Purcell 2 Annee Grover Wilmslow The Hornpipe Trad. 3 Ryan Jagger Bramhall The Ceilidh Colledge
11.25 am CLASS 254 String Instrument Solo, Grades III & IV Own Choice Piece from current Examination Boards’ Syllabus
1 Sean Jagger Bramhall Take Five Brubeck 2 Nazgol Mahmoud Alavi Hazel Grove Allegro Vivaldi 3 Olivia Pimlott Hazel Grove Pastime with Good Company attrib. HenryVIII
11.45 am CLASS 255 String Instrument Solo, Grades V & VI Own Choice Piece from current Examination Boards’ Syllabus
1 Divya Mehta Stockport Survivor Wedgwood
11.55 am CLASS 256 String Instrument Solo, Grades VII & VIII Own Choice Piece from current Examination Boards’ Syllabus
1 Hephzibah Murphy Tintwistle Serénade Cassado 2 Mele Gadzama Hazel Grove Alr Varié Dancla 3 James Allen Woodsmoor Meditation Massenet
12.25 am CLASS 252 Classical Guitar Solo, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 6 minutes
1. Sebastian Clarke Wilmslow Valley of Echoes Sollory 2. Josie Abernethy Handforth Vals Carulli
LUNCH
19 FRIDAY AFTERNOON 21st FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: 1 WINDSOR ROAD Adjudicator: Graeme Humphrey
2.00 pm CLASS 207 Pianoforte Solo, 12 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit: 5 minutes
1 Natalie Mei Whitefield Prelude and Fugue in C Bach 2 Clara Galbraith Marple Ballade Burgmuller 3 Thomas Harris Wilmslow Steady as a Rock Wedgwood 4 Brian Liu London Nocturne in C sharp minor Chopin 5 Cameron Yuxuan Liu Worsley Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum Debussy 6 Jurand Dlugolecki Chorley Sleep Dancing Vilicinska 7 Priscilla Weng Salford Sonatina Op. 88 no.3, 3rd movement Kuhlau 8 Lottie Alcock Handforth A Sad Little Tale Wedgwood 9 Julie Zhang Salford Studies, nos. 2&4 Fricker 10 Patrick Townsend Huddersfield Etude No.10 Chopin
2.50 pm CLASS 208 Pianoforte Solo, 14 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 6 minutes
1 Cameron Yuxuan Liu Worsley Nocturne in C sharp minor Chopin 2 Summer Ng Manchester Silver Cloud over the Moon Ren Guang 3 Brian Liu London Bulgarian Dance no. 2 Bartok 4 Julie Zhang Salford Sonata in D minor Scarlatti 5 Crystal Liu Worsley Etude Op.25 no. 1 Chopin
3.30 pm CLASS 209 Pianoforte Solo, 16 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 7 minutes
1 Gulliver Hubbard Broadbottom Monday Einaudi 2 Cameron Yuxuan Liu Worsley Sonata Op. 17, no. 5, Presto J.C. Bach 3 Jennifer Mei Whitefield Fantasie Impromptu Chopin 4 Crystal Liu Worsley Sonata in A, no. 24 Scarlatti 5 Brian Liu London American Preludes 2&6 Ginastera 6 Summer Ng Manchester Etude Op. 10, no.4 Chopin
4.10 pm CLASS 211 Pianoforte Duet, 16 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 5 minutes
1 Phoebe Heath & Marple Suwannee River Blues Mier Bridget Heath Marple
4.30 pm PIANO FINAL (Winners of Classes 205, 206, 207, 208 & 209)
20 FRIDAY AFTERNOON 21st FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Kathryn Page ROOM: M2 Accompanist: Stewart Death
2.00 pm CLASS 265 Solo Descant Recorder, 16 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 7 minutes
1 Hannah Budgell Stockport Mexican Hat Dance Bullard 2 Anna Williams Prestwich The Bee Schubert
2.15pm CLASS 266 Solo Treble Recorder, 16 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 7 minutes
1 Anna Williams Prestwich Drei Intermezzi, No.1, Andantino Hans Gal
2.25 pm CLASS 267 Solo Recorder (any Recorder), Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Ian Bennett Stockport Sonata No.4 in F Handel 2 Anna Williams Prestwich Concerto in G, Allegro & Largo Vivaldi
2.45 pm CLASS 260 Solo Descant Recorder, 9 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 3 minutes
1. Charlotte Cwiklinska Heald Green The Merry-go-Round Bonsor 2. Naomi Fitton Hazel Grove Roses from the South Strauss 3. Annee Grover Wilmslow The Race Haughton 4. Aimee Peake Hazel Grove Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy Tchaikovsky
3.05 pm CLASS 261 Solo Descant Recorder, 11 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 5 minutes
1 Thomas Walker Handforth Land of the Silver Birch Trad. 2 Millie-Rose Clayton Hazel Grove Ragtime Razzle Russell- Smith 3 Isobel Hartley Hazel Grove Pastorale Haydn 4 Samuel Walker Handforth My Bonnie Trad. 5 Aimee Peake Hazel Grove Allegro Mozart 6 Liam O’Brien Handforth Fred and Ginger Russell- Smith 7 Lottie Alcock Handforth Nice ‘n; Easy Bonsor
3.45 pm BREAK
21 4.00 pm CLASS 262 Solo Treble Recorder, 11 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 5 minutes
1 Charlotte Cwiklinska Heald Green Summer Afternoon Bonsor 2 Lottie Alcock Handforth Rush Hour Bonsor 3 Aimee Peake Hazel Grove To a Wild Rose Macdowell 4 Elliot Fitton Hazel Grove Three Airs: No.2 Milford
4.20 pm CLASS 268 Recorder Duet, 11 years and under Own Choice Piece Time Limit 4 minutes
1 Thomas Walker & Handforth Kookaburra Trad. Samuel Walker Handforth
2 Millie-Rose Clayton & Hazel Grove Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang Sherman Isobel Hartley Hazel Grove
3 Liam O’Brien & Handforth Jemima Bonsor Lottie Alcock Handforth
4.35 pm CLASS 269 Recorder Duet, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 6 minutes
1 Ian Bennett & Stockport Duos. Nos.5, 7&9 Mozart Elliot Fitton Hazel Grove
2 Hannah Budgell & Stockport Duet Gampo Megan Budgell Stockport
5.00 pm CLASS 281 Ensemble, Open (3-12 players) A programme of one or more pieces Time Limit 10 minutes
1 St. Peter’s Hazel Grove (a) Trumpet Parade arr. Jurey Primary School (b) Rigadoon Purcell Orchestra (c) Contredanse Haydn
2 St. Benedict’s Handforth Beguine Bonsor Recorder Group
3 St. Simon’s Hazel Grove (a) Finger Polka arr. Benoy Recorder Group (b) Never Weather Beaten Sail Campion (c) Country Gardens Trad.
22 SATURDAY MORNING 22ND FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: 1 WINDSOR ROAD Adjudicator: Kathryn Page
9.30 am CLASS 230 Pianoforte Solo, Bach, Scarlatti, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Ian Roy Nuneaton Prelude and Fugue No.12, Book 2 Bach 2 Beverley Beddow Oldham English Suitz No.2, Allemande & Courante Bach 3 Maia Payne Bury Prelude & Fugue No.17, Book 1 Bach 4 Jeremy Chen Stockton-on-Tees Sonata in D, K29 Scarlatti 5 Crystal Liu Worsley Prelude & Fugue No.2 in C minor Bach 6 Julie Zhang Salford English Suite in A minor Bach 7 Patrick Townsend Huddersfield Prelude and Fugue No.1 in E Bach 8 Brian Liu London Prelude & Fugue in B flat Bach 9 Alicja Kojder Manchester Partita No.2 Bach 10 Natalia Mei Whitefield Sonata in B minor, K27 Scarlatti 11 Jennifer Mei Whitefield Sonata in A, K268 Scarlatti 12 Summer Ng Manchester English Suite No.2 Bach
11.00 am CLASS 237 Pianoforte Solo, Own Choice Composer Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Alicja Kojder Manchester Nocturne, Op.27, no.1 Chopin 2 Jennifer Mei Whitefield Prelude and Fugue in C minor Bach 3 Summer Ng Manchester Un Sospiro Liszt 4 Jeremy Chen Stockton-on-Tees Tarantelle, Venezia e Napoli Liszt 5 Collin Ng Manchester Intermezzo, Op.118 no.2 Brahms 6 Patrick Townsend Huddersfield Ballade No.3, Op.47 Chopin 7 Sydney Ng Manchester The Man I Love Gershwin 8 Julie Zhang Salford Sonata K282 Mozart 9 Beverley Beddow Oldham Sonata in F, Op.54, 2nd movement Beethoven 10 Maia Payne Bury Toccata Cassella 11 Ian Roy Nuneaton Chelsea Reach Ireland 12 Crystal Liu Worsley La Fileuse Raff
LUNCH
23 SATURDAY MORNING 22ND FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Graeme Humphrey ROOM: M2
9.30 am CLASS 232 Pianoforte Solo, Beethoven, Schubert, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Jennifer Mei Whitefield Sonata in G, Op.79, 1st movement Beethoven 2 Natalia Mei Whitefield Sonata in G minor, Op.49, 1st movement Beethoven 3 Alicja Kojder Manchester Sonata Op.31, no2, 1st movement Beethoven 4 Summer Ng Manchester Pathetique Sonata, Op.13 Beethoven 5 Michael Korzeniewski Manchester Rage over a Lost Penny Beethoven 6 Ian Roy Nuneaton Piano Piece, D946, no.2 Schubert 7 Beverley Beddow Oldham Impromptu in E, Op.90, no.2 Schubert 8 Maia Payne Bury Sonata, Op.31, no.1 Beethoven
10.45 am CLASS 231 Pianoforte Solo, Haydn, Mozart, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Ian Roy Nuneaton Sonata in E flat, HOB XVI, 52 Haydn 2 Julie Zhang Salford Sonata in E flat Haydn 3 Faith Thompson Wigan Sonata in C minor K457, 2nd movement Mozart 4 Crystal Liu Worsley Sonata in D HOB XV1, 37 Haydn
11.15 am BREAK
11.30 am CLASS 234 Pianoforte Solo, Chopin, Liszt, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Julie Zhang Salford Waltzes nos.11&14 Chopin 2 Beverley Beddow Oldham Etude in A flat, Op25 no.1 Chopin 3 Maia Payne Bury Hungarian Rhapsody No.6 Liszt 4 Ian Roy Nuneaton Un Sospiro Liszt 5 Crystal Liu Worsley Fantasie Impromptu Chopin 6 Jennifer Mei Whitefield Etude Op.25 no.1 Chopin 7 Alicja Kojder Manchester Ballade No.3 Chopin 8 Summer Ng Manchester Polonaise in E flat minor Chopin 9 Jeremy Chen Stockton-on Tees Ballade No.3 in A flat Chopin
LUNCH
24 SATURDAY AFTERNOON 22nd FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: 1 WINDSOR ROAD Adjudicator: Graeme Humphrey
2.00 pm CLASS 239 Piano Concerto, Open First Prize £50 – John Stimpfig Award Own Choice Piece Time Limit 25 minutes
1 Ian Roy Nuneaton Concerto No.3, 2nd&3rdmovements Rachmaninov 2 Summer Ng Manchester Concerto No.2 Beethoven 3 Cameron Yuxuan Liu Worsley Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056 Bach 4 Maia Payne Bury Concerto No.1 Beethoven 5 Crystal Liu Worsley Concerto in A, No.12 Mozart 6 Julie Zhang Salford Concerto K517 Mozart
4.45 pm PIANOFORTE CHAMPIONSHIP The first prize winners of Classes 230, 231. 232,233, 234, 235, 236, 237 will compete for the Championship Trophy & John Stimpfig Award £100
Adjudicators: Graeme Humphrey and Kathryn Page
25 SATURDAY AFTERNOON 22nd FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Kathryn Page ROOM: M2
2.00 pm CLASS 235 Pianoforte Solo, French Composer, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Heléna Walsh Manchester Toccata Poulene 2 Brian Liu London Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum Debussy 3 Jeremy Chen Stockton-on-Tees Toccata from Le Tombeau de Couperin Ravel 4 Patrick Townsend Huddersfield Sonatine Ravel 5 Ian Roy Nuneaton Ondine Ravel
2.45 pm CLASS 233 Pianoforte Solo, Brahms, Schumann, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Faith Thompson Wigan Intermezzo Op.118, no.6 Brahms 2 Heléna Walsh Manchester Intermezzo Op.118, no2 Brahms 3. Ian Roy Nuneaton Rhapsody, Op.79, no.1 Brahms
3.20 pm BREAK
3.35 pm CLASS 236 Pianoforte Solo, Russian Composer, Open Own Choice Piece Time Limit 10 minutes
1 Beverley Beddow Oldham Nocturne in E flat Glinka 2 Jennifer Mei Whitefield Elegie, Op.3, no1 Rachmaninov 3 Ian Roy Nuneaton Sonata No.2, 1st movement Rachmaninov 4 Michael Korzeniewski Manchester Concert Etudes, Op.44, nos.2, 6 & 8 Kapustin 5 Alicja Kojder Manchester Prelude, Op. 23, no.6 Rachmaninov 6. Jeremy Chen Stockton-on-Tees Sonata No.3 in F Kabalesky
26 VOCAL SECTION
FRIDAY MORNING 21st FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Maria Jagusz ROOM: M3 Accompanist: Catherine Hall-Smith
9.30 am CLASS 309 Vocal Solo, 13&14 years Own Choice Piece (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time Limit 4 minutes
1 Francesca Lea Chesterfield Marienwurmchen Schumann 2 Emilia Gaddum Prestbury Down By The Salley Gardens arr. Hughes 3 Ella Moran Whaley Bridge Se Tu M'ami, Se Sospiri Pergolesi 4 Lucy Jo Stanley Monton A La Nanita Nana Gomis
9.50 am CLASS 314 Musical Shows, 10 years & under Own Choice Piece Solo from any Musical Show, Film, Light Opera or Gilbert and Sullivan Time Limit 4 Minutes
1 Nestor Pento Colwyn Bay Who Will Buy? Bart 2 Ariana Safari Handforth If I Only Had A Brain Arlen 3 Jainam Chatterjee Wilmslow We’re Off To See The Wizard Arlen 4 Scarlett Gillis Didsbury Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? Loewe 5 Madeleine McCormick Stockport Somewhere Over The rainbow Arlen 6 Lexi Rignet Stockport Let’s Go Fly A Kite Sherman 7 Olivia Chriscuolo Stockport I Don’t Want To Live On The Moon Moss 8 Millie-Rose Clayton Hazel Grove Over The Rainbow Arlen
10.30 am CLASS 316 Musical Shows, 13 & 14 years Own Choice Piece Solo from any Musical Show, Film, Light Opera or Gilbert and Sullivan Time Limit 4 Minutes
1 Lucy Jo Stanley Monton I Dreamed A Dream Schonberg 2 Hannah Budgell Stockport Wonderful, Wonderful Day De Paul 3 Emilia Gaddum Prestbury It’s A Fine Life Bart 4 Isabelle Holland Bramhall Colors Of The Wind Menken 5 Scarlett Wright Worsley There’s A Fine, Fine Line Lopez and Marx 6 Francesca Lea Chesterfield Far From The Home I Love Bock 7 Sofia Chriscuolo Stockport With A Smile And A Song Churchill and Morey 8 Logan Ellis Stockport Put On A Happy Face Strouse
11.10 am BREAK
27 11.25 am CLASS 301 British Composer, 10 years & under Any solo song by a British Composer (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time Limit 4 minutes
1 Ariana Safari Handforth Butterfly Lin Marsh 2 Nestor Pento Colwyn Bay Sweet And Low Tennyson and Barnby 3 Maxwell Reeves Woodsmoor Grandfather Clock Dunhill
11.40 am CLASS 307 Vocal Solo, 10 years and under Own Choice piece (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time Limit 4 minutes
1 Timothy Gray Cheadle Windy Nights Stanford 2 Nestor Pento Colwyn Bay My House Bernstein 3 Madeleine McCormick Stockport The Owls Jenkyns 4 Lexi Rignet Stockport The Path To The Moon Thiman 5 Daniel Holub Stockport The Dorset Pedlar Jackman 6 Ariana Safari Handforth Halloween Witches Lin Marsh
12.10 pm CLASS 303 British Composers, 13 & 14 years Own Choice Piece (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time Limit 4 minutes
1 Emilia Gaddum Prestbury It Was A Lover And His Lass Morley 2 Hannah Budgell Stockport Will Ye Go, Lassie, Go? Traditional 3 Ella Moran Whaley Bridge Dream Valley Quilter 4 Francesca Lea Chesterfield Silver Armstrong Gibbs
LUNCH
28 FRIDAY AFTERNOON 21st FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Maria Jagusz ROOM: M3 Accompanist: Catherine Hall-Smith
2.00 pm CLASS 315 Musical Shows 11 & 12 years Own Choice Piece Solo from any Light Opera, Music Show, Film or Gilbert and Sullivan Time Limit 4 minutes
1 Alliya Mostenbet Wilmslow Whistle Down The Wind Lloyd Webber 2 Scarlett Teahan Wilmslow Ride Out The Storm Oram and Davis 3 Alex Viveash Manchester Anyone Can Whistle Sondheim 4 Megan Wilkinson Wilmslow I Could Have Danced All Night Loewe 5 Zara Bell Bakewell All I Do Is Dream Of You Brown 6 Marnie Haddon Sheffield Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? Loewe 7 Oona Vout Hope Valley Whistle Down The Wind Lloyd Webber 8 Verity Locke Hope Valley Feed The Birds Sherman 9 Paddy Christie Stockport Where Is Love? Bart 10 Tarkhan Pehlivan Stockport When I Grow Up Minchin 11 Oliver Passant Stockport I Want To Fly Lindsey-Nassif
2.55 pm CLASS 317 Musical Shows, 15 & 16 years Own Choice Piece Solo from any Light Opera, Music Show, Film or Gilbert and Sullivan Time Limit 4 minutes
1 Hope Wilson Great Moor Home Menken 2 Hephzibah Murphy Tintwistle Somewhere Bernstein
3.05 pm CLASS 313 Traditional Folk Song, 18 years & under Own choice piece Must be sung unaccompanied Time limit 4 minutes
1 Nester Pento Colwyn Bay Cantilena Del “Maggio” 2 Francesca Lea Chesterfield The Banks Of The Nile 3 Oona Vout Hope Valley Strawberry Fair
3.15 pm BREAK
29 3.30 pm CLASS 308 Vocal solo, 11 & 12 years Own choice piece (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time limit 4 minutes
1 Alliya Mostenbet Wilmslow An Die Laute Schubert 2 Scarlett Teahan Wilmslow A Smuggler’s Song C. Le Fleming 3 Megan Wilkinson Wilmslow Maria Wiegenlied Boelitz 4 Lila Gray Cheadle Angels Ever Bright And Fair Handel 5 Zara Bell Bakewell Ave Verum Corpus Elgar 6 Marnie Haddon Sheffield Dalmation Cradle Song Arr. Robertson 7. Oona Vout Hope Valley Jeune Fillette Arr. Weckerlin 8. Verity Locke Hope Valley Peace Song Buchanan 9. Paddy Christie Stockport 23rd Psalm Malotte 10. Tarkhan Pehlivan Stockport The Wizard Jenkyns 11. Oliver Passant Stockport The Crocodile Jen
4.25 pm CLASS 319 Vocal Duet, 18 years & under Own Choice Music Time Limit 4 minutes Shields will be awarded to the winners of this class
1 Marnie Haddon & Sheffield Cuckoo Clock Duet Beck Oona Vout Hope Valley
4.30 pm CLASS 302 British Composers, 11 & 12 years Any solo song by a British Composer (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time limit 4 minutes
1 Alliya Mostenbet Wilmslow Blow Thou Winter Wind Arne 2 Scarlett Teahan Wilmslow The Dormouse’s Carol Poston 3 Alex Viveash Manchester The Owls Jenkyns 4 Megan Wilkinson Wilmslow Summer Cunningham 5 Zara Bell Bakewell The Owls Jenkyns 6 Marnie Haddon Sheffield Butterfly Lin Marsh 7 Oona Vout Hope Valley Clock-a-Clay Bennett 8 Verity Locke Hope Valley The Path To The Moon Thiman
30 SATURDAY MORNING 22nd FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Marilynne Davies ROOM: M3 Accompanist: Catherine Hall-Smith
9.30 am CLASS 351 Soprano Solo, Open Own choice piece (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time limit 5 minutes
1 Chloe Rutter Stockport Bester Jungling Mozart 2 Amanda Chappell Northwich Quando Men Vo Puccini 3 Helen Hussain Llandudno NOD Armstrong-Gibbs 4 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove Silent Noon V. Williams
9.55 am CLASS 355 Baritone Solo, Open Own choice piece (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time limit 5 minutes
1 Robert Pugh Nantwich The Roadside Fire V. Williams 2 Jeff Firman Llandudno Song Of Momus To Mars Boyce 3 Treflyn Jones Porthmadog Is My Team Ploughing? Butterworth
10.15 am CLASS 356 Bass Solo, Open Own choice piece (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time limit 5 minutes
1 Glynn Morris Sale Captain Stratton’s Fancy Warlock 2 Oliver Bird Manchester Il Lacerato Spirito Verdi
10.30 am CLASS 354 Tenor Solo, Open (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time limit 5 minutes
1 Chris Dearden Conwy Vainement, Ma Bien-aimee Lalo 2 Lionel Kempster Eccles The Little Road To Bethlehem Head 3 Trefor Williams Bodffordd Love Went a-Riding Bridge 4 Rhys Roberts Pwllheli Arafa Don Hughes
10.55 am BREAK
31 11.10 am CLASS 361 Vocal Solo (any voice) 60 years and over Own choice music Time limit 5 minutes
1 Linda Taylor Biddulph The Infinite Shining Heavens V. Williams 2 Judith Barker Crosby The Monk And His Cat Barber 3 Lionel Kempster Eccles A Brown Bird Singing Wood 4 Kevin Lawman Rochdale Nobody Knows Unaccompanied
11.35 am CLASS 367 Oratorio Solo (any voice) Own choice music from any oratorio or sacred work Time limit 6 minutes
1 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove Quia Respexit Bach 2 Tim Burrell Bromley Lord God Of Abraham Mendelssohn 3 Rhys Roberts Pwllheli How Vain Is Man Handel 4 Robert Pugh Nantwich Lord God Of Abraham Mendelssohn 5 Judith Barker Crosby Father Of Heaven Handel 6 Trefor Williams Bodffordd How Vain Is Man Who Boasts In Fight Handel 7 Erin White Great Moor If God Be For Us Handel 8 Frances Punnett Sheffield Domine Deus Vivaldi
12.25 am CLASS 368 Victorian or Edwardian Ballad (any voice) Open Own choice piece Time limit 5 minutes
1 Glynn Morris Sale On The Road To Mandalay Speaks 2 Tim Burrell Bromley The Lost Chord Sullivan 3 Trefor Williams Bodffordd I Hear You Calling Me Marshall 4 Lionel Kempster Eccles Myself When Young Lehmann 5 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove Let Me Call You Sweetheart Friedman
LUNCH
32 SATURDAY MORNING 22nd FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Angela Rowley ROOM: M1 Accompanist: Tim Kennedy
9.30 am CLASS 359 Gilbert and Sullivan Solo (any voice) Open Solo from any Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Time limit 5 minutes
1. Robert Pugh Nantwich When The Night Winds Howl 2. Ruth Parry Stretford The Sun Whose Rays 3. Erin White Great Moor Poor Wand’ring one 4. Oliver Bird Manchester When All Night Long
9.55 am CLASS 371 Jazz or Swing Solo – open Own choice piece Any song in a Jazz or Swing style Time limit 5 minutes
1 Michelle Kidd Nantwich Embraceable You Gershwin 2 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove There Are Worse Things I Could Do Casey&Jacobs 3 Kevin Lawman Rochdale Such A Night Chase
10.15 am CLASS 360 Light Opera or Modern Musical Show (any voice) Open Aria from any light Opera or Modern Musical Show (excluding Gilbert and Sullivan) May be sung in the original text Time limit 5 minutes The winner will receive the Gwyneth Fletcher Memorial Trophy
1 Michelle Kidd Nantwich Worst Pies In London Sondheim 2 Helen Hussain Llandudno Till There Was You Willson 3 Frances Punnett Sheffield I Can Give You The Starlight Novello 4 Kevin Lawman Rochdale Mister Cellophane Kander 5 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove Safer Zachary and Weiner 6 Glynn Morris Sale Mister Cellophane Kander
10.55 am BREAK
11.10 am CLASS 364 Solo French Song (any voice) To be sung in the original language Time limit 5 minutes
1 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove Notre Amour Fauré 2 Henna Lemetyinen Manchester Clair de Lune Fauré 3 Erin White Great Moor Les Roses D'Ispahan Fauré 4 Helen Hussain Llandudno En Priere Fauré
33 11.35 am CLASS 352 Mezzo Soprano Solo, Open Own choice piece (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time limit 5 minutes
1 Frances Punnett Sheffield Music For A While Purcell
and CLASS 353 Contralto Solo, Open Own choice piece (excluding Light Opera, Musical Shows, Films, Gilbert and Sullivan and pop) Time limit 5 minutes
1 Michelle Kidd Nantwich Hark What I Tell To Thee Haydn 2 Judith Barker Crosby Lament Of Isis Bantock
11.55 am CLASS 366 Solo Song in any living language except English, French or German. To be sung in the original language Time limit 5 minutes
1 Ruth Parry Stretford None But The Lonely Heart Tchaikovsky 2 Henna Lemetyinen Manchester Come Raggio Di Sol Caldara 3 Michelle Kidd Nantwich O Del Mio Dolce Ardor Gluck 4 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove Se Tu M'ami, Se Sospiri Pergolesi
12.20 am CLASS 369 Vocal Solo - Novice Any competitor over 21 years who has never won a class in any Festival Non-competitive Time limit 5 minutes
1 Ruth Parry Stretford Pieta Signore Anon 2 Oliver Bird Manchester In Dilsen Heilgen Hallen Mozart
LUNCH
34 SATURDAY AFTERNOON 22nd FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Maria Jagusz ROOM: M1 Accompanist: Catherine Hall-Smith
2.00 pm CLASS 350 The Margaret Lane Award, £50 and special certificate This Award is presented in memory of a lifetime’s support for singers, notably in the Northwest of England, by Miss Margaret Lane, Singer, Teacher and Adjudicator for The British Federation of Festivals. Competitors must have entered at least one other class in the festival. A programme of three pieces showing contrasting styles Time limit 15 minutes
1 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove Per Pieta Bell'idol Mio Bellini Love’s Philosophy Quilter She Used To Be Mine Bareilles
2 Marc Gwynne Stockport Where E'er You Walk Handel L'invitation Au Voyage Duparc Stille Tranen Schumann
3 Chloe Rutter Stockport Ye Sacred Priests Handel Mandoline Fauré The Trees On The Mountain Floyd
4 Alan Hulme Wilmslow Der Vogelfanger Bin Ich Ja Mozart The People That Walked In Darkness Handel Master Of The House Schonberg
BREAK
5 Amanda Chappell Northwich Batti, batti, O Bel Masetto Mozart Das Verlassene Magdlein Wolf Come Sing And Dance Howells
6 Treflyn Jones Porthmadog Adelaide Beethoven Il Fervida Desidero Bellini Rencontre Fauré
3.55 pm CLASS 357 Folk Song (any voice) Open Must be sung unaccompanied Time limit 5 minutes
1 Robert Pugh Nantwich Poor Wayfaring Stranger
2 Michelle Kidd Nantwich Johnnie I Hardly Knew Ye
35 SATURDAY AFTERNOON 22nd FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE- HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Marilynne Davies ROOM – M3 Accompanist: Tim Kennedy
2.00 pm CLASS 358 Operatic Solo (any voice) Open Aria from any standard opera May be sung in the original language Time limit 6 Minutes
1 Linda Taylor Biddulph Vedrai, Carino Mozart 2 Rhys Roberts Pwllheli Lenski’s Aria Tchaikovsky 3 Treflyn Jones Porthmadog Hai Gia Vinta La Causa! Mozart 4 Robert Pugh Nantwich Gentle Lady Mozart 5 Tim Burrell Bromley O Isis Und Osiris Mozart 6 Jeff Firman Llandudno Non Piu Andrai Mozart 7 Michelle Kidd Nantwich Che Faro Gluck 8 Judith Barker Crosby Connais Tu Le Pays A Thomas 9 Trefor Williams Bodffordd A Leve-toi, Soleil! Gounod 10 Glyn Morris Sale O Tu Palermo Verdi 11 Chris Dearden Conwy Je Crois Entendre Encore Bizet 12 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove Heart, The Seat Of Soft Delight Handel 13 Marc Gwynne Stockport Dalla Sua Pace Mozart 14 Kevin Lawman Rochdale I Got Plenty Of Nothing Gershwin 15 Helen Hussain Llandudno Le Nozze Di Figaro- No 12 Aria Mozart
3.45 pm BREAK
4.00 pm CLASS 365 Lieder, Open Own choice from the works of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Wolf or Strauss Time limit 5 minutes
1 Glynn Morris Sale Der Nussbaum Schumann 2 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove Widmung Schumann 3 Frances Punnett Sheffield Romanze Schubert 4 Trefor Williams Bodffordd Mein Schoner Stern! Schumann 5 Robert Pugh Nantwich Der Wanderer Schubert 6 Amanda Chappell Northwich Wer Hat Dies Liedlein Erdacht? Mahler
36 SATURDAY AFTERNOON 22nd FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Angela Rowley ROOM: M4 Accompanist: Stewart Death
2.00 pm CLASS 370 Humour in Song, Open Own choice piece Any humorous song or aria Time limit 5 minutes
1 Michelle Kidd Nantwich Where In The World Is My Prince? Herman 2 Alan Hulme Wilmslow Reviewing The Situation Bart 3 Kevin Lawman Rochdale Master Of The House Schonberg 4 Amanda Chappell Northwich Adelaide’s Lament Loesser 5 Frances Punnett Sheffield Someone Is Sending Me Flowers Baker 6 Oliver Bird Manchester La Vendetta Mozart 7 Linda Taylor Biddulph Peach Melba Roe 8 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove A Trip To The Library Bock
2.45 pm CLASS 362 Vocal Duet (any two voices) Own choice piece May be sung in the original text Time limit 5 minutes Shields will be awarded to the winners of this class
1 Treflyn Jones & Porthmadog Benedictus Arwyn Rhys Roberts Pwllheli
2 Amanda Chappell & Northwich "Sull'aria? Che Soave Zeffiretto" Mozart Lynne Addison Shrewsbury
2.55 pm BREAK
3.10 pm CLASS 363 British Composer (any voice) Open Own choice piece Any song by a British Composer (excluding musicals) Time limit 5 minutes
1 Jeff Firman Llandudno The Vagabond V.Williams 2 Tim Burrell Bromley The Infinite Shining Heavens V.Williams 3 Linda Taylor Biddulph Gavotte Howells 4 Rhys Roberts Pwllheli Cwm Pennant M.Williams 5 Hannah Gregory Hazel Grove Ophelia’s Song Maconchy 6 Michelle Kidd Nantwich The Enchantress Hatton 7 Judith Barker Crosby To A Poet One Thousand Years Hence Finzi 8 Frances Punnett Sheffield Sweet Chance, That Led My Steps Abroad Head 9 Trefor Williams Bodffordd Rhos Y Pererinion Edwards 10 Lionel Kempster Eccles As I Lay In The Early Sun Finzi 11 Kevin Lawman Rochdale Captain Stratton’s Fancy Warlock 12 Amanda Chappell Northwich Johnny Britten
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Maria Jagusz ROOM: M2 Accompanist: Catherine Hall-Smith
4:45 pm VOCAL CHAMPIONSHIP The 1st Prizewinners of Classes 351,352, 353, 354, 355 and 356 will compete for the J. Worsley Harrop Trophy
37 CHORAL SECTION
SATURDAY MORNING 29TH FEBRUARY 2020
VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Philip Dewhurst ROOM: M2
09.30 am CLASS 400 Junior Choirs and Ensembles 12 years and under To perform two pieces of their own choice to show a contrast of styles. Time Limit 10 minutes The Joe Agnew Trophy will be awarded to the winners
1. St Peter’s R.C. School Choir Hazel Grove I Am A Small Part of The World Albrecht & Althouse Conductor Eileen Rigg Silver Trumpet Trad. arr. Gregory
2. Springfield Primary School Sale Sing, Sing! Sally Albrecht Choir The Lord Bless You and Keep You John Rutter Conductor Margaret Curzon
3. JGMT Theatre School Sale Why We Sing Greg Gilpin Conductor James Goodwin Somewhere Out There Ronstadt/Ingram
4. Laurel Lane Singers Sale Tuxedo Junction Feyne, Hawkins, Johnson & Dash Conductor Alex Whinnom Who Will Buy? Lionel Bart
5. Froggatt Young Singers Hope Valley The Lord Is My Shepherd Howard Goodall Conductor Kate Huddie The Squirrel Sandra Milliken
6. A. B. Academy Junior Choir Stockport Dream Valley Markham Lee Conductor Alicia Bardsley Two for the Price of One Andrew Carter
10.45 am BREAK
11.00 am CLASS 401 Youth Choirs and Ensembles 21 years and under To perform two pieces of their own choice to show a contrast of styles. Time Limit 10 minutes The William Byrd Shield will be awarded to the winners
1. The Springfield Singers Sale Lux Aeterna Christi Jones Conductor Margaret Cruzon Sing Jubilate Deo Jerry Estes
2. St. Peter’s R.C. Church Junior Hazel Grove Cantate Hodie Lightfoot Choir Good Day, Sir Christemas Chilcott Conductor Eileen Rigg
3. A.B. Academy Youth Choir Stockport My Bonnie Lass She Smileth Morley Conductor Alicia Bardsley Peter Piper Bridge
38 11.45 am CLASS 402 Vocal Ensemble, Open 3-15 voices only To perform two pieces of their own choice to show a contrast of styles Time Limit 10 minutes A Shield will be awarded to the winners
1. Maelstrom Blackburn Night Blooming Jasmine Elise Witt, arr. Michael Holmes Conductor Jeff Borradaile Plovi Barko Trad. Croatian Song
2. Hat Trick Manchester Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Hal David & Burt Bacharach Head arr. Dave King Make Someone Happy Betty Comden, Adolph Green & Jule Styne. arr. Joey Minshall
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VENUE: HAZEL GROVE METHODIST CHURCH Adjudicator: Philip Dewhurst ROOM: M2
2.00 pm CLASS 405 Choral Recital (Excluding Barbershop) First Prize £100 Second Prize £50 16-45 voices only Open to Ladies Choirs, Male Voice Choirs and Mixed Voice Choirs (including Church and Chapel Choirs) Choirs to perform three pieces of their own choice to show a contrast of styles Time Limit 15 minutes The John Riches Memorial Shield will be awarded to the winning choir. The Glazier Award will be given for the best performance of an individual piece
1. The Decibelles Blackburn Bumble Bee Anders Endenroth Conductor Jeff Borradaile Swing Low Trad. Spiritual arr. Stacey v. Gibbs Dangerous Woman M. Martin, J. Carlsson, R Golan, arr. Deke Sharon
2. Poynton Male Voice Choir Poynton Those Magnificent Men Ron Goodwin, arr. Arch Conductor Eileen Rigg In Their Flying Machines Amen Trad. World in Union Holst/Skarbek, arr. Williams
3. JGMT Ladies Choir Sale Adiemus Karl Jenkins Conductor James Goodwin Ain’t No Mountain High Enough Roger Emerson Run arr. Jeremy Birchall
4. St. Peter’s R.C. Church Poynton King of Glory, King of Peace Thiman Choir A Clare Benediction Rutter Conductor Eileen Rigg If I Have My Ticket, Lord arr. Moore
5. The Gallery Choir Stockport (Something Inside) So Strong arr. J. Wikeley Conductor Gonna Rise Up Singin’ Don Besier Lorraine Harris-Roche Feeling Good arr. A. Billingsley
6. Cheshire A Cappella Wilmslow Circle March Shaker Circle March. Conductor Kate Shipway arr. Katy L. Cooper Seasons of Love Jonathan Larson arr. Liz Garnett Make Your Own Kind of Music Cynthia Weil & Barry Mann
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