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CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK regionals 2016 1. Cambridge Variations © Studio Music Company Philip Sparke 16.09 Championship Section: BNFL Band, conducted by Richard Evans 2-4. Essay © R. Smith & Company Edward Gregson First Section: Black Dyke Mills Band, conducted by James Watson i. Dialogue 4.02 ii. Soliloquy 5.18 iii. Epigram 3.16 5. Th e Mermaid of Zennor © Harper Music Publications Philip Harper 12.25 Second Section: Cory Band, conducted by Philip Harper 6-8. A Cambrian Suite © Studio Music Company Michael Ball Th ird Section: Black Dyke Band, conducted by Nicholas J. Childs i. Gwyr Harlech ('Men of Harlech') 2.09 ii. Suo Gân (‘Cradle Song’) 3.10 iii. Codiad Yr Hedydd (‘Th e Rising of the Lark’) 3.11 9. Th e Journal of Phileas Fogg © Gramercy Music Peter Graham 10.11 Fourth Section: Black Dyke Band, conducted by Prof. Nicholas J. Childs Total CD Playing Time 60.21 Track 1 taken from QPRL081 Executive Producer: Trevor Caff ull by kind permission of Studio Music Producer: Nicholas Childs Track 2-4 and 6-8 taken from Compilation and Mastering: Richard Scott DOY CD044 and DOY CD135 respectively Production Manager: Nicki Tonge Track 5 recorded on 6 June 2015 Project Coordinator: Mari Malm Mørkved Producer: Adam Goldsmith Artwork and Design: GK Graphic Design Post-Production: Melissa Dee Track 9 recorded on 18 June 2015 Engineer and Post-Production: Richard Scott DOY CD353 Code No.DOYCD353 Booklet-Pgs 8&1 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK Championships and again for the Championship Gregson, both of whom regionals 2016 section Regional Finals in 1992. Whitsun Wakes was encouraged his early eff orts Cambridge Variations 5. Euphoniums set up an ostinato fi gure over a bass commissioned by the BBC and fi rst performed by at composition. He later Cambridge Variations was commissioned by tune. Th is continues until the soprano establishes the Black Dyke Band, conducted by James Watson, undertook postgraduate regionals 2016 Philip Biggs and Richard Franklin with funds a more legato tune. Th is dissolves into a bubbling at the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on 26 May compositional studies provided by Th e All England Masters Brass Band cornet version of the ostinato, under which a slow 1997, as part of the BBC ‘Music Live!’ Festival. It was with Edward Gregson Championship Ltd for their 1992 contest. chordal passage unravels. Th e original chorale subsequently selected as the test-piece for the 1997 at Goldsmiths College, from the introduction returns in triumph. A faster British Open. University of London and Th e basis of the variations are the six musical coda brings the work to a close. holds a PhD in Composition. notes in the word ‘Cambridge’, CABDGE, used Th e Journal of Phileas Fogg mostly in reverse. Th e work falls into fi ve sections Philip Sparke Th e novels by Jules Verne have been a rich source From 1983 until 1986 he (variations), which are all, to some extent, derived Philip Sparke was born of inspiration for composers over the years. Peter was resident in New York City, where he worked as from the six-note row. in London and studied Graham has taken elements of his epic work Around a freelance composer and as a publications editor composition, trumpet and the World in Eighty Days as the outline for a series with the SA Music Bureau. Since his return to the 1. Th e introductory fi rst section contains a chorale, piano at the Royal College of adventures recorded in an imaginary diary by the UK he has worked regularly as an arranger for which starts with the row. Th is is preceded by of Music, where he gained hero of the story, Phileas Fogg. BBC Television and Radio and has specialised in related fi gures in the lower half of the band after an ARCM. It was at the composition for brass band. Since the publication of the cornets have set up a chattering ostinato. Th e College that his interest in Commencing with London bells in the background, Dimensions in 1983, he has become a leading fi gure chorale modulates and fades into a fl ugel horn bands arose. He played in the ensuing journey takes our hero by boat and as arranger and composer for brass and wind band. and baritone duet, supported by trombones. A the College wind orchestra train to Paris (passing the Moulin Rouge en His many original compositions include Th e Essence full-band climax follows and a shortened chorale and also formed a brass route), Russia (where he is chased by Cossacks), of Time, Montage, On Alderley Edge, Harrison’s leads to: band among the students, writing several works Vienna at night, Spain (where he is a spectator at Dream and Th e Torchbearer. for both ensembles. a bull fi ght) before a fi nal circumnavigation by sea 2. Figures based on the row introduce a robust tune (where we hear hints of foreign lands) brings him Currently writing full time, Peter Graham taught in the baritones and the euphoniums. A bridge At that time, his fi rst published works appeared back to London with rich memories of his trip. for a signifi cant number of years as Professor passage leads to a second theme in the horns and – Concert Prelude (brass band) and Gaudium of Composition at the University of Salford. A baritones. (wind band). A growing interest in his music led to Th e Journal of Phileas Fogg was commissioned by generation of brass and wind composers trained several commissions, his fi rst major one being for Dr Nicholas Childs for the National Children’s Brass under him, including successful writers like Paul 3. An interlude, which features each section of the the Centennial Brass Band Championships in New Band of Great Britain and was fi rst performed by the Lovatt-Cooper, Kenneth Downie, Dorothy Gates, band in turn, starting with percussion. Th is leads to: Zealand – Th e Land of the Long White Cloud. He NCBBGB, conducted by Dr Robert Childs, July 2012. Peter Meechan and others. He has also held various has written for brass band championships in New posts with some of the UK’s fi nest bands including 4. A slow section, which starts with an expressive Zealand, Switzerland, Holland, Australia and the Peter Graham Music Associate with Black Dyke Band from 1997 to cornet melody, derived from the six-note row. UK, including three times for the National Finals at Peter Graham was born in Lanarkshire, Scotland, 2004 and the fi rst civilian Composer-in-Residence Muted fl ugel horn and trombone reply and the the Royal Albert Hall. where he was taught brass and piano by his with Her Majesty’s Coldstream Guards Band from cornets set up a decorative fi gure under which a parents. He read music at Edinburgh University, 2003 to 2005. In 2009, Graham received the Iles majestic bass theme develops. A climax is reached In September 2000, he was awarded the Iles Medal graduating in 1980. During this period he came Medal of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in after which the fl ugel horn restates the cornet tune. of the Worshipful Company of Musicians for his into contact with Ray Steadman-Allen and Edward recognition of his achievements. Code No.DOYCD353 Booklet-Pgs2&7 CYAN MAGENTA YELLOW BLACK A resident of Gloucester, Philip is also the Music National Youth Championships shortly afterwards services to brass bands and in 2005 Music of the contrapuntal. Th e second melody, underpinned Editor of the historic Wright and Round publishing in the same year. Spheres won the National Band Association/William by typical Gregson accompanying patterns, is company and in demand as a freelance conductor, D. Revelli Memorial Band Composition Contest. In more expansive. Th e interaction of these two ideas educator and adjudicator with brass bands of all Th e work in normal circumstances is intended 2011, he received the BUMA International Brass provides the musical motivation for the whole regionals 2016 levels. to be played without a break although dividing Award for his contribution to brass music. movement. naturally into three component sections, each Philip is a prolifi c composer and his original based upon a traditional Welsh melody treated His conducting and adjudicating activities have After Dialogue comes Soliloquy, which is a works and arrangements are played all over the in free variation manner. Th ese are, respectively, taken him to most European countries, Scandinavia, meditative tribute to Gilbert Vinter. Edward Gregson world. In 2012, he composed Journey for the 650 Gwyr Harlech (‘Men of Harlech’), Suo Gân (‘Cradle Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Taiwan, South much admired Vinter’s music and he learned a musicians of the Gloucester Music Service Massed Song’) and Codiad Yr Hedydd (‘Th e Rising of the Korea, Canada and the USA. In May 2000, he took great deal from it, especially in matters of scoring. Ensemble, conducting the fi rst performance in Lark’). Th ere is also a momentary reference to the major step of becoming a full-time composer Vinter had died shortly before Gregson began a packed Royal Albert Hall at the Last Night of Yr Deryn Pur (‘Th e White Bird’) at the end of the by founding his own publishing company, Anglo work on Essay, and those familiar with Vinter’s the Schools Proms. You can fi nd out more detail second section. Music Press. Th e company is devoted to publishing Elegy, Spectrum and Variations on a Ninth will and listen to audio excerpts of Philip’s music at his brass band, concert band, fanfare band and recognize some of the melodic turns of phrase and www.philipharper.co.uk Michael Ball instrumental publications as well as recordings harmonic sequences used here in this ‘memorial’.