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Newsletter 2014 Hello and to theWelcome 2014 edition of Basil’s News, the newsletter of the Philip Bates Registered Charity No. 0194937 Trust. This year we received an un- precedented number of applica- tions for support and we are very excited to be working with so many creative and talented young people. If you’d like to know more visit us at: philipbatestrust.org.uk Who did we help this year? Georgina Bloomfield at A Touch of Basil 2013 We were able to help a record num- ber of applicants during our 2013- 2014 season. Georgina Bloomfield, 9, and Beth Zheng, 12, both violin- ists, received help with their fees for the National Children’s Orchestra. (Georgina wowed the audience at last year’s Touch of Basil concert too!) We also helped two dancers who per- form in very different styles. Genevieve Eveleigh is training to be a ballerina while Jamal Wolfe has won prizes for tap and contemporary dance and is now studying on a 3 year course in dance for musical thea- tre. We gave grants towards the cost of ballet/dance shoes and leotards. To Helen Lacey we gave funding to- wards a choral course with the Na- tional Youth Choir of Great Britain. Jonathan Daniel Tindall, a flautist from the USA, was studying for his master’s degree at the Royal College of Music in London under Susan Milan who recommended him high- ly. We gave some funding towards the cost of buying scores, sheet music and books for his course. Katie Turner, who is taking a post graduate course in theatre perfor- mance, needed help with purchasing books which we were able to give. Rebecca Blackwood has had to overcome many disadvantages in her life but managed to turn her life around by discovering a tal- ent for photography. She need- ed a better camera for her stud- ies and we were able to fund this. Anna Drysdale, a French Horn player just beginning her profes- sional career, needed help with the cost of auditioning across Europe. Christopher Schlechte-Bond, a composer studying on a Music for Screen postgraduate course, needed Perrott’s Folly 2 help with the cost of scores and Games and Quiz Night sheet music and attendance at mas- 2014 ter classes, workshops and concerts. The Philip Bates Trust Games and Jonathan Hyde is a baritone Quiz Night took place on Saturday studying on the artist mas- 8th March 2014 at Arden Hall in ter’s course at the Guildhall. We Water Orton. The quiz began with a gave money towards the pur- general knowledge round organised chase of scores and sheet music. by Stan & Sue Gamble which cov- Regal Tenbury Trust, a cinema and ered a wide range of topics and dif- arts centre in Tenbury Wells, Worces- ficulty levels so everyone had a good ter, was setting up a scheme to give chance of getting some answers right! musical performance opportuni- The Pictionary round on the sub- ties to youngsters and mentor them ject of films was very challenging through the process of organising but good fun and was won by a and advertising gigs. We were able team of artistic film buffs. A music to fund some hours of mentoring. round organised by Martin Bates We covered the cost of mirrors and where he played the first few bars materials for the Mirror-Space Art of different songs by the Beatles Project at Perrott’s Folly examin- was tricky but no match for the ing, photographing and drawing the avid Beatles fans in the audience. Folly through mirrored images. This Railway Riot was the usual organised tower in Birmingham is famous chaos, and the alphabet game and for influencing Lord of the Rings all the table quizzes completed the author Tolkein and now belongs evening and gave every participant to the Trident Reach the People a chance to flex their grey matter. Charity, who organised the project. A dinner break of jacket potatoes Based in Digbeth, Birmingham, with a tasty selection of fillings fol- the Arches Project aims to help lowed by giant chocolate and car- disadvantaged youngsters develop rot cakes was eagerly consumed their potential and self-confidence by all. Together with a raffle, buy through music and the arts. We a square on a grid of 100 squares, funded a tutor for a number of and ‘roll a coin at the whiskey bot- workshops with the eventual aim of tle game’, overall the quiz night the young people gaining an award in raised £650, and great fun was had the arts which carries UCAS points by all those who attended. Julie Larkin to encourage further study. Sue Bates 3 Last Year’s Touch Of Basil On the 28th September 2013 the Gorney’s New Americana. Robert’s annual ‘A Touch of Basil’ cel- character and voice filled the room ebration concert took place in the with this dramatic highlight. We saw Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham. Robert perform again in the sec- ond half where he played the role This fantastic evening yet of the Judge in Gilbert and Sul- again,brought together an ec- livan’s Trial by Jury with the Heart lectic mix of performers, some of England Singers – a rôle with old friends and some new. which he was completely at home. The evening opened with a magnifi- Continuing with the first half, the cent reading of Rudyard Kipling’s ‘If ’ audience had the pleasure of meet- by Philip’s cousin George Kao who ing Georgina Bloomfield for the first was followed by the faithful Heart time. This talented young violinist of England Singers performing a se- gave an exquisite performance of lection of songs including two new- Gluck’s ‘Mélodie’, expertly accom- ly composed works by Chris Davis. panied by our own Martin Bates. Another vocal piece followed by To follow this, Ashleyan Opera Robert Mead, who sang ‘Brother, Prize winner Claire Barnett-Jones can you spare a Dime?’ from Jay (mezzo-soprano) delighted the au- Robert Mead in ‘Trial by Jury’ 4 dience with three arias by Mass- ing themselves to be very talented enet, Saint-Saëns and Handel. and able musicians. Sopranos Susan The first half was closed with two Bates and Karen Moulton brought songs from the Ex Cathedra Junior a touch of 19th century England to Academy under the expert direction the programme with their charming of Rebecca Ledgard. The flowing rendition of Elgar’s ‘The Dance’. melodic lines of Chilcott’s Can You Yet again a performance from Hear Me? displayed expert control regular group ‘Basil’s Bunch’ brought together some of Philip’s friends to entertain the audience with Neil Diamond’s ‘I’m a Be- liever’ and a moving performance of ‘As Long As I Have Music’. Moving away from vocal music, Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School performance prize winner Nath- aniel Coxon performed Rach- maninov’s ‘Prelude in C# Minor’, captivating the audience with his seemingly effortless interpretation. The Heart of England Singers fin- ished the evening with selections from ‘Trial by Jury’ before the entire company and audience joined to- Ashleyan Opera Prize Winner Claire gether for Roger and Hammerstein’s Barnett-Jones of their young voices. This was fol- uplifting ‘Climb Every Mountain’. lowed by the rousing ‘Every Time A rich and varied programme ca- I Feel the Spirit’ sending everyone tered for all tastes and ensured that out for refreshments humming. all audience members, once more, John Willmott Music Theatre Prize took away some special treats. winner Chloe Child sang ‘Nothing Well done to all performers who so Stops Another Day’ from Ghost to willingly come together to create this get the second half underway. This wonderful event full of such high was followed by the Tom Walker Trio musical standards. Let’s look forward who performed an acoustic set of to what 2014 can bring! Sarah Dudley appealing and original songs, show- 5 Ashleyan Opera Prize 2014 superb diction. Audience member Soprano Niamh Fitzgerald opened Liz Brown commented afterwards the concert with “Elle a fui” from that she particularly remembered Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann Carrie-Ann’s performance as she followed by “My Man’s Gone Now” had never heard of the composer from Porgy and Bess. She has a Floyd and really loved “The Trees great voice and gave a wonderful on the Mountains” which she performance of the Gershwin, sang, finding it a beautiful and full of raw passion, but there were moving piece of music. This was a few glitches in the Offenbach. followed by Gounod’s “Dieu! Quel frisson court dans mes veines”Joe Victoria Adams, soprano, had a Zainul, countertenor, displayed an bright forward tone that suited unfortunate a lack of consistency Mozart’s “Batti, batti” but in tone and phrasing, singing a managed to convey successfully few very loud notes and then a completely different mood in running out of breath, particularly Stravinsky’s “No Word from Tom”. Margaret Asher with joint winners Carrie-Ann Williams and Jessica Wise Next came Carrie - Ann Williams in his Vivaldi aria. “J’ai perdu mon looking stunning in a blue diamanté Eurydice” from Orfeo was a little gown. After a slightly nervous start better with more sense of line. she completely won the audience over Elizabeth Adams, soprano (not sure with her wonderfully powerful voice, whether she was related to Victoria) expressive facial expressions and was next with another rendition 6 of “Batti, batti” She possessed a Sinead Kenny in West Side very beautiful voice but had some Story intonation problems, probably due to nerves, which seemed to You may remember Sinead Kenny have settled down in Marenka’s taking part in Touch of Basil 2010.
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