RNCM April - July 2016 16 / 04-07 EVENTS AND PERFORMANCE P28 P27 P24 P18 P15 P09 P12 P38 P14 P05 P19 P09P10 P11 P26 P34 Cabaret tells the story of Cliff Wed 27 – Sat 30 Apr Bradshaw, an American author working 7.30pm on a novel in Berlin, who encounters RNCM Studio Theatre singer Sally at the seedy Kit Kat Club. When she is fired by the club’s CABARET owner, also her jealous boyfriend, she RNCM YOUTH PERFORM moves in with Cliff and the two fall Book by Joe Masteroff in love. As the Nazis begin taking Based on the play by John Van Druten control of the German government, the and Stories by Christopher Isherwood atmosphere of the Kit Kat Club and Music by John Kander the lives of Cliff and Sally begin to Lyrics by Fred Ebb change dramatically… Broadway production directed by With its brilliant choreography, Harold Prince dark wit and iconic songs, Cabaret Produced for the Broadway Stage by is the perfect showcase for our Harold Prince musical theatre group, RNCM Youth Caroline Clegg director Perform. Established for young people Daniel McDwyer musical director of secondary school age, RNCM Youth Mariyka Bolubasz choreographer Perform has enjoyed great reviews Francesca Letch, Robert Brooks, over the last few years with its Edwin Kaye, James Penniston assistant sell-out productions of The Wiz, The directors Threepenny Opera, On the Town, Kiss Stewart Bartles lighting designer Me, Kate, Guys and Dolls and Little Shop of Horrors. ‘Life is a cabaret old chum’ belts out singer Sally Bowles from the stage This amateur production is presented of Berlin’s Kit Kat Club at the dawn by arrangement with MusicScope and Sat 23 – Sun 24 Apr of the 1930s. And since its Broadway Stage Musicals Limited of New York. première in 1966, this anthem, plus Tickets £12 RNCM WIND AND BRASS WEEKEND other iconic songs such as Willkommen, Join us for an exciting new weekend for wind and brass players, featuring a Don’t Tell Mama and Tomorrow Belongs jam-packed programme of concerts, playing sessions and participatory workshops. to Me, have ensured the huge success Open to players of all ages, levels and abilities, there will be opportunities of Kander and Ebb’s award-winning to perform alongside our staff and students in two massed playing sessions. You musical across the globe. can explore the history of the brass ensemble in the Philip Jones Centre for Brass Symposium - during which repertoire from the mid-19th century will be played on historic instruments - and gain insights into technique from some of the UK’s finest wind players in a series of creative instrumental workshops. For full details, please see www.rncm.ac.uk/windandbrassweekend Sat 23 Apr Sun 24 Apr 6.30pm 2.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall THE WALLACE RNCM ARKENSEMBLE COLLECTION Inspired by the Netherlands Wind Ensemble and featuring woodwind, brass AND RNCM BRASS and percussion, senior students and ENSEMBLES staff from the RNCM present innovative music by Mozart, Mahler and Moondog, Programme to include: via Michael Torke and Will Gregory. John McCabe Rounds for Brass Quintet Elgar Howarth Spooks: an outrage for Tickets £10 bass trombone, brass ensemble and Buy tickets for both concerts and percussion; Berne Patrol; The Old pay just £15. Call our Box Office Chalet; Basle March on 0161 907 5555 for details. W Hogarth Lear Mr Lear’s Carnival Joshua Cirtina bass trombone Tickets £10 4 5 ‘This is a really powerful programme: Shostakovich 5 is an extraordinary work, full of energy, momemtum and drive. The virtuosic Khachaturian Concerto is a special treat as it’s rarely performed.’ Dr Michelle Castelletti, Artistic Director Fri 29 Apr Sat 30 Apr Sat 07 May 1.15pm 7.30pm 12.30pm Carole Nash Recital Room RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Concert Hall GRAHAM FUTURE JUNIOR RNCM SCOTT (piano) TALENT FORMAL RNCM STAFF RECITAL FUNDRAISING CONCERT Alban Berg Piano Sonata GALA A showcase performance Op 1 featuring talented Richard Wagner Prelude to Adam Gorb New work soloists from Junior RNCM. Frédéric Chopin Polonaise- Act 3 from Lohengrin Fri 29 Apr Sergei Prokofiev Adagio- Free admission, no ticket 7.30pm fantaisie in A flat major Allegro from Piano required RNCM Concert Hall Op 61 Concerto No 3 in C major This is the first of two Op 26 RNCM staff recitals this RNCM SYMPHONY John Williams Summon the season. See page 23 for Heroes details of the other event Sat 07 May ORCHESTRA Giuseppe Verdi Quartet 7.30pm in this series. Pietro Mascagni While Shostakovich from Rigoletto RNCM Theatre Intermezzo from struggled to sincerely Free admission, no ticket Astor Piazzolla Verano Cavalleria Rusticana incorporate social required Porteno MANCHESTER Tue 26 Apr Aram Khachaturian Piano realism into his Evelyn Glennie A Little Prayer WIND 6pm Concerto in D flat major writing, Khachaturian String Carole Nash Recital Room Op 38 represented this Luigi Boccherini ORCHESTRA Dmitri Shostakovich ideology at its best. Quintet in C major Op 37 Fri 29 Apr Martin Ellerby Prelude Symphony No 5 in D minor Also premiered in 1937, THE CONTEM- Christopher Clark for Hampstead Heath Op 47 his Piano Concerto was - Sat 30 Apr 8pm conductor Adam Swayne Go Down Hoe- PORARY PIANO an overnight sensation Harish Shankar conductor RNCM Theatre Martin James Bartlett Down and brought the composer RNCM pianists perform a Iyad Sughayer piano piano Edward Gregson Concerto recognition in the West. short concert of works by Lynne Dawson soprano for Piano and Wind Shostakovich’s Fifth This dazzling, rarely MARIKA Toru Takemitsu, Charles Le Yu percussion ‘Homages’ Symphony was hailed as performed piece is full Ives, Thomas Adès, Carla KLAMBATSEA Samuel R Hazo Exultate an unprecedented success of spicy harmonies and Future Talent Musicians Bley, Luigi Dallapiccola, BUTTERFLY IN BLOOD Adam Gorb Yiddish Dances Igor Stravinsky, Joseph when it premiered in colourful orchestration RNCM Alumni Orchestra Based on Fania Fenelon’s Frank Ticheli Amazing Shaw and Erik Satie. 1937, appealing to the and continues to excite Project Jam Sandwich book Women’s Orchestra of Grace public and critics and intrigue to this Tickets £12 Free admission, no ticket Auschwitz, Butterfly in Robert Sheldon Danzas alike. For the audience, day. Promoted by Benedict Conway required most of whom had Blood is an avant-garde Cubanas Tickets £17 £14 FS lost loved ones under chamber opera involving Ralph Corrigan, Clare Stalin’s regime, the + classical contemporary Deady conductors Largo movement captured and free improvisational Adam Swayne piano 6.30pm Thu 28 Apr the profound and shared parts. 7pm Carole Nash Recital Room Tickets £8 grief of a people in Tickets £17 Carole Nash Recital Room Promoted by Manchester Wind mourning. Only Beethoven SPOTLIGHT Silène et Promoted by Marika Klambatsea Orchestra had survived the Soviet Bacchus - The Almira Supported by Arts Council England PIANO ban until this energetic Consort present Campra’s RECITAL PRIZE symphony was unveiled secular cantata Silène and Shostakovich 5 was and two sacred duets by Talented students from the the product of the Schütz. RNCM School of Keyboard composer yielding to Studies play a variety Free admission, appease the authorities, of piano repertoire to no ticket required whilst mocking them in compete for this prize, the process of creating which this evening is great art. adjudicated by Piers Lane. Tickets £7 6 7 Sat 07 May Wed 11 May Fri 13 May 7pm 7.30pm From 6.30pm RNCM Concert Hall RNCM Theatre RNCM Studio Theatre OLDHAM RNCM JAZZ SPOTLIGHT CHORAL COLLECTIVE TRIPLE-BILL SOCIETY 90 YEARS OF BIG BAND The first of two Spotlight JOY, TEARS AND Mike Hall director Triple-Bills this Summer CONSOLATION features chamber groups from Tonight, the RNCM Jazz across the RNCM, including a Johannes Brahms Requiem Collective charts the brass quintet and a couple Op 45 (sung in English) evolution of the Big of rather unusual line-ups Antonín Dvořák Te Deum Band; from the heady days – string quartet and sax, Op 103 of seedy Harlem clubs, and a trio of harp, sax and Robert Schumann Piano through mass popularity of cello. Concerto in A minor Op 54 the 30s, near extinction in the 60s to the cutting 6.30pm Latitude Brass Nigel P Wilkinson edge of today’s art music. Quintet - Four UK premières conductor For large jazz ensemble, of New Zealand contemporary Angela Lloyd-Mostyn piano Big Band has always been works Yvette Bonner soprano the format of choice. 7.10pm String Q + Sax James Cleverton baritone - Modern Music for an The East Lancs Sinfonia If you’re a Big Band fan, then you’ll love Too Darn Thu 12 May unconventional quintet Tickets £15 7.30pm Hot, the collaboration 7.50pm The Marisca Trio - Promoted by Oldham Choral Society RNCM Studio Theatre between the RNCM Big Band Songs without words and students from our School of Vocal Studies Thu 12 May CHRIS WOOD Our second Spotlight Triple- 6-9pm Bill featuring songs from and Opera and Popular Chris Wood is an uncompromising writer Music programme on 24 The John Rylands Library across the world takes place whose music reveals his love for the on Wed 08 Jun (see p18). and 25 June. See p28/29 unofficial history of the English speaking for details. NEON people. With gentle intelligence he weaves Free admission, no ticket required Tickets £10 FS SONNETS the tradition with his own contemporary + THE JOHN RYLANDS parables. Always direct and unafraid to speak his mind, his songwriting has been 6.30pm LIBRARY AND RNCM praised for its surgical clarity. On this RNCM Studio Theatre LIGHT UP THE BARD visit, he’ll be showcasing his new album, Sat 14 May SPOTLIGHT French The RNCM and The John a recording that includes Chris’ reflections From 12.30pm Connections - Wind Rylands Library join on minor league football, empty nest Various venues Quintet transcriptions together for an evening syndrome, learning to swim, Cook-In Sauce of orchestral music by of Shakespearean-related and not least, the Gecko as a metaphor for JUNIOR RNCM Debussy and Gershwin.