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2:30 pm Sunday 1st December 2013
Avonhead School Hall
Conductor : Anthony Ferner
Guest soloist : Mark Walton (Clarinet)
E. Coates “Knightsbridge March”
A. Shaw “Concerto for Clarinet “
E. Greig “Elegaic Melodies for Strings”
Interval : 15 minutes
M. Calvert “Canadian Folk Song Suite”
A. van den Broek “Above the North”
A. Ferner “Riot of Spring”
F. Delius “Walk to the Paradise Garden”
You are welcome to join us for afternoon tea
after the concert.
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Anthony Ferner
Conductor of the Risingholme Orchestra
Anthony Ferner has 40 years of conduct-
ing experience alongside his professional
orchestral and solo career.
He is Principal flute of the Christchurch
Symphony, Lecturer in Flute and Senior
Fellow at the University of Canterbury.
For 17 years in Australia he held positions
in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and
the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra
and worked and studied for 2 years in Mi-
lan as teacher and freelance musician.
He is a graduate in music from the
University of Canterbury and 1972 winner
of the New Zealand National Concerto
Competition.
He studied in London under Peter Lloyd (Principal flute LSO), Trevor
Wye and William Bennet at the Guildhall School of Music and attended
master classes of James Galway and Jean Pierre Rampal in Nice.
He studied conducting in London, St Petersburg and Milan and has
conducted in the Sydney Mozart Players, Sydney Gilbert and Sullivan
Society at the Sydney Opera House, the Wellington City Opera’s 1987
production of Traviata, ‘Les Miserables’(1995) ‘Beauty and the Beast’
and ‘Cats’ (2007) for the Napier Operatic Society.
He has conducted St Petersburg Chamber Orchestra, Tibilisi Radio
Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Melbourne Symphony
Orchestras in the studio. He has conducted concerts with orchestral
summer schools and Regional Orchestras around New Zealand.
He has frequently appeared as soloist and conductor with the
Christchurch Symphony, as well as L’Estro Armonico Strings.
He was appointed Musical Director of the Risingholme Orchestra
in 2008.
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Bruce Roberts
Guest Conductor for Canadian Folk Song Suite
Bruce Roberts is currently Principal Trumpet of the Christchurch Sym-
phony Orchestra and Soloist with the baroque chamber music group,
Canterbury Baroque. He is also heavily involved with many community
music groups including the CSM Concert Band, CSM Wind Orchestra
and the Addington Brass Band. Bruce also teaches at many schools in
the Christchurch area.
Mark Walton is a highly respected
and popular figure in the Australian
and New Zealand musical scene and
widely acknowledged as a virtuoso
clarinet and saxophone performer,
inspiring teacher and charismatic
musician.
Mark has held senior positions and
been the guest artist in many of the
leading International Musical Insti-
tutions from London to Kabul. For
many years Mark held the position
of Chair of Performance at the
Sydney Conservatorium of Music.
Mark has recorded numerous solo albums, written and compiled over
200 hundred music publications and performed in many parts of the
world. He is also regarded as a leading authority and pioneer in Dis-
tance Instrumental Music Education and currently he teaches students
in several different countries.
Although based in Sydney, Mark enjoys spending as much time as he
can at his place in Oxford, NZ.
Mark was awarded the Order of Australia medal in 2005 for his contri-
bution to Music Education in Australia.
Mark Walton – Guest Soloist, Clarinet
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PROGRAMME NOTES
Eric Coates (1886 – 1957)
Knightsbridge March
This march is part of the London Suite composed in 1933. It became famous as the
theme for the BBC program "In Town Tonight". So many people wrote in asking
for the name of the march that the BBC printed slips of paper with the name on
them to send back. Knightsbridge is a very desirable part of London near Hyde
Park, recently an apartment there sold for 100 million pounds.
Eric Coates studied viola and composition at the Royal Academy and then played
viola in the Queen's Hall Orchestra conducted by Henry Wood. After seven years
as principal viola he was sacked. Coates explained in a later interview that this was
due to him sending in too many deputies while he was conducting his own works
with other orchestras. During the 1930's he produced many light orchestral pieces
such as "Three Bears", "Meadow to Mayfair" and songs such as "Bird Songs at
Eventide". Coates composed several marches to be used as themes for regional TV
stations, and his music was often used for TV and Film. "By the Sleepy Lagoon"
was the theme for "Desert Island Classics" and "Halcyon Days" from the "Three
Elizabeths Suite" was the theme for "Forsyte Saga". Coates declined an invita-
tion to write the film score for "The Dam Busters" but he had recently completed
a march that became "The Dam Busters March". Vic Bartley
Artie Shaw
Concerto for Clarinet
Artie Shaw was one of the leading jazz performers and bandleaders of the swing
era of the 1930s and 1940s, sometimes known as the "King of the Clarinet".
Arthur Jacob Arshawsky was born in 1910 to Jewish-immigrant parents in New
York. After leaving school at 16 to focus on music he travelled with various bands
within the U.S. and was influenced by listening to recordings as diverse as Louis
Armstrong, Stravinsky, Debussy, Bartok, and Ravel.
In the summer of 1938, Shaw chose "Begin the Beguine" to be the first of six tunes
he would record with RCA whose pessimism with the whole idea of recording the
long tune "that nobody could remember from beginning to end anyway" resulted
in it being released on the "B" side of the record. Shaw's persistence paid off,
though, when "Begin the Beguine" became a best-selling record in 1938, peaking
at No. 3, skyrocketing Shaw and his band to fame and popularity.
Shaw made several musical shorts in 1939 for Vitaphone and Paramount Pictures.
He portrayed himself in the Fred Astaire film, ‘Second Chorus’ (1940), which
featured Shaw and his orchestra playing "Concerto for Clarinet." The film brought
him two Oscar nominations, one for Best Score and one for Best Song ("Love of
My Life"). Helen Reddecliffe
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Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907)
Two Elegaic Melodies
1. Heart’s Wounds
2. The Last Spring
Edvard Grieg is considered the greatest Romantic Nationalist composer of
Norway. In the space of ten days in the spring of 1880, Grieg set twelve songs
around the poems of Vinje, a Norwegian poet who wrote in the rural dialect. A
year later Grieg transcribed two of them, “Heart Wounds” and “The Last Spring,”
for string orchestra as “Two Elegiac Melodies”.
The poetry of “Heart’s Wounds” describes painful memories triggered by the
approach of spring; Grieg’s melody captures the wavering between despair and
hope . The melody first appears quietly in the first violins, supported by the second
violins, violas, and cellos. For the next verse, the cellos passionately present the
melody against a halting accompaniment from the rest of the orchestra. The
melody returns to the first violins for the third verse, where it becomes a bold
declaration.
“The Last Spring” (“Last” meaning “Final”) has become one of Grieg’s most
enduring melodies. The poetry contemplates the ephemerality of life, making
Grieg’s bittersweet setting a popular choice for Norwegian funerals.
Philippa Graham
Morley Calvert (1928-1991)
Canadian Folk Song Suite
Guest Conductor Bruce Roberts
1. Marianne s'en va-t-au moulin. (Marianne went to the mill)
2. She's like the swallow.
3. J'entends le moulin. (I hear the mill wheel)
The suite was composed in 1967 for the Centennial of the federation of Canada. It
was originally written for Brass Band and published by the Salvation Army. This
version for Concert Band remained unpublished until recently. The first and third
movements are folk songs from Quebec where they seem to like windmills and the
second is from Newfoundland.
Morley Calvert was a music teacher in Montreal high schools and from 1960-1970
he was the director of the Montreal Citadel Band. He was also very successful as
the director of the Barrie Central Collegiate band which won two gold medals at
the World Music Festival in Kerkrade, The Netherlands.
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Composer: Alex van den Broek
Alex has a First Class Honours Degree in Composition from the University of
Canterbury and a Diploma in Jazz from CPIT Jazz School majoring in
Composition and Arranging. He is much in demand as a composer and arranger by
many New Zealand performers and organisations.
Alex was the co-founder and musical director/conductor ('05-'09) of the Silencio
Ensemble, a ten piece new-music ensemble. Alongside many concerts in the
Canterbury region they collaborated with the Christchurch Art Gallery to perform
'Art and Socialism' (2008), and ‘Listen/Rita’ (2009).
He has received several grants from Creative New Zealand including one in 2008
for 'Still Standing Silent' a work composed for mixed discipline ensemble
(Classical and Jazz) and contemporary dancer (Julia Milsom). This work was
premiered in Christchurch in November 2009. In 2010, Alex received funding to
work with well-known Sydney group 'The Song Company' utilizing a text by a
fellow Dutch New Zealander, Riemke Ensing.
Recent creative projects have included performances of Still Standing Silent for
the Body Festival and Totally Weill for the Christchurch Arts Festival.
Above the North – Commissioned by Risingholme Orchestra
As a composer, I enjoy composing for specific community groups and
orchestras. Getting to know the personalities, the skills and strengths of the
musicians, and the ethos of each group is all part of the fun for me when
working on a commission of this nature.
‘Above the North’ evokes an abstract spiritual idea, firmly rooted in place
and nature. Ideas of time, distance and space are somehow connected to
and part of the landscape. The work has pastoral qualities evoking the
Canterbury plains which are juxtaposed with abstract and bold brassy
moments. The main theme permeates most of these differing qualities often
in disguised forms adding to its atmospheric quality.
Alex van den Broek
Frederick Delius
The Walk to the Paradise Garden
This intermezzo is an arrangement by Sir Thomas Beecham that originally ap-
peared between the fifth and sixth scenes of Delius’ opera A Village Romeo and
Juliet which premiered in 1907. In the opera Sali and Vrenchen (the Romeo and
Juliet) have made life impossible for themselves by Sali killing Vrenchen’s angry
father. They are encouraged to go into the Paradise Garden (a dilapidated but
lovely riverside inn) by the Dark Fiddler, who symbolizes death. The couple are
immersed in the glowing beauty of the garden, where they remember happier
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THANK YOU
The members of Risingholme Orchestra gratefully acknowledge the assis-
tance and support received from the following people and organizations:
Tony Ferner, our conductor and coach
Tutors from the C.S.O.:
Milana Kornienko, who tutored the Strings section;
Bruce Roberts who tutored the Brass section.
Our Guest Artist for this concert, Mark Walton,
and guest members of the orchestra (see the lists below and on page 8)
The C.S.M. guest players for Canadian Folk Song Suite;
Grace Adair Bass Clarinet
Lorraine Bennett, Bass Clarinet
Matthew Bennett, Tuba
Irene Frost Alto Saxophone
Richard Reddecliffe, Tenor Saxophone
Sophie Reddecliffe, Flute
Jenny Tubb Euphonium Simon Jones Gynaecology, for sponsorship enabling the separate string
and concert band items
Christchurch Community Trust
Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.
NZ Federation of Graduate Women
National Library of NZ
times. While in the garden, the lovers decide that they would rather die in the in-
tensity of their love instead of impoverished and scorned by their disapproving
families.
Woodwinds and strings predominate throughout the piece, a seamless develop-
ment of several short melodic ideas. There are a pair of passionate peaks in the
course of the journey, but overall, the music is quiet and delicate, ending in a whis-
per. When Delius died in 1934, the BBC chose this lush music to follow the an-
nouncement.
Philippa Graham
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1st
Violin Pauline Sewell
1
Ron Newton Marlys Donaldson Leane Gurney Alison Taylor John Caughley Jean Rowe Kath Hill
2nd
Violin Beth Garvey ¹ Lyndsay Fenwick Graham Carrington Ann Jennings Barbara Litchwark Bill Bromley Aya Kumada ElizabethWinkworth
Viola Sheila Vance ¹ Tonya Sadler Neroli Boschetti Michael Fogden Jhonethon Vermeer
2
Cello Yvonne Webb
1
Naomi Roberts Dorothy Maclean Diederic Ruarus Lucie Brown Tony Francis
Double Bass Delwyn McKenzie ¹ Philippa Graham Mike Clayton
Flute Linda Sorensen
1
Donna Tairakena
Diana Kirpensteijn Ai Ando (Alto)
2
Piccolo Linda Sorensen Oboe
Jack Goldsmith 1
Anne Godfrey
Cor Anglais Anne Godfrey Clarinet
Barbara Peddie 1
Stuart Buchanan Diana McGlinn Ali Begg Bernard Brettell Ray Shave
Saxophone Stuart Buchanan
Diana McGlinn Jenny Bartley Jo Walton
2
Bassoon Helen Reddecliffe ¹ Allen Cookson Ross Gurney
Horn Jenny Bartley
1
Elizabeth Christensen Trumpet
Vic Bartley ¹ Jim Parsons Mel Smith
Trombone Jill Fenton
1
Terry Williams Tuba Mathew Bennett
2
Timpani Hamish Upton
12
Percussion Hamish Upton
12
Ai Ando 2
Harp Sasha Henderson
2
Piano Nanako Sato
2
Narrators Linda Sorensen Elizabeth Christensen
Canadian Folk Song Suite Guests Thanked on page 7
1 Section Leader
2 Guest
RISINGHOLME ORCHESTRA PLAYERS