Members of the Orchestra 1st Violin Paul Walster (Leader) Ruth Brown Jane Leney Elizabeth MacFie Helen Rees Phil Roberts Stephen Shearman 2nd Violin Romilly Cook Jane Anscombe Cynthia Bailey-Wood Anna Fryer Maya Fryer Brighid Jones Simon Marr-Johnson Stephen Shaw Diana Turnbull Viola Sally Roberts Simon Large Kaye Bennett Cello Stephen David Emma Archer Clare Fisher Bernadette Hutchison Rohan Lewis Tessa Lewis Sue Rogers Caroline Stayne Bassoon Janet Lloyd Chris Poynton Becky Rogers Double Bass James Leney Trumpet Paul Kelly Mark Perry Flute Bethan Barlow Heather Leighton Sian Rees Oboe Malcolm James Martin Bailey-Wood Horn Peter Geraghty Christine Mullins Hannah Stonelake Trombone Mike Standley Tuba Chris Baker Percussion Judith Pendrous Clarinet Robert Watson Bob Osborne The orchestra is grateful for the support of non-members who have augmented various sections for this concert. Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra Our Lady & St Michael’s Church Pen-y-Pound, Abergavenny New members If you would be interested in joining the orchestra, please contact the Membership Secretary, Rohan Lewis on 01873 854662. Please check our website for details of the rehearsal schedule. Sunday 22nd June 2014, 8.00pm www.abergavennysymph.org.uk Autumn Concert th Our next concert will be on Saturday 29 November 2014 in Brecon Cathedral, at 7.30 pm and we will be joined by Crickhowell Choral Society and Gwent Youth Choir to th perform Beethoven’s 9 symphony. Abergavenny Orchestral Society Honorary Life members: Jean Bradley, Ralph Dowdeswell, Sally Ellerington, Eiry Hanbury, Barbara Price, Sue Rogers Friends: Mr E & Mrs J Anscombe Mr RH & Mrs LM Austin Jane Blank Avril Cooper Lady Crawshay Douglas Edwards Rev Dr H Fisher Mr & Mrs J Fonseca Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd Mr C Hall & Ms B Hetherington Mr C & Mrs E Hanbury Mr C B Haywood Mr B K Holmes Mrs J Kincart Mrs M Large Mr R S Lewis Dr J Lloyd Mr C and Mrs D Madeley Dr NHJ and Dr A Meeke Mrs E W Milner Mrs A Muncaster Dr C H Poynton Dr & Mrs R F Rintoul Mr GM Rogers Mr I Smith Mr R & Mrs I Smith Mr J Wilson Mrs I Winstanley Our Friends scheme enables us to benefit from your financial support and to involve you with the Society. For a subscription of £15 per annum you will not only be making a valuable contribution but you will receive Newsletters giving details of forthcoming concerts and other orchestra news. For more information please contact the Friends’ Secretary: Mr Ian Smith, 37 Cae Pen-y-Dre, Abergavenny, NP7 5UP. Mailing List If you would like to be kept informed of future events, why not join our mailing list? Contact us on [email protected] and we will send you details of forthcoming events and concerts. MAX, Wales International Academy of Voice and Co-Opera Co. He is also a guest chorus master with the BBC National Chorus of Wales. From Ireland, Eugene Monteith read music at Queen’s University Belfast and studied trumpet with Hugh Carslaw. His first conducting performance was with the QUB Symphony Orchestra, performing Charles Ives’ The Unanswered Question. He studied conducting with George Hurst, Rodolfo Saglimbeni and Robert Houlihan at Canford Summer School of Music, and with David Jones, Adrian Partington and Simon Halsey at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, where he gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Orchestral Conducting and an MA in Choral Conducting. Eugene has participated in master classes with Jac van Steen and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Kenneth Kiesler and the Berlin Sinfonietta (supported by Arts Council for Northern Ireland) and David Agler at Irish Youth Opera / Wexford Festival Opera. In 2014 Eugene will work as assistant conductor to Jac Van Steen with the Ulster Orchestra and BBC National Orchestra of Wales. He will also continue his work with Bath Symphony Orchestra and Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra, including a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in November 2014. It is with great sadness that we note the loss of former orchestra member Catharine Marr-Johnson. Catharine played double bass with us for a number of years until illness prevented her from doing so last year. She died, peacefully and at home, after a long and brave battle with Motor Neurone Disease. Catharine was a portrait sculptor and her work includes two swans on Battersea Bridge and the Peter Pan fountain at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Catharine was a wonderful and lively contributor to the society both musically and organisationally, as bass player, librarian and committee member and will be greatly missed. Acknowledgements Abergavenny Orchestral Society is affiliated to Making Music, which represents and supports amateur performing and promoting societies throughout the UK, and gratefully acknowledges the support of: Fr Richard Simons for use of the Church; the Management and Staff of The Angel Hotel for kind and helpful cooperation in providing rehearsal facilities; Abergavenny Music for their tireless support of local music, and for selling our tickets; Tŷ Cerdd - Music Centre Wales. Abergavenny Orchestral Society is a Registered Charity no: 1076523 Local concerts coming soon … th June 28 Hereford String Orchestra Symphony Concert – Music Sibelius, Butterworth, Arutiunian and Brahms. Leominster Priory, 7.30 pm th July 4 Gwent Bach Society Songs and readings by Brahms, Parry, Nystedt and others. St Mary’s Priory Church, Abergavenny, 7.30 pm A recent addition to the Live Music Now scheme, Welsh harpist LLYWELYN IFAN JONES is currently studying for his Master’s degree at the RWCMD funded by the generosity of the James Pantyfedwen trust. He is currently taught by Caryl Thomas. His achievements include winning a European ‘Lyon & Healy Award’ and RWCMD Concerto Competition alongside flautist Jemma Freestone. He was also the winner of the Pencerdd Gwalia competition 2013 commemorating the 100th anniversary of John Thomas’ passing and won a first prize at the Llangollen International Eisteddfod 2012. As a soloist he has performed in International music festivals such as Aberystwyth Musicfest, St. David’s Cathedral Music Festival, Monmouth Festival and the World Harp Congress in Vancouver in 2011. A keen orchestral Musician, Llywelyn was section leader of the National Youth Orchestra of Wales in 2012 and in the same year performed with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Proms as part of the side by side scheme. He has had professional experience with Sinfonia Cymru, Cory Brass Band, The Novello Orchestra and many other leading ensembles in South Wales. Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra Leader Paul Walster Conductor Eugene Monteith Flute Heather Leighton Harp Llywelyn Ifan Jones Violin Beth Fuller-Teed BETH FULLER-TEED is a scholarship student in her final year at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, studying modern violin under Lucy Gould and baroque violin under Rachel Podger. As well as The Scott Quartet, Beth plays in the Woodford Piano Trio, which was awarded The Cardiff Violins Chamber Music Prize 2012. She has performed with her pianist and piano trio in chamber events led by artists such as The Gould Piano Trio, The Schubert Ensemble and The Barbican Piano Trio as well as performing recitals across the UK. Rienzi Overture Wagner Concerto for Flute, Harp and Orchestra Mozart Allegro Andantino Rondeau: Allegro In her time at RWCMD Beth has performed in many solo masterclasses taken by various musicians including Guy Johnston, Alasdair Beatson, Danny Phillips and Rachel Podger as well as several side-by-side chamber masterclasses, one of which involved playing in a quartet including Lesley Hatfield (violin II), David Adams (viola) and Alice Neary (cello). Orchestral performance is Beth's particular interest and she performs with British Sinfonietta and The Welsh Session Orchestra, as well as successfully auditioning onto schemes run by BBC NOW and WNO. EUGENE MONTEITH is Musical Director of Bath Symphony Orchestra and Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra, and has recently completed the Young Artist Programme at NI Opera. He has conducted for Welsh National Youth Opera, Welsh National Opera INTERVAL Refreshments will be available in the St Michael’s Centre Tzigane Symphonic Suite Antar Largo – allegro giocoso Allegro – molto allegro – allargando Allegro risoluto alla marcia Allego vivace – andante amoroso Ravel Rimsky Korsakov performance. If true, this was clearly a formidable feat on her part as will be obvious to listeners. Programme notes DAR for Octagon Music Society, 1989 Overture: Rienzi Richard Wagner (1813-1883) Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes was one of thirty lengthy novels written by Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton. Finding inspiration after reading Rienzi in 1837 Wagner wrote the libretto for his opera (he wrote all his own librettos) which, like the novel, was on a large scale, in five acts. Although it was successfully performed in Dresden in 1842, it is rarely heard these days apart from the superb overture, because of its length and uneven musical quality. Rienzi, a 14th-century Roman patriot, rose from a very humble background to become a populist leader who broke the power of a corrupt patriciate. He invoked the spirit of ancient Rome and became the Tribune of the new Republic in 1347. Despite his oratorical skill and popular support he was eventually overthrown and assassinated in a counter revolution in 1354. Ben Brickman, 1987 Concerto in C for Flute and Harp, K299 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) This is perhaps the most attractive of the works Mozart produced during his sojourn in Paris in 1778. The Duc de Guines, a fine amateur flautist, commissioned it for himself and his harp-playing daughter. The father had further ambitions for his daughter: convinced that she possessed creative genius, he engaged Mozart to give her composition lessons. Mozart found his pupil "lazy and stupid". About her harp-playing, however, he was more enthusiastic if ungrammatical: "She plays magnifique," he wrote. The Duc was extremely reluctant to pay for either concerto or composition lessons. The first movement is full of felicitous orchestral touches. Mozart recognises that for material, which his disparate soloists might have in common, the sprightly is likely to be a better bet than the cantabile, and the instruments are brilliantly played off against each other and against the orchestra. In the Andantino, with the wind silent and the violas divided, Mozart creates a positively luscious background for his elongated, decorative, melodic lines. The Rondeau is a courtly gavotte, a truly Parisian finale. John Kane, 2004 Tzigane Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) The title Tzigane – Gypsy – is enough to understand this virtuoso piece. Ravel was a pianist, not a violinist. To absorb the techniques required he asked a friend to play for him the 24 Caprices for solo violin by Paganini, pieces famous for their use of every known virtuoso technique. Tzigane was first performed in 1924 by the celebrated Hungarian violinist Jelly d'Aranyi, who is said to have received the music only three days before the first Symphonic Suite Antar, Op. 9 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Antar was Rimsky-Korsakov's second excursion into the world of the Arabian Nights (the first was Sadko) and it is a programme symphony on the lines of Berlioz's Harold in Italy, but without that work's viola soloist. The symphony was written in 1868, hence its low opus number, but revised in 1875 and 1897, when the composer rechristened it a Symphonic Suite, which really suits the episodic character of the music better. Antar, a warrior-poet and a Byronic figure, like Berlioz's Harold, wanders disillusioned and depressed in the desert of Sham outside Palmyra. He sees a gazelle fleeing from a monstrous bird. Antar kills the bird and the gazelle turns – surprise, surprise! – into a fairy queen, Gul-Nazar, who grants him three wishes. These are The Pleasures of Vengeance (second movement); The Pleasures of Power (a splendid march-like third movement); and finally The Pleasures of Love, at the end of which (as a record-sleeve writer delicately puts it) “Antar dies amidst the rapture of Gul-Nazar's voluptuous embrace”. David Elliot, 1994 Programme notes supplied through Making Music's programme note service. HEATHER LEIGHTON is a woodwind teacher with Encore Enterprises – Herefordshire’s Music Service, and also teaches flute privately and in other schools. She has been a regular member of Abergavenny Symphony Orchestra for over three years, playing both flute and piccolo. She also occasionally plays saxophone with Chepstow Community Big Band. Heather received her degree from Canterbury Christ Church University before going to Goldsmiths College, University of London, to study for a Master of Music degree. Whilst studying at university, and in the 2 years preceding, she received regular tuition from Catherine Handley, Jon Cherry, Heledd Francis Wright and Sarah O’Flynn. As a keen orchestral player she was privileged to hold the position of principal flute with both the Canterbury Christ Church University Orchestra and the Goldsmiths College Sinfonia. Whilst studying for her degrees, Heather performed in masterclasses with Jennifer Stinton, Kenneth Smith, Talitha Glynne Jones, Wissam Boustany, John Flinders and Simon Channing. She also received tuition from Stina Dawes, Ruth Morley and Ian Clarke.
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