Sunday 28th June 2015, 2:30 pm, Avonhead Primary School

Conductor : Anthony Ferner

Guest soloist : Riley Payne, trumpet

L van Beethoven Overture to “Coriolanus”

E. Coates The Dam Busters March

J.B.G. Neruda Concerto for Trumpet & Strings

Interval : 15 minutes

C. Custer arr. A tribute to Henry Mancini

C Gounod Ballet music from “Faust”

You are welcome to join us for afternoon tea

in the foyer, after the concert.

Website: www.risingholmeorchestra.co.nz

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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 Milan 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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Riley was born in 1998, and has been playing trumpet since the age of eight. He began learning under Sarah Butler, principal trum-pet for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Ian Wilson, Pro-fessor at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He is now being taught by Bruce Roberts, ex-principal of the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra.

Currently in year thirteen at Cashmere High school, he is involved with many music groups at the school. These include the orchestra, concert band and stage band. He will also lead the trumpet section for the Cashmere High production, The Music Man, later this year. He is currently a co-principal of the Christchurch Youth orchestra, which he has been a part of for the last three years.

Riley Payne – Guest Soloist, Trumpet

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PROGRAMME NOTES

Ludwig van Beethoven

Overture: “CORIOLANUS”, opus 62

Beethoven wrote this overture in 1807 for a play by Heinrich van Collin, and is the only part of the venture that had any success. The overture illustrates the story of the play.

Coriolanus, a once successful Roman general, has fallen out of fa-vour and has been exiled from Rome. In his anger he plans a revenge attack on Rome. The music portrays the driving rage of Coriolanus with an aggressive C minor theme. His mother pleads with him to desist. This appears as a superficially gentle melody. The two ideas play in succession, and then interact, with the rage losing its power. Throughout the piece there is an underlying faltering rhythm of fear-ful apprehension. Unlike Shakespeare's version, this story ends with Coriolanus taking his own life. He dies as the strings pluck his final heartbeats

Philippa Graham

Eric Coates (1886 - 1957)

March: “THE DAM BUSTERS” (1955)

Coates was principal violist of Queen’s Hall Orchestra when conductor Henry Wood sacked him for sending deputies while he repeatedly absented himself to conduct his own works. He abandoned the viola for light music composition.

He avoided composing film music, but when asked to provide the music for a patriotic film about a famous bomber squadron, he of-fered this march which he had just completed. It was a conscious imitation of Elgar’s form in his Pomp and Circumstance marches. “The Dam Busters” film score by Leighton Lucas, was based on this march.

Allen Cookson

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J. B.G. Neruda Trumpet Concerto in E flat

Johann Baptist Georg Neruda (c.1707-1780) was a composer and violinist from Rosice, Czechoslovakia. He moved to Dresden, Germany in 1750 as a member of the court orchestra, He later became the concertmaster of this orchestra. He died in Dresden in 1780.

During his lifetime, Neruda composed many works, including one opera, eighteen symphonies, and fourteen instrumental concertos.

The Concerto in E-flat was originally written for the corno da caccia (a valveless member of the horn family), an orchestra of strings and a harpsichord continuo.

The three movements are:

1. Allegro

2. Largo

3. Vivace

Riley Payne

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A Tribute to Henry Mancini—Arranged by Calvin Custer

Calvin Custer gives us this medley saluting Henry Mancini, the master of song. This wonderful “pops-style” orchestration in-cludes Baby Elephant Walk, Charade, The Pink Panther, Days of Wine and Roses and Peter Gunn.

Enrico (Henry) Nicola Mancini (16/4/24 – 14/6/94) was born in “Little Italy”, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an American composer, conductor and arranger best remembered for film and television scores. Quinto, his Italian steelworker & flute playing father made his only child learn piccolo from the age of 8, then piano from 12. They played together in “Sons of Italy” immigrant band. After leaving school Henry studied at the Juil-liard School of music for 1 year before being drafted in 1943 and serving in the infantry before joining the Army band.

On return in 1946 he entered the music industry becoming a pianist and arranger for the newly formed Glenn Miller Orches-tra. In 1952 he joined Universal Studios music department and became an independent arranger from 1958. He has contributed to scores for hundreds of movies and television series and rec-orded over 90 albums ranging from big band & light classical to pop. His compositions were staples of the easy listening gen-re from the 1960’s to 1980’s. He was also a concert performer conducting over 600 symphony performances during his life-time including the London Symphony, Boston Pops and Royal Philharmonic Orchestras. His work has been recorded by well known artists including Andy Williams, Pat Boone, Frank Si-natra, Herb Alpert and Liberace.

He has won 4 Academy Awards and been nominated for 18. He was nominated for 72 Grammys and won 20. AS well as the songs cameoed in this medley his scores songs and sound tracks include Pink Panther sound tracks, V ictor Victoria and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Charade, The Glass Menagerie, The Thorn Birds, Moon River and many more. Ali Begg

Charles Gounod—Ballet Music: “FAUST”

Born 1818 - Paris, Died 1893 - Saint Clara, France.

Charles Gounod came from an artistic family and attended the Paris Con-servatoire and was in his time a far more important composer than he is giv-en credit for today. Prominent among his works is his greatest stage suc-cess, Faust. He chose a play version by Michael Carre, of Goethe’s great tragedy Faust, as the structural framework for his works but included ex-cerpts from the original Goethe works to flesh out the libretto. Faust was his first real theatrical success. Not only is it his best known work but one of the most popular and frequently performed operas of all time.

The 1859 premier had many supporters, including Berlioz. However some Germans, Wagner in particular, later singled out Gounod’s Faust for some rather biting enmity. Not that the opera would fail disdainfully in Germany. On the contrary, in the decade following the premiere, it reached the promi-nent place that we know today. Much credit for this success is due to the 1869 revival for presentation at the Paris Opera, which necessitated the addi-tion of Ballet music in Act V for a Corp de Ballet, apparently to make it more “showy” for Parisians. This Ballet Suite, called by Saint-Saens “a masterpiece of its kind,” was almost not written by Gounod. Gounod was reluctant to take it on and considered letting Saint-Saens compose it instead. The younger man tentatively agreed, with the understanding that Gounod would feel free to replace it with music of his own if he so desired. Accord-ing to Saint-Saens “I never wrote a note and never heard any more about it”

The Ballet, consisting of 7 movements, is often performed as an independent piece, and appears in Act 5 on Walpurgisnacht (Witches’ Night). Mephi-stopheles and Faust are surrounded by witches and Faust is transported to a cave of queens and courtesans. Mephistopheles promises to provide Faust with the love of the greatest and most beautiful women. An orgiastic ballet full of revelry follows and continues until dawn.

1. Waltz . Allegretto (Temp de Valse) (Brass pronouncement as the ladies enter the scene.)

2. Ensemble - Adagio

3. Dance of the Nubians - Allegretto

4. Cleopatra’s Dance - Moderato Maestoso

5. Dance of the Trojan Nubians – Moderato con moto

6. Helen’s Dance (Variations du Miroir) - Allegretto

7. Bacchanalia – Allegto Vivo Jill Fenton

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THANK YOU

The members of Risingholme Orchestra gratefully acknowledge the assistance and support received from the following people and organizations:

Tony Ferner, our conductor and coach;

Philip Norman, who has reheasred the Orchestra when Tony was not free to do so;

Tutors from the C.S.O.: Amandine Guerin, who is leading the first violins, since Pauline had an injury to her left hand. Amandine has also tutored the upper Strings section; Bruce Roberts who tutored the Brass section.;

Our Guest Artist for this concert, Riley Payne, and guest members of the orchestra (see the list on page 8) Supporters:

Christchurch Community Trust;

Christchurch Symphony Orchestra;.

New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women

Simon Jones Gynaecology.

Risingholme members who produced this programme – writers of Programme Notes (named at the end of each item), and John Caughley, who produced the programme.

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Risingholme Orchestra

“Music for Pleasure”

Our full-sized symphony orchestra meets in Christchurch on

Thursday mornings, when we rehearse for two hours and so-

cialize over a cup of tea. Rehearsals focus on presenting two

formal concerts each year, but over recent years we have been

engaging in an increasing number of informal concerts through-

out the year – mostly to schools and retirement villages.

The idea to start a day-time orchestra was the brainchild of

Bunny Thompson. She dreamed up the notion in the early

hours of the morning at the beginning of November 1991. Her

dream came true on 28 May 1992 with the first gathering at the

Risingholme Community Hall. By the end of 1992 there were

35 active members, with Robert Field-Dodgson as conductor.

Four of those original members are still playing today!

The orchestra continued under the batons of Francis (Frank)

Dennis, Benjamin Le Heux, John Emeleus, Luke di Somma and

now Anthony Ferner. The prime object of the orchestra has

continued to be enjoying music making, with a mix of light mu-

sic and classical music. Our concerts feature guest soloists or

another musical group. Several upcoming young musicians,

like Riley, have delighted us as our soloists.

New members are welcome. If you would like to find out more

please complete the enclosed form or contact us in one of the

following ways:

website: http://www.risingholmeorchestra.co.nz/ email: risingholme.orch@gmail.com Telephone: Helen Reddecliffe 384 5373

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1st

Violins Amandine Guerin

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Ron Newton Marlys Donaldson Leane Gurney John Caughley Alison Taylor Jean Rowe Kath Hill

2nd

Violins Beth Garvey ¹ Lyndsay Fenwick Ann Jennings Bill Bromley Aya Kumada Judy Elworthy Pauline Sewell

Violas Sheila Vance ¹ Tonya Sadler Neroli Boschetti Michael Fogden

Cellos Yvonne Webb

1

Diederic Ruarus Tony Francis Dorothy Maclean Naomi Roberts Catherine Fielden

Double Basses Philippa Graham

1

Mike Clayton

Flutes Linda Sorensen

1

Diana Kirpensteijn Isabella Gregory

2

Piccolo Linda Sorensen

Oboes Jack Goldsmith

1

Anne Godfrey

Clarinets Barbara Peddie

1

Diana McGlinn Alison Begg

Bassoons Helen Reddecliffe ¹ Allen Cookson Ross Gurney

French Horns Claire Elliott

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Elizabeth Christensen

Philippa Foulds Louise Edgecumbe Ivan Clayden

2

Trumpets Bruce Roberts¹

2

Jim Parsons Mel Smith

Trombones Jill Fenton

1

Terry Williams

Timpani & Percussion Mitch Thomas

12

Reuben Painter 2

Harp Sasha Henderson

2

RISINGHOLME ORCHESTRA PLAYERS

Section Leader 1 Guest

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