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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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