FRIDAY 21st June is

International Make Music Day


7.30pm Friday Evening at Christ Church

Friday 21st June


The Tailleferre Ensemble

Nicola Crowe, flute
Penelope Smith & Nicola Hands, oboes
Christina Marroni, bassoon

Benefit Concert for NewSPAL

Venue: Christ Church (United Reformed)
Epsom Road, Leatherhead, KT22 8ST
please arrive early in case you need to find on-street parking
once the church's large car park is full
Supported by:
Leatherhead Concert &
Arts Society
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sponsors of Make Music Day UK
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Programme

Shin-Itchiro Yokoyama (b 1956)
Souvenir de Caen (2002)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
London Trio No 1 Hob IV:1 in C major (1794)
    Allegro moderato
    Andante
    Finale Vivace

Liz Sharma (b 1951 )
Trialogues 1, 2, & 3

A short solo item

Bill Douglas (b 1944)
3 Lyrical Pieces
    1 Wings of the Wind
    2 The Hills of Glancar
    3 Autumn Song

Julius Röntgen (1855-1932)
Trio for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon Op 86 (1917)
    1 Allegretto con spirito
    2 Poco andante, quasi una fantasia
    3 Allegretto - Più mosso e scherzando - Più animato - Coda

Interval - During which drinks will be available

Ronald Binge (1910-1979)  arr Penelope Smith
The Watermill (1958)

Georges Bizet (1838-1875) compiled Ernest Guiraud (1837-1892)
                                                                                            arr A Cooper
Carmen Suite No 1
    Aragonaise
    Habanera
    Les Dragons d’Alcala
    Toreador Song

Thomas Fats Waller (1904-1943) & Harry Brooks (1895-1970)
lyrics by Andy Razaf (1895-1973), arr F Jackson
from their musical revue Connies' Hot Cookies
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1929)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), arr A Cooper
from the opera Rinaldo
Lascia ch’io pianga - Let me weep

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
from The Marriage of Figaro K492 (1786)
    Overture in D major

Ennio Morricone (b 1928), arr P Smith
from the score for the 1986 film The Mission
Gabriel’s Oboe (1986)

Arthur Kent (1920-2009), arr P Smith
lyrics by Sylvia Dee (1914-1967)
The Official UK Anthem of Make Music Day
Bring Me Sunshine (1966)

Concert duration: finish around 9.15/9.30
Arthur Kent (1920-2009), arr P Smith
lyrics by Sylvia Dee (1914-1967)
The Official UK Anthem of Make Music Day
Bring Me Sunshine (1966)

Bring me Sunshine, in your smile
Bring me Laughter, all the while,
In this world where we live,
                 there should be more happiness.
So much joy you can give,
                 to each brand new, bright tomorrow,

Make me happy, through the years,
Never bring me, any tears.
Let your arms be as warm as the sun from up above,
Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love.

Bring me Sunshine, in your eyes
Bring me rainbows, from the skies,
Life's too short to be spent having anything but fun,
We can be so content, if we gather little sunbeams,

Be light-hearted, all day long,
Keep me singing, happy songs,
Let your arms be as warm as the sun from up above,
Bring me fun, bring me sunshine, bring me love.


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Free Concert, with a retiring collection to support NewSPAL costs. Wine and soft drinks will be available during the interval.
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Tailleferre Ensemble


The Tailleferre Ensemble is a new chamber collective founded by Nicola Hands and Penelope Smith, with the aim of promoting women in music. The group is a flexible chamber ensemble, offering varied recitals of differing instrumentation and genre. Today’s performers are Nicola Crowe, Penelope Smith, Nicola Hands, and Cristina Marroni.
Nicola Crowe has recently returned to the UK from Australia. She studied at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music with James Kortum and later at the Royal College of Music with Simon Channing and Jaime Martin where she was awarded the RCM All Flutes Plus prize. She returned to Australia in 2015 to begin a fellowship with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra which was followed by a second flute contract in 2016. She has also taught at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and holds the Lecturer in Flute position at the Australian Institute of Music.

She has regularly performed with the Opera Australia Orchestra and has played with orchestras and ensembles in Australia and abroad, including the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the English National Ballet, Southbank Sinfonia, the Hong Kong Sinfonietta and the Macao Orchestra.

Nicola Hands graduated with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music Masters programme, where she won the Evelyn Barbirolli prize for oboe and the Grimaldi prize for cor anglais. Nicola was the 2nd oboe/cor anglais player for the Orquestra do Norte from 2015-2017. She also plays regularly with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Birmingham Royal Ballet, the Chameleon Arts Orchestra and the Orpheus Sinfonia. She played oboe and cor anglais for ‘The Light Princess’ at the National Theatre in 2013-2014, and has played for other shows including ‘Miss Saigon’ in the Prince Edward Theatre.  As a recitalist Nicola has performed in venues including St. James Piccadilly, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. Mary’s Perivale, Peterborough Cathedral, St. George’s Hanover Square and Waltham Abbey.
Penelope Smith has worked with orchestras throughout the UK and Ireland such as the London Mozart Players, RTE Concert Orchestra, English Festival Orchestra, and Brandenburg Sinfonia. Her concerto performances include J.S. Bach’s Concerto for Oboe d’Amore with the Exeter Symphony Orchestra, Haydn’s Concerto for Oboe with the Orchestra of Situation Opera, Agrell’s Oboe Concerto with the Amadè Players, Marcello’s Concerto for Oboe in D Minor and Holst’s Fugal Concerto with the Astor Palm Court Orchestra.

In 2005, Penelope was awarded a full scholarship to Trinity College of Music, where she studied under Josephine Lively and Christopher O’Neal. After graduating from Trinity College of Music with a BMus(Hons) degree in performance, Penelope went on to study at the Royal College of Music under the tutelage of David Theodore, Christopher Cowie and Christine Pendrill. She gained her Masters in Orchestral Performance (MPERF) in 2012 and was the recipient of the Evelyn Rothwell Oboe Prize in 2011.

Christina Marroni is a busy freelance bassoonist and contra-bassoonist, working across the UK and further afield. After graduating from the RCM, she was a member of Southbank Sinfonia and has since been guest principal with orchestras such as the BBC Concert Orchestra, Ulster Orchestra and the Symphony Orchestra of India. She also regularly performs with the London Mozart Players, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra amongst others. Solo appearances include concertos with the Isle of Wight Symphony Orchestra and RCM Symphony Orchestra, and chamber recitals with Holloway Winds, the Heath Street Ensemble, Tafelmusik of London and the Gelachter Trio.
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Concert at Home

If you cannot be with us at the concert
you can enjoy a similar Concert at Home by clicking through the video buttons below:

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
London Trio No 1 Hob IV:1 in C major (1794)
Allegro moderato  •  Andante  •  Finale Vivace

Our recording is for 2 flutes and bassoon, by the Ensemble Burlesca, performing inthe Kanagawa Prefectural Civic Hall, Japan:

Liz Sharma (b )
Trialogues

We found only one recording, and only of the third Trialogue, about which Liz Sharma says:

"There are three pieces in the Trialogues set, originally written as a virtuoso piece for three tutors on a wind course. It was never performed, as unfortunately we didn’t meet on the same course again, and I forgot about the piece. No 3 is a finale piece in the style of a tango." We hear the Première Performance by the London Myriad Ensemble -  Julia Groves, flute, Nadia Wilson, oboe, and Atéa Quintet regular Ashley Myall, bassoon. at the 2017 London Composers' Forum, St Mary's Parish Church, Putney:

Julius Röntgen (1855-1932)
Trio for Flute, Oboe and Bassoon Op 86 (1917)
    1 Allegretto con spirito
    2 Poco andante, quasi una fantasia
    3 Allegretto - Più mosso e scherzando - Più animato - Coda

Not sure who the performers are here. They may include Serbian oboist Mina Novovic who uploaded them:

Shin-Itchiro Yokoyama (b 1956)
Souvenir de Caen (2002)

Apologies for the air-conditioning in the virtual foreground of this recording.
Terzetto Trio, with Ayron Yves Barata on flute are the performers, in Belem, Brazil:

Bill Douglas (b 1944)
3 Lyrical Pieces
    1 Wings of the Wind  •  2 The Hills of Glencar  •  3 Autumn Song

We only get to know the bassoonist's name here (his mother made the video!). He is Jonathan Churchett of Anderson High School, Austin Texas. He is now studying at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, NY


Ronald Binge (1910-1979)  arr Penelope Smith
The Watermill (1958)

Here is an orchestral version of a melody you may recognise from its TV outings as theme music to BBC Childrens' TV's The Secret Garden in the early 1970s, or possibly to Anglia TV's The Wind in the Willows, around the same time. Orchestra unknown.

Georges Bizet (1838-1875) compiled Ernest Guiraud (1837-1892)  arr A Cooper
Carmen Suite No 1
    Prélude •  Aragonaise •  Intermezzo • Séguedille • Les Dragons d'Alcala • Les Toréadors

Here's a full orchestral performance by the Singapore National Youth Orchestra, conducted by Tan Wee Hsin:

Thomas Fats Waller (1904-1943) & Harry Brooks (1895-1970)
lyrics by Andy Razaf (1895-1973), arr F Jackson
from their musical revue Connies' Hot Cookies
Ain’t Misbehavin’ (1929)

Sometimes you just have to go with the original. Here's Fats Waller, and I'd better give you the rest of the credits (from youtube) -
Ain't Misbehavin' with Lena Horne, dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, drummer Zutty Singleton, bassist Slam Stewart, t
rumpeter Benny Carter... in Stormy Weather (1943) by Andrew L Stone, for Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation:

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759), arr A Cooper
from the opera Rinaldo
Lascia ch’io pianga

Let's listen to this cebrated aria with the lighter forces of Voices of Music, and soprano Kirsten Blaise:

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
from The Marriage of Figaro K492 (1786)
    Overture in D major

In 2014 Daniel Barenboim nbrought his East-West Divan Orchestra to London for a Proms concert that included this overture:

Ennio Morricone (b 1928), arr P Smith
from the score for the 1986 film The Mission
Gabriel’s Oboe (1986)

Our recording is of oboist Henrik Chaim Goldschmidt, with the Faroe Islands Philharmonic Orchestra:

Arthur Kent (1920-2009), arr P Smith
lyrics by Sylvia Dee (1914-1967)
The Official UK Anthem of Make Music Day
Bring Me Sunshine (1966)

I always thought this song had been around for a long time, so I was surprised to discover it was written as late as 1966.
First let's go to the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville Tennessee to hear Dan Wessler's arrangement, at the Barbershop Harmony Society's 2019 Midwinter Convention.
After that let's see the fun Morecambe and Wise used to have with their farewell song, first with Hannah Gordon, and then with the lady who would tell us "if you've enjoyed it, then it's all been worthwhile" - Janet Webb.

Are you still in the mood for some fun? Well, take your pick of these, or listen to all three...

Top 5 Page Turn Fails !


Orchestra Drum Fail
Leroy Anderson's The Typewriter, with the Brandenberger Symphoniker (who said the Germans have no sense of humour!) But, is that an A?

and surely you have time for Ten minutes with Victor Borge at the opera

We hope you have enjoyed your  Concert at Home.
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