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
Anthony Ferner
Conductor of the Risingholme Orchestra
Anthony Ferner has 40 years of conducting 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 Payne – Guest Soloist, Trumpet
Riley was born in 1998, and has been playing trumpet since the
age of eight. He began learning under Sarah Butler, principal trumpet for the Queensland Symphony Orchestra, and Ian Wilson, Professor 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.
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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 favour 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 fearful 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 offered 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 includes Baby Elephant W alk, 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 Juilliard 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 Orchestra. 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 recorded over 90 albums ranging from big band & light classical
to pop. His compositions were staples of the easy listening genre from the 1960’s to 1980’s. He was also a concert performer
conducting over 600 symphony performances during his lifetime 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 Sinatra, 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 V ictoria and
Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Charade, The Glass Menagerie, The
Thorn Birds, Moon River and many more.
Ali Begg
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Charles Gounod—Ballet Music: “FAUST”
Born 1818 - Paris,
Died 1893
- Saint Clara, France.
Charles Gounod came from an artistic family and attended the Paris Conservatoire and was in his time a far more important composer than he is given credit for today. Prominent among his works is his greatest stage success, Faust. He chose a play version by Michael Carre, of Goethe’s great
tragedy Faust, as the structural framework for his works but included excerpts 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 prominent 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 addition 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. According 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). Mephistopheles 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 socialize 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 throughout 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 music 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: [email protected]
Telephone: Helen Reddecliffe 384 5373
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RISINGHOLME ORCHESTRA PLAYERS
1st Violins
Amandine Guerin 1
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 Sorensen1
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 12
Elizabeth Christensen
Philippa Foulds
Louise Edgecumbe
Ivan Clayden2
Trumpets
Bruce Roberts¹2
Jim Parsons
Mel Smith
Trombones
Jill Fenton 1
Terry Williams
Timpani & Percussion
Mitch Thomas12
Reuben Painter 2
Harp
Sasha Henderson 2
Section Leader 1
Guest 2
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