If you would like any further information on any aspect of the Southern Area Concert Band , please contact Darryn on 0401 988 141.

Alternatively we can be contacted via our web site: www.sacb.com.au

FUTURE EVENTS

If you have enjoyed this afternoon’s performance by The Southern Area Concert Band, please join us at our next events:

City of Kingston Annual Massed Bands Concert

Sunday, August 4, 2013 at 2:00PM. Kingston City Hall.

Victorian State Band Championships August 17 or 18, 2013 in Ballarat

Watch our website for confirmation of date and time.

Annual October Concert October 2013

Watch our web site for confirmation of date and time.

Annual Performance at Melbourne Zoo November 2013

Watch our web site for confirmation of date and time.

City of Bayside Carols in the Park Tuesday, December 10th, 2013 at 7:30PM

Dendy Park, Brighton.

TRAINING BAND

If you know of someone who, or yourself play a musical instrument but haven’t had it our of the cupboard for a long time, the Southern Area Training Band is a great place to refresh your skills. The training band rehearses on Monday evenings between 5:45 and 7:00PM.

JOIN THE BAND

If you know of someone who, or yourself play a musical instrument at or above AMEB grade 4 level, and are looking for a vibrant and exciting ensemble to join, the Southern Area Concert Band is always looking for new players in all sections of the band. Rehearsals are on Monday night between 7:15 and 9:30PM.

Sunday, 26 May2013 Kilbreda College, Mentone.

‘From Solos to Symphonies’‘From Solos to Symphonies’‘From Solos to Symphonies’

Southern Area Concert Band is proudly sponsored by the City of Kingston

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Our 12th annual May Concert.

Welcome to Southern Area Concert Band’s twelfth annual May Concert. In today’s performance of From Solos to Symphonies we

will be performing some of the wind band’s more complex repertoire, along with the delightful timbre of Raphael Wong’s tenor

voice. Please sit back and enjoy today’s performance. Darryn Wright, Music Director

PROGRAMME

• Jupiter — Written between 1914 and 1916, Jupiter (The Bringer of Jollity) is the fourth movement of Gustav Holst’s seven movement suite The Planets. Originally scored for orchestra the work premiered at The Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh September 29, 1918. The work was later adapted by the composer for symphonic wind band in 1924. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the solar system and its corresponding astrological character. With the exception of Earth, each planet of the known solar system is represented. Today’s performance of Jupiter will be conducted by Darryn Wright.

• Some Enchanted Evening — From the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein multi-award winning musical South Pacific, the song was a number 1 hit for Perry Como in 1949 and has been recorded by numerous artists over the past 60 years including Frank Sinatra and Harry Connick Jr. South Pacific ran on Broadway for 1,925 performances. Today’s performance of Some Enchanted Evening will be performed today by Raphael Wong and conducted by Darryn Wright.

Meet our Conductors

Jenny Corcoran joined the Southern Area Concert Band as a young trumpeter in 2004. Having completed the ABODA conducting school in 2009, Jenny took on the role of Assistant Conductor of SACB in 2010.

At the beginning of 2011, Jenny joined the Southern Area Training Band team and was promoted into the role of main conductor of SATB at the end of the year and remained in this role

until the end of 2012. Jenny has actively been involved in musical endeavours her whole life; she joined her first choir at age 5, began piano lessons at age 8, and later took up the trumpet at the age of 13. Jenny completed a double degree in Arts/Music in 2010, majoring in classical trumpet performance and French studies. Jenny completed her Graduate Diploma of Education in music at Monash University in 2011 and is currently working as a Music and French teacher for the Victorian Catholic Education Department.

Originally from Russia, Evgeny Chebykin joined SACB in late 2011 as a French horn player after moving to Australia from London. His musical studies were at the Royal Academy of Music during which time he was awarded many prizes including the Dennis Brain horn prize. Prior to his time at RAM, Evgeny was a student at the prestigious Purcell School of Music.

As an accomplished horn soloist, Evgeny has performed concerti by Mozart, Strauss and Bainbridge and has performed with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta as well as many television and movie credits including the sound track for the last two Harry Potter movies. Closer to home, Evgeny has just completed a season with Opera Australia and Orchestra Victoria here in Melbourne for the recent production of Verdi’s Aida.

After twelve months in an assistant conductor role for our Training Band, Evgeny moved into the role of Training Band Conductor in January 2013, and has held the position of assistant conductor of the main band since the beginning of 2012.

Meet our Music Director

Darryn Wright has been a member of Southern Area Concert Band since 1997, originally joining the band as an alto saxophone player. During his time in the band, Darryn has performed on saxophone, flute and percussion and served the band as President for nine years before moving into the role of Music Director at the end of 2006 following Craig Seymour’s retirement.

Darryn has been playing music (keyboard) since the age of five, studied flute in high school under the tutorage of Gerard Van Der Geer, and has been playing saxophone for nearly 20 years.

Darryn has performed in many instrumental and choral ensembles throughout Melbourne and has been involved with many amateur and school musical stage productions, including a presentation by a 100-piece choir and 35-piece orchestra of Handel’s Messiah at St. Pauls Cathedral.

Meet our Soloist

Southern Area Concert Band first worked with Raphael Wong at the 2011 City of Bayside Carols in the Park.

Raphael studied his Bachelor of Music on Full Merit Scholarship at the University of Melbourne, and is studying voice under Glenn Winslade.

In 2012 he was a member of the 2012 Performance Program at The Opera Studio Melbourne and also made his Opera Australia debut in the Chorus’ of Turandot and The Merry Widow, followed by Aida in 2013.

This year, Raphael sang at the Victorian Governor’s Welcome at Government House for the Australia Day Celebrations for Victoria, and has performed for many corporate events, including the Trans-Tasman Business AFL ANZAC Day luncheon, and the Commonwealth Bank International One Day Cricket Series at the MCG.

In 2013, Raphael will be continuing his second year at The Opera Studio Melbourne as a recipient of the Stephen Bolton Memorial Award Scholarship, and will also be a chorus member in Opera Australia’s Gӧtterdӓmerung.

• Folk Song Suite Mvt. 3 — March — Also known as English Folk Song Suite, and originally written by Ralph Vaughn Williams in 1923 for military (wind) band, the work was later arranged for full orchestra in 1924. Today’s performance will be conducted by Jenny Corcoran.

• Pictures at an Exhibition Mvt 8 and 9 — Originally composed as a piano piece by Modest Mussorgsky in 1874 and later adapted for orchestra, today’s performance will be of the eighth (The Hut of Baba-Yaga) and ninth (The Great Gate of Kiev) movements of the ten piece work as transcribed for wind band by W.G. Leidzen. Today’s performance will be conducted by Darryn Wright

• You’ll Never Walk Alone — Taken from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical Carousel which initially ran on Broadway for 890 shows. Performed today by Raphael Wong and conducted by Darryn Wright.

• Till I Hear You Sing — From the 2010 Musical Love Never Dies with Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Glen Slater and Charles Hart, and based on the book co-written by Lloyd Webber and Ben Elton. The show was re-hashed for the Australian production for which Till I Hear You Sing became the opening number. Performed today by Raphael Wong and Conducted by Darryn Wright.

• Finale — The fourth and final movement of Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 first performed in 1937 in Leningrad under the baton of Yevgeny Mravinsky receiving an ovation that lasted over half an hour. Today’s performance was transcribed for wind band from the original orchestral version by Charles Righter in 1947 and will be conducted by Evgeny Chebykin.

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INTERVAL There will be a twenty minute interval so please join us for a cuppa and a chat.

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• Second Suite in F for Military Band — Written by Gustav Holst in 1911 and first published in 1922, this piece consists of four movements:

1. March 2. Song without Words “I’ll Love My Love” 3. Song of the Blacksmith 4. Fantasia on the “Dargason”

Today’s performance will be conducted by Darryn Wright.

• The Ash Grove — Llwyn Onn is a traditional Welsh folk song the music of which was first published in 1802 and has been set to many sets of lyrics through time. Today’s lyrics are by Rodney Bennett and the song will be performed by Raphael Wong and conducted by Darryn Wright.

• The Music of the Night — The Phantom of the Opera opened on London’s West End in 1986 featuring the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Lyrics by Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe. It remains the longest running broadway show in history, celebrating its 10,000th Broadway performance on 11 February, 2012. Grossing estimated world-wide receipts of $5.6 billion, it is the highest earning stage and screen production in history. The Music of the Night is one of the many Phantom solos within the show and will be performed today by Raphael Wong and conducted by Darryn Wright.

• Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat Major. K495 Mvt 3 — Composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart for his child-hood friend Joseph Leitgeb, Mozart’s Horn concertos were originally written for natural horn (i.e. horns with no valves), making all of them incredibly difficult to play. Today the solo horn part will be performed by Evgeny Chebykin.

• Shenandoah — The Shenandoah Valley and Shenandoah River are located in Virginia, USA. In this setting of the well know folk song, composer Frank Ticheli was inspired by the beauty of the folk song melody and by the life-affirming energy supplied by the rolling river. Today’s performance will be conducted by Jenny Corcoran.

• If I Can’t Love Her — From the Disney stage show Beauty and the Beast which opened on Broadway on April 18, 1994 and ran for 5,464 performances. The show is based on the Disney film which received its original concept from the children’s fairy tale. When released for the stage the show was extended with seven new songs for the stage production, including If I Can’t Love Her. Music for the show was written by Alan Menken with lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice. In the stage show this piece is sung by the Beast, and today will be performed by Raphael Wong and conducted by Darryn Wright.

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