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PLEASE REMEMBER TO SWITCH OFF YOUR MOBILE PHONE. EDINBURGH: USHER HALL THU 24 JUNE 2010 GLASGOW: ROYAL CONCERT HALL FRI 25 JUNE 2010 JEFF TYZIK (CONDUCTOR) ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA Programme £2.00 Lennon & McCartney (arr. Tyzik) The Beatles Hits Medley Arnold English Dances Grainger (arr. Tyzik) Irish Tune from Country Derry Alford Colonel Bogey March Korngold ‘Robin and His Merry Men’ from The Adventures of Robin Hood Vaughan Williams (arr. Greaves) Fantasia on Greensleeves Holst ‘Jupiter’ from The Planets INTERVAL Coates The Dambusters March Lerner & Loewe (arr. Bennett) My Fair Lady Walton Crown Imperial March Elgar Chanson de matinArnold Scottish Dances Various (arr. Tyzik) The Best of Bond IN ASSOCIATION WITH

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RSNO Summer Pops: Britain's Top of the Pops Programme. Usher Hall Edinburgh Friday 25 June 2010 Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Satruday 26 June 2010

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PLEASE REMEMBER TO SWITCH OFF YOUR

MOBILE PHONE.

EDINBURGH:USHER HALL

THU 24 JUNE 2010

GLASGOW:ROYAL CONCERT HALL

FRI 25 JUNE 2010

JEFF TYZIK (CONDUCTOR) ROYAL SCOTTISH NATIONAL ORCHESTRA

Programme £2.00

Lennon & McCartney (arr. Tyzik) The Beatles Hits MedleyArnold English Dances

Grainger (arr. Tyzik) Irish Tune from Country DerryAlford Colonel Bogey March

Korngold ‘Robin and His Merry Men’ from The Adventures of Robin HoodVaughan Williams (arr. Greaves) Fantasia on Greensleeves

Holst ‘Jupiter’ from The Planets

INTERVAL

Coates The Dambusters MarchLerner & Loewe (arr. Bennett) My Fair Lady

Walton Crown Imperial MarchElgar Chanson de matinArnold Scottish Dances

Various (arr. Tyzik) The Best of Bond

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PATRON: HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN

Stéphane DenèveMUSIC DIRECTOR

David Danzmayr ASSISTANT CONDUCTOR

Neeme JärviCONDUCTOR LAUREATEAlexander LazarevCONDUCTOR EMERITUSWalter WellerCONDUCTOR EMERITUS

Royal Scottish National Orchestra

Stéphane Denève became Music Director in September 2005, a partnership which enjoys great acclaim, at home and abroad. For choral performances the Orchestra is joined by the Royal Scottish

National Orchestra Chorus, Chorus Director Timothy Dean, one of the most distinguished large symphonic choruses in Britain, and the acclaimed RSNO Junior Chorus, Chorus Director Christopher Bell.

The RSNO performs across Scotland, including seasons in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen, Perth and Inverness. The Orchestra appears regularly at the Edinburgh International Festival and recent appearances in England have included Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall, Leeds Town Hall, The Sage Gateshead and at the BBC Proms in London. In the last few years, the RSNO has performed in Orkney, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria, Serbia, Spain and Croatia.

The RSNO has a worldwide reputation for the quality of its recordings and has been nominated for eight GRAMMY awards in the last decade. Over 200 releases are available, including the complete symphonies of Sibelius (Gibson), Prokofiev (Järvi), Nielsen and Martinu (Thomson). In 2008 the Orchestra renewed its acclaimed partnership with Conductor Laureate Neeme Järvi (with whom the RSNO has made over 65 recordings) with the premiere recording of Wagner’s The Ring, An Orchestral Adventure (arranged by Henk de Vlieger). The RSNO and conductor José Serebrier completed their Glazunov symphonic cycle in 2009, having already recorded five of the Russian composer’s symphonies. In 2007 the RSNO made its first recording with Music Director Stéphane Denève – the first instalment of a complete cycle of Roussel’s orchestral works – receiving the Diapason d’Or de l’année for Symphonic Music. Three more discs in the series have been released in 2008, 2009 and 2010 respectively, to widespread critical acclaim.

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra is one of Europe’s leading symphony orchestras. Formed in 1891 as the Scottish Orchestra, the company became the Scottish National Orchestra in 1950, and was awarded Royal Patronage in 1991. Throughout its proud history, the Orchestra has played an important part in Scotland’s musical life, including performing at the opening ceremony of the Scottish Parliament building in 2004. Many renowned conductors have contributed to its success, including Walter Susskind, Sir Alexander Gibson, Bryden Thomson, Conductor Laureate Neeme Järvi, Conductor Emeritus Walter Weller and Conductor Emeritus Alexander Lazarev.

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The RSNO is committed to introducing young people to live orchestral music through its Standard Life Passport to Music project, which enables under sixteen year olds to attend concerts for free (www.passport2music.org.uk). Additionally, the RSNO’s education and community engagement programmes continue to develop musical talent and appreciation in people of all ages throughout Scotland. Once a year, the Orchestra embeds itself in a local community for Out and About: a week-long series of concerts, workshops and community projects.

Naked Classics is the Orchestra’s celebrated series which uses multimedia projections, lighting, a presenter and excerpts by the Orchestra to reveal the stories behind some of the great classical masterpieces.

You can find out lots of information about the RSNO online at www.rsno.org.uk where you can buy tickets, read our blog, find out more about the music and view behind-the-scenes photos, videos and interviews. You can also follow the orchestra on facebook www.rsno.org.uk/facebook and on twitter www.rsno.org.uk/twitter.

The RSNO is one of Scotland’s National Performing Companies, supported by the Scottish Government.

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LENNON & McCARTNEY (arr. Tyzik) The Beatles Hits MedleyARNOLD English Dances Andantino Vivace Mesto Allegro RisolutoGRAINGER (arr. Tyzik) Irish Tune from County DerryALFORD Colonel Bogey MarchKORNGOLD ‘Robin and His Merry Men’ from The Adventures of Robin HoodVAUGHAN WILLIAMS (arr. Greaves) Fantasia on GreensleevesHOLST ‘Jupiter’ from The Planets

INTERVAL

COATES The Dambusters MarchLERNER & LOEWE (arr. Bennett) My Fair LadyWALTON Crown Imperial MarchELGAR Chanson de matinARNOLD Scottish Dances 1. Pesante 3. Allegretto 4. Con BrioVARIOUS (arr. Tyzik) The Best of Bond

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In an 1840 newspaper article the German poet Heinrich Heine said of the English attitude towards music:

‘These people have no ear, neither for the beat nor indeed for music in any form, and their unnatural passion for piano-playing and singing is all the more disgusting. There is verily nothing on earth so terrible as English musical composition, except English painting.’

It became something of a standing joke on the continent that Britain (meaning specifically England – the Scots and the Irish are famously born with music coursing through their veins) was Das Land ohne Musik, ‘the land without music’. What Heine and others like him didn’t realise was that much of the best British music had yet to be written. It was not until the twentieth century that the persistent myth of the British tin ear was put to rest.

Folk tunes are handed down from generation to generation, and this is surely what will happen to the songs of John Lennon (1940-1980) and Paul McCartney (b1942). In a few short years during the 1960s they achieved greater fame than any previous British songwriters, scoring hit after hit around the world. Jeff Tyzik’s The Beatles Hits Medley presents a cross-section of their

songs in glorious orchestral guise: I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Yesterday, Eleanor Rigby, Hey Jude, Get Back and Yellow Submarine.

Malcolm Arnold (1921-2006) wrote his first set of English Dances in 1950, following them with another set in 1951. These attractive pieces sound like they might be based on folk tunes, but they are all original compositions. As is evident here, Arnold had a natural melodic gift that was at odds with the mid-twentieth-century’s prevailing trend towards ‘difficult’ atonal music.

Australian-born Percy Grainger (1882-1961) was a highly-innovative composer in a variety of genres, but his most popular works remain his arrangements of British folk songs. Grainger spent the summer of 1906 hiking around Britain making recordings of folk songs on wax cylinders, though he didn’t collect the Londonderry Air himself but found it in The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, published in 1855. He made several different versions of what he called the Irish Tune from County Derry – including for unaccompanied chorus, piano solo and military band.

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Malcolm Arnold composed the score for David Lean’s 1957 war epic Bridge on the River Kwai, but the film’s most famous tune is a much earlier piece: Colonel Bogey actually dates from 1914. It was written by a Major Ricketts of the Royal Irish Regiment, who published his many marches for military band under the pseudonym Kenneth Alford (1881-1945).

Austrian child prodigy Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was already a world-famous composer when he arrived in Los Angeles in 1934. He is one of the primary architects of Hollywood’s musical Golden Age, bringing to the silver screen his belief that film music could be ‘an opera without words’. His classic score for Errol Flynn’s 1939 romp The Adventures of Robin Hood is based partly on an earlier concert work, the uplifting Sursum Corda overture – Viennese urbanity in the depths of Sherwood Forest in England!

Another composer with an abiding interest in folk song was Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958). He used the Elizabethan tune Greensleeves in his 1929 opera Sir John in Love, which was based on Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor, and the melody was arranged in 1934 by Ralph Greaves (not by the composer himself) as the Fantasia on Greensleeves – the mid-section also uses the folk song Lovely Joan.

Like his friend Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst (1874-1934) also cherished the heritage of British folk music. His compositions include the Cotswold Symphony (1900), settings of Morris Dance Tunes (1910) and an homage to Thomas Hardy in Egdon Heath (1927). But it is The Planets suite (written 1914-1916 and inspired by an interest in astrology) that has guaranteed Holst’s lasting fame. The jollity of Jupiter contains one of music’s all-time greatest tunes, the uplifting melody which Holst later adapted to fit the patriotic hymn I vow to thee my country.

The 1954 film The Dam Busters tells the story of Barnes Wallis, his bouncing bomb, and the Lancaster squadron whose job it was to attack the dams along the German Ruhr valley. Light-music composer Eric Coates (1886-1957)

Britain’s Top of the Pops

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didn’t actually write his famous march for the picture: he had in fact just completed it when he got a call from the film’s producers and decided that, fortuitously, the new piece would be ideal for the movie.

Despite its apparently quintessential Englishness, the show My Fair Lady (1956) has its musical roots in German operetta (composer Frederick Loewe, 1901-1988, was born in Berlin) and was written by a native New Yorker (Alan Jay Lerner, 1918-1986). The show’s original orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett (1894-1981) had previously produced Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture, a concert-hall piece based on themes from Gershwin’s opera, and repeated the trick with a symphonic version of Loewe’s song melodies – including famous themes such as I Could Have Danced All Night, Wouldn’t it be Loverly?, Get Me to the Church on Time and The Rain in Spain.

William Walton (1902-1983) became associated with patriotic music during World War II when he provided scores for films such as The First of the Few (1942) – from which his Spitfire Prelude and Fugue was extracted – and Olivier’s Henry V (1945). But before that he had been commissioned

to write a march for the coronation of King George VI in 1937. The result was Crown Imperial, a piece in similar vein to Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance marches. Such was its popularity that Walton was asked to provide another march (Orb and Sceptre) for Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation in 1953.

Arguably the most “English” composer of them all, Edward Elgar (1857-1934) did more than anyone to refute the charge that England was a ‘land without music’. His great orchestral works – the Enigma Variations, the Cello Concerto, the symphonies – are now central to the classical repertoire. More modest in scope than these famous titans but no less lyrically appealing is the delightful Chanson de matin. Originally written for violin and piano in 1899, Elgar orchestrated the piece in 1901.

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Following his two sets of English Dances, Malcolm Arnold turned his attention north of the border for his 1957 set of Scottish Dances. Like the English dances, these are not based on any actual folk tunes though they utilise characteristic elements, such as a bagpipe-like drone and the ‘Scotch snap’ rhythm of the Strathspey.

There’s nothing especially British about James Bond’s lethal charm – and perhaps that’s the key to his appeal: behind the polite façade, he is what every buttoned-up Briton secretly yearns to be. The music for Bond seems to have a similarly confused pedigree. Controversy clouds the origin of the famous ‘James Bond Theme’, credited to Monty Norman, composer for the first Bond movie, Dr. No (1962). In 2001, Norman brought a lawsuit against The Sunday Times for claiming that John Barry actually wrote the tune. Despite legal shenanigans over who gets credit, what isn’t disputed is the perennial appeal of one of cinema’s most famous signature-tunes. Jeff Tyzik’s orchestral medley The Best of Bond continues with Nobody Does It Better, Marvin Hamlisch’s theme song for The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). Live and Let Die is Paul and Linda McCartney’s rock anthem from the 1973 Roger Moore movie of the same name. For Your Eyes Only was written by Bill Conti in 1981. The Look of Love

is cheekily drawn from the ‘unofficial’ 1967 version of Casino Royale, which starred David Niven and featured music by Burt Bacharach. The 007 Theme is indisputably John Barry’s creation, an alternative leitmotif for Bond that first appeared in 1963’s From Russia with Love. Also by Barry, the theme song for Thunderball was originally sung by Tom Jones who, legend has it, fainted in the recording studio after holding the final high note!

© Mark Walker

This month the RSNO is sad to say farewell to Andrew Martin (associate principal violin), Jeremy Fletcher (associate principal cello) and Lyn Armour (sub-principal cello) who are all retiring. The RSNO would like to say thank you to them for all the years of music-making they have been involved in and good luck for the future. Enjoy your retirement!

Jeremy Fletcher ASSOCIATE PRINCIPAL CELLO

Lyn Armour SUB-PRINCIPAL CELLO

Andrew MartinASSOC PRINCIPAL VIOLIN

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Royal Scottish National Orchestra

1ST VIOLINMia Cooper GUEST LEADERWilliam Chandler ASSOCIATE LEADERTamás FejesAndrew Martin Barbara PatersonJane ReidGail DigneyCaroline Parry Ursula HeideckerElizabeth LloydLorna RoughSusan HendersonDiane Merson-JonesJulie Reynolds

2ND VIOLINJacqueline Speirs ASSOCIATE PRINCIPALElita BungardHarriet Wilson Nigel MasonMichael RiggSheila McGregor Penny DicksonIsabel GourdiePaul MeddSophie LangAlexa ButterworthKatie Stone

VIOLAJohn Harrington PRINCIPALIan BuddMichael LloydSusan BlosdaleDavid MartinFiona WestClaire DunnLisa RourkeKatherine WrenFrancesca Hunt CELLOPauline Argondizza PRINCIPALJeremy FletcherBetsy TaylorLyn ArmourPeter HuntWilliam PatersonRachael LeeKennedy Leitch

DOUBLE BASSDavid Inglis PRINCIPALRobert Mitchell Michael RaePaul SutherlandJohn ClarkSally Davis

FLUTEKatherine Bryan PRINCIPALHelen BrewElizabeth Dooner PICCOLO OBOERosie Staniforth GUEST PRINCIPALCatriona MacKinnonZoe Kitson PRINCIPAL COR ANGLAIS

CLARINETJohn Cushing PRINCIPALJosef Pacewicz PRINCIPAL Eb CLARINETDuncan Swindells PRINCIPAL BASS CLARINET

BASSOONDavid Hubbard PRINCIPALGraeme BrownNicholas Reader PRINCIPAL CONTRABASSOON

HORNDavid McClenaghan PRINCIPALTim HunterJohn LoganRobert McIntoshJessica Ortony

TRUMPETJohn Gracie PRINCIPALMarcus PopeBrian Forshaw PRINCIPAL CORNETMike Bennett

TROMBONEDávur Juul Magnussen PRINCIPALLance GreenAlastair Sinclair PRINCIPAL BASS TROMBONE

EUPHONIUMPaul Stone

TUBAJohn Whitener PRINCIPAL

TIMPANIMartin Gibson PRINCIPALRobbie Gibson

PERCUSSIONJohn PoulterASSOCIATE PRINCIPALAlan StarkRobert PurseStuart SempleRobbie Gibson

KITStuart Semple

HARPPippa Tunnell

ELECTRIC BASS GUITARAndy Mitchell

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CONDUCTORJeff Tyzik

Jeff Tyzik has earned a reputation as one of America’s most innovative pops conductors. He is recognised for his brilliant arrangements, original programming, and engaging rapport with audiences of all ages. Tyzik has just completed his sixteenth season as Principal Pops Conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. He also currently serves as Principal Pops Conductor of the Oregon Symphony and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra.

In his sixteen years with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Tyzik has developed an incredible relationship with devoted Rochester audiences and written over 160 works for the orchestra. He also regularly appears as a guest conductor in the orchestra’s classical subscription series performing works by some of the greatest American composers to critical acclaim. He has also been commissioned to compose original works including his Trombone Concerto (by the National Endowment of the Arts) and his Timpani Concerto (by the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra) which was premiered in January 2010. In May 2007, the Harmonia Mundi label released his recording of works by Gershwin with pianist Jon Nakamatsu and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra which reached No.3 on the Billboard classical chart.

Highly sought after as a guest conductor, Tyzik has recently appeared with orchestras such as the Boston Pops, the Cincinnati Pops, the New York Pops, the Philadelphia Orchestra at the Saratoga Performing Arts Center and the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl. In addition to his commitments in Rochester, Oregon and Vancouver, during the 2010/11

season he will appear with orchestras across North America including the Detroit, Milwaukee and Toronto symphony orchestras, as well as the Florida Orchestra, among others. During the summer of 2010, he will return to the Boston Pops and to the Saratoga Performing Arts Center to lead the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also leads three programmes with the Dallas Symphony at the Vail Festival.

A native of Hyde Park, New York, Tyzik began his life in music at nine years of age, when he first picked up a cornet. He studied both Classical and Jazz music throughout high school, and went on to earn both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where he studied composition/arranging with Radio City Music Hall’s Ray Wright and Jazz studies with the great band leader Chuck Mangione, both of whom profoundly impacted him as a musician.

Tyzik spent the next few years working with Mangione, soaking in every part of the music business. He became a skilled record producer, while continuing to be active as a performer and arranger. These experiences led Tyzik to one of the great early opportunities of his career—the chance to co-compose a trumpet concerto with friend and virtuoso trumpeter Allen Vizzutti to be recorded by pops legend Doc Severinsen. After that first recording, Tyzik worked closely with Severinsen on many projects including orchestrating many of the great band leader’s symphony orchestra programmes, and producing a GRAMMY Award-winning album, The Tonight Show Band with Doc Severinsen, Vol 1. To this day, he credits Severinsen as his greatest musical and professional inspiration.

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As an accomplished composer and arranger, Tyzik has had his compositions recorded by ensembles including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Summit Brass, and his arrangements have been recorded by groups including Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, and Doc Severinsen with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also produced and composed theme music for many of the major American television networks, including ABC, NBC, HBO, and Cinemax, and released six of his own albums on Capitol, Polygram and Amherst Records.

Committed to performing music of all genres, Tyzik has collaborated with such diverse artists as Tony Bennett, Art Garfunkel, Dawn Upshaw, Marilyn Horne, Arturo Sandoval, The Chieftains, Mark O’Connor, Doc Severinsen, John Pizzarelli, Billy Taylor and Lou Rawls, and has created original programmes that include the greatest music from Jazz and Classical to Motown and Swing.

Actively sharing his passion for music with others, Tyzik has been recognised for his community service and educational work by Rotary International, the Monroe County Music Educators, and the Rochester Philharmonic League. He is also the recipient of the Arts & Cultural Council of Greater Rochester’s 2002 Performing Artist Award. Tyzik currently serves on the Board of Managers of the Eastman School of Music, and as a board member of the Hochstein School of Music and Dance. He lives in Rochester, New York, with his wife Jill.

For more information about Tyzik, please visit www.jefftyzik.com