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EDWARD WARREN
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JEREMY HUW WILLIAMS
Baritone

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC

Edward Warren was born in Cambridge and his early
studies of the bassoon were with the celebrated
bassoonist, Archie Camden and later as a student at the
Royal College of Music, where he studied bassoon
with Kerry Camden and conducting with Vernon
Handley and Harvey Philips.

His twenty years in the orchestral profession were

CHOIR

spent with English National Opera and the LSO, then

The GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

as Principal Bassoonist of the RLPO. He made his

acknowledges with grateful thanks the generous

conducting debut with them in 1980 and this close

support of its SPONSORS and CORPORATE

association has continued, his most recent concerts
with them this month.

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GUILDFORD BOROUGH
with financial assistance from

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Board the Guildford Philhar{'r}gnic Society, the South

East Music Trust and the E Musicians’ Union.

He left the RLPO in 1987 to further his conducting
activities and also joined the staff of the Royal
Northern College of Music. Since then he has
conducted a number of orchestras including the
Philharmonia, Ulster, Hallé, Bournemouth Symphony
and Sinfonietta, Manchester Camerata and Guildford
Philharmonic. He has also been a regular visitor to the

BBC Concert Orchestra, most recently for “Friday
Night is Music Night”. Highlights of this season
include performances with the Philharmonia,
Bournemouth Symphony, Bournemouth Sinfonietta,
his debut with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra
and continuing association with the Royal Liverpool
Philharmonic and Manchester Camerata.

In 1992 he made his conducting debut abroad, with the
Prague Symphony, at the invitation of Libor Pesek.

commissioned cycle of orchestral songs by Alun

Hoddinot,

and a recital, both

for the

Criccieth

Festival.

=% PROGRAMME =+

——

Overture: ‘Portsmouth Point’
William Walton (1902 - 1983)

‘Portsmouth

Point’,

described

as

a

comedy

overture, was the first of Sir William Walton’s
compositions

for

full

orchestra

to

bring

him

international fame. It was composed in 1925 and
given at the International Music Festival at Zurich in
the following year. The overture is dedicated to

Siegfried Sassoon.
The composer found his inspiration in a print by the
famous English caricaturist, Thomas Rowlandson
(1756-1827), which shows an animated dockyard
scene. In the middle distance is a group of ships,

some with their sails already set for departure. In the
foreground all is bustle, noise and confusion. A
naval officer prepares to go aboard with his wife,
followed by a porter staggering under the weight of
his portmanteau. Another exchanges fond farewells
with his sweetheart outside the tavern. A sailor
dances with his girl to a one-legged fiddler’s tune.
Barrels are rolled, dogs block the fairway, a bosomy
College,

dame belabours her man unmercifully. A line of

Cambridge and National Opera Studio. Awarded

under-garments flies bravely in the off-shore breeze.

third prize in the Lyon Opera House International

This scene of fighting, dancing and roistering is

Born:

Cardiff.

Studied:

St

John’s

Singing Competition, Bronze Medal in the Marian

Anderson International competition in Washington
DC, National Federation of Music Societies Young
Concert

Artist

Award.

Operatic

réles

include

Guglielmo in Cosi fan tutte (WNO); Schaunard in
La Boheme (Mid Wales Opera) the title role in
Craig’s Progress (Mecklenburgh Opera), title role
in Don Giovanni, Don Alfonso in Cosi fan tutte
(both Clonter Opera), Peachum in The Threepenny

Opera

(Aldeburgh

repertoire

Festival).

includes

Fauré

Extensive

Requiem,

vividly

conveyed

already

exhibits

in Walton’s
some

of the

Handel’s

which

prominent

features of his mature style - the irregular metrical
patterns, the wilfully displaced accents, the highlystrung nerviness and quick-wittedness, the bright,
sharp-edged and occasionally bizarre scoring. Here,

too, is the disrespectfully humorous outlook of a
live young man of the twenties.

Alan Gregory

concert

Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem and Brahms’ Requiem.

overture,
most

Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)

Recitals at Aldeburgh, St David’s Hall, St George’s

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford is remembered much

Brandon Hill and Swansea Festival.

Recordings

more for his teaching, for he was Professor of

include Howells’ Requiem, Vaughan Williams’ Five

Composition at the Royal College of Music from

Mpystical Songs and Haydn’s Theresa Mass. TV

1883, than for his own works. He was elected

includes S4C’s series Canrif6 Gan. Engagements

Professor of Music at Cambridge in 1897. Through

in the the 1995/96 season include a television series

this post and more particularly through his post at

for S4C “Cerdd y Cymru” Mozart Requeim with the

the RCM, both of which he held until his death, he

Hallé

exercised

Orchestra,

St

Teresa

Mass

with

the

Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Mozart C Minor Mass at

more

influence

in

the

teaching

of

composition than any other musician in Britain at

the Barbican, recitals at the Wigmore Hall and

this time. Stanford’s tuition benefited such British

Llandudno October Festival, and the title role in

composers as Vaughan Williams, Holst, Coleridge-

Don

Taylor, Ireland, Bridge, Butterworth, Howells and

Giovanni,

and

Lindorf,

Coppelius

and

Dappertutto in The Tales of Hoffmann for (Pocket

Moeran to name a few of the more well-known. As

Opera Niirnberg). Future plans include a newly

conductor of the University Musical Society

at

Cambridge

he

gave

many

notable

first

But ev’ry night the “Old Superb” she sailed when

performances, especially of the works of Brahms,

others slept,

whom he greatly admired and later became his

Till we ran the French to earth with all the rest.

friend

and

who

was

to

influence

his

own

composition.
Songs of the Fleet was composed in 1910 and Songs

CHORUS
O‘twas Westward Ho! for Trinidad, and Eastward

Ho! for Spain;

of the Sea in 1906, both for the Leeds Triennial

And “Ship a-hoy!” a hundred times a day;

Festival, and have a perfection of workmanship and

Round the world if need be, and round the world

a rare beauty which is rewarding in performance.
The works are set to poems by Henry Newbold. The
explosion of violence and arresting music after the
first world war made unfashionable anything in a

again
With a lame duck, lame duck lagging, lagging,
lagging all the way.

romantic idiom. Moreover, the hostility of critics to
anything British in the musical world made his task

SONGS OF THE FLEET

and that of his pupils very difficult. In this climate it

Sailing at Dawn

is amazing that any of his works have survived and

The Song of Sou’Wester

a testament to his originality and strength that they

The Middle Watch

have. He was conductor of the London Bach Choir

The Little Admiral

(1885-1902) and the Leeds Triennial Festival (1901

Fare Well

- 1910) and such was his influence as a composer
and choral conductor that he was represented at
every British festival of his time.

Sailing at Dawn

One by one the pale stars die before the day now,
One by one the great ships are stirring from their

sleep,
Cables all are rumbling, anchors all a-weigh now,
Now the fleet’s a fleet again, gliding towards the
SONGS OF THE SEA
Drake’s Drum
The Old Superb

deep.
Now the fleet’s a fleet again, bound upon the old
ways,

Splendour of the past comes shining in the spray;
Admirals of old time, bring us on the bold way!

Drake’s Drum

Drake he’s in his hammock till the great Armadas
come

(Captain art thou sleeping there below?)
Slung a-tween the round shot listening for the
drum
And dreaming all the time of Plymouth Hoe.
Call him on the deep sea, call him up the Sound.
Call him when ye sail to meet the foe;

Souls of all the sea-dogs, lead the line today!
Far away behind us town and tower are dwindling,
Home becomes a fair dream faded long ago;

Infinitely glorious the height of heaven is kindling,

Infinitely desolate the shoreless seas below.
Once again with proud hearts we make the old
surrender,
Once again with high hearts serve the age to be,

Where the old trade’s plying and the old flag

Not for us the warm life of Earth, secure and

flying

tender,

They shall find him ware and waking

Ours the eternal wandering and warfare of the sea.

As they found him long ago.
The Song of the Sou’Wester
The Old Superb

The sun was lost in a leaden sky, / And the shore

Four year out from home she was and ne’er a

lay under our lee;

week in port,

When a great Sou’Wester hurricane high / Came

And nothing save the guns aboard her bright;

rollicking up the sea.

But Captain Keats he knew the game, and swore to

He played with the fleet as a boy with boats / Till

share the sport,

out for the Downs we ran,

For he never yet came in too late to fight.

And he laughed with the roar of a thousand throats

CHORUS

/ At the militant ways of man:

So Westward Ho! for Trinidad, and Eastward

Oh! I am the enemy most of might,

Holfor Spain;

The other be who you please!

And “Ship ahoy!” a hundred times a day;

Gunner and guns may all be right,

Round the world if need be, and round the world

Flags a-flying and armour tight,

again

But I am the fellow you’ve first to fight -

With a lame duck lagging lagging all the way.

The giant that swings the seas!

A dozen of middies were down below / Chasing

them, / The mind that sees ahead so quick and

the X they love,

clear?

While the table curtseyed long and slow / And the

He’s there, Sir, walking all alone there - / The

lamps were giddy above.

little man whose voice you never hear.

The lesson was all of a ship and a shot / And some

There are queer things only come to sailormen; /
They’re true, but they’re never understood;

of it may have been true

But the word they heard and never forgot / Was
the word of the wind that blew:
Oh! I am the enemy most of might, etc

The middy with luck is a Captain soon, / With
luck he may hear one day
His own big guns a-humming the tune /“Twas in
Trafalgar’s Bay.”

But wherever he goes, with friends or foes, / And
whatever may there befall.
He’ll hear for ever a voice he knows / For ever
defying them all:
Oh! I am the enemy most of might, etc
The Middle Watch

:

In a blue dusk the ship astern / Uplifts her golden
spars,

With golden lights that seem to burn / Among the
silver stars.

Like fleets along a cloudy shore / The
constellations creep,
Like planets on the ocean floor/ Our silent course
we keep.

And over the endless plain,
Out of the night forlom
Rises a faint refrain,
A song of the day to be born Watch! Oh watch, till ye find again

Life and the land of morn!

From a dim West to a dark East / Our lines
unwavering head,
As it their motion long had ceased / And Time
itself were dead,

Vainly we watch the deep below, / Vainly the void
above;

And I know one thing about the Admiral, / That I

can’t tall rightly as I should.
I’ve been with him when hope sank under us / He
hardly seems a mortal like the rest,
I could swear that he had stars upon his uniform, /
And one sleeve pinned across his breast.
Some day we’re bound to sight the enemy, / He’s
coming, though he hasn’t yet a name.

Keel to keel and gun to gun he’ll challenge us / To
meet him at the Great Armada game.

None knows what may Be the end of it, / But
we’ll all give our bodies and our souls
To see the little Admiral a-playing him / A rubber
of the old Long Bowls
Fare Well

Mother, with unbowed head/Hear thou across the
sea

The farewell of the dead, / The dead who died for
thee.

Greet them again with tender words and grave,
For, saving thee, themselves they could not save.
To keep the house unharmed / Their fathers built
so fair,
Deeming endurance armed / Better than brute
despair,
They found the secret of the word that saith

‘Service is sweet, for all true life is death.’
So greet thou well the dead across the homeless
sea,

And be thou comforted because they died for thee.
Far off they served, but now their deed is done
For ever more their life and thine are one.
Sir Henry Newbolt

They died a thousand years ago - / Life and the
land we love.

And over the endless plain, etc
The Little Admiral

Stand by to reckon up your battleships / Ten,
twenty, thirty, there they go.
Brag about you cruisers like Leviathans - / A
thousand man apiece down below.

But here’s just one little Admiral, / We’re all of us
his brothers and his sons

And he’s worth, O he’s worth at the very least /
Double all your tons and all your guns.
See them on the forebridge signalling - / A score
of men a-hauling hand to hand,

And the whole fleet flying like the wild geese /
Moved by some mysterious command.
Where’s the mighty will that shows the way to

SO INTERVALR,,

Symphony No.4 in E minor

a passacaglia, a form which in itself demands
variations and a fresh use of material. It is his
technical imaginativeness and superb control of

Brahms 1833 - 1897

Allegro non troppo

mood

Andante moderato

Practically all great composers avoid E minor, even

though it is an excellent key for strings, yet when
they do mount a symphonic structure upon this key
result

is

usually

acclaimed;

makes

seem

one

this

great

whole,

accumulative

rather

than

thirty

variations laid end to end. The passacaglia is based

Passacaglia (Allegro energico e passionate)

the

which

movement

Allegro giocoso

for instance,

Mabhler’s Seventh, Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, Dvorak’s
“From the New World”, Sibelius’s First and

Vaughan Williams’s Sixth. Although most people
agree that Brahms’s Fourth Symphony is one of his
greatest works, there is a wide difference of opinion

about the essential mood of the piece. Many find it

predominantly mournful, others interpret the same

on a theme borrowed from Bach, which comes
from Cantata No.50 “Nach dir Herr, verlanget
mich”.

To break up these variations is to destroy the unity

of the movement, which is what Brahms has been
careful not to do. Suffice it to say that the first eight

bars that the audience hears are repeated in one
form or another thirty times, with no bridge
passages.

It is

gigantic

movement,

interesting to note

Brahms

that, for this

introduces

trombones.

three

darkly strong music as not mournful, but defiant or

heroic.

Perhaps

something

this

which

difference

proceeds

from

of opinion
the

first

is

two

movements only. Certainly, the scherzo is a really

gay, if stunning, sound and the fourth movement a

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
Vernon Handley (President)
Jeremy Backhouse (Chorus Director)

most passionate set of variations.

Jeremy Filsell (Accompanist)

Brahms completed the work in 1885, and the first
performance in October of that year was
enthusiastically received. The first movement

The Guildford Philharmonic Choir was formed by

opens immediately with the statement of the
principal subject on the violins. Next, an important

theme introduced by the oboes, bassoons, clarinets

and horns. The second subject group opens with a
grand melody on horns and ’cellos and this finds
fulfilment in a statement by the flutes. The
development commences with a restatement of the

opening theme, and these same sounds give us the
beginning of the recapitulation, so to the listener

Guildford Borough in order to perform the major
choral repertoire with the Guildford Philharmonic

Orchestra. As well as performing well-known
choral works, the choir specializes in twentieth
century British music and this has led to recordings

of Gerald Finzi’s Intimations of Immortality with
the Guildford Philharmonic and Patrick Hadley’s
The Trees so High with the Philharmonia
Orchestra, both recordings being conducted by

Vernon Handley.

The

these sections are clearly marked and he can lose

Choir is conducted by some of the most
eminent musicians, and as well as giving frequent

the joins. The

other

himself within each one and not have to try to spot
second movement continues the

same mood of the first movement, and although an

atmosphere of resigned peace is the predominant
one, the constant overlapping of themes as is in the

first movement gives an impression of a mind
searching. This search finds a most beautiful
melody

on

the

’cellos

and,

having

found

this

melody, Brahms cannot leave it. It is eventually
stated in an impassioned tone by the strings alone.

The third movement is a straightforward sonata and

is held by many to be the only true scherzo that
Brahms ever wrote. Perhaps the musical terms
convey better than English what this movement is

about: giocoso it is, with a grazioso tune for the
first violins, staccato moments for the full orchestra
and a trionfale ending. The fourth movement is one
of the most interesting in all symphonic movements

for a composer who had inherited so much
classicism as Brahms. The idea of a free form
movement like a set of variations would be shirking

his symphonic responsibilities. It is astonishing that
Brahms should attempt to sum up a symphony with

concerts in Guildford, the Choir occasionally visits

British cities. In 1988 the Guildford
Philharmonic Choir visited Paris, in 1990 joined
forces with the Freiburger BachChor in Freiburg

Munster

and

in

November

1993

gave

an

outstanding performance of Brittens War also with

the Freiburger BachChor under Requiem Neville
Seventy-five members of the Freiburger
Bachchor joined the Guildford Philharmonic Choir
Creed.

on the 2nd March for a momentous performance of
Stabat Mater by Dvorak in Guildford Cathedral.

The Choir makes its final appearance of the season

at the Cathedral on the 4th May with a performance
of Verdi’s Requiem.

Jeremy Backhouse was appointed Chorus Director
in January last year, succeeding Neville Creed who

held the post for seven years.

s

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR
1995-6

SOPRANOS

ALTOS

TENORS

Jacqueline Alderton

Sally Bailey

Adrian Buxton

Kathleen Aldridge

Iris Ball

Bob Cowell

Olivia Ames-Lewis

Evelyn Beastall

Leslie Harfield

Noreen Ayton

Iris Bennett

Nick Lamb

Louise Barnfield

Jane Brooks

Peter Lemmon

Penny Baxter

Jean Brown

Andrew Reid

Elaine Chapman

Barbara Buck

Chris Robinson

Andrea Dombrowe

Juliet Butler

John Trigg

Rachel Edmondson

Amanda Clayton

Maggie van Koetsveld

Suzanne Forbes

Mary Clayton

Jeni Younq

Angela Hand

Valerie Edwards

Sheila Hendy

Celia Embleton

Susan Hinton

Mandy Freeman

Shelagh Jeffreys

Rebecca Greenwood

Peter Andrews

Nora Kennea

Ingrid Hardiman

Roger Barrett

Judith Lewy

Pamela Harman

Michael Bradbeer

Margaret Mackie

Lucy Hatcher

John Britten

Elizabeth McCracken

Carol Hobbs

Catherine McEvoy

Norman Carpenter

Sheila Hodson

Walter Chattaway

BASSES

Vanessa Mumford

Joy Hunter

Jacqueline Norman

Neil Clayton

Lyn Jackson

Rodney Cuff
Michael Dawe

Susan Norton

Helen Lavin

Robin Onslow

Kay McManus

Penny Overton

Elisabeth Martin

Alison Palmer

Christine Medlow

Margaret Parry

Mary Moon

Vivienne Parsons

Brenda Moore

Vicky Payne

Nikki Paiae

Jessica Pires

Anne Philps

Rosalind Plowright

Susan Pope

Erin Polster

Clare Ranger

Susan Ranft

Lesley Scordellis

Gillian Rix

Catherine Shacklady

Joan Robinson

Gillian Sharpe

Judith Rossetti

Judy A.Smith

Maureen Shortland

Prue Smith

Judy Smith

Rosemary Smith

Kathy Stickland

Hilary Trigg

Carol Terry

Miriam Walsh

Enid Weston

Janice Wicker

Christine Wilks

June Windle

Barbara Williams

Maralyn Wong

Simon Doran

Michael Dudley
Terence Ellis
Geoffrey Forster
Michael Golden

Nick Gough
Peter Herbert
Laurie James

Michael Jeffery
Stephen Jepson

Michael Longford

Anthony Macklow-Smith
Maxwell New
Barry Norman

John Parry

Nigel Pollock
David Ross

John Schlotel
Philip Stanford

Elisabeth Willis

Keith Torbet

Lucinda Wilson

Andrew Whitehouse

Frances Worpe

Ralph Whitehouse

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC
EN SHAO - Principal Conductor

First Violins:

Cellos:

David Clack

John Ludlow — Leader

Douglas Cummings

Maurice Brett

John Stilwell

Tony Catterick

Christina Macrae

Phillip Augar
Sheila Beckensall
Avril Maclennan

John Hursey

Trumpets:

John Kirby

Andrew Mitchell

Nicholas Boothroyd

Rachel Maisey

Ian Burdge

Linda McLaren

Peter Widgery

Basses:

Patricia Reid
John Pickles

Michael Lea

Trombones:

John Parsons

Maurice Neall

Ian White

Colin Staveley

Martin Myers

Malcolm Frammingham

Alex Suttie

Paul Moore

Peter Newman

Rosemary Van Der Werff

Flutes:

Second Violins:
Nicholas Maxted Jones
Rosemary Roberts
Carl Beddow

Timothy Callaghan
Ruth Dawson
Peter Hembrough
Ruth Knell
Alan Merrick

Violas:
John Meek

Tuba:

Stephen Wick

Piccolo:

Victoria Walpole

Julia Brocklehurst

Timpani:
Richard Benafield
Percussion:

Juliet Lewis

Christopher Nall

Cor Anglais:

Charles Fullbrook

Christopher Hooker

Steven Lees

Clarinets:

Robert Kendall

Hale Hambleton

Colin Courtney
Bass clarinet:
Paul Allen
Bassoon:

John Graham

Maria Meeley

Justin Ward

Anna Meadows

Anne Rycroft

Contra bassoon:

Jean Burt

Timothy Mallett

Paul Appleyard

Martin Nicholss

Anna Noakes

Oboes:

Andrew Bernardi

Bass Trombone:

Alexa Turpin

Simon Hunt

Catherine Belton

David Giardino

Steven Rossell

Horns:

Harp:
Helen Tunstall

General Manager:
Kathleen Atkins

Music Administrator:
Peter Holt

Projects Consultant (SEMT):
Nick Bomford

Karen Demmel

Chris Newport

Secretary:

Bob Winquist

George Woodcock

Shirley Ewen

The audience may be interested to know that the violin sections are listed in alphabetical order after the first

desk because a system of rotation of desks is adopted in this, orchestra so that all players

have the opportunity, of playing in all positions in the section
For further information contact:
GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA, MILLMEAD HOUSE, MILLMEAD, GUILDFORD GU2 5BB

Tel: (01483) 444666

Sunday 21 April 1996 at 3.00pm
Civic Hall, Guildford
Haydn

Overture to ‘La Fedelta Premiata’

Symphony No.6. (The House of the Devil)

Boccherini

Mozart

Horn Concerto No.3.

Handel

Concerto Grosso Op 3 No.2.

Mozart

Concert Rondo
Symphony No.34.

Mozart
Horn

Sarah Willis

Conductor

Robert King

Tickets: £11.50., £10.50., £9.50.,

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Saturday 4 May 1996 at 7.30.pm
Guildford Cathedral
Verdi

Requiem
Regina Nathan

Soprano

Kathleen McKellar Ferguson
John Daszak

7Tenor

Paul Whelan

Bass

Alfo

Guildford Philharmonic Choir
Conductor
Grant Llewellyn

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Saturday 11 May 1996 at 7.30.pm
St John’s, Smith Square, London SW1
Vasari Singers

Guildford Philharmonic

Jeremy Backhouse

Conductor

Soprano
Marilyn Hill Smith
Soprano
Tansy
Katy
Tenor
Simon Berridge

Stephen Charlesworth

Tavener

Bass

Gorecki

Totus Tuus

Howells

Requiem

Hymns to the Mother of God

Mozart

Mass in C Minor

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