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WILLARD WHITE, Bass/baritone
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Orchestra,

Future concerts include

Saturday 12 June 1993 at the Chapel of King
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organ fund.

Conductor Peter Wright, piano

Jeremy Filsell.

Saturday

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1993

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Saturday 26 February 1994 St John’s Passion by
Bach at Holy Trinity Church, Guildford.
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WILLIARD WHITE

Bass Baritone
Willard White’s consummate vocal and dramatic skills
combine to make him one of today’s most exceptional
lyric artists.
His outstanding repertory includes the title-role in

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Wotan in Der Ring des Nibelungen and he is a regular

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Chorus Master: Neville Creed
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Guildford Borough in order to perform the major
choral repertoire with the Guildford Philharmonic

Orchestra. As well as performing well-known choral
works,

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choir specializes

in

twentieth

century

British music and this has led to recordings of Gerald
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Philharmonic Orchestra and Patrick Hadley’s ‘The
Trees So High’ with the Philharmonia Orchestra’ both
recordings being conducted by Vernon Handley.
The choir is conducted by some of the most eminent
musicians, and as well as giving frequent concerts in

Guildford, the choir occasionally visits other British
cities.

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1988

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Paris

the

and

in

Guildford

Philharmonic

1990 joined

Choir

forces with

the

Freiburger Bach Choir in Freiburg Munster.
The Choir is trained by Neville Creed, who was
appointed Chorus Master in 1987 and he is assisted by
Peter White. Jeremy Filsell is the Choir’s accompanist.

The choir’s future plans include a summer concert in

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visit to Freiburg.

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The Royal Opera next season. He has recorded the
role twice; with Lorin Maazel for Decca and with
Simon

Rattle for EMI,

a release which won the

Gramophone Opera of the Year award. Other
important roles include Leporello for Scottish Opera
and in Geneva, Boris in Shostakovich’s Lady Macbeth

of the Mtsensk District for English National Opera and
in

Amsterdam.

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in

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Francisco as Golaud in 1994.
Willard White makes frequent appearances on the
concert platform and on record and highlights include

the opening night at the Proms in Dream of Gerontius
under Andrew Davis, Paul McCartney’s Liverpool
Oratorio in London, New York and Tokyo, Copland’s

Old American Songs for Chandos, and the Mozart
Requiem for EMI with Franz Welser-Most.
In 1989 Willard White took the unusual step of playing

Shakespeare’s Othello with the Royal Shakespeare

Further details about the choir may be obtained from:
Kathleen

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Company in Stratford and in the West End and his
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Symphony No. 6 in B minor
(Pathetique)

Tchaikovsky 1840 — 1893
Adagio — Allegro non troppo

Allegro con grazia
Allegro molto vivace
Adagio lamento — Andante

The title of Tchaikovsky’s Pathetic Symphony, which
was written during the first half of 1893, was given it
after its first performance. It was composed during a
period of great mental tranquillity on the part of
Tchaikovsky. In his brother’s words, it was “an act of
exorcism whereby he cast out all the dark spirits that
had possessed him in the preceding years”.
Tchaikovsky never published a programme to the
music, but he allowed it to be known that he intended
to express certain personal emotions in the music
which he was unable to put into words. In a letter to a

friend, dated 23 February, 1893, Tchaikovsky said:
“On my way to Paris last December the idea for a new
symphony came to me, this time a symphony with a
programme, but a programme that will remain an
enigma to all.”

A Gulbenkian scholar at the Guildhall School of Music
and Drama in London, Brian went on to further his
studies in Munich and with Jascha Horenstein. In the
mid-70’s he won 2nd prizes in the Rupert Foundation
and Guido Cantelli Conducting competitions in
London and Milan, later assisting Andre Previn and
the LSO.

Winning great praise for his conducting of Berlioz and
Liszt at the “Proms” he followed this with tours of
Switzerland and Belgium with the BBC Symphony
Orchestra. In 1988, Brian conducted the BBCSO in
BBCTV’s acclaimed presentation of Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella” with the Ballet Rambert.

Brian has an exceptionally wide repertoire embracing
all aspects of orchestral and choral music. He has

conducted premieres of Robert Simpson (7th
Symphony-Royal Liverpool Philharmonic), Wilfred
Josephs and Havergal Brian Symphonies (BBC), UK
premieres of Lutoslawski and Penderecki and the first
“complete” performance of Wilhelm Furtwangler’s
3rd Symphony with the BBCSO.

In addition to his conducting, Brian is an avid broadcaster, regularly presenting the “Mainly for Pleasure”
programme on BBC Radio 3. He is also co-director of
the internationally well-known conducting course at
Canford Summer School of Music.
Brian Wright has conducted the Guildford Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra on many previous
occasions. He will appear again as guest conductor on
28 March with Frederick Kempf (BBC Young Musican
of the year 1992).

We are grateful to Brian Wright for undertaking
tonight’s concert which was to have been conducted by
the late Sir Charles Groves, the orchestra’s Principal
Conductor from 1986-1992.

However, in 1937, amongst Tchaikovsky’s papers at
his old home at Klin, a sheaf of music paper was

discovered with the following notes scribbled in pencil:
“The ultimate essence of the plan of the symphony is
Life. First part — all impulsive passion, confidence,
thirst for ac???ity. Must be short (Finale Death —result
of -collapse). Second part Love; third, disappointments; fourth ends dying away (also short)”. Professor
Gerald Abraham, in his book “On Russian Music”,
points out that this Russian draft does not quite agree
with the final version of the symphony, “but we can
hardly doubt that it is the embryonic plan of it, and that
this is the solution of the enigma.”

The first movement has two main themes; the
treatment of which alternates. Certainly, the first is
impulsive and passionate, but the second is a typically
expansive Tchaikovsky tune, surely a relative of the
one in the Romeo and Juliet Overture, and seems to be
a temporary oasis from the strivings of the first subject.
The second movement, written entirely in five-four
time, is idyllic and tender love, but never touches on
the stormier aspects of that condition. The third
movement, probably the most popular of all
Tchaikovsky’s symphonic movements, is a March and,
if disappointment was the basis of this movement,
surely in expressing it Tchaikovsky came nearer to
giving a picture of defiance and independence than of
the frustration of disappointment. The finale is every
bit as tragic as he intended it to be. The orchestra gives
a clear picture of sorrowful resignation. Despite the
tragic ending, the symphony has always been one of
the composer’s most popular works.

In his biography of his brother, Modeste Tchaikovsky
tells us that on the morning after the first performance
of the symphony, he suggested to Tchaikovsky that it
should be called the “Tragic Symphony”. ‘I left the
room before Peter had come to a decision. Suddenly,
the title “Pathetic” occurred to me. I went back into
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the room — I remember it all as clearly as if it had
happened yesterday — and told Peter of my idea.
Splendid, Modi, Bravo. Pathetic, he cried. And in my

presence he wrote down the title it has born ever since.’

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For they that wasted us

Required of us mirth;
They that carried us away captive

Required of us a song.
Sing us one of the songs of Zion.
How long shall we sing the Lord’s song
In strangle land?

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If I forget thee, O Jerusalem
Let my right hand forget her cunning.

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If I do not remember thee,
Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth.
Yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.

By the waters of Babylon
There we sat down: yea, we wept.

O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed,
Happy shall he be that taketh thy children

Belshazzar’s Feast
Walton 1902 - 1983

Belshazzar’s Feast, Walton’s Oratorio, with its text
the Bible selected and arranged by Osbert
Sitwell, is one of the outstanding landmarks in English
music of this century. Just as Holst’s “Hymn of Jesus”
took an entirely original view of religious musical

from

utterance, so did Walton in his conception of biblical
oratorio. The music was composed between 1929 and

1931, and probably because of its almost unrelieved

vitality, it sometimes gives the impression of being
brilliant but superficial in its setting of the story of the

writing on the wall. A careful examination of Walton’s
means,

however,

work.

reveals searching imagination at

The music is scored for double mixed choir, baritone

solo, a very large orchestra, including an array of

percussion, and two brass ensembles placed to the

right and left of the conductor. First comes a trombone

flourish

and Isaiah’s prophesy, sung in harsh
dissonance by the male voices. Next the Exiles’

lament: “By the waters of Babylon”. In the midst of

And dasheth them against a stone,
For with violence shall that great city of Babylon be
thrown down

And shall be found no more at all.
Babylon was a great city,
Her merchandise was of gold and silver,

Of precious stones, of pearls, of fine linen,

Of purple, silk and scarlet,
All manner vessels of ivory,
All manner vessels of most precious wood,
Of brass, iron and marble,
Cinnamon, odours and ointments,
Of frankincense, wine and oil,
Fine flour, wheat and beasts,

Sheep, horses, chariots, slaves
And the souls of men.
In Babylon

Belshazzar the King

Made a great feast.
Made a feast to a thousand of his lords.
And drank wine before the thousand.

their

lament, they state their confidence in the
overthrow of Babylon. The baritone soloist in unac-

Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine,
Commanded us to bring the gold and silver vessels:

companied recitative paints a picture of glorious
Babylon, and the choir and orchestra describe the feast
itself. Then the soloist describes in sinister music the

Yea! the golden vessels, which his father, Nebuchad-

appearance of the writing on the wall, and with one of

the boldest moves in all the literature of music,
Belshazzar, “weighed in the balance and found
wanting” by the men’s voices, is “slain” by the whole
choir. The last section is a mighty hymn of praise,

ecstatic Alleluias and the joy of liberation alternating
to bring the work to a triumphant close.

Thus spake Isaiah:
Thy sons that thou shalt beget
They shall be taken away,
And be eunuchs

In the palace of the King of Babylon
Howl ye, howl ye, therefore:
For the day of the Lord is at hand!

nezzar,

Had taken out of the temple that was in Jerusalem.

He commanded us to bring the golden vessels

Of the temple of the house of God.
That the King, his Princes, his wives
And his concubines might drink therein.

Then the King commanded us:

Bring ye the cornet, flute, sackbut, psaltery

And all kinds of music: they drank wine again.

Yea, drank from the sacred vessels,

And then spake the King:
Praise ye
The God of Gold
Praise ye

The God of Silver

By the waters of Babylon,

Praise ye

By the waters of Babylon
There we sat down: yea, we wept

The God of Iron
Praise ye

And hanged our harps upon the willows.

The God of Wood

Praise ye

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The God of Stone
Praise ye
The God of Brass
Praise ye the Gods!

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Thus in Babylon, the mighty city,

tion group. It was founded primarily to encourage both

Belshazzar the King made a great feast.

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and to enjoy, the Orchestra’s season of concerts in the

Made a feast to a thousand of his lords
And drank wine before the thousand.

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Belshazzar whiles he tasted the wine
Commanded us to bring the gold and silver vessels

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That his Princes, his wives and his concubines

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Might rejoice and drink therein.

After they had praised their strange gods,

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False gods who can neither see nor hear.
Called they for the timbrel and the pleasant harp
To extol the glory of the King.
Then they pledged the King before the people.

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Crying, Thou, O King, art of King of Kings

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O King, live for ever.....

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And in that same hour, as they feasted

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And the King saw

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In that night was Belshazzar the King slain

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Then sing aloud to God our strength:
Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
Take a psalm, bring hither the timbrel.
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon.
Blow up the trumpet in Zion
For Babylon the Great is fallen, fallen.

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Alleluia!

Then sing aloud to God our strength:

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Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
While the Kings of the Earth lament
And the merchants of the Earth

Following the death of Sir Charles Groves last year, a

Weep, wail and rend their raiment.

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They cry. Alas, alas, that great city.

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In one hour is her judgement come.

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The trumpeters and pipers are silent.
And the harpers have ceased to harp,

And the light of a candle shall shine no more.
Then sing aloud to God our strength.

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Make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
For Babylon the Great is fallen.
Alleluia!

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F. Richardson

E. A. Bosley

E. Beastal

1. Bennett

L. Haugh

S. Donaldson
C. Hobbs

J. Brooks
L. Searle
P. Charlwood

S. Hodson

M. Freeman

C. Edwards

B. Moore

GUILDFORD CHAMBER CHOIR

J. Munro

C. Sinclair
P. Harman

Sopranos: Sheila Blow, Susan Bond, Liz Coupe, Linda Glass,

A. Philps

Janet Yendole.

M. Moon

P. Smith

P. Usher

Ella

Duval, Ann Fuller, Margaret
Katharine Medlow, Margaret Vine.

Hennessey

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Altos: Kate Avery, Shenka Christmas, Tessa Forbes, Chris

Movely.

Solveig Harris, Alice Phillips, Diana Thrush, Neil Worsey.
Tenors: Sandy Kellagher, Peter Martin, Guy Wilson.

Michael Clarke, Tim Woodford, Bryan Yendole.
Basses: James Godwin, Simon Phillips,

James Allen, Andrew Prior,

John Thompson.

James Vine.

R. Smith

E. Snell

J. Whitehouse

J. Frampton

B. Wood
First Tenors

C. Blatchford

C. Robinson

B. Cowell

J. Trigg

M. van Koetsveld

D. Wilkinson

P. Lemmon

J. Young

E. Lyon

A. Reid

C. Morris

A. Ross

Second Tenors

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC CHOIR

L. Harfield

G. Forster

N. Lamb

G. Fordham

First Sopranos

L. Barnfield

A. Buxton

J. Radley

J. Bradshaw

S. Ranfit

M. Broughton

J. Robinson

E. Chapman

J. Smith

J. Hakim

M. Sprott

S. Maddox

E. Weston

E. McCracken

S. Longo

M. Mylchreest

E. Willis

S. Norton

F. Worpe

R. Onslow

L. Compton

Second Sopranos

J. Alderton

G. Rix

K. Aldridge

M. Shortland

P. Baxter

K. Stickland

S. Bevan

M. Strivens

M. Brown

D. Smith

M. Dare

C. Wilks

S. Hendy

T. Wilkinson

S. Hinton

A. Hand

R. Horton

O. Ames-Lewis

N. Kennea

L. Wilson

J. Lewy

P. Walker

R. Plowright

P. Smith

First Basses

N. Carpenter

N. Martin

W. Chattaway

P. Pearce

N. Clayton

R. Penny

M. Dawe

D. Ross

M. Dudley

J. Schlotel

V. Escribano

P. Stanford

L. James

D. Walden

S. Jepson

A. Whitehouse

S. Lyon
M. Longford

R. Whitehouse

Second Basses
M. Allen

M. Jeffrey

P. Andrews

M. New

M. Bradbeer

J. Parry

J. Britten

N. Pollock

H. Carew

D. Hardy

R. Cuff

R. Barrett

P. Herbert

GUILDFORD PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA

First Violins:
Hugh Bean
John Ludlow
Kathy Adams
Phillip Augar

Sheila Beckensall
John J Davies
Patricia Lovell
Avril MacLennan
Peter Newman
Alex Suttie

Rosemary Van Der Werff

Paul Sherman
Maurice Neal
Martin Myers
Peter Box
Paul Moore
Roger Linley

Off-stage Trumpets:
Julian Brewer
William Stokes
Robert Nicholas
Anne McAneney
Simon Ferguson
John Pickles

Flutes:

Trombones:

Kate Hill
Jane Koster

Ian White
Arthur Wilson
Michael Crowther

Basses:

Piccolo:

Julia Watkins

Simon Hunt

Second Violins:

Oboes:
James Brown
Janice Knight

Nicholas Maxted Jones
Rosemary Roberts
Julia Atkinson
David Burton

Timothy Callaghan
Ruth Dawson

Peter Hembrough
Christopher Horner
Rachel Ives

Ruth Knell
Adrienne Sturdy
Philip Winter
Violas:

John Meek
John Graham
John Jezard
Christopher Cochrane
Jean Burt

Robert Winquist
Karen Demmel
Michael Newman
Cellos:

Peter Esswood
John Stilwell
Christina Macrae
John Hursey
John Franca
John Kirby
Naomi Zoob

Bass Trombone:

Martin Nicholls
Tuba:

John Elliott

Clarinets:

Timpani:

Hale Hambleton
Victor Slaymark

Roger Blair

Eb Clarinet:

Christopher Nall
Keith Bartlett

Victor Slaymark
Bass Clarinet:
Paul Allen
Alto Saxophone:

Christopher Gradwell
Bassoons:

Nicholas Hunka
Anna Meadows
Contra Bassoon:
Timothy Mallett
Horns:

Peter Clack

George Woodcock
David Clack

Percussion:

Christopher Blundell
Christopher Hind
Harps:

Karen Vaughan
Charlotte Seale
General Manager:
Kathleen Atkins
Music Administrator:
Peter Holt

Concerts Assistant (SEMT):
Linda Mowat

Secretary:
Shirley Ewen

Lyn Evans

Philip Thorne
On-stage Trumpets:

Alister Mackie
Patricia Reid
John Hammonds
William O’Sullivan

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.

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