DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS PERFORMANCE PORTFOLIO ...

PROJECT FOUR - PUBLIC CONCERT
On 4 May 2005 the Coldstream Guards Band, conducted by their Director of
Music Major Graham Jones MBE, gave a public concert at the University of Salford in
partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts.
The concert was presented as a lecture recital tracing the development of wind band
music from the formation of the Regiment in 1650 to the present day. One reviewer
likened the presentation of the concert to that of Benjamin Brittan's Young Persons
Guide to the Orchestra. '
The programme consisted of a musical journey through time introducing the
various developments of the band and its music alongside the social and economic
development of the country.
Musically the band needed to break itself down to its first ever instrumentation
of two clarinets, two natural horns and a bassoon. From there the band grew to twelve
with the inclusion of a serpent loaned to the band by the Royal Military School of
Music Museum, Twickenham. Eventually the band was reformed into today's
instrumentation
for the world premiere performance of Peter Graham's Winds of
Time, which started as a vortex travelling back to the 1790's and performance of
Figaro. The work then travelled forward in time through the Napoleonic Wars;
Lugubre March. Later a touch of the 1812 Overture can be heard giving reference to
the Coldstream Officer who first brought the score to London. The work concludes
with a reference to Gustav Holst's, Suite in Eb and a development through
minimalism before returning via a vortex effect to the present day.
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review. 10' May 2005. (see appendix VIII: B: 1).
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