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Lanarkshire Guitar and Mandolin Association is a recognised
Scottish Charity No. 032550
Registered address:
1 Fraser Crescent,
Hamilton ML3 8LG
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Orchestra Music
Da Capo Alba, the orchestral section of the Lanarkshire Guitar and
Mandolin Association performs in concerts throughout Scotland.
The Repertoire - Some Examples
Our programme is quite eclectic, in the hope that everyone in the audience will
find something which they really enjoy.
Our current repertoire includes:
- Music of the 18th Century:
- Voluntary - William Boyce
Boyce is one of the most English important composers of the 18th Century.
We feel that this arrangement as a piece of orchestra with two solo mandolins works very well.
- Concerto All' Unisono - Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco
An Italian composer and violinist, dall'Abaco launched his musical career as a violinist with Tommaso Antonio Vitali in Modena,
and in 1704 he joined the court of Maximilian II Emanuel, elector of Bavaria as Kammermusiker.
Abaco was only a few months in Munich, when he was forced to flee with the court to Brussels,
following Maximilian's defeat at the Battle of Blenheim. On Maximilian's restoration and return
to Munich, in 1715, dall'Abaco was appointed Concert-meister. He continued to compose chamber
music at the French and Dutch courts until 1740 when he retired.
Dall'Abaco's music is especially indebted to Vivaldi and Corelli. However, when he went into exile
with the Munich court, he spent time in France and absorbed some of the influences there.
- Music of the 19th Century:
- Peer Gynt Suite: Morning, Anitra's Dance - Edvard Greig
Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843 - 1907) was a Norwegian composer and pianist in the
romantic period. We currently play two pieces from his famous Peer Gynt Suite. "Morning Mood" is evocative
of the rising of the sun. Contrary to popular belief, it was not meant to depict a sunrise over the
Norwegian fjords, but over the Sahara Desert.
- Folk Music from around the World:
- Cordillera
- El Humahuaqueno - Carnevalito
"Humahuaqueno" is the name for an inhabitant of Humahuaca, Argentina. El Humahuaqueno
is a very colorful song written in the form of an Argentine folk dance.
- Pascua Linda - Huayno
A traditional Bolivian song.
- Takirari
Traditional
- Set of Irish Tunes: The Roscommon Suite - Turlough O'Carolan
- Frank Palmer
- Morgan Magan
- O'Carolans Dream
- Sir Festus Burke
- Bridget Cruise
- The O'Rourke's Feast
- Italian:
- Music for Play - Claudio Mandonico
Entrata, Canzone and Ritmico are the three movements of this piece.
Some examples from previous programmes:
- Music of the 18th Century:
- Trumpet Tune - Jeremiah Clarke
- Die Ballade von Uri
Waltz of the lost dreams - Manos Hadjidakis
- Prelude to Te Deum - Marc-Antoine Charpentier
We often played this well known piece at the very beginning of our concerts.
The joyous mood would set the tone for an enjoyable evening.
- Symphony in F - Carl Friedrich Schwindl
This beautiful piece by Schwindl (1737-86) consists of three movements.
The first marked Allegro is written in sonata
form with all its characteristic parts. The second movement is slow and
cantabile, the third again fast. For the
audience, it is an interesting piece to listen to, and for the orchestra,
a piece from which to learn the fundamentals of
the music from classical times.
- Folk Music from around the World:
- Suite nach japanischen Kinderliedern - Oske Ito
This piece is based on Japanese children's songs. Varied sound colours and
dynamics give the listener a unique musical experience.
- Planxty O'Carolan - Bruno Szordikowski
This is an arrangement of six Irish tunes that will be sure to set your toes
tapping! The arranger, Bruno Szordikowski
is a classical guitar composer and guitar teacher at the Mãlheim school
of music in Germany.
Turlough O'Carolan (Toirdhealbhach ó' Cearbhalláin)
was born in 1670 in County Meath and became one of the last Irish harpers who composed,
and a significant number of his works survive in single line melody. O'Carolan's
fame was not due to his skill with the harp (having started at 18), but to his gift for composition and verse.
Around the age of 18 O'Carolan was blinded by smallpox. Even before his illness, O'Carolan had shown talent
for poetry. He studied for three years, at the end of which his father's employer gave him a harp, a horse and some
money to begin his career as an itinerant harper. For forty-five years O'Carolan would travel throughout Ireland
composing tunes (planxties) for his patrons, usually composing on his journeys. He travelled widely throughout
Ireland.
- Set of Scottish Tunes
We arranged this piece to play at the 2006
Eurofestival Zupfmusik in Bamberg. It consists of both
"old" and "new" traditional
tunes. The orchestra is supported by a whistle and a concertina.
The following tunes are part of the set:
- Lord Lovat's Lament
- Duke of Perth
- The Kings
- Tha mi Sgith
- Cutting Bracken
- Drummond Castle
- Farewell to Whiskey (Neil Gow)
- The Hut on Staffin Island (Phil Cunningham)
- Spootiskerry (Ian Burns)
- Willafjord
- The High Road to Linton
- Lambada
Lambada is a dance whose steps and moves are a fusion of salsa, merengue, tango and zouk. Lambada dancing
came to Europe from Brazil, made famous by the group Kaoma with their 1989 hit Lambada.
The word "lambada" is an obscure Brazilian Portuguese word, and refers to the wave like motion induced in a
whip. This flowing wave motion is reproduced by the dancers' bodies and is one of the things that distinguishes
lambada from other dances.
- Contemporary:
- Heavy Metal Peppi - Otto Jezek
After studying guitar and music, Otto Jezek (born 11th November 1967 in Vienna) had his
first work published in 1995, and recorded a CD "Danza Latina" the following year.
In the subsequent years he won several composition prizes. The Heavy Metal
Peppi uses musical ideas and idioms typically found in heavy metal music.
- Popular Music of the 20th Century:
- I Ain't Got Nobody - Thomas "Fats" Waller/Andy Razaf (arr. Calum Harbison)
- My Fate is In Your Hands - Roger Graham/Spencer Williams (arr. Calum Harbison)
These are adaptations from the original piano versions.
Calum Harbison, one of our mandola players, arranged these two bouncy tunes for the orchestra.
Thomas "Fats" Waller was born in 1904 in New York City and died in Kansas City,
Missouri, 1943. He was a celebrated jazz pianist, organist and composer. His hundreds of
recordings encompass ragtime, boogie woogie, dixieland and swing. His
appearances on radio and in several motion pictures (notably Stormy Weather, 1943) brought
Waller's talents to a wide audience.
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