The Leyland Band 2017 Matinee Concert Series begins with a varied romantic program featuring the band and the renowned University of Central Lancashire Chamber Choir.

 

The 2016 Matinee Series was the most successful to date, and 2017 boasts another great line up of concerts and guests, beginning with the Chamber Choir, and concerts featuring The Red Admiral Music Academy and the Lancashire Youth Band confirmed for later in the year.

UCLan Chamber Choir

The award-winning UCLan Chamber Choir was formed in 2005 with sixteen members. This was increased to twenty-eight in 2009. All the singers are BA (Hons) Music Theatre undergraduate students whose main passion is singing. The choir has a wide and varied repertoire that includes music from the Renaissance to the present day, as well as a range of styles from Classical to Swing. In 2009 the choir won the Good Housekeeping Choir of the Year and in 2010 won the adult category final in this competition, at Birmingham Symphony Hall.

The choir has been on an annual tour to the South West of France, stretching back to 2007, and in 2010 represented the University by singing at its partner institution, the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, in China.

Leyland Band are proud of our long standing association with the University and delighted the choir are able to join us in concert.

Pageantry in the Program

Leyland Band musical director Thomas Wyss has chosen a varied program with some clear and not so obvious, but nonetheless romantic connections.

The most challenging item is “Pageantry”, an original piece for band by Herbert Howells which depicts a romantic age of the knights of old. In three movements, “King’s Herald”, “Cortege” and “Jousts”, the piece invokes images of knights and maids, pathos and heroism, presented in its entirety to finish the first half. Leyland’s 1980’s BBC Radio 3 recording of “Pageantry” in a program also featuring the ground breaking work “Songs Of The Aristos” for band and magnetic tape – what could be more romantic than that! – was rewarded with the title of BBC Band of the Year.

	Cortege from Mlada	Rimsky Korsakov
	The Magic Flute	W A Mozart
	Slavische Fantasy	Hohne
	UCLan Chamber Choir
	Pageantry	Howells
interval
	Toccata	J S Bach
	Love’s Enchantment	A Pryor
	Cornet Carillon	R Binge
	Can’t Take My Eyes Off You	Viali
	UCLan Chamber Choir
	Ring, Ring	B Ulvaeus
	Love Changes Everything	A Lloyd-Webber

Full dates for the 2017 Matinee Concert Series:-

Matinee 1 – 12th February 2017           Romance In Brass with the UCLan Chamber Choir

Matinee 2 – 14th May 2017                    With guests Lancashire Youth Brass Band

Matinee 3 – 24th September 2017        With guests The Red Admiral Music Academy

Matinee 4 – 3rd December 2017           Festive Brass