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Friday 11
December 7.30pm Royal Philharmonic
Orchestra - 'Christmas Celebration with Carl Davis' Back by popular demand, composer and conductor Carl Davis returns
to Fairfield this Christmas to direct this wonderful celebration of seasonal music. Get into the festive spirit with
all your Yuletide favourites and join in with a sing-along carols for all.
CARL DAVIS - CONDUCTOR Carl Davis believes
that all music has an important place in the world. This is reflected in the diversification
of his concert programming. Whether conducting
or composing music for feature films, television, silent films, ballets and musicals as well as an Oratorio - his versatility
is extraordinary. Born in Carl Davis is known
for many radio and television themes, such as the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice which
is still received with great acclaim all over the world and the second series will air on BBC 1 during December 2009. Other programmes include: The Snow Goose, The World At War, Carl Davis’s
feature film scores include The French Lieutenant's Woman, Champions, Scandal, Ken Russell's The Rainbow, Widow’s Peak, Mike Leigh’s Topsy Turvy and The Book of Eve. He has composed a
unique series of scores for restored prints of ‘The Silents’ originally commissioned by Channel Four in 1980,
beginning with the epic 5 ½ hour Napoleon.
Carl Davis’s
association with the London Philharmonic Orchestra has led to regular presentations of these classic films from the Silent
era, including Ben Hur, Flesh and the Devil,
Old Chaplin’s “Mutuals”
(12 short films) are considered to be amongst his best works. Carl Davis has written and recorded the music to all twelve
which are available on two DVDs.
Composing music for
dance is Carl Davis’s particular love. His principal works include A Simple Man (released on DVD); A Christmas Carol for the Northern
Ballet Theatre (DVD available) and Alice
in Wonderland for the English National Ballet. In 1999, Scottish Ballet commissioned
Carl to compose the music for Aladdin which was subsequently recorded and released
on CD in October 2006. David Bintley (Artistic Director of Birmingham Royal Ballet)
has reworked the ballet which premiered in November 2008 in Over the year, Carl
has recorded many albums with several orchestras. Taking all of the above into account,
there is little wonder that Carl is often referred to as the ‘Flamboyant Genius’!
Mary
Carewe’s versatility ranges from musical theatre showstoppers and cabaret songs to contemporary music. She has performed under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, John
Rutter and Charles Hazlewood. Her now long-established artistic relationship with Carl Davis has led her to sing both ‘James
Bond’ and ‘Oscar Winners’ programmes with the main British orchestras, the Orchestre Philharmonique
du Luxembourg, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra,
the Queensland Orchestra, the Czech National Symphony Orchestra and, in the United States, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra,
Jacksonville Symphony and the New York Pops with whom she made her debut at the Carnegie Hall in New York. Future plans include a tour of Mary Carewe has also appeared with the Ulster
Orchestra, the Odense Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester, the Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra,
the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, and
the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, As a recitalist, Mary frequently performs Serious Cabaret concerts with her pianist Philip
Mayers, and has appeared at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Alicante Contemporary Music
Festival, the Aldeburgh Festival, Djanogly
Hall, Festival de l’Ile de France, the Louisiana Music Series, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Opera Butxaca, Cadogan
Hall and Maison de Radio-France. Mary has also appeared at the Berlin Philharmonie with Ensemble Oriol and at the Cheltenham
Festival with the Matrix Ensemble. She sang ‘Anna I’ in Kurt Weill’s
Die sieben Todsünden as part of the 2008 Festival Semana de Música Religiosa de Cuenca and at the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao,
Spain, and performed Schönberg’s Pierrot Lunaire in Berlin and at the Cadogan Hall in London. In January 2009 she was invited to perform with the
London Sinfonietta as part of the Art of News week at King’s Place, Mary Carewe is involved in educational projects
and has presented Cabaret songs to hundreds of young audiences in the UK with the ensemble VIVA, with whom she has also given
performances nationwide of her ‘Viva la Diva’ programme, a mixture of Cabaret and Jazz songs arranged for voice
and seven piece ensemble. She is a much appreciated teacher giving workshops and masterclasses at Friday 11 December
7.30pm Fairfield Halls,
Croydon Carl
Davis Conductor Mary
Carewe Vocalist
MARKS Rudolf
the Red Nosed Reindeer SPRINGER Santa
Baby TCHAIKOVSKY The
Nutcracker: Waltz of the Flowers BERLIN
White Christmas For further information
and ticket enquiries on the forthcoming RPO concert , please click the links below:
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