Federation Guitar Societies Annual Conference

The next Annual Conference of the FGS will be hosted by Enfield Classical Guitar Society on the 18th July 2010.
The venue is Highlands Village Hall, 5 Florey Square, Winchmore Hill, London, N21 1UJ (adjacent to Sainsbury’s car park).

Please note that there will be a charge of £8 per participant to cover costs. Bromley members wishing to participate should email Andrew Ferrier (aferrier.305@lgflmail.org ) or Shirley Russell (Shirley@therussells.eu )

The suggested programme is as shown here.

10:30 Welcome - coffee
11:00 Informal whole group warm up ensemble. Music to be supplied on the day
11:30 Whole group ensemble rehearsal – piece to be advised. Music will be circulated in advance.
12:30 Lunch and informal practice time. UK Federation Committee Meeting
14:00 Each Guitar Society is invited to play a prepared piece (10-15 mins).
15:15 Tea
15:45 Whole group performance
16:30 Close

Cornelius Bruinsma is going to conduct the orchestra

And a message from the Butcher of Enfield!!

Received the following email from Ray Butcher (Enfield Guitar Society:

NOW ON YOUTUBE.

For your amusement the student concert at the Dillington summer school which (that) I attended at the beginning of August.

Diabolo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtntybMz1KM

Or would you like a comparison for the first movement.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1hE8U8yWX0
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZJqlTKITzk
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnF3QiYmyow

Lair
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUmL5HPD0k4

Daemon Dance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK5wBu9RIfY

Tower of Echoes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzETcRdmGI


Diabolo Final Confrontation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLrOaZynxxU


Pachelbel's Canon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmRZS9JCvjo

Albinoni Adagio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x77WPY8r9JM

Clock Shop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fY0Zcwywc4

Un Echo d'Amerique du Sudr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StyYlwSyZFU


This is the result of 5 days hard graft. If you would like to advertise on your respective sites, webpages and members to see what they have missed. I will be eternally grateful.

Ray"

And we have done so Ray!!

BGS TV Presents... Guitar Federation Day 2009 at Enfield

A souvenir from last Sunday!

Gabriellis' Canzona




Schubert's Marche Militaire




Conducted by Cornelius Bruinsma

Special Thanks to Ray Butcher for the film!

Enfield Guitar Society at Bromley

Following hot on the heels of the Wealden GS visit, was an exciting and spirited program put together by Alan Gully and Ray Butcher from the Enfield Classical Guitar Society.

The photo below was included on the program with the words 'Enfield Classical Guitar Society play at Bromley' which was true enough. If you look carefully you can see the BGS Executive Committee occupying the front seats, listening intently!!! We even arranged a wheel chair for our Chairman!!

Under the direction of Alan Gully, the ECGS prepared a very modern program which included the following pieces

Joporo (Traditional Arrangement by C. Bruinsma)

Out of Town (Bricusse and Beaumont Arranged by Alan Gully)

Schedryk (Nicolai Demetrovich Leonovych)

Columbina (Joachim Casanovas)

Beside the Seaside (John Glover Kind)

Every Breath you Take (Sting Arranged by C. Bruinsma)

La Triana (Alan Gully)

Poor Sally (Traditional Arranged by Alan Gully)

Palladio (Karl Jenkins Arranged by R Burley)

Music files are saved as mp3 files and should work with your browser program. If not I suggest that you download the latest version of Quicktime. The program used in recording the sound files is called Audacity and it is open sourced software (free).

The ECGS then invited the Bromley Guitar members to join them in performing the premiere of Alan Gully's composition 'Cloudy Bay'. It was at this point that your correspondent discovered that one cannot play the guitar and record music tracks at the same time...the first take didn't work and we had to re-record the Cloudy Bay piece again!! Considering the very little time we had in preparing for the performance, it was a cracking result.

Because of the concert and the ensemble work there wasn't much time for solos. Actually I think the second rendition of 'Cloudy Bay took away a bit of our energy. Which is why that we were so glad that young Tommy Page stepped up to the podium and delivered a great performance of Etude No 4 by Villa Lobos.

It was a terrific evening full of music and laughter. On behalf of the BGS I would like to take the opportunity of thanking Alan and the members of the Enfield CGS for a great night. Alan did a brilliant job in leading a rather large orchestra with patience and humour.

I would also like to thank Ray Butcher as well. Prior to the Enfield visit, Ray had done ( and still does) a lot of hard work in leading the BGS ensemble program and it is appreciated. On a personal note, Ray has also assisted me in getting together links and contacts which have contributed so much to the development of the blog site.