Hello Everyone

Some of you may know that choosing my repertoire for my attempt at LTCL has been a bit of a saga. Well, I've come to a final list. I think. I've included and then rejected several works for various reasons in the course of a six-month-long dither, but I believe I now have a workable plan, which I'm about to send off to Trinity for approval.

The requirement is a 40-minute recital which shows a wide range of moods and techniques. It does not need to show a variety of musical periods, and indeed may be restricted to one composer. Instrumentalists must offer a minimum of three works, singers five. One item must be a "major work" for the instrument - defined for a singer as a song cycle or a major operatic extract.

Trinity give you a list of "indicative works", but you aren't obliged to use them. If you don't use them you have to submit your proposed list for approval before you apply for the exam - and they reserve the right to decline some or all of the works if they think they are not of a sufficient standard....

Not only that, but you have a really tight limit on programme notes - 900 words for a 40 minute recital Subsequent edit - actually it's only 500 words!!!. Which is a bit of a killer for a singer! So I've started from a basic theme of 20th Century music (focusing in particular on the period around World War 2) with the intention of using the programme notes as a sort of essay about the music of the period and the impact the war had on composition. I had hoped to add a Russian work, but couldn't track down the music for the song I particularly wanted.

So (gulp) here goes......

1. Material from the syllabus
Opera extract
Menotti “Hello, Oh Margaret It’s You” from “The Telephone”

Own choice item of jazz, blues or musical theatre
Arlen “Blues In The Night”

2. Material partly from the syllabus, mainly own choice
Song cycle
Britten “On This Island”
(The first movement “Let The Florid Music Praise” is listed, the rest are not)

3. Own choice material
Song cycle
Elwyn-Edwards “Caneuon Y Tri Aderyn”
(sung in Welsh)

Songs
R. Strauss “September” and “Beim Schlafengehn” from “Vier Letzte Lieder”
(sung in German)


Comments, anyone?


Cheers

Katyjay

Hi Katyjay!

I can't comment on the programme content, as I don't know any of the songs, but the overall shape looks interesting and makes me want to hear it, so that must be good.

I can empathise with the choosing taking a long time. It has taken me four years to settle with an LRSM programme I'm happy with. And now I'm realising that if I'm going to play Mozart well I need to do some serious work on my articulation.

I flirted with the LTCL repertoire on the way, especially after they abolished having the ATCL as a prerequisite, but have settled back to the LRSM.

My programme, in case anyone is interested, is:

Anne Boyd 'Cloudy Mountain'

Roussel 'Joueurs de Flute': Pan, Tityre, Krishna and Mr de la Pejaudie (the only pieces that have remained there for the whole four years!)

Mozart Concerto No 2 in D.

That will be the order of performance, starting with a piece that was written for meditation and moving through the different moods of the Roussel to the liveliness of the concerto.

katyjay, my knowledge of the repertoire is so small, but to me it looks interesting, and well done for getting yourself a final list. Do let us know what the Trinity folk say.


Sounds great

Singing in Welsh AND doing two of the Four Last Songs? You go, girl!

<grabs hanky and starts sobbing at Beim Schlafengehn>

Well, I've just heard from Trinity.

They have approved everything except the Elwyn-Edwards. They haven't turned this down, but have asked for a copy of the score, which I'm just e-mailing off now, so keep your fingers crossed........

Cheers

Katyjay

That's really good news, Katyjay. Keeping my fingers crossed...

When I was in Chappell's on Tuesday I was looking to see if there were any potential LTCL examiners flicking through the vocal music.

Hooray! Let's hope it's good news for the Elwyn-Edwards.

Fingers crossed...

all extremities crossed, katyjay!

Woooooo Hooooo!!!

Just found out that the programme's been approved. Now all I have to do is learn and perform it....

Thanks for crossing fingers etc, everyone.

Cheers

Katyjay

Good luck, Katyjay.

Has the programme changed again lately?

YAY! Great news, katyjay!

Hope the practice is going well

Thanks Steve

No, it's the programme listed above. I'm still deciding on the order - definitely start with the Britten and almost certainly end with the Strauss, but the three in the middle are still to be settled - probably Arlen, Elwyn-Edwards, Menotti. At least, that's the plan this week

Five works means there are 120 permutations of the order - unlike ATCL which was 8 works and therefore 40,320 permutations .

And I'd better start reading for the programme notes.....especially as they've got to be so succinct this time!

Cheers

Katyjay