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Proms and almost perfectly pitched panacea The Last Night of the Proms Directed by Pat Snoxell, musical director Peter Ellery, with Feilding Brass, Suzanne Prentice, Karl Perigo, Rodger Fox and the North Street School Choir. Feilding Civic Centre Stadium, Sunday May 4 Reviewed by Richard Mays Let's hear it for the Proms! A resounding success when launched two years ago, this second Last Night of the Proms concert was just as rapturously received. With a Full House sign out front, banners, balloons, bunting, bonhomie, and boisterous ballyhoo inside, this variety romp was a face-splitting pleasure from opening fanfare to Now Is The Hour. Attended in the royal box by their regal majesters HRH and Prince Phil, and magnificently conducted by Peter Ellery, Feilding Brass hosted what must be the funniest variety concert of the year. While the entertainers did their bit, the audience slightly let the side down with a lack of hooters (one side of the auditorium was particularly flat-chested in this regard) duck-calls, clackers and fartleophones. Make a mental note - next time, bring the whole flamin' noisemaker arsenal! Suzanne Prentice treated everyone to We'll Meet Again, joined a medley of Irish and Beatles tunes, sang Talk to the Animals with the North Street School Choir in a mini Kids For Kids, before turning out as Britannia for the traditional sing-along finale. Jazz-meister Rodger Fox dusted off Stardust, anchored a trombone quintet for 76 trombones, and for the traditional second half novelty item, played the final bars of Acrobat operating the slide with his de-shoed and de-socked foot (phew!). Karl Perigo showed why he has "it" as an emcee and as a vocalist, with a true showman's facility to goof off, as well as sing seriously. The band may have been a trifle ragged at times, but musical director "Uncle Pete" Ellery is a class act, allowing his musicians to cut loose and fully express themselves during the second and less formal "funny hat" half of the show. Predictably, audience cacophone [sic] virtuosos showed complete musical incompetence during the nautical bracket featuring Jack The Lad, and some of the vocal interjections were just as priceless. Cheered and stirred, a warm happy throng departed into a cool rain-splattered night in the right frame of mind to face a week pregnant with the promise of further petrol and dairy product price profiteeri..., opps, rises. The above article appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, May 8, 2008. It was a jolly good show - no doubt about it. REVIEW - The Last Night of the Proms With Feilding Brass, Suzanne Prentice, Karl Perigo, Rodger Fox and the North Street School Choir, Feilding Brass conducted by Peter Ellery. Reviewed by Lee Matthews. It was the woman wearing the blue light antennae that did it for me. Perched right up the back in the middle of the top bank row in Feilding's Civic Centre stadium, those blue lights did the business for more than two hours of Proms. All the old favourites - the Queen and Prince Phillip in the Royal Box - came out with the capacity audience enthusiastically clapping and singing and tooting their hooters. They loved it and had a jolly good time, what-ho. Best of the evening from the velvet-voiced Karl Perigo was his rendition of O SoleMio, delivered in best Pavarotti style, complete with flourishing white hanky daubed on sweaty brow. We luuurved the stripey socks, Karl! The big clap went to Suzanne Prentice, for her powerful and moving performance of Memory, from Cats. She's such a wee dot, where does all that voice come from? The thing about Suzanne is that she always looks like she's having a great time up there. The audience just gets pulled along with her. Sparking up the performance was New Zealand's own Mr Trombone, Rodger Fox. Whoo-ee! He just hangs that trom over his left shoulder and blows pure magic. Bright little stars of the evening were Feilding's North Street School choir. Lots of proud nanas and grandas [sic] in the audience last night, and rightly so. Through it all was Feilding Brass, and they were just fabulous. Hard to find words, really. They gave two solid hours of music, made it sound effortless and they had a great time. We really liked conductor Peter Ellery leaving the stage and coming back with takeaways for the troops during a particularly long and rather pleasant euphonium solo. The band made the most of the on-stage break, munching apples, offering shoulder massages, pelting the soloist with paper aeroplanes and awarding points to the player. The minus-three score card was a tad unkind. Things really went Prom from there. Out came the hooters - during a hornpipe, honestly - and everyone in the audience limbered up their voices and happily roared defiance to the waves with good old Britannia, then down came the balloons. Three renditions of Hope and Glory may not have suited everyone, but hey, they happened. Loudly. Feilding's Last Night of the Proms. It was fun to be Brit for a bit. The above article appeared in the Manawatu Standard on Monday, May 5, 2008. Start Date for 2008 The first rehearsal for Feilding Brass for 2008 is: Wednesday, 30th of January 2007 News Archive 2006 News Archive 2005 News Archive |
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