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- John is scoring 19 charts for 65-piece Symphony Orchestra for the
"Symphonic Rocks" concert that he will conduct at Grand Arena which features
top SA Artists: Flat Stanley (MacStanley); Watershed; aKING; Just Jinger;
Louise Carver and Gang of Instrumentals on Saturday 21 August. Long
time dream of Andy mac and John...
- John has just completed scoring some great tunes by Transylvanian
Phoenix
- John has met one of his heroes - Jeremy Lubbock!!! What and
incredible human being!!!!!
- John has edited a version (completely true to the original) of
Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel Overture creating a new
score and parts for modern orchestra. Trumpets in C and Bb; and Horns
in F - plus other more reader friendly bits here and there (not a note of
the original has been altered except for a typo)
- John has orchestrated five Christmas Songs for D'AL STASIA in Bucharest:
Last Christmas (George Michael); O, Ce Veste Minunata; Santa Claus Is Comin'
To Town (Rock 'n Roll Version); White Christmas (Michael Bublé
version) & All I Want For Christmas Is You (Mariah Carey)
- John has arranged "Avinu Malkeinu" as sung by Barbra Streisand for
Shimon Walt in Halifax, Canada
- John has arranged "Mamma" as sung by Pavarotti for Vlad Mirita
to sing in Bucharest -
see here
- John has arranged "In Lipsa Mea" "Prea Ocupat Cu Gura Ta" for Smiley to
sing with orchestra in a concert in Bucharest
- John has arranged Listen by Beyonce and The Balkan Girls for Elena
Gheorge (Romanian Eurovision Entrant 2009) to sing with orchestra in a
concert in Bucharest
- John is working with Pieter Swanepoel and Clive Ridgway on a song: "Ke A
Leboga" - watch this space...
- John has arranged "Chitarra Romano" (as sung by Pavarotti); Parla Piu
Piano; Core 'ngrato and You Raise Me Up for Vlad Mirita to sing with
Symphony Orchetstra;
- "Bittersweet Love Song" - John's song with lyrics by Clive Ridgway will
be premiered on May 8 by Vlad Mirita in the Mayor's concert in Bucharest;
- John's arr. and composition with Linda Claassen of "Rosa and Lucky" was
used by the winning choir (Linda's naturally) in "Die Kaapse Suid-Oos-Fees";
- John wrote scores for the KZNPO to perform in the Playhouse's
December production: "Unforgettable";
- John conducted the SACS Concerto Festival see more
here;
- John is writing a song (Romantic Ballad) for Vlad Mirita - see Vlad
perform the song that he sang in the Eurovision 2008 Contest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7X_y61aDvY;
- John is developing a totally new orchestral concept for Bernhard Gueller...
watch this space!;
- John is wrote and produced the music for the 2008 "Loerie Awards"
(South Africa's Advertising Industry's "Oscars");
- John's solo flute piece "Modjadji's Song" is being used in the Dalhousie
University's music department;
- John is working on a great new song called "Where I Belong" by Clive Ridgway;
- John has composed a piece for solo flute called "Modjadji's Song";
- John is composing a song-cycle using the poetry of Pieter D. Williams
from his anthology "Eden and After";
- The Cape
Philharmonic Youth Orchestra played John's "Click Song
Variations" on 24 June 2007 in the Cape Town City Hall. Have a look at the
poster...
- John has finished his annual commission from the
National School For
The Arts to orchestrate their musical production
- John has signed to
Editions Marc Reift and his "Shosholoza Variations for Piano and Wind
Band / Brass Band" will be recorded and the score released for publication
in the next month .
- a new competition style piece for Brass Band called "Syzygy" (8 minutes)
- have a listen to a Mp3 of it here
- the final movement of the Vegetable Suite for Brass called "Pavane For A
Deadbeat Parsnip" - have a listen to a Mp3 file of it
here
- a new light piece called
Flitting by John Walton written for
Patricia Creighton for Flute and Piano...
- a transcription of Frank Sinatra's version of New York, New York by
John Walton for Voice and Symphony Orchestra...
- a new piece called "Orchestral Variations On The Click Song" (the
Manhattan Bros. song made famous by Myriam Makeba) by John Walton - by kind
permission of Gallo Music Publishers -
for chamber orchestra...
- John has completed an orchestration of the hit musical "Little
Shop of Horrors" for Music Theatre International of New York and
typesetting the original score for them
- John is writing a three-hander cabaret exploring love in its many guises
for release in the first half of 2007
- John has re-orchestrated Gilbert & Sullivan's "The Pirates of
Penzance" using contemporary styles. See more about this
here...
- John has completed writing a set of arrangements/transcriptions
featuring the greatest hits of Boy George - yet to be
premièred...
- a South African musical called
"Crocodiles" arranged by John
- an addition to my Vegetable Patch Suite for Brass Band called
Swingy Sweaty Tubers
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Have a look at a few pictures of John's trip to Canada