- John is involved in negotiations to write arrangements for a "Flat
Stanley" Symphonic Pops concert/s scheduled for the festive season 08/09
- John is writing the music for and MD'ing the 2008 "Loerie Awards"
- 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
...another exciting project is the
Multimedia Symphonic Spectacular:
Gustav Holst's "THE PLANETS" Suite
...along the lines of Disney's "Fantasia" - using live orchestra, specially
created animated and filmed sequences plus lighting effects...
which received its Canadian première in Nova Scotia, Canada in OCTOBER, 2004
with the SYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIA under the baton of Maestro Bernhard Gueller