Brass Gala Concert 2008

The present British Open Champion Band, The English and National Champion Band and the European Champion Band come together on one spectacular bill leading to a glorious climax featuring the Cory and Black Dyke Band performing together!

The three bands will play music widely ranging from Mozart’s Magic Flute Overture to Harry James’ Trumpet Blues and Cantabile and taking in en route Bach’s Air on the G String, Widor’s famous Organ Toccata and ending with a new arrangement by Robert Childs of Tchaikowsky’s Marche Slav played by Black Dyke and Cory together.

Original brass band music will include Fletcher’s popular Labour and Love, the first work commissioned by the national Brass Band Championship in 1913.

Something, and probably more, for every fan of brass band music here.

£12.50, £14.50, £16.50, £19.50, Choir £8.50

Full Programme details:

Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Percy Grainger Irish tune from County Derry
Shipley Douglas March, Mephistopheles
Fletcher Labour and Love
Hartmann Rule Britannia (Euphonium solo Michael Dodd)
Ireland Elegy from A Downland Suite
Goffin Rhapsody in Brass

Cory Band
Philip Wilby Peel Park (from a Lowry sketchbook)
Paul Lovatt-Cooper Neath the Dublin skies (Euphonium solo David Childs)
Karl Jenkins arr. Tony Small Palladio
Monk, arr. Karl Jenkins Abide With Me
Gareth Wood Actaeon

Black Dyke Band
Widor arr. Sparke Toccata
Mozart arr. Anon Overture to The Magic Flute
Simone Mantia Fantasie Originale (Euphonium solo David Thornton)
Bach arr. Snell Air from Suite No. 3
Paul Lovatt-Cooper In Vitae Aeternam

Black Dyke and Cory together
Lovatt-Cooper Walking with Heroes
Harry James arr. Geldard Trumpet Blues and Cantabile (with twenty soloists)
Tchaikovsky arr. Robert Childs Marche Slav

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