There are 25 questions to answer   A little bit of searching on the worldwide web or on 4BR should see you OK.  If not have a guess. 

Answers: 

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Closing Date:

The closing date is 11.59pm on 31st December 2024!

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1. Why would the inventor Wallace from the ‘Wallace and Gromit’ ‘Vengeance Most Fowl’ Christmas Day film have been delighted by the winner of the Swiss National Championship Elite Division this year?

2.  What surname connects the actor who plays Mick Shipman in the Christmas Day ‘Gavin & Stacey’ television special with a former four-time winning conductor of the British Open Championship?

3. Which ‘Colliery’ Band won a National title this year?

4. What is the musical connection between a Flowers Band victory in 2024, a choral work by Edward Elgar and a famous speech given by Martin Luther King Jr in Washington DC in 1963?

5. Which iconic piece of music written by George Gershwin celebrated its centenary this year?  It was first performed in a concert entitled ‘An Experiment in Modern Music’ at the Aeolian Hall in New York in February 1924, performed by the composer himself.  

6. A Prime Minister called Ingrida Simonyte attended which major brass band event in 2024?

7. Where would you have found a title winning homage this year to the exploits of Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, Robert Vaughn, James Coburn, Brad Dexter and Horst Bucholz?

8. Which European conductor won his ninth top section National title in 2024 leading his band to their 16th victory, and their first since 2017 on ‘The Lost Circle’?

9. Which Forest of Dean composer, who has written a number of works for the brass band medium, won his second Ivor Novello Classical Music Award for his ‘French Horn Concerto’ this year?

10. Which foremost brass band adjudicator (judging at over 700 events), renowned cornet player, conductor and educator died in June 2024, aged 90? 

11. Brass Band Treize Etoiles used this instrument in their own-choice test-piece, ‘Karma’ at this year’s European Championships, but what is it called?

12. What musical instrument did former F1 World Champion James Hunt, actor Samuel L Jackson and King Charles III all play in their youth?

13. Gilbert Vinter wrote a brass band march to mark the centenary of which organisation in 1968?

14. What colours are the chess pieces in ‘Checkmate’ by Arthur Bliss?

15. In what order are ‘The Planets’ performed in by Gustav Holst? 

16. Name the composer (below), whose iconic work for the brass band medium will be 40 years old in 2025? 

17. Which of these modes is the odd one out?  
a. Ionian
b. Dorian
c. Corinthian 

18. Add together the number strings on a concert harp to the number of keys on a Grand piano and multiply by the number of valves on Prestige Besson euphonium, should give you which total?
a. 440
b. 540
c. 640 

19. Who is current Master of the King’s Music?
 
20. On what famous pop song would you hear the piccolo trumpet playing of David Mason?

21. What does the musical term ‘tardo’ or ‘tarda’ mean?

22. Name the champions (below)?

23. Which city is next in the list?
Stavanger, Linz, Montreux, …?

24. Which test-piece to be heard in the UK in early 2025 tells in one of its sections of the cautionary tale of flying to close to the sun?

24. And which is the next in the list here in 2025?
Lancaster, Warwick, York, Bangor, Sheffield, Warwick, …?