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Bands ready for Bridgewater Hall

There is a great line up of talent on show at the Bridgewater Hall this Sunday. But get there early!

Bridgewater Hall
 

There is a great line up of brass talent on show at the 2011 Great Northern Spring Brass Arts Festival at the Bridgewater Hall this Sunday.

The day long event features many of the very best bands in the UK as well as a host of international soloists — headed by the remarkable trumpet player Jens Lindemann.

The day long event features many of the very best bands in the UK as well as a host of international soloists — headed by the remarkable trumpet player Jens Lindemann4BR

Programme of events:

10.30am
Foyer Concert
2nd Rossendale Scout Group Band

11.30am:
Foyer Music
Northern Brass Quintet

12.00 noon:
Bridgewater Hall
Rothwell Temperance Band

2.15pm:
Bridgewater Hall
The Yorkshire Youth Brass Band

3.30pm:
Foyer Music
Doyen Brass Quartet

4.15pm:
Bridgewater Hall
Brighouse & Rastrick Band

6.30pm:
Foyer Music
Northern Brass Quintet

7.15pm:
Bridgewater Hall
Black Dyke & Foden’s Bands
Soloist: Jens Lindemann

Tickets:
The Bridgewater Hall Box Office
Telephone 0161 950 0000,

www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk

Programmes:

Rothwell Temperance Band
Conductor: David Roberts

Tour De Band — Frode Ryland/Orf/Igsek/Duke Ellington/Camilo

Cockaigne — Elgar, arr. Roberts

Concerto in F minor — Bohme
Soloist: James McCabe

The Death of Don Quixote — Ellerby

La Almeja Pequena — Goodwin arr. McGuffie

Napoli — Bellstedt
Soloist: Andy Marsh

Land Of The Long White Cloud — Sparke

Yorkshire Youth Brass Band
Conductor: Dr Nicholas Childs
Soloist: Brett Baker

Horizons — Lovatt-Cooper

County Palatine — Johnstone

Laudate Dominum — Gregson

Puttin on the Ritz — arr. Roberts

Atlantic Zephyrs — arr. Wilkinson

D.L. Blues — Lusher
Soloist: Brett Baket

Praise my Soul — Robert Childs


Brighouse & Rastrick Band
Conductor: Sandy Smith

Whirligig — Bourgeois

Raymond Overture — A.Thomas arr. W.Rimmer

Finale from Bassoon Concerto K191 Mozart arr. Henstridge
Soloist — Steven Walsh

Blizzard — Tubb

The Guardian — Graham
Soloist — Chris Gomersall

Symphony of Marches — Vinter

Artistry in Kenton — Wetzel/Kenton/Rugolo

Manchester Tale — Duncan


Gala Evening Concert:
Foden's and Black Dyke Bands

Foden's Band
Conductor: Howard Snell
Soloist: Jens Lindemann

March — The Spirit of Praise — Marshall

Overture — Ruler of the Spirits — Weber arr. Gay

Molly on the Shore — Grainger arr. Snell

The Way We Were — Hamlisch arr. Snell

Apophenia — Meechan
Soloist: Jens Lindemann

Shenandoah — Chattaway
Featuring — Jens Lindemann

The Old Chalet — Snell

Finale from Symphony No 7 Beethoven — arr. Snell

Interval

Black Dyke
Conductor: Dr Nicholas Childs

Home of Legends — Lovatt-Cooper

Princess Alice — Bellstedt
Soloist: Richard Marshall

Bravura — Graham
Soloist — Gary Curtin

The Armed Man — Jenkins

Fling — Price

Peer Gynt Suite — Greig

Firebird — Stravinsky

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