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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from the heart of the Yorkshire Dales with Chris Helme.

Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:

Broadcast on Phoenix FM 96.7 community radio in the Halifax area of West Yorkshire. This programme is also available via www.phoenixfm.co.uk

Every Sunday afternoon from 2.00pm to 3.00pm

Produced and presented by Chris Helme, or further information please see: www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk

It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website. I am always pleased to receive requests

Or you have a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Sunday 14th August:

Looking back to music in the 1960s from the King’s Hall at Belle Vue to the massed bands concert at the 1969 National’s.

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Opening for weekly show — Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

TUC Centenary March
Gilbert Vinter
Massed Bands of BMC; Fairey; Fodens; CWS (Manchester) & Grimethorpe Bands (approx 125 musicians on stage)
Guest MD: Harry Mortimer — Live at the King’s Hall, Belle Vue — 1969

Life Divine
Cyril Jenkins
Massed Bands of BMC; Fairey; Fodens; CWS (Manchester) & Grimethorpe Bands (approx 125 musicians on stage)
Guest MD: Harry Mortimer — Live at the King’s Hall, Belle Vue — 1969

Arabella
Barrie Chester
Euphonium Soloist George Davis with Cory Workmen’s Band
MD: John Harrison — 1969

Pineapple Poll (opening)
Sullivan arr: J. Gregory
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD Alex Mortimer — 1962

Samum — Symphonic Foxtrot
Robrecht arr: Dawson
GUS (Footwear) Band
MD Stanley Boddington — 1967

Treble Trombones
Jack Heyler
Trombone Trio: Frank Berry, Derek Southcott & Ian Coupland with Black Dyke Mills Band
MD Roy Newsome — 1969

Famous March Fragments (from the marches of William Rimmer)
arr: George Hawkins
Excelsior Ropes Works Band
MD David Thomas -1969

Overture from HMS Pinafore
Sullivan arr: Drake Rimmer
Wingates Temperance Band
MD Hugh Parry — 1968

Finale: Themes from Symphony No.5
Tchaikovsky arr: Eric Ball
Massed Bands of Brighouse & Rastrick — Black Dyke Mills — GUS (Footwear) & CWS (Manchester) Bands (approx 100 musicians on stage)
Guest Conductor: Walter B. Hargreaves
National Brass Band Festival
Royal Albert Hall 1969

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Ending for weekly show
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010

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