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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music to be heard on Chris Helme's programme over the next few weeks.

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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 2pm to 3pm

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 – you might want to hear a piece from your own early days in banding, recordings that have long since joined the record deletions list and difficult to find.

Or 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 16th October:

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

Milestone
William Broughton
Brass Band Rijnmond
MD: Ivan Meylemans — 2008

Coriolanus
Cyril Jenkins
Massed Bands: Britannia Building Society, Leyland Band, Williams Fairey Band
Guest MD: Harry Mortimer — 1990

St Teresa
Peter Graham
International Staff Band
BM: Dr Stephen Cobb — 2010

Deep River
William Broughton
Household Troops Band
BM: Major John Mott — 2002

Cleopatra
Demare
Cornet Soloist: Jack Mackintosh
With a Military Band accompaniment — 1932

Boys in Blue
Bob Barrett
Williams Fairey Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1990

Sinfonietta -The Wayfarer
Eric Ball
Massed Bands: Brighouse and Rastrick, GUS, CWS (Manchester) & Yorkshire Imperial Metals Bands
Guest MD: Eric Ball — 1976

Travelling Along
Chris Mallett
Euphonium Soloist: Tony Scannell
Hendon Salvation Army Band
BM: David Rudd — 2010

Cornish Cavalier
Billy Moyle
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: Allan Withington — 1994

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


Sunday 23rd October:

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

March from Jazz Suite No. 2
arr: Andrew Duncan
Whitburn Band
MD: Andrew Duncan — 2004

Crown Imperial March
Sir William Walton
Household Troops Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Major John Mott — 2010

Brazilian Dance
arr: Howard Snell
Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag
MD: Howard Snell — 1993

Slavonic Rhapsody No. 1
Carl Friedman
Kings of Brass
MD: James Scott — 1995

Mr Euphonium
Bertrand Morens
Euphonium soloist Steven Mead
With Williams Fairey Band
MD: Howard Snell

Somewhere Out There
Schonberg
Oxted Band
MD; Martin Beaumont — 2009

Bring Him Home
arr: Chris Wormald
Greggs Bakery Band
MD: Roy Curran — 2001

Triumphal March
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr Nicholas Childs

Little Fugue in G Minor
J. S. Bach arr: S. Smith
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Richard Evans — 2004

The Champions
G. A. Willcocks
Kings of Brass
MD: James Scott — 1997

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

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