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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Music from the heartland of Yorkshire with Chris Helme.

Chris 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 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 – look out for my musical tribute to Dr. Roy Newsome on the Podcast dated 30 October.

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 13 November:
Music of the Sea

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

Star Lake 70
Stephen Bulla
Boscombe Salvation Army Band
MD Howard Evans — 2008

James Cook Circumnavigator
Gilbert Vinter
Cory Band MD
Dr. Robert Childs — 2008

Water of Tyne
Traditional arr: Philip Harper
Polysteel Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2008

Seaside Rendezvous
Freddie Mercury arr: Giske
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD Allan Withington — 2008

Songs of the Sailor and Sea
Mvt 2) Whale Song Mvt 3) Racing the Yankee Clipper
Robert W. Smith arr: Toshiyuki Nizuma
Hepworth (Cookson Homes) Band
MD Mark Bentham — 2007

Fantasia on British Sea Songs
Henry J. Wood arr: Denis Wright
Whitworth Veterans Band
MD Dr Roy Newsome — 2010

Valse Brilliante ‘Sounds from the Hudson’
J. B. Arban arr: Donald Hunsberger
Soloist: Wynton Marsalis
Eastman Wind Ensemble MD Donald Hunsberger

Amazing Grace — Symphonic Variations
Philip Wilby
Black Dyke Band
MD Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2008

From The Royal Water Music
Handel
Fairey Band
MD Kenneth Dennison — 1972

On The Quarter Deck
Kenneth Alford
BNFL Band
MD Richard Evans — 1996

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

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