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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great brass band music from Chris Helme.

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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 – 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 20th November:

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

Rhapsody on Scottish Marches
Alan Fernie
Sellers Engineering
MD: Philip McCann — 1993

Ruy Blas
Felix Mendelssohn
Besses o’ th’ Barn
MD: Dr Roy Newsome – 1991

Scottish Pastorale
Alan Fernie
Black Dyke
MD: Dr Nicholas Childs — 2009

Tea for Two (percussion feature)
Vincent Youmans arr: Howard Snell
Britannia Building Society
MD: Howard Snell — 1987

Fanfare for a Dignified Occasion
Sir Arthur Bliss
House Troops Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Major John Mott — 2008

Glorifico Aeternum
Dean Jones
House Troops Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Major John Mott — 2008

Spain
Chick Corea/Meechan
Whitburn
MD: Steven Mead — 2008

Pokarekare Ana
Paraire H. Tomoana arr. Luc Vertommen
Soloist: Steven Mead
With the Brass Band Buizingen — 2006

Troika from Lieutenant Kije
Sergei Prokofiev arr: Ray Farr
Scottish CWS

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

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