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 4.00pm
Produced and presented by Chris Helme or further information please see: www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk
Yorkshire Dales
It is also available on Drystone Radio 106.9FM or through their website www.drystoneradio.com on Sunday mornings between 8am and 10am
New Zealand
It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website.
Listeners in New Zealand will be pleased to hear that this programme is now also played on www.worldfm.co.nz in Wellington at 2p – 4pm (NZ time) every Thursday.
Requests
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
11th November:
Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Opening for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010
Northern Spirit
Alan Fernie
Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: Alan Morrison — 2011
Overture Ruy Blas
Mendelssohn Arr: Alexander Owen
Besses o' th' Barn Band
MD: Alex Evans — 1983
Clear Skies
Eric Ball
Cornet Soloist: David Dawes with the International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 1995
Symphonic Music
Paul Huber
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1979
Can you read my Mind
John Williams Arr: Ray Farr
Eikanger Bjorsvik Band
MD: Ray Farr — 2007
Take that look off your Face from Song and Dance
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Desford Colliery Caterpillar Band
MD: James Watson — 1994
Music for a Joyful Occasion
Kenneth Downie
International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2007
Pink Panther Theme
Henry Mancini Arr: Darrol Barry
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Alan Withington — 2001
An American in Paris
George Gershwin Arr: Howard Snell
Williams Fairey Band
MD: Alan Withington — 2002
Hora Staccato
Arr Andrew Duncan
Cornet feature with the Fountain City Band of USA
MD: Joseph Parisi — 2010
Benediction
John Stevens
Soloists: Marimba Raphael Christen — Euphonium Thomas Ruedi
2011
Club Europe
Martin Ellerby
Flowers Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2009
Sinfonietta
Joseph Horovitz
CWS Glasgow Band
Guest MD: Joseph Horovitz – 1994
Overture for Brass
Carlos Franzetti Arr: Mark Freeh
Gus Band
MD: Bramwell Tovey — 2012
Red Priest
Professor Philip Wilby
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2010
Arnhem March
A.E. Kelly
Leyland Band
MD: Richard Evans — 2004
Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Ending for weekly show
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010
