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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More music on the airwaves from the Yorkshire Dales to New Zealand 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 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

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