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4BR English National Quiz: sponsored by Ev-entz

Pick which own choice selection will come out on top in Birmingham on the weekend and you can win a neat little prize bundle...

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Once again there is a great little prize package sponsored by our friends at Ev-entz — as long as you can make an informed musical guess about this weekend’s English National Championship in Birmingham.

Prize package

You can get your hands on 4 bottles of Blue Juice valve oil and neat TGI metronome and tuner, as well as a copy of Black Dyke’s George Lloyd CD ‘English Heritage’, conducted by David King and Jean Pierre Chevailler’s ‘The Classic Euphonium’ CD which is conducted by the composer himself.

The 1991 Dyke release features performances of ‘Diversions on a Bass Theme’ as well as ‘Royal Parks’, ‘HMS Trinidad’, ‘Evening Song’ and the title track, ‘English Heritage’, whilst the 1989 euphonium release includes works by Haendel, Mozart and Danzi.

Take your pick

All you have to do is pick the test piece that will catch the ears of the judges and come out on top in the own choice section of the contest on the weekend.

Beware!

We are not telling you who is playing what – so you may need to try a bit of lateral thinking...

The own choice selections are:

1. Blitz (Derek Bourgeois)
2. Contest Music (Wilfred Heaton)
3. Music for Battle Creek (Philip Sparke)
4. On the Shoulders of Giants (Peter Graham)
5. Pursuing Horizons (Dudley Bright)
6. Revelation (Philip Wilby)
7. Spiriti (Thomas Doss)
8. Titan’s Progress (Herman Pallhuber)

All you have to do is pick the test piece that will catch the ears of the judges and come out on top in the own choice section of the contest on the weekend4BR

Clues:
Just take your pick of who you think which own choice selection will come out on top

Closing date:
All answers must be received by 4BR before the start of the announcement of the results on Saturday 29th June.

Previous winner:

The winner of our All England Masters prize of a John Packer pocket trumpet was Luke Dempsey, the principal cornet of the Blackburn & Darwen Band who correctly choose Seindorf Beaumaris.

Answers
E-mail:

E-mail us the answer at: quiz@4barsrest.com

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