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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music to send out to the banding world from Chris Helme in the heartland of Yorkshire...

Chris Helme
 

Sunday Bandstand:
Sunday 28th July

Produced and presented by Chris Helme for further information please see www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk and follow the Sunday Bandstand links for this play list and previous week’s. It is also available via Podcast please contact me about this facility.

Yorkshire Dales

It is also available on Drystone Radio 106.9FM or through their website www.drystoneradio.com on Sunday mornings between 7am and 9am

Wigan

My radio programme is now on www.wiganfm.com a local internet only radio station and my weekly brass band show can be heard on Sunday’s between 11am and 1pm

New Zealand

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. The show is also available through the station’s repeat programme facility

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.

Your CD

Has your band produced a CD this year?

I would be very pleased to play tracks from it if you have. 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

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

Departed Heroes
Bramwell Coles
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr Nicholas Childs — 2011

Glastonbury
Denis Wright
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1963

Pantomime
Philip Sparke
Euphonium soloist Glyn Williams with the Foden’s Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2012

Keep Smiling Through
Darrol Barry
West Yorkshire Police Band
MD: Captain Gary Clegg — 2010

Three Spirituals
Norman Bearcroft
International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2012

So Deep is the Night
Frederic Chopin
Arr: Alan Fernie
Euphonium Soloist David Thornton with the Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2007

War Cry
Dorothy Gates
New York Staff Band
BM: Ron Waiksnoris — 2012

I Wish You Love
Charles. Trenet
Arr: R. E. Waterworth
Trombone Soloist Stan Priestley with the Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: James Scott- 1970s

Quintessence
Robert Redhead
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: Dr. David King — 1997

Olympus March
George Hawkins
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: James Watson — 1995

Leona Polka
Leo Zimmerman
Trombone Soloist Brett Baker with John Wilson pianoforte — 2012

Overture to the Opera Nabucco
Verdi
Arr: Howard Lorriman
Sellers international Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — 1999

Tanga
Mario Bauza
Arr: Reid Gilje
Trumpet Soloist Martin Winter with the Eikanger Bjorsvik Band
MD: Reid Gilje — 2003

Come follow the Band
Cy Coleman
Arr: Dan Price
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr . Nicholas Childs — 2013

If I were King
Adolphe Adam
Arr: William Rimmer
Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band
MD: Denis Carr — 1970s

Sounds from the Hudson
Herbert L. Clarke
Arr: Donald Hunsberger
Trumpet Soloist Wynton Marsalis with the Eastman Wind Ensemble
MD: Donald Hunsberger — 1987

New World Symphony 4th movement Allegro Con Fuoco
Dvorak
Arr: Ray Steadman-Allen
Enfield Citadel Band
BM: Jonathon Corry — 2011

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Ending for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010

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