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Midday mountainous approach for RNCM Brass Band

The RNCM Brass Band will take to the musical mountains at Bridgewater Hall on March 10th as they showcase some majestic brass band classics.

John McCabe
 

The RNCM Brass Band will perform at Bridgewater Hall in Manchester on March 10th as part of the critically acclaimed 'Echoes of a Mountain Song' season promoted by the Manchester Midday Concerts Society.

Dramatic vistas

Under the direction of Black Dyke Director of Music, Prof Nicholas Childs, the band will perform classic repertoire that evokes some of the finest and most dramatic mountainous terrain in the UK.

Journey

The concert has been devised by Paul Hindmarsh, MMCS's Director of Concerts, and he told 4BR: "The music takes the listener on a journey from north east to north west; either side of the spine of the Pennines.

With Holst's masterpiece 'A Moorside Suite' starting the journey in the North York Moors that are said to have inspired it, we then travel west to the Yorkshire Dales for Philip Wilby's evocative 'Five Rivers' (A Pastorale Symphony) and then further north to the Victorian industrial landscapes of Northumberland for Arthur Butterworth's rugged 'Three Impressions'.

He added: "We eventually settle in the Cumbrian Fells for John McCabe's (above) 'Cloudcatcher Fells', which is a masterly reflection of days spent as a child around Patterdale, against the backdrop of the mighty peak of Helvellyn."

We eventually settle in the Cumbrian Fells for John McCabe's 'Cloudcatcher Fells' — a masterly reflection of days spent as a child around Patterdale against the backdrop of the mighty peak of HelvellynPaul Hindmarsh

Time and place

The concert, which is supported by the Brass Band Heritage Trust, begins at 1.10pm.

For further information visit: www.manchester-mid-days.co.uk

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