4BR set for 164th British Open Championship

4BR will be at the British Open in Birmingham on Saturday — with plenty of brilliant coverage and the chance to use Steven Mead's adjudication criteria to pick your own winner.

4BR will bring you all the action as it unfolds from Symphony Hall this weekend.

Thursday, 08 September 2016

The 164th British Open Championship will take place at Symphony Hall in Birmingham on Saturday when 19 of the world's finest brass bands battle it out on Peter Graham's set-work, 'The Triumph of Time' to see who will lift the famous Gold Shield in victory.

Live comments

4BR will be providing our usual coverage — including our comments on each performance from our resident experts Chris Thomas and Steven Mead, whilst Ian Clowes of Goldy Solutions will be providing his usual brilliant images to bring your an extra flavour of what is going on.

Steven Mead Adjudication Criteria

We have joined forces with Steve to give as many people as possible the chance to try out his criteria based adjudication system — one that he feels offers a much more modern and effective way of looking at aspects of a brass band contest performance.

Steve's markings will be published on our live coverage, but we hope you will also take the opportunity to download the criteria and explanation sheets and have a go yourself.

Please go to:

http://www.euphonium.net/home.php?newsID=317

You can then download the sheets at:

http://www.euphonium.net/download.php?id=145

Steve's markings will be published on our live coverage, but we hope you will also take the opportunity to download the criteria and explanation sheets and have a go yourself4BR

Articles

We will also be updating you with our twitter feed and plenty of interviews throughout the day — from the draw to the announcement of the results and post performance analysis with conductors and players as they come off the Symphony Hall stage.

Marple Memories

4BR has been busy with our pre-contest coverage as we lead up to the day, so why not enjoy our look back at Marple's historic victory at the event 20 years ago in 1996.

http://4barsrest.com/articles/2016/1574.asp

Test piece review

If you want to find out more about this year's set work, then we have a test-piece review that tells you more about its inspiration and the elements to listen out for.

http://4barsrest.com/articles/2016/1574a.asp

Preview & Predictions

And if you want to find out who we have given the famous 4BR 'Kiss of Death' to then enjoy our special preview and predictions.

http://4barsrest.com/articles/2016/1574b.asp

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