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Smithills 'Class Act'

Chris Wormald and his band have been doing their bit of 'Class Acting' for Radio 2.

Chris Wormald
 

Last Thursday, 10th April, Smithills School Senior Brass Band and MD Chris Wormald successfully recorded a session of six arrangements for BBC Radio 2, produced by 'Listen To The Band’s' Cali Snook.

Class Acts

The session is to form one of the programmes in the forthcoming BBC Radio 2 series ‘Howard Goodall’s Class Acts’ which is scheduled to be broadcast in May/June this year.

The session is to form one of the programmes in the forthcoming BBC Radio 2 series ‘Howard Goodall’s Class Acts’ which is scheduled to be broadcast in May/June this year4BR

Themes

The six tracks recorded were 'I’ve Got You Under My Skin' featuring cornet soloist, Joanna Hurst; 'Indiana Jones', 'Always On My Mind' with flugel soloist, Lucy Sanderson; 'Ben Hur', 'Moon River' with soprano soloist, Thomas Hurst and 'Psalm 23', the TV theme tune to 'The Vicar of Dibley' composed by Howard Goodall and also arranged by Chris Wormald.

Delighted

Cali Snook was delighted with the band at the outcome of the session and praised the band for being so well prepared and professional in completing the recordings well ahead of schedule.

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