British Open Gala Concert

Details have been released of the British Open Gala Concert in September, featuring Black Dyke, Grimethorpe and Cory.

Saturday, 19 July 2008

A concert of champions is promised at Symphony Hall on Sunday 14th September when the current British Open, English and National and the European Champion Band come together for the Brass Gala Concert at the British Open contest weekend.

Top trio

Grimethorpe Colliery, Cory and Black Dyke will play music ranging from Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' overture, to Harry James's 'Trumpet Blues and Cantabile' and taking in en route Bach's 'Air on the G String', Widor's famous organ 'Toccata', and ending with a new arrangement by Robert Childs of Tchaikovsky's 'Marche Slav' played by Black Dyke and Cory together.

Original brass band music will include Fletcher's popular 'Labour and Love', the first work commissioned by the National Brass Band Championship in 1913organisers

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Original brass band music will include Fletcher's popular 'Labour and Love', the first work commissioned by the National Brass Band Championship in 1913.

The Brass Gala Concert is part of a weekend event at Symphony Hall which also sees the British Open Brass Band Championship on Saturday 13 September.

Tickets for the Brass Gala Concert are £8.50-£19.50, available from www.thsh.co.uk or 0121 780 3333.

Sunday 14 September, 2.30pm at Symphony Hall:

Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Percy Grainger: Irish tune from County Derry
Shipley Douglas: March, Mephistopheles
Fletcher: Labour and Love
Hartmann: Rule Britannia (Euphonium solo Michael Dodd)
Ireland: Elegy from A Downland Suite
Goffin: Rhapsody in Brass

Cory Band
Philip Wilby: Peel Park (from a Lowry sketchbook)
Paul Lovatt-Cooper: Neath the Dublin skies (Euphonium solo David Childs)
Karl Jenkins arr. Tony Small: Palladio
Monk, arr. Karl Jenkins: Abide With Me
Gareth Wood: Actaeon

Black Dyke Band
Widor arr. Sparke: Toccata
Mozart arr. Anon: Overture to The Magic Flute
Simone Mantia: Fantasie Originale (Euphonium solo David Thornton)
Bach arr. Snell: Air from Suite No. 3
Paul Lovatt-Cooper: In Vitae Aeternam

Black Dyke and Cory together:
Lovatt-Cooper: Walking with Heroes
Harry James arr. Geldard: Trumpet Blues and Cantabile (with twenty
soloists)
Tchaikovsky arr. Robert Childs: Marche Slav

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