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Brighouse & Rastrick

Conductor: Martin Winter
Featuring: Malsis School Choir
Kings Hall
Ilkley
Saturday 9th November

Brighouse & Rastrick Band shared the Kings Hall stage with their guests, the talented young pupils from the Malsis School Choir for a concert of different styles and sounds of music. 

Enthralled

The band enthralled the audience with renditions of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Capriccio Italien’, the Berlioz overture ‘Le Corsaire’, Strauss’s ‘Czardas’ and Shostakovich’s lively ‘Folk Festival’, fused together with brass band favourites such as ‘The Champions’, John Ireland’s enchanting ‘Elegy’ from ‘A Downland Suite’ and Peter Graham’s dramatic ‘Shine as the Light’, whilst flugel star Lucy Cutt captivated with a lyrical rendition of Rodney Newton’s ‘Dimitri’.

Engaging

In the first half, the choir, accompanied by their Musical Director James Ashworth gave melodic and engaging renditions of Goodall’s ‘Love Divine’ and ‘Climb Every Mountain’; the forty plus pupils aged up to 13 entrancing the audience with a musicality far beyond their years. 

In the second half they were accompanied by the band to sing Handel Parker’s moving hymn ‘Deep Harmony’ and a very Yorkshire rendition of ‘Ilkley Moor Baht 'at’.  
   
Engrossing

The band was directed by Martin Winter and it was his engrossing five movement suite entitled ‘La Mer’ which was given a pre-Brass in Concert performance, much to the delight of the audience, who were amazed at the versatile portraits that were produced with the help of kazoos, hose-pipes and buckets of water in what was a fantastically entertaining musical journey.

Paul Beaumont, President of B&R was compere and gave an informative and colourful description of the programme during a highly enjoyable evening.

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