In this month’s Let’s Debate, Philip Morris, Organiser of the British National Brass Band Championships, joins the current hot ‘political potato’ discussion started by Cory Conductor, Philip Harper, aired in BBW, about how the biggest contest series selects test-pieces and argues that the ticket-paying audience must be an important consideration
A recent...read more
From penning pieces for royal engagements to developing his skills with the baton, composer Thomas Brown oozes versatility. Mark Good met the 21-year-old from Holmfirth in Yorkshire, who has a bright future ahead…
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Oliver Fitzgerald-Lombard interviews Robert Samuel - former Cory Band player - to find out about his globe-trotting life as Second Trumpet with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales
What led you to playing a brass instrument and when did you decide you wanted to make it your profession?
I started playing the cornet...read more
Rita Arendz brings a delegate’s over-view of the recent North American Brass Band Summer School in Ontario, where a clutch of top British and American brass band exponents left delegates with stars and stripes in their eyes!
Although popular during the late 19th Century, today the British Style brass bands (other than...read more
Wednesday 14 September 2016
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