February edition out now!
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COVER STORY – CREATIVELY FREE
Cambridge Variations composer, Philip Sparke, on finding artistic freedom
LET'S DEBATE CONTESTS
Where are my lucky pants? James Gourlay examines the merits of contesting
PRO PLATFORM
Yamaha Artist, Russell Gray's, timeline to performance in his conducting master class, plus Jonathan Pippen enjoys a Q&A with Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Principal Bass Trombone - Simon Cowen!
BBW CASTAWAY
Black Dyke’s Solo Baritone, Katrina Marzella, launches BBW's inaugural version of Desert Island Discs with Austrian trumpet star, Thomas Gansch
VIEW FROM THE ‘BOX
BBW collaborates with the Association of Brass Band Adjudicators to give an adjudicator’s perspective of the 2016 Regional tests for sections 1-4 through the eyes of David Hirst, Anne Crookston, Paul Holland and Roger Webster
GOING FOR GOLD!
Retrospectives of the French National, Brass at the Guild and Butlin’s Mineworkers Open National Brass Band Festival, plus the RNCM Festival platform for the highest quality brass band repertoire and performers
CENTRE BAND
Japan's Nexus imports British-style banding
YOUNG VOICES
Mark Good meets BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Award semi-finalist and Scottish Solo Champion - Kyle Maccorquodwle
AND ANOTHER THING
With Foden’s trombone star, John Barber, and cartoonist Nezzy
CAMBRIDGE VARIATIONS FOLKLORE
Tom Davoren on why the top section Regional test for 2016 has entered the annals of contesting folklore
REVIEWS
New CD releases from A4 Brass Quartet, The International Staff Band and Brett Baker; John Wallace CBE reviews Howard Snell’s book, ‘The Trumpet - Its Practice and Performance’, and finds it ‘a revelation’; the Cornish Youth Brass Band and Hendon Citadel Band, with Philip Cobb and guest soloist David Childs, in concert; the ‘Come-back kid’ Peter Roberts gets his lip in on a Stomvi Soprano; and Willson’s new singing euphonium is test driven by James McLeod
THE BRASS BAND WORLD NEWS
Allan Withington’s Dutch Conductors’ School, the British transfer season, the President’s Own United States Marines Band premières Tom Davoren’s ‘Divinity of Hell’, Yamaha’s boost for Italian banding and Black Dyke to appear in New York!
BRASS BAND WORLD RANKINGS
With Gordon Simpson
Cory enters the New Year as the number one band
DIARY DATES
What's on around the world in February and March
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