Adam Goldsmith, Producer and Senior Recording Engineer for World of Sound, which has recorded ten of the nominees for BBW’s 2017 Recording Awards, surveys the fast-moving changes to the audio and video recording landscape, from hard copy to digital consumption.
‘Streaming services, such as Spotify and Apple Music, provide instant access to...read more
Brass Bands England (BBE) is poised to change the landscape of English brass banding and is starting by creating two new salaried positions with professional-level expertise: a Development / Training / Education officer and a Marketing / Communications / Commercial officer, the recruitment adverts for which appear in the November edition...read more
Contributor, Christopher Thomas, chats to the Music Director of English National Opera, Martyn Brabbins, who last month returned to
his brass band roots when he conducted Dalmellington Band in a programme also featuring The Wallace Collection at The Cumnock Tryst.
Links between brass bands and the classical musical world are all too...read more
Black Dyke's baritone star, Katrina Marzella, introduces her latest Desert Island Discs CastawayIt my sincere pleasure to welcome Howard Snell to Brass Band World’s Castaway. Mr. Snell has been a considerable inspiration to me and countless other brass musicians for many years through his seemingly endless playing, pedagogical, compositional and conducting...read more