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BBW goes digital!

Brass Band World magazine has launched its on-line digital publication...

FEB 16
 

BBW Digital is here!

Get the world's favourite monthly brass band magazine direct to your desktop, tablet, and phone for just £30 a year, beginning with February's edition featuring…

COVER STORY — CREATIVELY FREE
Cambridge Variations composer, Philip Sparke, on finding artistic freedom

LETS DEBATE CONTESTS
Where are my lucky pants? James Gourlay examines the merits of contesting

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

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

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 MacCorquodale

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 premieres 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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Regent Hall Concerts - Consort Brass Quintet

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Regent Hall Concerts - BoneVoyage Trombone Quartet

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Regent Hall Concerts - Foden's Band

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Bilton Silver Rugby Band - Nobody Does It Better - The Music of James Bond.

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Regent Hall Concerts - The Regent Hall Band of the Salvation Army

Sunday 4 October • Regent Hall (The Salvation Army). 275 Oxford Street. London W1C2DJ


Olney Brass

September 30 • We are a friendly and committed THIRD SECTION band looking for:. . - CORNETS (Front & Back Row). - SOLO HORN. . Engagements and concerts in the Olney/Milton Keynes area.. Rehearsals in Milton Keynes MK15 (5 mins from J14 of M1) on Tuesdays 7.45-9.45pm.


Ashington Colliery Band

September 30 • Tenor Trombone: We're a friendly, ambitious Second Section band based in South East Northumberland just north of Blyth. We rehearse Tuesdays & Thursdays, 19:30-21:30, and transport can be provided depending on location.


Waltham St. Lawrence Silver Band

September 28 • . Our welcoming non-contesting community band, based near Maidenhead, Bracknell and Reading, has openings for: . Percussion, kit and tuned: a lovely pair of timps awaits you!.


John Durrant

MA LLCM TD CertEd (Dist)
Conductor, Band Trainer, Composer, Trumpet and Cornet Soloist, Arranger, Adjudicator


               

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