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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More music from the heart of Yorkshire from Chris Helme

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  Chris Helme brings you the music from the heart of Yorkshire

Sunday Bandstand: 19th November

More great music to send out to the banding world from Chris Helme in the heartland of Yorkshire...

For further information please see www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk and follow the Sunday Bandstand links for this play list and previous shows dating back to 2014.

The show is now played on nine licensed UK community radio stations and five overseas via a Mixcloud link (USA, Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus, France).

The website also has a review section and a brass band nostalgia section.

Your CD

Has your band produced a CD this year? If so we would be very pleased to play tracks from it if you have.

Or have you a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Click this link:

https://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisHelme/sunday-bandstand-19-november-2017/

Rhythm and Blues (Philip Sparke)
Opening for weekly show Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

The Golden Pen (Wilfred Heaton)
International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2002

Ex Terra Lucem (Jonathan Bates)
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2017

Danny Boy (Traditional arr: Rich Ridenour)
Soloist: Patrick Sheridan
With pianist Rich Ridenour (USA) — 1997

Ad Optimum (Peter Graham)
Brass Band De Waldsang
MD: Rieks van der Velde — 2005

The Summer Knows (Michel Legrand arr: Darrol Barry)
Soloist: Derek Southcott with the Stocksbridge Brass Band
MD: Christopher Houlding — 1993

Around the World March (Alexander Owen)
Besses o'th' Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1980

Oklahoma (Rogers & Hammerstein arr: Ken Norman)
The Illinois Band (USA)
MD: Peter Lipari — 2003

Barndance & Cowboys Hymn (Philip Sparke)
GUS Band
MD: John Berryman — 1986

The Firebird — Infernal Dance & Final Hymn (Stravinsky arr: Ray Farr)
Foden's Richardson Band
MD: Russell Gray — 2005

Les Girls from the Music Hall Suite (Joseph Horowitz arr: J.G.Walker)
James Shepherd Versatile Brass
MD: Roy Curran — 1991

Capriccio Italian Op45 (Tchaikovsky arr: John Howarth)
Buy as you View Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2004

You Are the Sunshine of My Life (arr: Goff Richards)
Flowers Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2009

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Stephen Foster arr: Elgar Howarth)
Soloist Trevor Bremner with the Wellington Brass (New Zealand)
MD: David Bremner — 2013

Trumpet Blues and Cantabile (James and Mathias arr: Bill Geldard)
Soloists: Harold Sim, Martin Britt, Clive Miller, Alan Roberts & Phil James with the Redbridge Band
MD: John Clark — 1994

Georgia on My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael arr: Luis)
Bones Apart Trombone Ensemble: Carol Jarvis, Becky Smith, Becca Harper & Lorna McDonald 2002

Nabucco Overture (Giuseppe Verdi arr: Howard Lorriman)
The Italian Brass Band (Italy)
MD: Filippo Cangiamila — 2017

Song of the Seashore (Traditional arr: Alan Catherall)
Soloist: Gordon Higginbottom
With pianist John Golland — 1991

Loretta's Theme from Gianni Schicchi (arr: Alan Fernie)
Soprano Vocalist: Iona Jones with the Buy as You View Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2005

Love's End (Huug Steketee)
Soloist: Peter Masseurs with the Hepworth ( Cookson Holmes) Band
MD: Mark Bentham — 2006

Lowry Sketchbook -Peel Park (Philip Wilby)
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: David Hirst — 1997

The Ambassadors (Peter Graham)
International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2009

Kindly Leave the Stage (Terry Kenny)
South West Trains Woodfall's Band
MD: Jonathan Camps — 2003

Rhythm and Blues (Philip Sparke)
Closing for weekly show Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

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