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Get ready to arrange a date with Philip Harper...

The Cory MD will be leading the latest Brass Bands England on-line development session this Thursday evening on the art of arranging — so make it a date..

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  Philip Harper will be leading the arranging session

You will need to be quick this week to ensure you arrange your time and date with Philip Harper as part of Brass Band England's latest on-line Development Programme.

Arranging for brass band

The Cory MD will tackle the subject of arranging for brass band, covering areas such as understanding how the score works (including transposition), working practices, arranging from a variety of sources such as orchestra, rock, jazz and folk, how to get copyright permission and much more.

The session on Thursday 14th May, starts at 7.00pm (BST) and is aimed at arrangers of all levels from those wanting to have a go during the isolation through to those who have arranged many times before.

Sign up

To sign up to the zoom webinar go to: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/9215882779877/WN_YgVMyHWIQYqMxntm6XPRKA

There are only 100 spaces with most already gone — so be quick!

This is the latest in the popular series of BBE webinars held during the Covid-19 crisis, and which have been viewed over 45,000 times.

Philip's session will take place on a Zoom webinar for those who want to get involved and ask questions directly, as well as being available as a Facebook live video on the BBE Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/brassbandsengland.

Support

All the workshops are free but BBE is asking participants to consider supporting the Brass Bands Emergency Fund with what they think sessions are worth.

To support the emergency fund, please go to https://www.chuffed.org/project/brassbandemergencyfund

The fund is also able to accept gift aid to make your donation go further for those bands that could not normally use gift aid.

During the session, Zoom attendees will be able to ask questions sent in via the registration form.

The workshop will begin with a short presentation on how to use the Zoom platform effectively to get the most out of the workshop while participants get used to the set up before starting at about 7.10pm.

The session on Thursday 14th May, starts at 7.00pm (BST) and is aimed at arrangers of all levels from those wanting to have a go during the isolation through to those who have arranged many times beforeBBE

Down the pub

After the live broadcast you can take a trip to the 'BBE Pub' to discuss the session and other things happening in the banding world.

The BBE Development Programme Online has lined up experts from across the brass band world every Thursday on subjects covering almost every conceivable element of banding.

The workshops will be delivered online using the Zoom webinar platform so attendees can interact and ask questions throughout the session directly.

Links

The session will also be available on Facebook live on the BBE facebook page https://www.facebook.com/brassbandsengland

or the BBE facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BrassBandsEngland/ for which users can sign up to for free.

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