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Brass summer concert full of popular classics
Brass in Concert Friendly Band Square Chapel, Halifax
CONDUCTOR Carol Caton chose a mainstream programme for the Sowerby Bridge band's summer concert at Square Chapel.
Any temptation to include test pieces, overtures or tone poems was resisted. Instead a good-sized audience was treated to lots of well-known music.
There were Buddy Holly and Abba medleys, arran-ged by former Brighouse & Rastrick, and Black Dyke MD Derek Broadbent, Glenn Miller's In The Mood and The Muppets theme.
Percussion instruments were given out for people to join in on the samba, which preceded a rework for brass of Bill Haley's Rock Around The Clock.
The inclusion of guests John Clay (cornet), conductor of Clifton and Lightcliffe Band, and his wife Jane (tenor horn) enhanced the sound on marches Punchinello, by William Rimmer, and The Old Warrior.
It was hard to believe that 11-year-old Kerry Franklin, who played an unaccompanied Abide With Me, took up the cornet only five months ago.
There was a quartet of euphonium player Caton, cornetists Rae Nesbitt and Helen Crichton and Clare Whaley (tenor horn) on a piece from opera Der Freischutz.
Nesbitt also performed Buster Strikes Back, by Brighouse & Rastrick MD Alan Morrison.
Contributions came, too, from Ian Le Page (trombone) on Can't Take My Eyes Off You and Craig Lawrence (euphonium) on Welsh melody Myfanw.
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