George Lloyd View it on this youtube version Commissioned for English Heritage. 1988: English Heritage premiered by Black Dyke Brass Band, and Brighouse and Rastrick Brass Bands under Geoffrey Brand at Kenwood. Used as a contest test piece including: 1990: National Championship of Great Britain (Championship
Tony Mansell
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George Lloyd View it on this youtube version Commissioned for the finals of the Mineworkers’ National Brass Band contest 1986 held in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool. George Lloyd wrote: “This piece is a set of variations. … a number of tunes grow out of the first bar, played by
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Newquay (march for piano) by George William Cave George Cave was a colliery man, steeped in the world of brass bands. He composed the march ‘Our Colliers’ and adjudicated at a number of contests throughout the country. His trademark seems to have been his bowler hat which he
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Monty Pearce Monty Pearce (1933 to 2010) in 1965, composer and member of Redruth Town Band (Photo: Henry Parkinson courtesy Paddy Bradley, Redruth) Phillip Hunt talking about Monty Pearce on “Sounds of Brass”– included here by kind permission of BBC Radio Devon/BBC Radio Cornwall Montague James Pearce (1933-2010) A
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Sir Malcolm Arnold Recorded by the Cornwall Youth Brass Band conducted by Cornishman John Berryman at the 2015 Christmas Concert The Padstow Lifeboat was composed for the launching of a new lifeboat station in Cornwall Malcolm Arnold wrote. “The Padstow Lifeboat has a long, heroic and distinguished record.
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