Record

Performance TitleNational Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 1981 - Gala Festival Night
Performance Date3 October 1981
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersGordon Higginbottom - tenor horn,
Phillip McCann - trumpet,
Roy Newsome - organ
Orchestra or BandMassed Bands:
Besses O' Th' Barn Band,
Black Dyke Mills Band,
Desford Colliery Dowty Band,
GUS Band
ConductorsHarry Mortimer,
Roy Newsome (associate conductor)
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), arr. Sir David Willcocks, trans. Lt.-Colonel Trevor L Sharpe (Massed Bands),
Grand March: 'Spirit of Pageantry', Percy Fletcher (Massed Bands),
Symphonic Poem: 'Spectrum', Gilbert Vinter (Massed Bands),
'Fantasia on British Sea Songs', Gordon Langford (Massed Bands),
'Fantasia Brillante:Carnival de Venice', Del Staiger (Phillip McCann, John Foster and Son Black Dyke Mills Band),
'Rusalka's Song to the Moon', Dvorak, arr. Gordon Langford (Phillip McCann, John Foster and Son Black Dyke Mills Band),
'Siciliana' (Little Suite), Malcolm Arnold (Massed Bands),
Overture: 'The Force of Destiny', Verdi, arr. Frank Wright (Massed Bands)
INTERVAL
Concert March: 'The European', Geoff Richards (Massed Bands),
Tone Poem: 'Resurgam', Eric Ball (Massed Bands),
Finale from the Suite - 'Three Impressions, the Royal Border Bridge', Arthur Butterworth (Massed Bands),
'Le Cor Vole', William Relton (Gordon Higginbottom, Besses O' Th' Barn Band),
'Misty', Errol Garner, arr. Kevin Bolton (Gordon Higginbottom, Besses O' Th' Barn Band),
Fanfare: 'Prelude to a Festival', Lt.-Colonel Trevor Sharpe (Massed Bands),
Finale: 'Finlandia', Sibelius, arr. William Relton (Roy Newsome, Massed Bands)
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1981/148A)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1981/148ANational Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 1981 - Gala Festival Night3 October 1981
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Enoleakair_GekNational Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 19813
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6506Black Dyke Band; 1855-; British brass band
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