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Performance TitleThe People National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 1966 - Festival Concert
Performance Date15 October 1966
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersFrancis Cameron - organ,
Cedric Sutton - piano
Orchestra or BandMassed Bands:
City of Coventry Band,
Crookhall Bradley Band,
CWS (Manchester) Band,
Fairey Band,
GUS (Footwear) Band,
Hanwell Band,
St. Dennis Silver Band,
Trumpeters of The Metropolitan Police Band
ChoirsWelwyn Garden City Male Voice Choir
ConductorsSir Arthur Bliss,
Gordon Williams,
John Berryman
Set ListGrand March - 'Crown Imperial', Walton-Frank Wright (Massed Bands),
Waltz - 'Gold and Silver', Lehar (Massed Bands),
'Serenade', from String Quartet Op.3, No.5, Haydn (Massed Bands),
'Slavonic Rhapsody No.2', Carl Friedemann-Denis Wright (Massed Bands),
'The Yeomen of England', Edward German (Welwyn Garden City Male Voice Choir),
'Cyfri'r Geifr' (Counting The Goats), Llew Tegid (Welwyn Garden City Male Voice Choir),
'Johnny Come Down To Hilo', arr. G Mitchell (Welwyn Garden City Male Voice Choir),
'The Post Horn Galop', Koenig (Massed Bands),
'Love Song', Beethoven, arr. Haydn Bebb (Massed Bands),
'Creation's Hymn', Beethoven, arr. Haydn Bebb (Massed Bands),
Tone Poem - 'Finlandia', Sibelius (Massed Bands),
March - 'Kenilworth', Bliss (Massed Bands),
'Nimrod', from Enigma Variations, Elgar (Massed Bands),
Selection - 'Capriccio Italien', Tchaikovsky-Denis Wright (Massed Bands),
'Song of The Marching Men', D Protheroe (Welwyn Garden City Male Voice Choir),
'Ar Hyd Y Nos', arr. H Evans (Welwyn Garden City Male Voice Choir),
'The Rose of England', Ivor Novello (Welwyn Garden City Male Voice Choir),
'Academic Fesival Overture', Brahms-Denis Wright (Massed Bands),
'Fantasia and Fugue in C Minor', J S Bach-Drake Rimmer (Massed Bands),
Finale - 'Sundown', Barsotti (Massed Bands)
Performance NotesThe event was recorded by BBC Sound.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1966/145)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1966/145National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 1966 - Festival Concert15 October 1966
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
IesolainakehearNational Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 19663
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/13576Cameron; Francis (1927-); British organist
DS/UK/10845City of Coventry Brass Band; 1965 -; British brass band
DS/UK/11859Crookhall Colliery; 1924-1980; English brass band
DS/UK/12624City of Manchester brass band; 1900-1993; English brass band
DS/UK/6899The Fairey Band; 1937-; English brass band
DS/UK/8352Virtuosi GUS Band; 1933-; English brass band
DS/UK/11554Hanwell Band; 1891-2001; English brass band
DS/UK/11867St Dennis Band; 1838-; English brass band
DS/UK/7342Metropolitan Police Central Band; fl 1940s-1970s; English band
DS/UK/16351Welwyn Garden City Male Voice Choir; 1935-; Welsh choir
DS/UK/7050Bliss; Sir; Arthur (2 August 1891-27 March 1975); CH KCVO; English composer and conductor
DS/UK/16355Berryman; John (fl 1960s-); British brass band conductor and cornet player
DS/UK/16354Williams; Gordon (fl 1966); British conductor
DS/UK/16353Sutton; Cederic (fl 1966); British pianist
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