Record

Performance TitleNational Brass Band Championship of Great Britain Festival Concert
Performance Date16 October 1954
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersKenny Baker - trumpet
Secondary PerformersW Surrey Dane - prize-giver
Orchestra or BandTrumpeters of The Life Guards,
Massed Bands:
Brighouse and Rastrick Band,
Camborne Town Band,
Creswell Colliery Welfare Band,
Fairey Aviation Works Band,
Fodens Motor Works Band,
Govan Burgh Band,
Hoo Silver Band,
Park and Dare Workmen's Band
ConductorsSir Adrian Boult,
Lt.-Colonel A Lemoine
Set List'God Save the Queen', (National Anthem)
March - 'Youth of Britain', Eric Coates, arr. Denis Wright (Massed Bands),
Suite - 'The Water Music', Handel-Harty, arr. S Holt (Massed Bands),
'Panis Angelicus', Franck (Massed Bands),
Finale - 'Overture, Orpheus in The Underworld', Offenbach (Massed Bands),
Overture - 'A French Comedy', Keler-Bela, arr. Frank Wright (Massed Bands),
'Cornet Carillon', Ronald Binge (Brighouse and Rastrick Band, Creswell Colliery Welfare Band, Fairey Aviation Works Band, Fodens Motor Works Band),
'Pilgrims March' (Symphony No.4), Mendelssohn (Massed Bands),
Scena - 'Miserere' from Il Trovatore, Verdi (Massed Bands),
'Pomp and Circumstance No.4', Elgar (Massed Bands),
'March of The Peers' from Iolanthe, Sullivan, arr. Drake Rimmer (Massed Bands),
'Sovereign Heritage', J. Beaver, arr. Frank Wright (Massed Bands) (First Concert Performance),
'El Relicario', Padillo (Baker),
'Stardust', Carmichael (Baker),
'Carnival of Venice' (Baker),
'Minuet' from Samson, Handel (Massed Bands),
'Hallelujah Chorus' from The Messiah, Handel (Massed Bands)
Performance NotesThe event was broadcast by BBC television from 20:30 and introduced by Frank Phillips.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1954/138)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1954/138National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain - Festival Concert16 October 1954
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Itafoihoon_BusNational Brass Band Championship of Great Britain 19543
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/358Boult; Sir; Adrian (8 April 1889-22 February 1983); CH; English conductor
DS/UK/7310Baker; Kenny (1 March 1921-7 December 1999); MBE; English jazz trumpet, cornet and flugelhorn player, and composer
DS/UK/7932Phillips; Frank (fl 1940s-1970s); English broadcaster
DS/UK/1885British Army; HM Band of the Life Guards; 1795-; British Army Band
DS/UK/6901The Brighouse and Rastrick Band; 1881-; English brass band
DS/UK/6902Camborne Town Band; fl 1880s-; English brass band
DS/UK/6907Creswell Colliery Band; 1899-; English brass band
DS/UK/6899The Fairey Band; 1937-; English brass band
DS/UK/6507Foden's Band; 1900-; British brass band
DS/UK/9120Parc and Dare Band; 1893-; Welsh brass band
DS/UK/18508Govan Burgh; 1906-1956; Scottish brass band
DS/UK/18509Hoo Silver; 1885-1970; English brass band
DS/UK/18507Lemoine; A (fl 1954); British brass band conductor
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