Record

Performance TitleNational Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 1973 - Festival Concert
Performance Date6 October 1973
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time17:00
Orchestra or BandCombined Bands:
Brighouse and Rastrick Band,
City of Coventry Band,
Grimethorpe Colliery Band,
GUS (Footwear) Band,
James Shepherd Versatile Brass
ChoirsHarrow Schools' Girls' Choir
ConductorsGeoffrey Brand,
Eric Ball,
Walter Hargreaves
Set List'Colonel Bogey on Parade', Kenneth J Alford, G J Grant (Combined Bands),
'Two Blind Men of Toledo', E Mehul, D Wright (Combined Bands),
'Nine Busy Fingers - A trio for Cornets', David Woods (Combined Bands),
'Tournament for Brass', Eric Ball (Combined Bands),
'Song of Freedom', Malcolm Arnold (Harrow Schools' Girls' Choir, G.U.S. (Footwear) Band),
'Presenting the Brass', Elgar Howarth (James Shepherd Versatile Brass),
'Trumpet Shuffle', B Page, P Stone, D Wilby (James Shepherd Versatile Brass),
'Waltz No.1', Shostakovich-D Wilby (James Shepherd Versatile Brass),
'Twelve Bar Brass', arr. D Moore (James Shepherd Versatile Brass),
'Radetzky March', J Strauss-W Hargreaves (Combined Bands),
'The Plantagenets', Edward Gregson (Combined Bands),
'Men of Harlech', trad., G Langford (Combined Bands),
'Finlandia', Sibelius (Combined Bands, Harrow Schools' Girls' Choir)
Performance NotesThe event was recorded by BBC Sound.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1973/157)
Photograph (RAHE/3/1973/4)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1973/157National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 19736 October 1973
RAHE/3/1973/4Photograph of the National Brass Band Festival6 October 1973
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Iekalosoot_KcrNational Brass Band Championships of Great Britain 19733
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6901The Brighouse and Rastrick Band; 1881-; English brass band
DS/UK/10845City of Coventry Brass Band; 1965 -; British brass band
DS/UK/2943The Grimethorpe Colliery Band (1917-)
DS/UK/8352Virtuosi GUS Band; 1933-; English brass band
DS/UK/13751James Shepherd Versatile Brass; 1972-; English brass band
DS/UK/13753Brand; Geoffrey (1926-fl 1975); English brass band conductor
DS/UK/11301Ball; Eric (1903-1989); OBE; British composer, arranger and conductor
DS/UK/13755Hargreaves; Walter (1907-1998); English brass band conductor
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