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Performance TitleDaily Herald National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain 1959 - Grand Festival Concert
Performance Date24 October 1959
Performance DaySaturday
Performance Time15:00
Main PerformersO H Peasgood - organ
Secondary PerformersFrank Phillips - announcer,
Rt. Hon. Lord Citrine - prize giver
Orchestra or BandMassed Bands:
Fodens Motor Works Band,
Black Dyke Mills Band,
The Fairey Band,
Cardiff (Melingriffith) Band,
Morris Motors Band,
Rushden Temperance Band,
Trumpeters of The Royal Military School of Music
ConductorsLt.-Colonel D McBain,
Sir Arthur Bliss,
Eric Ball - associate conductor,
Denis Wright - associate conductor,
Frank Wright - associate conductor
Set List'Fanfare for Brass Band and Organ' (Massed Bands, O H Peasgood),
'God Save the Queen', (National Anthem)
'Grand March' from Tannhauser, Wagner,
'Funeral March of A Marionette', Gounod,
Lehar Melodies - 'Gold and Silver Waltz', 'Wild Roses', 'Delia', 'Merry Widow Waltz', Lehar, arr. Barsotti,
'Le Roi D'Ys', Lalo, arr. Frank Wright
Presentation of the Daily Herald National Brass Band Championship Trophy, Cash Awards and Baton of Honour (Rt. Hon. Lord Citrine PC)
'Selection from Gilbert and Sullivan Operas', arr. Denis Wright,
'Country Palatine March', Maurice Johnstone
INTERVAL
'The Thieving Magpie Overture', Rossini-Denis Wright,
'Largo' from Xerxes, Handel,
'Polar Star Waltz', Waldteufel - Leonard Davies,
'Trumpet Tune and Air', Purcell-Frank Wright,
'Finlandia', Sibelius,
'Andante Cantabile', Tchaikovsky-Frank Wright,
'Preludes Nos. 7 and 20', Chopin-Eric Ball,
'March, Pomp and Circumstance, No.1', Elgar (Massed Bands)
Performance NotesThe event was broadcast by BBC Television from 15:15-16:35.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1959/128)
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1959/128Daily Herald National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain 1959 - National Finals24 October 1959
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Owlariboh_SczDaily Herald National Brass Band Championship of Great Britain 19591
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/6340Peasgood; Osborne Harold (1902-1962); CVO; Brtish organist
DS/UK/7050Bliss; Sir; Arthur (2 August 1891-27 March 1975); CH KCVO; English composer and conductor
DS/UK/11301Ball; Eric (1903-1989); OBE; British composer, arranger and conductor
DS/UK/7007Wright; Denis (1895-1967); British composer, conductor
DS/UK/7376Wright; Frank (fl 1950s-1960s); British organist, conductor
DS/UK/7932Phillips; Frank (fl 1940s-1970s); English broadcaster
DS/UK/1172Citrine; Walter McLennan (1887-1983); 1st Baron Citrine, GBE, PC; British trade unionist, politician
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