Sunday Bandstand 5 June 2016

Sunday Bandstand 5 June 2016

George Allan - 1864 / 1930. The march king of the North East of England. Born on the 16 March 1864 into a musical family in Shildon. He was a composer of such excellent contest marches as Knight Templar, Senator and Raby - marches that are all played regularly on the Whit Friday contest circuits.

He also conducted the New Shildon Saxhorn Band and was conductor of the orchestra which accompanied the All Saint's Amateur Operatic Society. He both published and printed his own music.

Throughout his life George Allan worked as a wagon painter in the Shildon Railway Works. He died in March 1930, aged 65.

In this week's programme is one of his most famous marches The Wizard ................ Enjoy

Playlist 5 June 2016

Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke Opening for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010

Prelude For Kerkrade - Kenneth Young National Band of New Zealand MD: Kenneth Young - 2005

Symphony of Marches 1) Maestoso 2) Grave 3) Brioso - Gilbert Vinter Cory Band MD: Philip Harper - 2015

A Brown Bird Singing - Hayden Wood Arr: T. Dodd Cornet Soloist Maurice Murphy with the Leyland DAF Band MD: Richard Evans - 2007

Estudiantina - Emile Waldteufel Grimethorpe Colliery (UK Coal) Band MD: Elgar Howarth - 2004

Somethin' Stupid - C. Carson Parks Arr: Roland Kernen Soli Deo Gloria (The Netherlands) MD: Piet Groeneveld - 2002

Polishing The Brass - Dave and Christopher Brubeck Gramercy Brass Orchestra (USA) MD: John Henry Lambert - 2016

Fire in the Blood - Paul Lovatt Cooper Brass Band of Singapore MD: Ignatius Wang - 2016

Share My Yoke - Joy Webb Cornet Soloist Trevor Bremner with the Wellington Brass (New Zealand) MD: David Bremner - 2014

Battle of the Winds - Charles Duble Sunlife (Stanshawe) Band MD: Roy Newsome - 1979

Credo - Lorne Barry Tredegar Town Band MD: Ian Porthouse - 2012

Slavonic Rhapsody No.2 - Carl Friedmann Arr: Frank Wright CWS (Glasgow) Band MD: Howard Snell - 1990

Jump, Jive an' Wail - Louis Prima Arr: J. Vinson Euphonium Soloist Steven Mead with multi-tracking - 2006

Harbour Light - Norman Bearcroft Euphonium Soloist Derick Kane with the International Staff Band BM: Stephen Cobb - 1999

Holberg Suite - Prelude - Edvard Grieg Arr: Howard Lorriman Provinciale Brass Band Groningen (Netherlands) MD: Siestse Hamersma - 2005

New York, New York - John Kander Arr: P. Kerne Black Dyke Band and the Halifax Choral Society MD: Nicholas Childs - 2004

Celestial Prospect - Variations - Wilfred Heaton Eikanger Bjorsvik Band (Norway) MD: Howard Snell - 2000

The Firebird - Infernal Dance & Final Hymn - Stravinsky Arr: Ray Farr Foden's Richardson Band MD: Russell Gray - 2005

Variations Sur Norma - Arr: Simon Kerwin Cornet Soloist Russell Gray with the Foden's Richardson Band MD: Frank Renton - 2003

The Wizard - George Allan Ashton under Lyne Band MD: Philip Chalk - 2016

Rhythm and Blues – Philip Sparke Closing for weekly show Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2010

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