Chris Helme - Sunday Bandstand 19 February 2017

Sunday Bandstand 19 February 2017

Bandmaster Andrew Mackereth - His earliest musical training was with the SA in Kingston-upon-Hull. In 1982 he enrolled on the Certificate in Brass Band Studies at Newcastle College of Arts & Technology, studying trombone, euphonium and tuba. Here he became interested in Jazz and made his first arrangements for brass band.

 In 1984, he attended Birmingham School of Music to study Trombone and Composition, later studying Percussion & Conducting also. In his fourth year, he won the Bernhard Brown Memorial Composition Prize and was commissioned to write a work for brass band.

Training as a teacher he was quickly promoted to Head of Music at a Secondary School in Britain. To date he has over 50 compositions in print; many frequently feature at SA concerts.

His first publications in the 1980s were religious songs and by 1997 his works for brass band were being published.

On this show we have one of Andrew's compositions.

Enjoy

Playlist 19 February 2017

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

The Wizard - George Allan - Wingates Band MD: Paul Andrews - 2013

Overture On God Save The Queen - Jonathan Bates - Flowers Band MD: Paul Holland - 2015

Entertainments - (1 mvt Caprice 2 mvt Elegy 3 mvt March) - Gilbert Vinter - Fairey FP Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 2006

Capriccio - Philip Sparke - Soprano Soloist Christian Hollensteiner with the Brass Band Obersterrich (Austria)MD: Hannes Buchegger - 2012

Czardas Der Geist Des Woiwoden - Ludwick Grossman Arr: Major Peter Parkes - 1981 - Black Dyke Mills Band MD: Major Peter Parkes - 1981

Ave Maria - Anton Bruckner Arr: Kenneth Downie - International Staff Band of the Salvation Army BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb - 2008

Diadem of Gold - George Bailey Arr: Frank Wright - Buy As You View Cory Band MD: Dr. Robert Childs - 2000

Danse Macabre Variations - Benjamin Tubb - Fairey Band MD: Garry Cutt - 2014

West Side Story Suite 1) Maria; Cha-Cha 2) Scherzo 3)America - Leonard Bernstein Arr: Eric Crees - London Symphony Brass MD: Eric Crees - 1991

La Belle Americaine - John Hartmann - Euphonium Soloist Glyn Williams with the Foden's Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2014

Mosaic - Elgar Howarth - Eikanger Bjorsvik Muisikklag (Norway) MD: Elgar Howarth - 2015

Haunted Halls - Paul Lovatt-Cooper - Black Dyke Band MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs - 2008

Deux Grotesques - 1) Balletomane 2) March of the Clowns - A. Picon (Anthony Spurgin ) Arr: Dawson - CWS (Manchester) Band - MD: Alex Mortimer - 1960

Festoso - Andrew Mackereth - Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band MD: John Hinckley - 2000

Seaside Impressions -1. Sounds Form The Promenade 3. Sandcastles - Huug Steketee - Cornet Soloist Huug Steketee & Euphonium Soloist James Fieldhouse with the Hepworth (Persimmon Homes) Band

Someone To Watch Over Me - George Gershwin Arr: Alan Fernie - Britannia Building Society Band MD: Howard Snell - 1994

March Lorraine - Louis Ganne - Leyland Band MD: Stephen Sykes - 2003

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