Chris Helme - Sunday Bandstand 5 February 2017

Sunday Bandstand 5 February 2017

Sir Malcolm Arnold, CBE (21.10.1921 – 23.09.2006) English composer from Northampton, UK. Youngest of 5 children and after seeing Louis Armstrong play, he took up the trumpet aged 12 and 5 years later won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music

Studied composition with Gordon Jacob & trumpet with Ernest Hall. 1941 he joined the London Philharmonic Orchestra, as second trumpet & became principal trumpet in 1943

After a year as principal trumpet with the BBC Symphony Orchestra he returned to the London Philharmonic in 1946 staying until 1948 when he left to become a full-time composer. His works include a cycle of 9 symphonies, numerous concertos, concert works, chamber music, choral music & music for brass band & wind band. He wrote extensively for the theatre, with 5 commissioned ballets by the Royal Ballet, as well as 2 operas and a musical & over 100 film scores including The Bridge on the River Kwai which won him an Oscar

His Little Suite for Brass Op80 is on this show

Playlist 5 February 2017

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

Opening Ceremony - Richard Phillips - The Household Troops Band BM: Carl Saunders - 2011

Rhapsodic Variations - My Strength, My Tower - Dean Goffin - Reg Vardy Band MD: John Ward - 2011

In My Life and A Heart Full Of Love from Les Miserables - Schonberg / Boublil Arr: Kevin Holdgate - Trombone Soloist Kevin Holdgate and Oboist Emma Todd with an 8 Piece brass ensemble, string quartet, vibraphone, Oboe and Trombone MD: Roy Curran - 2001

River City Serenade - Philip Sparke - JJB Sports Leyland Band MD: Richard Evans - 1998

The Pacemakers - Concert Overture - Edward Gregson - Williams Fairey Band MD: James Gourlay - 2000

Solitaire - Neil Sedaka Arr: Alan Fernie - Cornet Soloist David Crisp with the Clifton and Lightcliffe Band MD: John Clay - 2007

We Are The Champions - Freddie Mercury Arr: Mark Bentham - Drighlington (Yorkshire Electrictry) Junior Band MD: Mark Bentham - c:Mid 90s

The Girl I Left Behind - Traditional Arr: Philip Sparke - GUS Band MD: John Berryman - 1986

Stars and Stripes, Forever - J.P.Sousa Arr: Wills - Bones Apart Trombone Quartet: Carol Jarvis; Lorna McDonald; Becky Smith & Becca Harper - 2002

Fanfare, Prelude and Fugue On Sine Nomine - Peter Graham - International Staff Band of the Salvation Army BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb - 2011

Chassidic Dance - Howard J. Evans - Amsterdam Staff Band (The Netherlands) BM: Howard J. Evans - 2002

Melody et Caprice - George Hespe - Trombone Soloist Brett Baker with the Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band MD: Chris Houlding - 2006

Sway - Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltrán Ruiz Arr: - Downshire Band (Northern Ireland) MD: Michael Alcorn - 2015

Little Suite for Brass No. 1 Op 80 - 1. Prelude; 2. Siciliano 3. Rondo - Sir Malcolm Arnold - Grimethorpe Colliery Band MD: Elgar Howarth - 1993

On The Quarter Deck - Kenneth Alford - BNFL Band MD: Richard Evans - 1996

Le Corsaire Op 21 Hector Berlioz Arr: Geoffrey Brand - Drighlington (Yorkshire Electricity) Senior Band MD: Colin Hardy - c:Mid 90s

Scheherazade - Rimsky-Korsakov Arr: Ord Hume - Foden's Richardson Band MD: Russell Gray - 2005

The Prayer - Carole Bayer-Sager & David Foster Arr: Luc Vertommen - Tuba Soloist Les Neish with Euphonium Soloist David Thornton with the Wingates Band MD: David Thornton -2011

Procession to the Minster- Richard Wagner Arr: Howard Snell - Massed Bands Brighouse & Rastrick, Britannia Building Society, Desford Colliery Bands GMD Howard Snell - RAH 1987

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