Chris Helme - Sunday Bandstand 6 March 2016

Sunday Bandstand 6 March 2016

One of the nicest men ever to play the instrument, Trevor Groom was for over 30 years one of the best euphonium players in the country, first with the Kettering Citadel Band and then with the GUS Band, with whom he won two National titles, a World title and a British Open.

He is possibly best remembered though as the man who gave the first performance of the Joseph Horovitz Euphonium Concerto at the Royal Albert Hall in 1972 (thankfully recorded for posterity), an occasion that for the general public at last showed that the euphonium was a solo concerto instrument to be treated in the same way as a trumpet or trombone. It was an achievement of epic proportions and led the way for other composers to be attracted to the instrument. It is something all the banding world should be grateful to him for.

Trevor is featured on this show with his 1979 performance of Erik Leidzen's 'Home on the Range with Variations'.... a fabulous performance by a true legend of the brass band word

Playlist 6 March 2016

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

Alexander March - George Hawkins - Scottish CWS Band MD: Enoch Jackson - 1971

Kenilworth - Sir Arthur Bliss - Harry Mortimer and his All Star Band MD: Harry Mortimer - 1963

I'll Not Turn Back - John Larsson Arr: Ivor Bosanko - Cornet Soloist Kirsty Abbotts and Principal Euphonium Toni Durrant with the Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band MD: Philip McCann - 2015

Fusion - Martin Cordner - International Staff Band BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb - 2013

Two English Folksongs - Golden Slumbers / Bobby Shaftoe Arr: Edward Watson - Vocalist Catherine James with the Yorkshire Building Society Band MD: David King - 1999

Escape to Victory - Bill Conti Arr: Rieks van der Velde - Brass Band De Waldsang (Netherlands) MD: Rieks van der Velde - 2006

Le Secret - John Hazel - Cornet Soloist John Hazel with the (USA) Edison Military Band - 1903

Dawn Of A New Age - Richard Rock - Hammonds Saltaire Band MD: Morgan Griffiths - 2011

Flight of the Bumble Bee - Rimsky Korsakov Arr: Kenneth Dennison - Fairey Band MD: Kenneth Dennison - 1975

It Had Better Be Tonight - Henry Mancini Arr: Sandy Smith - Fodens Band MD: Michael Fowles - 2016

I'll Walk With God - Nicholas Brodsky / Paul Webster Arr: Goff Richards - Elland Silver Band MD: James Shepherd - 2010

Ride Of The Valkyries - Richard Wagner - Besses O' Th' Barn Band - MD: Roy Newsome - 1983

Allerseelen op10 No. 8 - Richard Strauss Arr: Stephen Roberts - Sun Life Stanshawe Band MD: Bryan Hurdley - 1979

Blenheim Flourishes - James Curnow - Breeze Brass Band (Japan) MD: Kazuyoshi Uemura - 1995

Home On the Range with Variations - Erik Leidzen - Euphonium Soloist Bandsman Trevor Groom with the Kettering Citadel Band BM: Donald Manning - 1979

Prelude to the Mastersingers - Richard Wagner Arr: Frank Wright - Brighouse and Rastrick Band MD: Professor Walter B. Hargreaves - 1969

Wheel Of Fortune from Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Man's Chest - Hans Zimmer Arr: Stephen Roberts - Black Dyke Band MD: Professor Nicholas Childs - 2015

Home of Legends - Paul Lovatt-Cooper - Cory Band MD: Dr. Robert Childs - 2012

Can't Take My Eyes off of You - Bob Crewe / Bob Gaudio Arr: Edrich Siebert - Trombone Soloist Trevor Wallbank with the Leyland DAF Band MD: Richard Evans - 1989

Pique Dame - Overture - Franz Von Suppe Arr: Sydney Herbert - Elland Silver Band MD: James Shepherd - 2010

Swing Low Sweet Chariot - Wallis Willis - Britannia Building Society with the Halifax Choral Society MD: John Pryce Jones - 1994

Enter the Galaxies - Paul Lovatt-Cooper - Massed Bands of the International Staff Band and the New York Staff Band BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb - 2011

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