Sunday Bandstand 1 May 2016

1st May 2016

Sunday Bandstand 1 May 2016

Joseph Horovitz (b: 26 May 1926 in Vienna, Austria) is a British composer & conductor. His Jewish family emigrated to England in 1938 to escape the Nazis. He studied music and modern languages at New College, Oxford, and later attended the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition with Gordon Jacob.

He was subsequently active as a conductor of ballet and opera, touring Europe and the USA. His works include 16 ballets, including Alice in Wonderland (1953), 2 one-act operas (The Dumb Wife and Gentlemen’s Island). Along with concertos for violin, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, euphonium, tuba and percussion, as well as a popular and often performed jazz concerto for harpsichord or piano.

He has written a number of pieces for brass bands including '...Ballet for Band...' in 1983. This work is featured on this show as it is the 1st Section National Final test piece in September 2016 at Cheltenham. On this track he is the conductor.

Playlist 1 May 2016

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

Amsterdam Festival March - Norman Bearcroft - Amsterdam Staff Band of the Salvation Army (The Netherlands) BM: Howard Evans - 2002

Jodrell Bank - Peter Yorke - Brass Band Schoonhoven (The Netherlands) MD: Erik Janssen - 1999

Aranjuez Mon Amour - Rodrigo Arr: Darrol Barry - BNFL Band MD: Richard Evans - 1994

Count Your Blessings - Brindley Boon - Trombone Soloist Andrew Justice with the International Staff Band BM: Stephen Cobb - 1999

A Tameside Overture -  Philip Sparke - Ashton Under Lyne Band MD: Philip Chalk - 2016

Gee Officer Krupke - Leonard Bernstein Arr: Simon Kerwin - Yorkshire Co-op Band  MD: Simon Kerwin - 2008

Dance Sequence - Gareth Wood - Trombone Soloist Grethe Tonheim with the Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag MD: Ray Farr - 1999

The Marriage Of Figaro - Overture - W.A.Mozart - Gothenburg Brass Band MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs - 2007

Legend in Brass - I. Fanfare: II. Soliloquy:  III. Finale - James Curnow - Sellers Engineering Band MD: Philip McCann - 1994

The Spirit of Pageantry - Percy Fletcher - Black Dyke Mills Band MD: Roy Newsome - 1974

Czardas - Vittorio Monti Arr: Øystein Baadsvik - Solo Tuba Øystein Baadsvik with the Music Vitae Chamber Orchestra - 2003

The Brigands' Orgy - Hector Berlioz Arr: Philip Harper - Cory Band MD: Philip Harper - 2015

Ballet for Band - Joseph Horowitz - Co-operative Funeralcare Band GMD: Joseph Horovitz - 1994

Fandango - Frank Perkins Arr: James Howe - Brass Band of Central Florida (USA) MD: Chad Shoopman - 2012

In Dixieland - William Rimmer Arr: Simon Kerwin - Euphonium Soloist Mike Kilroy with the Marple Band MD: Garry Cutt - 1999

The Spider and the Fly - Benjamin Britten Arr: Darrol Barry - Besses O'th'Barn Band MD:  Paul Hindmarsh - 1993

The Salvation Army March - John Philip Sousa Arr: Ray Steadman-Allen - Amsterdam Staff Band of the Salvation Army BM: Howard Evans - 2002

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

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