New edition of BBW out now!
The November edition of the Brass Band World magazine is now out, and it's packed with fantastic features, articles, reviews and interviews from around the globe…
BRASS BANDS ENGLAND RECRUITS
Brass Bands England (BBE) is poised to change the landscape of English brass banding and is starting by creating two new salaried positions with professional-level expertise: a Development / Training / Education officer and a Marketing / Communications / Commercial officer, the recruitment adverts for which appear in the November edition of BBW.
LET'S DEBATE: POWER IN THE HANDS OF BANDS
Adam Goldsmith, Producer and Senior Recording Engineer for World of Sound, which has recorded ten of the nominees for BBW’s 2017 Recording Awards, surveys the fast-moving changes to the audio and video recording landscape, from hard copy to digital consumption.
THE BBW INTERVIEW: ‘THE PROFUNDITY AND SINCERITY OF THE MUSIC IS ALL THAT REMAINS’
One of the most dynamic figures in worldwide brass banding, Professor David King, recently returned to his native Australia with yet another title conquest - this time the British ‘National’. However, for the man dubbed ‘the green boy from the brown land’ when he arrived on British shores, musical greatness lies not in record-breaking statistics, but in the process of making music and educating musicians, as David Childs discovered when he caught up with the maestro.
‘THANK YOU FOR THE MUSIC BRIGHOUSE’
Led by Professor David King, Brighouse and Rastrick notched up its tenth British National last month against the backdrop of an intriguing and musically compelling contest on Howard Snell’s test-piece, Gallery, that emerged as one of the closest-fought battles in recent National Final history. BBW’s Chief Contributor, Christopher Thomas, brings the detail.
YOUNG VOICES
It’s a bit of a Brighouse edition this month, as Mark Good meets one of the band’s rising talents - 18-year-old trombonist, Ellena Newton.
NEW EUROPEAN ORDER HEADS FOR UTRECHT
Thomas Dunne brings coverage of the first three National contests taking place across Europe, plus Norway’s SIDDIS entertainment contest, where the older order was pretty much evident in Denmark and Norway, but toppled in Holland and Austria.
‘WHO ARE WE TO JUDGE?’
Harmen Vanhoorne and Stan Nieuwenhuis have just held a very special launch of Harmen’s new CD, doux - Ellis Island, with the strong political message about immigration: ‘Who are we to judge?’
BBW’S CD AWARD 2017
The time has arrive for BBW’s red-carpet CD of the Year accolades - who has won the Band and Solo CD of the Year awards and who has scooped a BBW ‘Out of the Box’ Award?
BBW CENTRE BAND – TALES OF THE NORTH SEA
Eikanger-Bjørsvik Musikklag has just achieved the triple crown - the Norwegian National, the European and SIDDIS. The Norwegian band now heads to Gateshead with its SIDDIS-winning programme, Tales of the North Sea, to tilt at the title.
VOICE FROM THE PAST
The fascinating transcript of a previously unpublished interview with the late trumpeter, conductor and educator of international repute, James Watson, by Lisa Fitzgerald-Lombard.
PRO PLATFORM – SOUND ADVICE
Professor Roger Webster looks at the age-old question of what constitutes a good sound and issues a warning about the vexed issue of vibrato.
BBW CASTAWAY
BBW’s November Castaway is perennial Brass in Concert favourite - ‘Dick the Stick’ Richard Evans, who selects some real tearjerkers for his desert island listening!
REVIEWS: CDS
David Childs reviews Septura’s new disc - Music for Brass Septet 5, Thomas Dunne enjoys The Wind Band Music of Andy Scott by Maidstone Wind Symphony and Dr. Robert Childs listens to Metropolis 1927 - the latest release from The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Portsmouth, as well as enjoys a Q&A with the Lt. Col. Nick Grace OBE - the retired Principal Conductor of Royal Marines Music.
MUSIC
Thomas Dunne reviews the latest batch of new titles from mf-musikverlag frank, Experianza Music, Lake Music and Wright and Round.
CONCERT REVIEWS
The RAF College Band, Enfield Citadel Band, and the 2017 British National Champion band, Brighouse and Rastrick’s massed concert with Foden’s Band.
PRODUCTS
Hercules celebrates the success of the band that endorsees its music stands - Brighouse and Rastrick, and Wessex Tubas gets ready to launch a game-changing BBb bass - the Leviathan, which does exactly as its name suggests.
RANKINGS
Where have the top 100 bands landed in the busy major contest months of October and November - Gordon Simpson reveals all.
DIARY DATES
Events around the World in November and December.
… AND ANOTHER THING
The entertainment contest format comes with a health warning for John Barber and cartoonist, Nezzy!
NEWS
Palanga update, British Composer nominations and YouTube changes for World of Brass
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