As a band we always recieve requests for music on the day of concerts, but we can’t always bring the entire library with us!
If you would like to hear a particular piece, or think that other people might enjoy your favourite, then please leave a comment below.
Who knows, we might play it at our next concert!
I very much like to hear the old pieces.
One of my favourite pieces was Life Divine
Would be great if you could play this again.
It was a cracking LP as well!
Frickley Old Boy
As a listener to Radio 2’s Listen to the Band programme i’d like to suggest a tune that i always enjoy listening to ….. although the Floral Dance seems to have fallen out favour lately, I still enjoy hearing it played well !
I would also like a golden oldie that hasn’t been heard for many years. I’d like to hear Black Magic Woman
Just another quick note!
I picked up a CD by the YBS band the other day ‘Windows of the world’ and found some of the pieces excellent.
‘Amazonia’ is becoming one of my favourite listens!
F.O.B.
I try not to miss the late-night shipping forecast if I can help it and I believe I am not alone in finding the signature tune enjoyable. It also gives me great pleasure to listen to this elegant melody, as I often do, on my “Brass Band Favourites” CD which I procured from my local “Our Price” in October 1990 (though the track dates from ‘87). Listening, I reflect on days of yore and lament the passing of proud sailing ships (along with Finisterre, notwithstanding my high regard for FitzRoy). But furthermore, overwhelmingly, the tune evokes feelings of: “West or southwest 2 or 3, occasionally 4; smooth or slight; mainly fair; moderate or good.”
I certainly would be thrilled to hear the music performed live after all these years. It is, of course, “Sailing By” composed by Ronald Binge.
Yours truly
Julian
Ah……Ronald Binge?! Elizabethan Serenade, Vice Versa, Trombonioso, Entry of the Robots and my personal favourite, Duel for Conductors for Brass Band and Orchestra! A gem to be unearthed if one could bother looking into the Light Music Society ’s archives even further no doubt; who knows, even good old Ernest Tomlinson might be re-discovered!
You might like to learn, dear Jules, that Binge’s music is more than available on Marco Polo records, now run by Naxos if at all interested?
Wow…………… great concert at Whitby.
Can I request any of the pieces similar to last night’s encore. The one’s that start beforte the conductor turns around. That’s entertainment!!
That’s Pee Shooter…er…Cornet Players for you!…everything has to go at their pace! Poor old Dennis’ arms can’t go that fast you know!
Well said Sandy. I guess your cornet players must have been basking in the glory of their photos being on the advertising posters all over Whitby. Who was the odd one out - the one with some hair?
Dear C.M.F.
I would like to trace a fellow named Edward Kilmartin who played Euph for C.M.F. many years ago? he eventually moved on to the Horn when he played for Dodworth, I was made God Father to his two Sons and Daughter during my career with Carlton however, we lost touch quite a long time ago, I understand that he will be about mid 70’s by now? if anyone has any information please reply to this message via the website……P.S. if he is dead don’t bother !!
Regards
Irvine Vaines
You cant go wrong with Hymn of the Highlands (Either the entire piece or the three movement suite) by Phillip Sparke. Floral Dance is a classic that sounds great also, or the Abu Hassan Overture.