{"id":537,"date":"2019-11-12T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/?p=537"},"modified":"2019-11-12T08:48:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T08:48:10","slug":"cornets-clarinets-and-big-trombones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aata.dev\/index.php\/2019\/11\/12\/cornets-clarinets-and-big-trombones\/","title":{"rendered":"CORNETS, CLARINETS AND BIG TROMBONES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

OLDHAM BAND (LEES) LIVE AND ON C.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Editor\u00b4s Notes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any of our readers who have been following the Oldham Band (Lees) on http:\/\/www.oldhamband.co.uk\/<\/a> will be aware that they have recently been attaching achievements to their ambitions. These musicians have recently been recording in St. Thomas Parish Church in Stockport, and even since then have worked alongside, if under the guidance of, the producers and sound engineers of the in house team of World of Sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The band is now delighted to announce the release of their second CD, the splendidly titled Diadem Of Gold, a title borrowed from a set-exam title in a national competition that the Oldham Band (Lees) won for the first time last year. The album, in fact, commemorates the entire year of 2018, one of the most successful in the band\u00b4s long and illustrious history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diadem\nOf Gold is available now for only ten pounds, but for only \u00a312.50 you can\npurchase both this new release and Dark Side Of The Moon, the band\u00b4s 2008 debut\nalbum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\nare bound to have sold several after a wonderful recent concert for Rochdale\nMusic Society, so it would be worth visiting their web or facebook pages to see\nhow to order your copies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brass\nband music was a harmony constant in the North West of England soundscape\nthroughout the sixty years we lived there, before moving over here to\nLanzarote. For a long period we lived on the border between Prestwich and\nWhitefield, home of the Besses O\u00b4The Barn Brass Band, and each year there was a\ncolourful festival in the Saddleworth and Uppermill area just outside Oldham in\nwhich bands like Oldham Lees competed with names like The Brighouse and\nRastrick outfit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Big Band Canarias <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We have lived on Lanzarote now for just over four years, and only this week we have discovered that there exists a Big Band Canarias. We have booked tickets to hear them supporting vocalist Gerardo Nunez at the Teatro Victor Fernandez Gopar \u00b4El Salinero\u00b4 in Arrecife on 21st<\/sup> November. We will, of course, publish a review of that concert here as we continue to follow Sidetracks And Detours all across the arts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the meantime, however, we thought readers might like to hear what Graham Marshall of Rochdale Music Society (RMS) http:\/\/rochdalemusicsociety.org\/<\/a> had to say about that recent gig by Oldham Band (Lees).\u00a0 Graham will be a familiar name to many readers as we recently published a post of his about the fortieth anniversary celebrations of RMS, and also his reassuring in-depth analysis of what the future might hold for classical music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nfuture of classical, or any other, genre of music will always depend, I guess,\non society\u00b4s receptivity but so long as we all continue to carry the same\ncatholic tastes as does Graham there will be room for all classifications and\ncategorisations (for that is all they are, really. It\u00b4s all just music!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So\nread on to hear Graham\u00b4s comments on what sounds a quite remarkable concert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

R M S present Oldham Band (Lees):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heywood Civic Centre, October 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reviewed by Graham Marshall<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rochdale Music Society has been\npromoting great music played by great musicians for the last forty years in\nvenues across the borough. In recent years the venue has been the Civic Centre\nin Heywood which provides a welcoming, comfortable and acoustically generous\nsetting for both audience and performers alike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday, October 26th the Society\u2019s\n40th Anniversary Season began with a flourish as the members of the\naward-winning Oldham Band (Lees) flooded the auditorium with a rich assortment\nof colourful and expertly served musical delights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Band\u2019s range of musical genres is\nwide enough to embrace an Overture by Rossini – that to his opera Tancredi –\nand a brilliant Gershwin encore piece – Strike Up The Band – as well as\nconsorting with one of its members – Matt Corrigan – as richly voiced and\nfinely tuned vocalist in offering several deliciously delivered songs,\nincluding Beyond The Sea (some of us remembered the original Charles Trenet\nversion) and Cry Me A River, recorded by Julie London and scores of others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The concert began in traditional fashion\nwith a March, Senator by G. Allen, https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3-u6rOKxrRE<\/a> recoded in 1959, which made an instant\nimpression of the disciplined playing we were to experience throughout. This\nwas followed by the Rossini overture, after which the Band\u2019s leading Cornet\nplayer, seasoned instrumentalist and conductor Alan Hobbins, responded to the extreme\ntechnical challenges of Napoli with great aplomb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Buglers\u2019 Holiday by Leroy Anderson\nthen featured the Band\u2019s buglers in a tantalising display of technical\ndexterity before the prize-winning Fl\u00fcgel player, Toni Heywood, gave an\nenchanting performance of George Michael\u2019s Faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first half of the concert ended with\nsome beautiful melodic expression in the Pri\u00e8re \u00e0 Notre D\u00e2me from the Suite\nGothique for Organ by L\u00e9on Bo\u00ebllmann and some suitably full-throated deep brass\nsounds in the Toccata from the same Suite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Oldham Band (Lees)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The second half began with an exemplary\naccount of the March: Le R\u00eave Passe (The Soldier\u00b4s Dream) by G. Krier.\nChipanecas, which followed, gave each band member an opportunity to show how\nwell they can make breathing sounds and click their fingers in time while\naccompanying the traditional hand-clapping song tune from Chiapas in Mexico. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matt Corrigan returned to Cry Me A River,\nwritten by Arthur. Hamilton in 1953 and recorded and made famous two years\nlater by Julie London. He then performed Feeling Good by Anthony Newley. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was then with some diffidence that\nthe Musical Director, John Collins, introduced Keep Me Praising, a lively and\ninventive combination by Andrew Mackereth, the bandmaster of the Salvation Army\nin Nuneaton, of two much loved Salvation Army Songbook tunes. He need not have\nbeen diffident – it worked out well in performance, and the audience showed its\nappreciation of the fact!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The penultimate work proved, for this\nreviewer, to be, musically, the least satisfactory. The Benedictus, from Karl\nJenkins\u2019 The Armed Man, is very repetitive in its original context, and even\nthough it gave the soloist an opportunity to shine as with \u2018a pure, clear\nlight\u2019, it sounded quiet monotonous in this wordless arrangement by A. Small. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other hand, the Finale To\nFraternity by T. Deleruyelle which ended the concert programme is another\nregular test piece and gave the Band members the chance to show that they can\nbe just as proficient in playing softly as they can in letting things rip!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Collins is to be congratulated,\nalong with every member of the Oldham Band (Lees), for marshalling his forces\nwith understated authority and excellent musical results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rochdale Music Society\u2019s next\nconcert will be on December 7th and feature the Victoria String Quartet in\nmusic by Mozart, Wm. Alwyn and Schubert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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