www.britishbandsman.com Issue no. 5561 – 16 May 2009 Price £1.25 Rothwell’s grand day out Yorkshire Champion returns to ‘Open’ line-up at first attempt BB 1.indd 1 12-05-2009 18:43:43 WHIT FRIDAY BAND CONTESTS - TAMESIDE AREA FRIDAY 5th JUNE 2009 CONTEST VENUE MAP START LAST ADJUDICATOR MAIN TOTAL REF TIME BOOKING PRIZE PRIZES AUDENSHAW ALDWINIANS RUGBY UNION FC, DROYLSDEN ROAD, B1 4.00pm 10.30pm MR M WHITE £700 £2,525 AUDENSHAW M34 5SN BROADOAK BROADOAK HOTEL, BROADOAK ROAD, ASHTON-U- A1 5.00pm 10.30pm MR D R HOWARD £500 £1,600 LYNE OL6 8QD CARRBROOK CARR RISE, CARRBROOK, STALYBRIDGE SK15 3NY B3 4.30pm 10.00pm MR JOHN DAVIES £600 £1,515 DENTON DENTON CRICKET CLUB, EGERTON STREET, D1 4.30pm 10.45pm MR M LYONS £250 £1,115 DENTON M34 3PB DROYLSDEN THE BUSH INN, MOORSIDE STREET, DROYLSDEN A1 4.30pm 11.00pm MR R BREEN £500 £2,250 M43 7HL DUKINFIELD TAME VALLEY HOTEL, PARK ROAD, DUKINFIELD C2 4.30pm 11.00pm MR D CHAPMAN £400 £1,500 SK16 5LX HEYROD JOHN STREET, WAKEFIELD ROAD, HEYROD, A3 4.30pm 10.30pm MR S McLAUGHLIN £600 £1,685 STALYBRIDGE SK15 3BW HURST VILLAGE ASHTON UNITED FC, SURREY ST., HURST CROSS, A2 4.30pm 11.00pm MR G PRITCHARD £300 £1,375 ASHTON-U-LYNE OL6 9EQ STALYBRIDGE STALYBRIDGE LABOUR CLUB, ACRES LANE, C2 4.30pm 10.30pm MR D BROADBENT £550 £1,655 STALYBRIDGE SK15 2JR STALYBRIDGE CELTIC STALYBRIDGE CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB, BOWER C3 4.30pm 10.45pm T.B.A £350 £855 FOLD, MOTTRAM ROAD, STALYBRIDGE SK15 2RT UPPER MOSSLEY MOUNTAIN STREET, MOSSLEY OL5 0EY A3 4.30pm 10.00pm MR M TWEEDLE £500 £1,410 INDIVIDUAL CONTESTS – TOTAL PRIZE MONEY £5,250 £17,485 TAMESIDE WHIT FRIDAY OPEN CHAMPIONS £2,500 £6,000 TOTAL PRIZES IN TAMESIDE £7,750 £23,485 * * Shorter waiting times at Tameside Contests * * For further details of individual contests please contact Tameside Arts & Events Team Telephone 0161 342 4144, email: [email protected] or visit www.tameside.gov.uk BRITISH BANDSMAN PAGE 2 BB 2-3a.indd 2 12-05-2009 18:45:52 NEWS Inaugural lecture at Black Dyke Festival The 2009 Black Dyke Brass Festival, to be held at Leeds Metropolitan University and Leeds Town Hall from 29 to 31 May, is to introduce a lecture-recital, presented by the band’s conductor, Nicholas Childs, which will be broadcast around the world via the Internet. Professor Childs will give an illustrated overview of the band’s 155-year history, beginning with rare music taken from John Foster’s 1855 octet books, and also featuring music from the ‘golden age’ of brass bands by Elgar, Holst and Ireland. The lecture will be available as a worldwide educational resource on the Black Dyke and British Bandsman websites during and after the weekend. Speaking to BB, Nicholas Childs commented: “One of the over-riding ambitions at Black Dyke is to involve and inspire young performers to aim at the highest level. Accordingly, there will also be a young composer’s workshop led by Paul Hamlyn Award winner, Emily Howard, and a combined performance featuring Black Dyke in concert with the 60 young musicians of the Yorkshire Youth Brass Band. The British Trombone Society has also accepted an invitation to participate in Saturday’s Lower Brass Focus, when it is anticipated that 120 local players will join a sequence of daytime workshops, and we are pleased that new music, including scores by Professor Peter Graham and Philip Harper will feature prominently.” Professor Childs added: “2009 will be a special year in the band’s long and distinguished history, and the Festival and Heritage Symposium aims to pass on some of Black Dyke’s hard-won core values to future generations, to place new music alongside established repertoire and to counterpoint some stars of the future with legends of the past and present. The Festival also marks the start of the band’s five-year commissioning policy, which will culminate in 2014 with the première of a substantial new score by the leading international composer, James McMillan. We would like to acknowledge our wonderful partnership with Leeds Metropolitan University, where our accent is firmly on ‘Partnering the Past and Fostering the Future’.” The Saturday Gala Concert will feature Paul Lovatt-Cooper’s Immortal, which tells the story of the band through music and cinematic film on the large screen, while highlights of the following afternoon’s concert in Leeds Town Hall, which also features the Yorkshire Youth Band, will be the Finale from Saint Saëns’ Organ Symphony and a performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture. Scotland prepares for Brass Band Week The 2009 Scottish Brass Band Week runs from 23 to 31 May and will feature over 40 performances throughout Scotland. Explaining the ethos of Brass Band Week to BB, the Scottish Brass Band Association’s (SBBA’s) Vice-president, Peter Fraser, said: “The intention of Brass Band Week is to demonstrate the importance of brass bands in the cultural and musical heritage of Scotland. We hope that we can make the public at large aware of the almost unbelievably high technical and artistic standards of our top bands, and the fact that bands are active in hundreds of communities up and down the country. With over 100 bands in Scotland and many thousands of players, it is important to recognise the contribution that bands make in the field of music education and the important role that our bands play in the lives of their own local communities.” Masterful weekend Eve of Masters Gala Concert ahead at Cambridge Saturday 23 May, 7.30pm Two days of celebration are planned to mark the 21st ‘Masters’ Corn Exchange, Cambridge event held in Cambridge. Now known as the All-England Masters International Championship, the 2009 event will see bands from across 2008 Masters Champions Europe performing Masters of Space and Time by Bruce Broughton. Desford Colliery Band The evening before, the current champion band, Desford Colliery, will take to the Corn Exchange stage for the pre-Masters Gala Concert. Jason Katsikaris will direct the Midlands champion through an eclectic programme, including Richard Rodgers’ Slaughter on 10th Avenue and Sandy Smith’s magnificent transcription of Khachaturian’s Fire from Gayeneh. Prior to the announcement of the results on the Sunday, Richard Evans will be presented with the 2009 Masters Dedicated Service Award. The event organiser, Philip Biggs, explained: “Richard is a role-model. His totally dedicated and inspirational service as a player, conductor and musician, as well as his second-to-none motivational qualities, make him a most worthy recipient.” The celebrations will continue with a special concert featuring British Open Champion, Foden’s Band, under the batons of Garry Cutt and Bramwell Tovey. The band will take the stage in the first half, presenting music from Eric Ball, Berlioz and Gilbert Vinter, as well as featuring its celebrated soloists, Glyn Williams (euphonium) and Leslie Neish (tuba). The National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain (under Bramwell Tickets from £8 Tovey) will make a return visit to the Corn Exchange, having been a featured ensemble at this event in the past. These talented youngsters Telephone 01223 357851 will perform Simon Dobson’s Penlee, Malcolm Arnold’s Little Suite for or 01223 234090 Brass, Morley Calvert’s Canadian Folk Song Suite and Bramwell Tovey’s Pictures in the Smoke, with the composer at the piano. BRITISH BANDSMAN PAGE 3 BB 2-3a.indd 3 12-05-2009 18:45:52 WHIT FRIDAY 2009 by Ron Massey It is now over 30 years since I first met Peter and his banding colleague, the late Edwin Broadbridge, who was in his lifetime a bass Peter Dyson, the man whose work used to player with Dobcross, East Lancashire Paper begin after the last note sounded in the Whit Group and Linthwaite. It is also approaching Friday march contests, has stepped down 17 years since Edwin collapsed and died in the after several years of dedicated service. He popular bandsmen’s venue, the Navigation used to spend many hours the day after the Inn at Dobcross. Now, each December 17, the extravaganza, checking the results of every anniversary of Edwin’s death, Peter visits ‘the band which had appeared in contests in the Navi’, phones Ian Gibson, former licensee of Saddleworth and Oldham District and Tameside the inn, who now lives in Spain, and, for a few District, in order to reveal the champion bands, moments, each is lost in their thoughts as both Open and Local, in the two districts. they quietly toast the memory of their popular Reading his spreadsheets made an interesting friend. exercise. The job of checking all the results has now Peter has been the results co-ordinator for quite passed to Bill Cullen, chairman of the Lees a few years, taking over those duties from Les and Springhead contest. Like Peter, he is not a Beevers, the former Chairman and bass player bandsman, but someone who, over the years, of Brighouse and Rastrick. Both Peter and Les Peter Dyson has developed a deep love of brass bands, were employed by Tameside Borough Council, in particular those which compete each year when the whole musical oasis that makes up headed by chairman Bob Rodgers, of Delph. in the traditional Whit march contests. Bill, the Whit Friday contest arena was split into Around this time, it was Peter’s additional job chairman of the Lees and Springhead contest, Tameside District and Saddleworth District. to assemble all the relevant information for has been involved with the hillside event for The assessing and placing of every band in advertisements in the band press and other quite a few years and, asked about his extra job every contest in the two districts isn’t a task publications.