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Re: Little Mountain Brass Band - V (fwd)

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Subject: Re: Little Mountain Brass Band - V (fwd)
From: Nigel Horne <njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 21:59:55 GMT
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Forwarded message follows:

> In message <tXdgnGvqfOc6079yn@xxxxxxxxx> genechan@xxxxxxxxx (Gene H. Chan) writes:
> >	 The Little Mountain Brass Band completed its inaugural season
> > with a lively concert on May 26.  Founded and directed by Jim
> > Littleford, professional trumpet player and assistant musical director
> > of Vancouver's Summer Pops Youth Orchestra, the charter membership
> > comprised largely of SPYO members and alumni playing their accustomed
> > instruments or learning new ones (a violinist on baritone!  a cellist
> > on trombone!). With the SPYO season now about to resume, the Little
> > Mountain Brass Band has gone on summer hiatus, to restart in September.
> > 
> >	 Little Mountain Brass Band takes its inspiration from the brass
> > band tradition and repertoire; its instrumentation, though indeed "all
> > brass", does not meet the usual definitions of brass band
> > instrumentation.  (There is little brass band activity in this area;
> > appropriate instruments and musicians are very difficult to find at this
> > time.)  At season end, instrumentation comprised approximately 15
> > cornets/trumpets/flugelhorns; 5 tenor horns/French horns; 5 trombones; 3
> > baritones; 2 euphoniums; 1 tuba; 1 percussionist.
> > 
> >	 As a recreational, non-auditioned band, the goal has been to
> > provide musicians the opportunity for exposure to brass band repertoire in
> > Vancouver, where little exposure currently exists.  A secondary goal is
> > performance and entertainment; competition is not contemplated.  During
> > the inaugural season, several new members from outside the SPYO connection
> > joined the group, including three adult beginners.
> > 
> >	 Here is the program from the season-end concert:
> > 
> > Simple Gifts			       Trad., arr. Goff Richards
> > 
> > Orlando Suite			      Orlando di Lasso
> >   I.  Audite Nova			  arr. Jan de Haan
> >   II. O Occhi, manza mia
> >   III.Canzone
> > 
> > Barocco				    Robert van Beringen
> > 
> > Wonderful Invention			Dizzy Stratford
> > 
> > Light as Air			       arr. Goff Richards
> > 
> > Amazing Grace			      Trad., arr. Edrich Siebert
> > 
> > Basin Street Blues			 Spencer Williams
> >					    arr. Edrich Siebert
> > 
> > Dancing on the Seashore		    Jan Hadermann
> > 
> > 
> >	 As a bit of an "experiment" to gauge interest in brass band, the
> > Little Mountain Brass Band's first season proved highly successful, and
> > the group will continue after the summer.
> > 
> >	 As I am unfamiliar with the repertoire and composers/arrangers
> > associated with brass bands, I'd be interested in receiving comments
> > regarding the program above.
> > 
> > 
> > Gene H. Chan					       genechan@xxxxxxxxx
> > Burnaby, BC, Canada				       gene_chan@xxxxxxxxx
> > Summer Pops Youth Orchestra			http://www.vcn.bc.ca/spyo/
> 

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