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Re: Death Or Glory

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Subject: Re: Death Or Glory
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1998 19:02:35 -0000
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From: Richards ,Mr Alistair <a.richards@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: 'brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 14 December 1998 23:34
Subject: Death Or Glory

Apart from knowing that it was written by R.B.Hall and is of
>course the opening to "Brassed Off" (and it appears on a couple of
>Grimethorpe CD's) I know little else.
>
> Can anyone out there shed a little more light on the subject -
>or is this all that there is to know?

This is the text of the programme notes from Grimethorpe's CD 'Grimethorpe':

A contemporary of Sousa, Robert Browne Hall was a virtuoso cornet player, an
outstanding bandmaster and the composer of a great number of excellent
marches.  In the summer of 1900 he was invited by Colonel Raymond Fitch to
rebuild the band of his National Guard, Tenth Regiment of Albany,  a band
which he described as musically bankrupt.  A year later, under Hall's
direction, the band had progressed so well that it was invited to join a
number of other bands, including Sousa's, at the Pan-American Exhibition on
Buffalo.  Hall wrote Death or Glory in the band's honour.

Regards

Alec

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