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Festival of Brass, Toronto, Canada For the third consecutive year the MLBB has been invited to perform at the Festival of Brass (March 10-12) hosted by The Hannaford Street Silver Band MLBB will be performing March 11, 2006 at 8:00 PM in the Jane Mallett Theatre, Toronto Canada. And again this year...

Hobbsy wrote:Besides Tracy (traosb) does anyone know of any fairly difficult Horn solos, perhaps with the odd cadenza in it. It could be fast/ slow, I'm not fussy.

How about "September Fantasy" - Eric Ball ... ?

I'm one of those people who doesn't like all the 'graduated from .. with a ... in music...' to me, that just shows you've got a suitable knowledge of music - of the subject studied. (admitidly it does help) I've been playing for 11 years now and I have all the knowledge I require to have fun - and ...

Daft question, but Im going to ask it anyway. How do you know when you are a professional - or how do you turn professional?? Is it after so many years in music, or how good your musical knowledge is or playing?? Only reason Im asking is we all hear so much of Professional players, and I was just w...

Just a note (no pun intended!)

You missed Canada ... or is that a "small country" too?

The Maple Leaf Brass Band will again present an exciting program of all Canadian music by Gabriel Major-Marothy, E F Lloyd Hiscock, and James Mcdonald Gayfer. Three world premieres are on the program. The band will perform Saturday night March 12 at the Jane Mallett Theatre in the Hannaford Festival...

The Maple Leaf Brass Band (Ottawa, ON) will perform at the Hannaford Silver Band festival March 11/12/13 in Toronto. Again this year the band will perform an all-Canadian music program with original brass band compositions by Gabriel Major-Marothy and E F Lloyd Hiscock, and works of James McDonald G...

A couple of notes below, Nigel .... >>>4. Typeset the score using Finale – playback to check for grammatical errors >> Again here, I tend to combine these but I work with the sound off so that I'm not unduly influenced by the sound card's limitations >I want people to be able to hear the sounds in t...

Nigel ... a couple of observations and questions on your "procedure" >The procedure I recommend has five stages: >1. Create the melodic and harmonic framework at the piano >2. Produce a short score using Noteworthy Composer (does stage 1 >work in context?) Working as I do in Finale, I ofte...

The Maple Leaf Brass Band of Ottawa, Canada is proud to announce the release of their new CD Canadian Landscapes . This recording features the music of Canadian composers James McDonald Gayfer, Gabriel Major-Marothy and E F Lloyd Hiscock , some of which received world premieres and a standing ovatio...