Programme Notes
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High Wycombe Music Centre Concert Band
Conductor: lan Morrish Music for a Festival (Fanfare) Gordon J acob (b. 1895)
The High Wycombe Music Centre Concert Band was founded with 12 members by the Music Centre's clarinet instructor, John Davie, in 1969. It gave its first concert at Easter in 1970. It grew rapidly, and in September 1970 its co-conductor lan Morrish was appointed to keep a special eye on the brass. It was not long before this Band was in great demand for outside concerts, fetes, etc. Its numbers, balance and standard of performance have risen steadily but rapidly in its short history, due to the excellence of
The Fanfare is the last part of a., work in several movements for Wind Band and Brass Choir called 'Music for a Festival'. This work was The Band has now performed in commissioned by the Arts Council of the Wooburn Festival, Wycombe Arts Great Britain for the- Festival of Festival and Reading Festival. Britain in 1951. In the previous They have made a successful tour of movements the Wind Band and Holland, and their next visit will be Brass Choir have alternated: in this, to Malta in April 1976, where they they combine forces. will give the world premiere of a new work specially composed for the The Finale starts with a flourish Band by Charles Camilleri. They by the Brass Choir. The main part of will be making a record in the movement is taken up with a November or December 1975. fugue of orthodox construction in four voices. The subject, announced The Band's activities and triumphs would have been first by the clarinets, has a faintly 'modernistic' taste. The fugue builds impossible without the very active up in intensity and excitement and moral and financial support of the the whole work ends in the grand Music Centre Parent Teacher manner, noisy and satisfying. Association. its two conductors and teachers, and it has developed a repertoire of considerable breadth.
High Wycombe A1l1sic Centre Concert Band
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