an email to the bands on the demise of music in their town
(greetings)
A Facebook friend of mine reached out to say that she had a library of brass band music available and would I be interested in it? Sure, I reply, and in a few weeks, here come her parents to visit, with three boxes of things. Scores, CDs, Books, the works. They've done some homework....very nice people coming to visit their new grandson. So anyway, here I am in friend's living room with John and Diane, talking brass, and its becoming clear that they didn't really have anyone to talk to about it. Super eager.
You see, they had started up a band in xxxxx five years ago. They read about the 'movement', bought books, had played in High school and college, that sort of thing. Now, after being in regular university-affiliated community concert bands for a while, they bought up some Black Dyke CDs, decided on some charts, invited some friends, and started up a group. "xxxxx Brass Band", of Celtic road, now meeting in the local Salvation Army clothing department work area. Bring your horns.
So things are moving along slowly, limping forward really, and they are branching out a bit. They get some Grimethorp, Fairey Bands, Yorkshire Building Society CDs. They visit the UK, and make a Facebook page.
Soon they are reaching out to retirement homes, churches..they play in some city gazebos in the south, for spring festivals. It's fun but they cant quite fill the seats though, and never make past a dozen to each rehearsal, with 18 total folks on roster. John, the Solo Cornet, is a smart guy, well groomed, the kind of person that likes a good barber, and a pencil thin mustache that doesn't get in the way of his piece. He's clearly an anchor. His wife Diane like many others has picked up the tenor horn after being a viola player.
Now at this point in conversation i realize its Diane doing all the talking, which is odd since John is the principal cornet and she's the newbie accountant with the LLC license and shiny yamaha horn.
I soft-press a little on other angles and it turns out that last year John has had a stroke. He is sitting there smiling, normal in every way except for the fact that he now cannot read music. He can read text some, but the notes are babble make no sense. Its simply gone. He is also probably no longer working, and they are looking to repair their selves. Simply awful. I feel horrible for their effort, and the conflicting grace and awkwardness is palatable as he spits off a few perfect triple tongues TATAka TATAka. Nothing wrong there. "See?" He says. "I still got it, just can't read."
You all can imagine how that moment was. So with that there's simply nothing to do by for me to work out a handy sum of recompense, and hand that over as theres no way I am going to let these fine people go begging to unload their music in the deep south when xxxxx has many active bands. It's a much better area for that, with people like you that will appreciate what John and Diane tried to do. So let me then thank you for the time to learn their little story/homage, and invite you to go over this list as friends, directors and librarians. Please let me know after discussion what you would like, in a single list, and I will get it to you all somehow.
This made me care for music in a new way.
If in fact you all end up using some, this would be fine as well since John and Diane want nothing more than to visit xxxx with their daughter and to see their charts played by a larger more established band.
Let me know.
Thanks-
(trilobits)
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BRASS BAND MUSIC FOR SALE
PIECE COMPOSER/ARR PUBLISHER
Bugler’s Holiday (Cornet Trio) Anderson/Barsotti R. Smith & Co. Ltd.
Carnival of Venice (Cornet Solo) Clarke/Kerwin Kirkless Music/STAVES Ltd.
Clair de Lune Debussy/Mowat Brass Wind Publications
Concert Etude (Trumpet Solo) Goedicke Salvationist Pub. and Supplies Ltd.
Cornet Cascade (Cornet Trio) Docker/Brand R. Smith & Co. Ltd.
Cornet Roundabout (Cornet Trio) Eaves R. Smith & Co. Ltd.
The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare Percy Grainger Donald Hunsberger Wind Library
(Original full score only, individual parts hand copied)
A Gaelic Blessing Rutter/Tighe Pennine Music Publishing
The Grasshopper’s Dance (Cornet Duet) Bucalossi Hawkes & Sons
Hunting High & Low Kerwin Sound Investment
(Cornet & Euphonium or Cornet & Eb Bass Duet)
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair Foster/Howarth Chester Music/Studio Music Co.
(Euphonium Solo)
Jerusalem (Cornet Solo) Blake & Parry/Herbert Boosey & Hawkes
La Danza Gordon Langford Chandos Music Ltd.
The Lark in the Clear Air (Horn Solo) Gordon Langford Chandos Music Ltd.
Little Serenade Tomlison Fred Benson Ltd./Studio Music Co.
Song and Dance (Cornet Solo) Philip Sparke R. Smith & Co. Ltd.
Three Jolly Sailormen (Cornet Trio) Siebert W. Paxton & Co. Ltd.
Two Comrades (Cornet Duet) Rimmer Wright & Round
Våren (Flugel Solo) Grieg/Nigel Horne N&H Music (Solid Brass Music Co.)
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BRASS BAND CDs FOR SALE
BLACK DYKE MILLS BAND
150 Years of the Black Dyke Mills Band
The Great British Tradition
A Golden Year
Kings of Brass
The Complete Champions
Fantastic Overtures
Rossini
Black Dyke Plays Verdi
Champions of Brass
Butterworth
CORY BAND
An Italian Night
The Promised Land
THE FAIREY BAND
Brass Favourites
Enigma
Oration-Steven Mead, Euphonium
FODENS BAND
Rimmer
Fabulous Fodens
GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY
The History of Brass Band Music:
The Golden Years 1920-1970
The Salvation Army Connection
Classic Arrangements
SALVATION ARMY BANDS
Sunday Morning Brass
Sunday in the Park
YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY BAND
Windows of the World
Festive Impressions
Voice of the Tenor Horn-Sheona White
MISCELLANEOUS
Brass in Concert (Highlights of the 2004 Brass in Concert Championships)
Fireworks (Music of Elgar Howarth)
CORNET SOLOS
Cornet Roundabout - Alan Morrison
Concerto x 4 - Alan Morrison
Legend - Peter Roberts
The Cornet Heritage Collection. Vol. I - Richard Marshall
The Art of the Cornet - Thierry Caens
Cornet Fantasie - Joshua Whitehouse
The Cornet King - Jack Mackintosh
Heavenly Gates - Derek Smith
Cornet Virtuosos of the Past - Volumes 1-5
A Facebook friend of mine reached out to say that she had a library of brass band music available and would I be interested in it? Sure, I reply, and in a few weeks, here come her parents to visit, with three boxes of things. Scores, CDs, Books, the works. They've done some homework....very nice people coming to visit their new grandson. So anyway, here I am in friend's living room with John and Diane, talking brass, and its becoming clear that they didn't really have anyone to talk to about it. Super eager.
You see, they had started up a band in xxxxx five years ago. They read about the 'movement', bought books, had played in High school and college, that sort of thing. Now, after being in regular university-affiliated community concert bands for a while, they bought up some Black Dyke CDs, decided on some charts, invited some friends, and started up a group. "xxxxx Brass Band", of Celtic road, now meeting in the local Salvation Army clothing department work area. Bring your horns.
So things are moving along slowly, limping forward really, and they are branching out a bit. They get some Grimethorp, Fairey Bands, Yorkshire Building Society CDs. They visit the UK, and make a Facebook page.
Soon they are reaching out to retirement homes, churches..they play in some city gazebos in the south, for spring festivals. It's fun but they cant quite fill the seats though, and never make past a dozen to each rehearsal, with 18 total folks on roster. John, the Solo Cornet, is a smart guy, well groomed, the kind of person that likes a good barber, and a pencil thin mustache that doesn't get in the way of his piece. He's clearly an anchor. His wife Diane like many others has picked up the tenor horn after being a viola player.
Now at this point in conversation i realize its Diane doing all the talking, which is odd since John is the principal cornet and she's the newbie accountant with the LLC license and shiny yamaha horn.
I soft-press a little on other angles and it turns out that last year John has had a stroke. He is sitting there smiling, normal in every way except for the fact that he now cannot read music. He can read text some, but the notes are babble make no sense. Its simply gone. He is also probably no longer working, and they are looking to repair their selves. Simply awful. I feel horrible for their effort, and the conflicting grace and awkwardness is palatable as he spits off a few perfect triple tongues TATAka TATAka. Nothing wrong there. "See?" He says. "I still got it, just can't read."
You all can imagine how that moment was. So with that there's simply nothing to do by for me to work out a handy sum of recompense, and hand that over as theres no way I am going to let these fine people go begging to unload their music in the deep south when xxxxx has many active bands. It's a much better area for that, with people like you that will appreciate what John and Diane tried to do. So let me then thank you for the time to learn their little story/homage, and invite you to go over this list as friends, directors and librarians. Please let me know after discussion what you would like, in a single list, and I will get it to you all somehow.
This made me care for music in a new way.
If in fact you all end up using some, this would be fine as well since John and Diane want nothing more than to visit xxxx with their daughter and to see their charts played by a larger more established band.
Let me know.
Thanks-
(trilobits)
-----------------
BRASS BAND MUSIC FOR SALE
PIECE COMPOSER/ARR PUBLISHER
Bugler’s Holiday (Cornet Trio) Anderson/Barsotti R. Smith & Co. Ltd.
Carnival of Venice (Cornet Solo) Clarke/Kerwin Kirkless Music/STAVES Ltd.
Clair de Lune Debussy/Mowat Brass Wind Publications
Concert Etude (Trumpet Solo) Goedicke Salvationist Pub. and Supplies Ltd.
Cornet Cascade (Cornet Trio) Docker/Brand R. Smith & Co. Ltd.
Cornet Roundabout (Cornet Trio) Eaves R. Smith & Co. Ltd.
The Duke of Marlborough Fanfare Percy Grainger Donald Hunsberger Wind Library
(Original full score only, individual parts hand copied)
A Gaelic Blessing Rutter/Tighe Pennine Music Publishing
The Grasshopper’s Dance (Cornet Duet) Bucalossi Hawkes & Sons
Hunting High & Low Kerwin Sound Investment
(Cornet & Euphonium or Cornet & Eb Bass Duet)
Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair Foster/Howarth Chester Music/Studio Music Co.
(Euphonium Solo)
Jerusalem (Cornet Solo) Blake & Parry/Herbert Boosey & Hawkes
La Danza Gordon Langford Chandos Music Ltd.
The Lark in the Clear Air (Horn Solo) Gordon Langford Chandos Music Ltd.
Little Serenade Tomlison Fred Benson Ltd./Studio Music Co.
Song and Dance (Cornet Solo) Philip Sparke R. Smith & Co. Ltd.
Three Jolly Sailormen (Cornet Trio) Siebert W. Paxton & Co. Ltd.
Two Comrades (Cornet Duet) Rimmer Wright & Round
Våren (Flugel Solo) Grieg/Nigel Horne N&H Music (Solid Brass Music Co.)
---------------
BRASS BAND CDs FOR SALE
BLACK DYKE MILLS BAND
150 Years of the Black Dyke Mills Band
The Great British Tradition
A Golden Year
Kings of Brass
The Complete Champions
Fantastic Overtures
Rossini
Black Dyke Plays Verdi
Champions of Brass
Butterworth
CORY BAND
An Italian Night
The Promised Land
THE FAIREY BAND
Brass Favourites
Enigma
Oration-Steven Mead, Euphonium
FODENS BAND
Rimmer
Fabulous Fodens
GRIMETHORPE COLLIERY
The History of Brass Band Music:
The Golden Years 1920-1970
The Salvation Army Connection
Classic Arrangements
SALVATION ARMY BANDS
Sunday Morning Brass
Sunday in the Park
YORKSHIRE BUILDING SOCIETY BAND
Windows of the World
Festive Impressions
Voice of the Tenor Horn-Sheona White
MISCELLANEOUS
Brass in Concert (Highlights of the 2004 Brass in Concert Championships)
Fireworks (Music of Elgar Howarth)
CORNET SOLOS
Cornet Roundabout - Alan Morrison
Concerto x 4 - Alan Morrison
Legend - Peter Roberts
The Cornet Heritage Collection. Vol. I - Richard Marshall
The Art of the Cornet - Thierry Caens
Cornet Fantasie - Joshua Whitehouse
The Cornet King - Jack Mackintosh
Heavenly Gates - Derek Smith
Cornet Virtuosos of the Past - Volumes 1-5