Spring Concert 2011 - Review
On Saturday 21st May 2011, the senior and training bands performed to a 3/4 full auditorium at Estover's Soundhouse. Splendidly conducted by the experienced Brian Minnear and compared by the audience-captivating Tony Moon the band opened the evening in true brass band style with the march, Cornish Cavalier before thundering into James Curnow's Prelude on Finlandia. The band slowed down the tempo for the traditional Amazing Grace before cornet player Callum Dowd wowed the audience with Sieberts The Lazy Trumpeter. Taking the audience back to the the days of the Big Band they played a Glenn Miller collection called Miller Magic before slowing down the tempo again when finding The Lost Chord. Flash-banging to the end of the first half the band entertained with Dizzy Stratford's Glasnost followed by a resounding Muppet Show.
Aged from 8 to 93 and under the direction of Emma Heard the 30-strong training band opened the 2nd half with an arrangement of Greased Lightening from the musical Grease, they follwed that with a bouncy version of a classic called Swinging With The Mountain King before slowing the tempo with a great arrangement of Deep Harmony. To close the training band played out with Robbie Williams's Let Me Entertain You.
To cheers and wild applause, the training band left the stage and made way for the senior band to close the concert starting with an old rip-snorter called Our Boys Will Shine Tonight. Giving the audience a taste of the 70's and 80's mixed with the West End, the band played a section of music called Abba Goes Brass, before slowing tempo with The Student Prince's Ill Walk With God. Dedicating the next piece to a member who has been with the band since the dawn of time, and can now be seen on rehearsal nights wandering the Soundhouse corridors, the band played The Happy Wanderer for Trevor Halls, and words for the audience meant they could all sing along. Then to our finale and once again audience participation in well known Hey Baby (Uh, Ah), split down the middle of the audience , led by vice-chair (Uh) and chair (Ah) - and personally I think the "ah's" were most superior, brought the evening to a fine end.....although there was time for one encore when the band played the Finale (Toreador) from Bizet's Carman.
Aged from 8 to 93 and under the direction of Emma Heard the 30-strong training band opened the 2nd half with an arrangement of Greased Lightening from the musical Grease, they follwed that with a bouncy version of a classic called Swinging With The Mountain King before slowing the tempo with a great arrangement of Deep Harmony. To close the training band played out with Robbie Williams's Let Me Entertain You.
To cheers and wild applause, the training band left the stage and made way for the senior band to close the concert starting with an old rip-snorter called Our Boys Will Shine Tonight. Giving the audience a taste of the 70's and 80's mixed with the West End, the band played a section of music called Abba Goes Brass, before slowing tempo with The Student Prince's Ill Walk With God. Dedicating the next piece to a member who has been with the band since the dawn of time, and can now be seen on rehearsal nights wandering the Soundhouse corridors, the band played The Happy Wanderer for Trevor Halls, and words for the audience meant they could all sing along. Then to our finale and once again audience participation in well known Hey Baby (Uh, Ah), split down the middle of the audience , led by vice-chair (Uh) and chair (Ah) - and personally I think the "ah's" were most superior, brought the evening to a fine end.....although there was time for one encore when the band played the Finale (Toreador) from Bizet's Carman.
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