Sorry Rob mate, beat you to it... CHAMPIONSHIP SECTION Contest Music (Wilfred Heaton) & Roll Away Bet (J. Ord Hume) FIRST SECTION Sword Jewel and Mirror (Philip Harper) & Repton (arr. David Loukes) SECOND SECTION Land of the Mountain and the Flood (Hamish McCunn arr. Glynn Bragg) & Montreal Citadel (Norman Audoir) THIRD SECTION Haselmere Suite (Peter Graham) & Plentious Grace (Kenneth Pelmear) FOURTH SECTION Stantonbury Festival (Ray Steadman-Allen) YOUTH SECTION St. Austell Suite (Kenneth Downie) Further details will, I'm sure, follow...
good to see a nice piece again to work on for the first section. Haslemere is also a good piece, was our area piece a while ago in the forth section.
yes, some ace choices.... St Austell Suite is a great one for Youth Section.... hope there's more Youth bands entering this time round!
I'm a bit suprised at the choice for the First Section. Sword, Jewel and Mirror was actually the area test piece in the Second Section in 2000 I believe. A decent piece to play but is it really a stepping stone to playing Contest Music or the like in Championship Section...I think not!! Get practising your 'ha's' people!!
The same goes for the Haslemere Suite (note spelling please, I originally come from just down the road). It was the 4th section areas piece only a couple of years ago. I wish Montreal Citadel had been set for the first section. I wouldn't be surprised if the organisers got the idea from the couple of times we tanked it out on the way back up the High Street at the end of the day. It's a glorious march. Is excess difficulty of the pieces really the reason for the low attendances in some sections that Bugle sometimes sees? When we were the only band playing Hinemoa in the 2nd section a few years ago, I don't remember it being particularly difficult, though I do remember a few of our players loathed the piece.
i agree, the choice is a bit strange, contest music is a cracking test but the others seem to be a section up if that makes sense! (sword jewl and mirror should be second section etc..) surely they could have ressurected some pieces that anit been played for a while, contest music was the open piece, sword jewel and haselmere were areas a few years ago, land of mountain and flood wa spontins a few years back?? come on!!!
I'm not sure the quiet second movement of Contest Music lends itself to being played in field, where the audience whitters away during performances and with the occassional intrusion of an Intercity 125 passing by and sounding its horn. Igg
Well at least the adjudicator won't actually hear the high cornet C# being split miss or maybe-ied then!!!
