Regionals 2009: Third Section Test Piece: The Once and Future King, Andrew Baker

[Anno Draconis]

This is a bit last minute I know, and a shameless bit of self-promotion, BUT if you enjoyed The Once and Future King:

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Another of my pieces will receive its broadcast premiere tonight on Listen to the Band - The Singing Stones is a tuned percussion solo written for Sarah Burn of Leyland Band, who feature in tonight's programme. Worth a listen just for the virtuoso xylo/vibraphone playing, even if you're heartily sick of my stuff after the Areas! Many thanks to Jason, Sarah and Leyland for including in tonight's programme as well as a number of recent concerts

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[Martin]

This is a bit last minute I know, and a shameless bit of self-promotion, BUT if you enjoyed The Once and Future King:

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Another of my pieces will receive its broadcast premiere tonight on Listen to the Band - The Singing Stones is a tuned percussion solo written for Sarah Burn of Leyland Band, who feature in tonight's programme. Worth a listen just for the virtuoso xylo/vibraphone playing, even if you're heartily sick of my stuff after the Areas! Many thanks to Jason, Sarah and Leyland for including in tonight's programme as well as a number of recent concerts

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Andy

Just listened to it and really enjoyed it (as I did Once and Future King), well done. Sarah Burn played it brilliantly.

[Al]

Our band just played Once and Future King at a concert. It went down quite well and it was wonderful to play it again.

It is a shame so many test pieces end up in the library awaiting the possibility of being used at a contest in a decade or so.

I wondered how the performance was compared to the Regional though...

[ian perks]

Our band just played Once and Future King at a concert. It went down quite well and it was wonderful to play it again.

It is a shame so many test pieces end up in the library awaiting the possibility of being used at a contest in a decade or so.

Well the 2 adjudicators at our area midlands(Mr Hardy& Wormald) said it is a great piece to even play at a concert and to explain what each movement is about to audience so they could get the picture of what it was about.

[Al]

Anyone at all interested in Once And Future King will enjoy the BBC Radio 4 programme:

Smash Hit of 1453

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00rt921

And go to the Listen Again facility (available for until 17th April 2010)

[Anno Draconis]

[Gratuitous Self Publicity]

For those of you who enjoyed playing The Once and Future King, you may be interested (or not ) to learn that an orchestral transcription of it (by John Bryant, many thanks John ) will feature in the programme of music for the National Childrens' Under-12s Orchestra course this week. I haven't researched this in great depth, but to my knowledge this is the first orchestral transcription of a brass band work for quite some time - I think the last one may have been Downland Suite. Anyone know any more recent ones?

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[Brian Bowen]

[Gratuitous Self Publicity]

For those of you who enjoyed playing The Once and Future King, you may be interested (or not ) to learn that an orchestral transcription of it (by John Bryant, many thanks John ) will feature in the programme of music for the National Childrens' Under-12s Orchestra course this week. I haven't researched this in great depth, but to my knowledge this is the first orchestral transcription of a brass band work for quite some time - I think the last one may have been Downland Suite. Anyone know any more recent ones?

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In addition to my brass and wind-band versions of "Euphonium Music", on sale from Winwood Music, the same publisher has an orchestral version on hire only.

[Anno Draconis]

Thanks Brian, of course I should have realised that there would be some concerto-type works that have undergone the band-to-orchestra conversion.

There are a lot of links between Dances and Arias and Gregson's Concerto for Orchestra, but I'm not sure which came first and although they share material it certainly isn't a transcription.

Any others?

[Thirteen Ball]

Resurgam went from band to orchestra didn't it?

Pretty sure that was done a while ago though.

[Bass Trumpet]

In addition to my brass and wind-band versions of "Euphonium Music", on sale from Winwood Music, the same publisher has an orchestral version on hire only.

Going off topic, but I aways loved that piece Brian!