A return to Tarporley Community Centre for City of Chester Band
Tarporley Community Centre
<p> </p> <p>On Saturday 25 February the City of Chester Band (est. c.1853) will be returning to Tarporley Community Centre to hold an open rehearsal in the main hall between 10:15 am and 11:45 under the baton of their Musical Director, Ewan Easton MBE. Ewan is Principal Tuba with the Hallé Orchestra and Tutor in Tuba at the Royal Northern College of Music. He is also Project Leader of Hallé4Brass, pioneering the teaching of music and playing of brass instruments to young offenders by professional musicians, and for which he has received the MBE.</p> <p>This rehearsal is ahead of the Band competing in the NW Regional Brass Band Championships, to be held in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool on Sunday 26th. Based in the centre of Chester, the Band has again decided to rehearse in different acoustics ahead of the competition. </p> <p>The Band will be playing in the Third Section of the Championships performing the set test-piece: Darkwood an original work for brass band by Evesham-born Dan Price (composer, arranger and lecturer in music at Salford University, also a former member of the internationally-acclaimed Pasadena Roof Orchestra). The test-piece takes its musical inspiration from the village of Blackley, mentioned in the Domesday Book, now a Manchester suburb. The name is a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon word for a dark wood or dark clearing. There are three movements: 1] The Boggart (Marcia), 2] House on the Hill (Andante) and 3] Blackley Village (Leggiero).</p> <p>Should the Band be placed first, second or third in the Blackpool competition they will be invited to compete in the National Finals to be held in Cheltenham on 16 and 17 September where the Band last competed in 2014. Each spring around 500 bands across Great Britain compete in the 7 regional competitions with bands graded in sections according to ability, from Championship (the likes of Foden’s from Sandbach), through First, Second, Third and Fourth.</p> <p>Members of the public are invited to watch and listen as Ewan Easton puts the Band through their paces and adds the final touches to the test-piece. There is a car park adjacent to the Community Centre (post code CW6 0AY). For further information about the Band, a registered charity, please see our web site: <a href="../../" target="_blank">https://chesterbrass.uk/</a> .</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>020317-lp</p> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
10:15 - 11:45
Main Band
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Competition time for the City of Chester Band
Tarporley / Blackpool
<p> </p> <p>Trips to Blackpool at this time of year, when cold winds blow, are not for the faint-hearted! Yet on Sunday 26 February the City of Chester Band (est. c.1853), along with 80 other bands from the north west of England and Isle of Man will be playing in the North West Regional Brass Band Championships, to be held in the Winter Gardens, Blackpool. The championships comprise 5 sections from Championship level (the likes of Foden’s Band) through to the Fourth Section. City of Chester will be competing in the Third. Each spring around 500 bands (in total about 13,000 amateur male and female musicians aged between 7 and 80) across Great Britain compete in the 7 regional competitions.</p> <p>In preparation for the big day weeks of intense rehearsals will come to a head on Saturday 25 February when the Band returns to Tarporley Community Centre to hold an open rehearsal in the main hall between 10:15 am and 11:45 under the baton of their Musical Director, Ewan Easton MBE. Ewan is Principal Tuba with the Hallé Orchestra and Tutor in Tuba at the Royal Northern College of Music. He is also Project Leader of Hallé4Brass, pioneering the teaching of music and playing of brass instruments to young offenders by professional musicians, work for which he has been honoured.</p> <p>The Band will be playing the set test-piece for the Third Section of the Championships (all bands across the country play the same set test-piece for their section): Darkwood, an original work for brass band by Evesham-born Dan Price (composer, arranger and lecturer in music at Salford University, also a former member of the internationally-acclaimed Pasadena Roof Orchestra). The test-piece takes its musical inspiration from the village of Blackley, mentioned in the Domesday Book, now a Manchester suburb, Blackley being a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon word for a dark wood or dark clearing. There are three movements: 1] The Boggart (Marcia), 2] House on the Hill (Andante) and 3] Blackley Village (Leggiero).</p> <p>Members of the public are invited to watch and listen as Ewan Easton puts the Band through their paces and adds the final touches to the test-piece. There is a car park adjacent to the Community Centre (post code CW6 0AY). For further information about the Band, a registered charity, please see our web site: <a href="../../" target="_blank">https://chesterbrass.uk/</a> .</p> <p>Should the Band be placed first, second or third in the Blackpool competition they will be invited to compete in the National Finals to be held in Cheltenham on 16 and 17 September where the Band last competed in 2014. </p> <p>[End]</p> <p>160217-lp</p> Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;}
10:00 - 18:00
Main Band
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