East Anglian Brass Band Association

Spring Festival Contest Results - 11^th May 2008

Championship Class - Adjudicator: S. Pritchard-Jones

Entertainments

1st Prize	Ipswich & Norwich Co-op	R. Norman	192
2nd Prize	Matthews Norfolk Brass	D. Stowell	191
3rd Prize	Cawston	C. H. Swaep	187

Hymn Tune

1st Prize	Ipswich & Norwich Co-op	R. Norman	189
2nd Prize	Matthews Norfolk Brass	D. Stowell	187
3rd Prize	Cawston	C. H. Swaep	181

Class 'A' - Adjudicator: S. Pritchard-Jones

Entertainments

1st Prize	Colchester	P. Ivey	188
2nd Prize	Newmarket Town	L. Ager	185
3^rd Prize	Fulbourn & Teversham	P. Mackley	183

Hymn Tune

1st Prize	Fulbourn & Teversham	P. Mackley	185
2nd Prize	Newmarket Town	L. Ager	184
3rd Prize	Colchester	P. Ivey	183

Class 'B' - Adjudicator: S. Pritchard-Jones

Entertainments

1st Prize

Dereham

A. Hampton

184

Hymn Tune

1st Prize

Dereham

A. Hampton

182

Special Awards

Best Euphonium Class 'B'	Owen Moulton	Dereham
Best Euphonium Class 'A' and Championship	S. Clarke	Cawston

Best Tenor Horn Class 'B'	Patrick Nichols	Dereham
Best Tenor Horn Class 'A' and Championship	Ruth Trown	Ipswich & Norwich Co-op

GALA CONCERT

Grimethorpe Colliery Band

On Sunday 11^th May Grimethorpe Colliery Band made a welcome return to Norwich to perform the Association’s 70^th Annual Gala Concert. The band, under the baton of Frank Renton, commenced their programme with Irving Berlin’s Lets Face The Music and Dance. This was followed by a superb performance of the Festival Overture by Shostakovich. The first soloist of the evening was the principal cornet player of the band, Roger Webster who delighted an appreciative audience with his stunning performance of Ave Maria by Giulio Caccini. The band continued their performance with Faure’s Pavane.

The audience was then treated to the first original brass band work of the evening, Percy Fletcher’s Labour and Love which was performed to Grimethorpe’s usual high standard. The band demonstrated it’s controlled playing with In Perfect Peace by Kenneth Downie. The first half of the concert was brought to its conclusion with an excellent performance of the march from A Moorside Suite by Gustav Holst.

The second half commenced with the march Knight Templar by Allen. Rhapsody In Brass followed with all three movements being expertly played. Principal Euphonium Michael Dodd then gave an exquisite performance of Bellstedt’s Napoli. Two contrasting pieces, Tara’s Theme and the Londonderry Air were followed by the final solo of the evening. Principal Eb Bass, Shaun Crowther, thrilled the audience with his amusing and talented performance of Monti’s Czardas.

St Andrew’s Hall was the perfect setting for the band’s finale, the March from Respighi’s Pines of Rome which the audience received with rapturous applause. For its encore Grimethorpe performed at breathtaking speed the Finale from Rossini’s William Tell Overture.

On the day when Norwich was the hottest place in the country Grimethorpe Colliery Band gave a top class concert which was enthusiastically received by the audience of over six hundred.

Christine Wade (Chairman)

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