Thursday 9th August at 7.30pm in St Michael’s Church, Beccles offers a unique opportunity to hear the spectacularly talented National Youth Brass Band in this area before it moves on to the Snape Proms and the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall.
For just £7 (concessions £6, FTE £3.50, under 16s free) you can hear this 80-strong band of future celebrity players and soloist superstars deliver a programme packed with energy and contrast:
Overture for An Epic Occasion – Denis Wright
Altitude – George Benjamin
March, from A Moorside Suite H 173 – Gustav Holst
Finale, from Checkmate – Sir Arthur Bliss
Elegy, from A Downland Suite – John Ireland
Wildfire – John Pickard
Nimrod, from ‘Enigma Variations’ – Sir Edward Elgar, arranged by Denis Wright
Cornet Carillon – Ronald Binge
Bugler’s Holiday – Leroy Anderson
My Love is like a Red, Red Rose – Traditional
Blitz – Derek Bourgeois
Tickets from Beccles Books, Exchange Square, Beccles, NR34 9HH Tel. 01502 716806
This concert will help raise funds for the educational and community elements of the 2012 Beccles Music Festival, 14th-23rd September 2012