The musical My Fair Lady (a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe) is based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. Show Me arranged by Mark Freeh is taken from Act II of My Fair Lady and is when Liza storms out of Higgins’ house to stumble outside into Freddy. Freddy protests that he is in love with her but Liza is sceptical and brushes him off. Brass Band Grade 4: Advanced Youth and 3rd Section Duration: 4 minutes

Le compositeur-interprète britannique Peter Skellern (1947) a débuté sa carrière artistique comme chef d?un chœur d?église. Après avoir reçu une solide formation au Collège de Musique Guildhall à Londres il travaille plusieurs années durant comme compositeur à la BBC. Il collabore également avec Andrew Lloyd Webber l?un des plus brillants compositeurs de comédies musicales. Peter Skellern a essentiellement composé des chansons d?amour lyriques dont la plus célèbre est You?re a Lady. Wim Stalman a réalisé un arrangement particulièrement brillant et fidèle à la version originale.

Durkle Bandrydge is the name of the composers imaginary world but it could very well be anyones invisible dream world with a different name. In this very versatile suite by Bruce Fraser 8 characters are featured each with its ownpeculiarities making Durkle Bandrydge such a colourful place. Do these characters differ that much from us? That is for you to find out! In the last part all characters come together in a special way.Durkle Bandrydge exists at the end ofyour street. It is invisible to humans but Durkle Bandrygators can watch us with great interest. The music will introduce you to some of the characters who live in this unusual place. The parts: Somnanbulyss who is a giant trollguarding the entrance to Durkle Bandryde. At least he is supposed to but he tends to sleep most of the time. His music is therefore very slow moving and sleepy. Long Gwysteen is a tall mysterious and somehow sophisticated character who walls around with a shell on his back. His music glides along rather gracefully. Squelfitch is a rather unpleasant and smelly character who lives in a bog which is why his music sounds rather slimy and a bit like trying to walkthrough quicksand. Perfydlia is a meddling old woman who gossips about everybody and squeals with sudden delight at the small exciting bits of tittletattle about others in the village. In the music you can hear her sudden little squealsof delight. Maryann Lovely is a beautiful young lady graceful gorgeous absolutely devine and her music is obviously just the same. Thistledoo Nicely is a lively character who spends and spends and spends with her credit card buying the latest fashion and never worries about having to pay the bills. Her music reflects her excitement when shopping and het ‘happy go lucky’ approach to life. Marsyn Edginton is the Lord of the manor the richest man in town the‘big cheese’ the man with all the power and of course the biggest house. He is very grand and his music like he could be a king. Jimmy McScotsmyn is a red haired scotsman wearing tartan cap. He misses his home country terribly and eatslots of shortbread oatcakes scotch eggs porridge and drinks an enormous amount of Scotch Wisky which helps him to have fond memories of the kind of music he would like to dance to when he was a younger man. His favourite dance is a Jig andthis is the music he remembers. Grand March of the Durkle Bandrydgators. We hope that you have enjoyed meeting these characters from Drukle Bandrydge and would invite you to listen to all the villagers now march along in a grand parade -it is a pity that you can not see them what is a wonderful sight. If you listen carefully you will hear the melodies which belong to the characters as they march past. Oh what a grand spectacle!

In Danceries by Kenneth Hesketh the melodies themselves are a mixture of old and new. Where the old occurs it has been adapted in mood and composition and is often interspersed with completely new material. The contemporary harmonies and rhythms bring a breath of new into these themes and add drama to the suite. The first movement Lull Me Beyond Thee is gentle and lilting almost a barcarole this movement is very much a reverie. The original tune had the name Poor Robin’s Maggot a rather disconcerting title. Maggot however in seventeenth-century parlance meant whim or fancy. The second Catching of Quails is acolourful buoyant scherzo on an original melody. The thematic material is shuttled around the band to contrast with full-blooded tuttis. The last few bars fade to almost nothing before a final surprise! My Lady’s Rest is a tender pavane also on an original melody with Moorish leanings. Beautiful solo passages expressive contrapuntal writing and warm tuttis provide an opportunity to show off the most lyrical of playing. The final movement Quodling’s Delight is a clever combination of the 17th century melody Goddesses with an original contrasting melody creating a rousing and exuberant finale to the work.

Les Trois Mousquetaires-Les Trois Mousquetaires est une commande de la société Miraphone pour le Miraphone Tuba Quartett et la Musique des Gardiens de la Paix qui en assurèrent la création à Guebwiller (France) le 28 juin 2003. / Même si l?on n?a jamais lu une seule ligne du roman mythique d?Alexandre Dumas Les Trois Mousquetaires (1844) on connaît nécessairement le quatuor parfait (avec sa célèbre devise « Tous pour un un pour tous ») que forment D?Artagnan Athos Porthos et Aramis. Aussi ne compte-t-on plus les nombreuses adaptations du roman ni les nombreux historiens qui s?intéressent au très réel Charles de Batz de Castelmore d?Artagnan mort au siège de Maastricht en 1673. Letissu musical des Trois Mousquetaires (The Three Musketeers) s?intéresse davantage aux éléments de la personnalité d?un personnage qu?au rôle qu?il joue dans l?intrigue. La trame est vivante on y vit intensément. Maxime Aulio a orienté son choix sur D?Artagnan le parfait gentilhomme sensible et romantique qui se laisse facilement séduire par les femmes à l'image de la douce Constance Bonacieux dont il s'éprend et de la perfide Milady de Winter dont la beauté l?envoûte. Le premier mouvement - D?Artagnan - est fidèle au caractère du jeune noble provincial venu de Gascogne : enthousiaste et héroïque en toutes circonstances. Le second mouvement - Constance Bonacieux - est galant prévenant et passionné. Le troisième et dernier tableau est quant à lui aussi ensorceleur et sournois que la femme fatale qu?il dépeint Milady de Winter.