Vivid memories of that 1965 contest - Arnold Hall with his shock of white hair on bass trom and Norman Ashcroft on principal cornet - the best leader of any band in my opinion. Listen how he measures the cadenza and alights on that top A, held bang in tune on the pause. A masterful composition by Gilbert Vinter- if memory serves me right, he conducts the BBC Midlands Orchestra on The Archers theme tune and so can be ' heard' every day on the radio!
I prefer Vinter's original title before he was forced to change it by the boring powers-that-were: A MATTER OF SECONDS. It was so-named because of its focus on the musical interval of the major and minor 2nd.
Vivid memories of that 1965 contest - Arnold Hall with his shock of white hair on bass trom and Norman Ashcroft on principal cornet - the best leader of any band in my opinion. Listen how he measures the cadenza and alights on that top A, held bang in tune on the pause. A masterful composition by Gilbert Vinter- if memory serves me right, he conducts the BBC Midlands Orchestra on The Archers theme tune and so can be ' heard' every day on the radio!
Superb !!!❤
This team Fairey/Lamb won the Nationals on this piece at the time.
The old low pitch instruments?
I prefer Vinter's original title before he was forced to change it by the boring powers-that-were: A MATTER OF SECONDS. It was so-named because of its focus on the musical interval of the major and minor 2nd.