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Track listing
- Punchinello 3:31
Composer - William Rimmer
© Wright & Round Limited.
- Ritual Fire Dance 3:40
Arranger - Allan Street.
Composer - Manuel de Falla
© 1921 J & W Chester Limited
- If 3:53 Soloist - Kathryn Hornby.
Arranger - Derek Ashmore, Composer - David Gates
© Screen Gems, Columbia Music Publishing Ltd.
- Jubilee Overture 6:34
Composer - Philip Sparke © 1983 Studio Music Co.
- When I'm 64 3:10
Arranger - Alan Fernie.
Composer - Lennon & McCartney
© Northern Songs Limited, MCA Music.
Arrangement - 1977 Chappell & Co. Ltd.
- A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square 4:16
Arranger - Alan Fernie
Composer - Maschwitz & Sherwin
© 1940 Peter Morris Music Co. Ltd.
- Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines 1:48
Arranger - Eric Banks
Composer - Ron Goodwin
© 1965 Miller Music Corporation.
- With One Look 3:58
Arranger - William Himes.
Composer - Andrew Lloyd Webber
© 1993 The Really Useful Group Ltd.
- The Floral Dance 2:45
Arranger - Derek Broadbent.
Composer - Katie Moss.
© 1991 Chappel & Co. Ltd.
This Arrangement: 1997 Chappell & Co. Ltd.
- A Sullivan Fantasy 7:12
Arranger - Gordon Langford.
Composer - Arthur Sullivan © Chandos Music.
- Somewhere Out There 4:03
Arranger - Darrol Barry.
Composers - James Horner, Barry Mann & Cynthia Weill. © 1968 MCA Music Pulishing Ltd.
- Virtuosity 4:20
Soloist - Robert Green.
Arranger - Jack Peberdy.
Composer - Kenny Baker © 1980 Studio Music Ltd.
- Mr Jums 2:42
Arranger - Alan Catherall, Composer - Chris Hazell
© Chester Music.
This arrangement: 1990 Wright & Round Ltd.
- The Washington Post 2:25
Arranger - C.W.Hewitt
Composer - John Philip Sousa © Boosey & Hawkes Ltd.
- Lustspiel - Overture 5:24
Composer - Keler Bela © 1914 Hawkes & Son.
- There's No Business Like Show Business 3:11
Arranger - Goff Richards
Composer - Irving Berlin © 1946 Irving Berlin (USA) Warner Chappell Music Ltd.
- Singing In The Rain 2:40
Arranger - Warren Belshaw.
Composer - Nacio Herb Brown & Arthur Freed.
© 1929 EMI Catalogue Partnership, EMI Robbins Catalogue, USA.
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| Playin' in the Rain
This "sceptered isle" of our's isn't exactly renowned for its good weather! In fact, ask any tourist what brings them across the waters and you can be sure it won't be the guarentee of sunshine! But each and every year, as summer (apparently) approaches, the City of Birmingham Brass Band, like hundreds of other bands up and down the land, provide hours of musical entertainment to one and all in parks and parades, fetes and festivals - all at the mercy of British weather.
Come rain or shine - the show must go on!
As Musical Director, I have endeavoured to shower you with music to suit all tastes. I challenge you not to recognise at least one of the tunes in the Gilbert and Sullivan medley, or instantly know the signature tune of the March King himself. Enjoy the glitz of Hollywood in an unmistakable Irving Berlin number and the humour of Alan Fernie's cheeky version of a Beatles' classic. Hear the band turn into frenzied savages (as conductor, I've grown accustomed to it in weekly rehearsals!) in de Falla's devilish rampage, and enjoy the familiar strains of one of the most popular of all brass band's repertoire in Katies Moss's "Floral Dance" - Girl Power and Flower Power all rolled into one!
Our final offering, "Singing in the Rain", is dedicated firstly to those who brave the storms to listen to the band, determined to enjoy the music whatever the weather, and secondly to those who provide that music, brollies at the ready! So here's your chance to sit back, put up your feet and enjoy a concert in the comfort of your own home by the City of Birmingham Brass Band who, for once, aren't Playin' in the Rain.
Warren Belshaw.
(Musical Director, 1997-2002)
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