We had a fantastic concert at the Barnes Music Festival at St Mary’s on March 5th, followed by Curry Night, brilliantly organised by our Susie. Next: we’ll be celebrating the Coronation at St Mary’s on the afternoon of Sunday 7th May – music details to follow once Daryle has decided! Then our next current planned gigs are on Saturday 24th June at Trumpeters’ House (full Summer programme), and the Barnes Children’s Literary Festival on Sunday 25th June under our favourite tree by Gails’ Bakery (that’ll be a Flex/Mini Band under Andrea/Charlotte’s leadership). We don’t know yet about Barnes Fair. For our full Summer programme, Daryle has provided the following links:

Come Follow the Band

The Magic Flute Overture – orchestral version

Spanish Fever

A Whiter Shade of Pale

The Blue and the Gray

Libertango

Italian Love Song – O Sole Mio

The Soulful Sixties

At a Dixieland Jazz Funeral

Marianne

Perpetuum Mobile – not this particular arrangement but you’ll get the idea of the piece

Adele in Concert

Music to Watch Girls By

Earth, Wind & Fire Medley

Enjoy listening to and practising our programme for the Barnes Music Festival – thanks, Daryle and Susie, for the links.

Dillon’s Flight – Ralph Ford                                           

https://www.alfred.com/dillons-flight/p/00-29603/

An Original Suite – Gordon Jacob                               

Mountain Song – Philip Sparke                              

Variations on a Shaker Melody   – Aaron Copland            

Cloudburst – Eric Whitacre                                          

Marianne – Martin Bunce                                                           

The link is for the original composition for Flugel Horn.   Soloist: Simon Martin

At a Dixieland Jazz Funeral – Jared Spears

https://www.jwpepper.com/sheet-music/media-player.jsp?&type=audio&productID=2062420

Earth, Wind & Fire Medley – arr Masamicz Amano                

Conga del Fuego – Arturo Marquez                         

This is by the same composer that did Danzon No2 which we played in 2020.

The Concerts page has all our events listed, including Canbury Gardens which is now confirmed.  Daryle has given us the summer playlist:   Concert Prelude (C27), Plymouth Hoe (P1), Selections from “Hairspray” (H14), With Clouds Descending, Singin’ In the Rain, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, Two Slavonic Dance IV or VI (S66), Gee Officer Krupkee, Highlights from “Yesterday”, There’s No Business Like Show Business (T48), French Military March (A12), Wind in The Wood (W6), 
English Folk Song Suite (F2), American Salute, We Have All the Time in The World – (might delete this one, either we didn’t play it well or there’s too many parts missing), Soul Bossonova (S28), A Little Tango Music (L21), Three Klezmer Dances.    All this music has now  been given out.  

Daryle may add some additional royal-themed pieces for the Jubilee event on 4th June, and others at the end of the season in case we’ve had enough of the above repertoire by then!  The Barnes Children’s Literary Festival on 26th June (time still tbc) will be a mini-band, with minimum numbers of players specified by Daryle from across the Band.  

 

We had a lovely festive play for the Barnes Christmas Fair at Tideway Yard, 10th December - then were so disappointed to have to cancel St Michael's inspiring event because of Omicron-Covid.  We're back rehearsing on Tuesday 11th Jan, when we'll be preparing for Barnes Music Festival (date is Sunday March 6th at 3pm, St Mary's - keep checking our concerts page ).  Bravo Daryle - you've chosen some wonderful music - below are the details! 

The Olympic Spirit                                          John Williams                         

Portrait of a City – Skyline, Autumn, Downtown                                            Philip Sparke              

https://www.philipsparke.com/portrait-of-a-city-concert-band

Divertimento for Flute                                   Alfred Reed                            

Soloist Frances Hall

A String of Pearls                                            arr Iwai                       

BCB March                                                      Alistair Wheeler                     

The Watermill   (Soloist Stephanie Nunn)              Ronald Binge                          

Tico Tico                                                          arr Iwai                                   

Just as You Are                                               Rob Wiffin                  

http://robwiffin.com/works/wind_band/wind_band_comp/just_as_you_are.html

West Side Story                                              Leonard Bernstein arr. Duthoit

French horn, bass clarinet, tenor sax, trumpet, euphonium and tuba players – we need you!

Barnes Concert Band is an amateur band with a friendly but professional attitude. We play around six concerts a year, mostly in SW London including the prestigious Barnes Music Festival. Right now we need French horn, bass clarinet, tenor sax, trumpet, euphonium and tuba players. The band meets weekly on Tuesday evenings near Twickenham station. Band membership is diverse and everyone shares a passion to create great music and have fun. We have all the woodwind and brass instruments plus percussion.

If you play around Grade 8 standard or are committed to reaching this level we’d love to hear from you. There is a trial period for potential new members, but no audition.

If you are interested, come and see us and say hello at one of our forthcoming gigs (on the morning of 26 June near Barnes Pond, 11th July at Regents Park bandstand, and 18 September at Trumpeters House, Richmond) or email us on barnessec@gmail.com.
Find out more about the band at our website barnesconcert.band 

Contact us at barnessec@gmail.com

 

We’re back! Our first rehearsal back at Richard Reynolds School was fabulous, carefully Risk-Assessed and as Covid-Secure as possible.  And we sounded pretty good after such a long hibernation, thanks to Daryle’s expert leadership.   Susie will keep sending details of how to sign up for rehearsals and of our constantly-reviewed Risk Assessment.  Stay safe and keep playing! 

We’re carefully following government guidelines about when we can return to rehearsals – and it’s not yet clear! We’ll communicate with the Band with as much notice as possible when we’re good to go. It’s likely that we’ll return to St Mary’s in Twickenham for a while longer, with initially the same Covid-secure procedures as we developed last Autumn. We’re delighted to have a growing list of confirmed concerts if the easing of restrictions continues – check out our Concerts 2021 page. Meanwhile, huge thanks to everyone who has helped keep the Band in touch and entertained during the 3rd Lockdown – Fiona for encouraging us to share our favourite cheesy (and winey) music, and Clive’s fabulous Musicals Quiz. The following posts are our current details of Covid procedures (which we’ll keep updated), and the music we’ve been playing. We’ll ask Susie to re-send the passwords next time she sends one of her incomparably entertaining emails! More news soon.