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Inaugural Lecture: Professor Nicholas Childs and Black Dyke Band.
1. Yorkshire Waltzes
2. Labour and Love
3. Severn Suite excerpt
4. Severn Suite - Fugue and Minuet
5. Comedy Overture
6. The Beginning: Prof Nicholas Childs and Dr Robert Childs in discussion
7. Cyfarthfa Band: Prof Philip Wilby interviewing Prof Trevor Herbert
8. The First Harvest: Dr Roy Newsome interviewing Prof Philip Wilby
9. Growing the Repertoire: Prof Philip Wilby interviewing Dr Roy Newsome
Inaugural Lecture - Professor Nicholas J. Childs
Friday, 29th May 7.30 pm Gandhi Hall
The repertoire played by bands has altered radically over many years. However, commissioning bodies have always been governed by a desire to attract the leading mainstream composers of the day to write original material for the medium.
The so-called 'Golden Period', spanning the period between the Great Depression and the Second World War, encapsulates this ambition at its most successful. A sequence of seminal works, by John Ireland, Gustav Holst, Herbert Howells, and Sir Edward Elgar revitalised the repertoire and placed amateur musicians in a place of honour within the British musical establishment.
In an illustrated lecture, Prof. Nicholas Childs and the Black Dyke Band place this music in its wider context, from the production of the first original band compositions in 1913 up until the death of Elgar in 1934.
