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Winning Performance in the A Grade Own Choice -
KBM Australian Championships, Hobart 2010
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KBM placed second overall for Australian Championships, Hobart 2010
Brass Bands - A Grade - Music
Name Hymn Test Own Choice March Total Place Boroondara Brass 40 162 159 33 394 Brisbane Brass 43 180 179 41 443 3rd Brisbane Excelsior 42 188 184 46 460 1st City of Holroyd Band 42 175 162 37 416 Darebin City Brass - Preston 40 157 177 39 413 Footscray-Yarraville City 44 165 170 40 419 Glenorchy City Concert Brass 35 161 182 44 422 Hawthorn Band 42 155 160 35 392 Hobart Brass Band 36 161 178 38 413 K & N Spring Gully Brass 39 160 165 36 400 Kew Band 35 177 (3rd) 187 (1st) 45 (2nd) 444 2nd Royal Agricultural Society of WA Brass 34 154 158 34 380 South Brisbane Federal 38 158 175 43 414 Warringah Concert Brass 37 177 180 42 436 Brass Bands - A Grade - Marching
Kew Band wins inspection and the best played music on the march!Name Inspection Drill Music March Total Boroondara Brass 17 66 22 105 Brisbane Brass 18 77 34 129 Brisbane Excelsior 18 81 35 134 City of Holroyd Band 17 62 35 114 Darebin City Brass - Preston 18 72 31 121 Footscray-Yarraville City 17 70 23 110 Glenorchy City Concert Brass 18 71 35 124 Hawthorn Band 17 65 27 109 Hobart Brass Band 18 72 29 119 K & N Spring Gully Brass 17 69 32 118 Kew Band 19 (1st) 66 38 (1st) 123 Royal Agricultural Society of WA Brass 16 63 28 107 South Brisbane Federal 18 73 36 127 Warringah Concert Brass 17 62 32 111 -
BRASS ALIVE concert
Sat 27th March 2010
MLC Auditorium, Barkers Rd, Kew
The concert combined the skills and quality sounds of the Melbourne Staff Band (Ken Waterworth), Boroondara Brass (Daniel van Bergen) and Kew Band Melbourne (Mark Ford).The MSB opened the energetic piece Battle Ready (Trigg) the title track of their latest CD. The second piece Pastorale (Curnow) also featured on the CD highlighted once again how beautifully the MSB can play quietly with refinement and control.
The final number from the MSB was Steadman Allen's "Victorian Snapshots -On Ratcliffe Highway".
Boroondara Brass played Dreams (Moren) their own choice piece for the 2010 Nationals. A good performance of a wonderful peace which I am sure we will see more of in coming years. The very famous choral work Panis Angelicus (Frank) was faithfully arranged for the band by it's conductor Danny van Bergen and showed the sensitive nature of the band, tuning, balance and phrasing. Boroondara brass finished their program with Glemdene (Carr). It was great to see MSO trumpets Geoff and Julie Payne playing cornets with the band.
Kew Band Melbourne began their bracket with their stage march for the nationals Mercury (van der Roost). They next featured a brand new contempary version of the popular hymn 'As the Deer' (Nystrom) arranged for KBM by Mike Fitzpatrick.The hymn started with a lovely peaceful, reflective version of the hymn which led into at trombone quartet and finished with a loud, braveheart insipired final chorus of exhaltaion. KBM finished their bracket with a performance of the National Championships, Extreme Makeover (de Meij), a very demanding and very exciting piece based on the works of Tchaikovsky. An intricate section in the combines the tones of beer bottles highlighting the tune in both a melodic and rhythmic juxtaposition against the marimba and later the xylophone. KBM used MSO trombone players Eric Klay (bass trombone) and Ken McClimont (tenor) to good effect with a very difficult trombone quartet and many extended high first trombone parts.
As a finale the three bands joined together to play Sosban Fach (Wood) conducted by Daniel van Bergen, featured the xylophone player from Boroondara Brass. This was followed by Ken Waterworth conducted the massed trombone feature When I Survey (Ritman). Mark Ford conducted the massed bands in the playing of "Riverdance", which basically featured everyone – but particularly Dave Barker (who played the off-stage beautifully ) and the percussion section.
