Howells's Pageantry is conducted by David King with the Yorkshire Building Society Band. Herbert Howells's 1934 British ... with modern brass brass competition requirements. The music needs ...

"Brass bands have always played the music of the people, going way back to the 1850s when brass band contests started," he says. "The very first special railway excursions were to brass band ...

(The first English "all brass" band was formed the following year in York.) The first brass band music was published soon after in 1836, and the current instrumentation established in 1873.

Paul Hindmarsh's outstanding biography of composer Wilfred Heaton continues to gain plaudits from critics. Paul Hindmarsh's ...

The British Open Championship will return to Symphony Hall in Birmingham for the next five years, following confirmation of ...