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 ...

A celebration of brass music, the event will feature mash-ups of classic songs and some of the best-loved brass favourites. Taking place from Friday to Sunday, The Big Brass Blowout will feature a ...

John Pickard, internationally-recognised composer in the Department of Music, has composed pieces for brass ... another piece — Eden — for the final of the 2005 British National Brass Band ...

"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.