The Mill Creek Colliery Band will finish its 2007-2008 season on a high note by presenting its annual ‘Proms’ concert. The “Salute To The Proms Celebration” concert will be performed on Friday, May 9^th, 7:30 pm, at Convocation Hall (University of Alberta, Arts Building).

Edmonton’s own 28-piece, British-style brass band will present an exciting brassy salute to that venerable British musical tradition, The Last Night of the Proms. The varied program will include Riverdance (Whelan/Farr), Slaughter on 10^th Avenue (Rodgers/Smith), Russlan and Ludmilla Overture (Glinka/Snell) and Florentine March (Fucik). The band is pleased to feature as its guest soloist the renowned Canadian trumpeter/cornetist, Robert Venables, who will play Jubilance (Himes) and Caprice For Cornet (Himes). Of course, the regular Proms favourites, Jerusalem and Pomp and Circumstance, will be featured, and the audience can sing along with these well-loved tunes. Audience members are encouraged to bring flags, hats, etc. to help set a party atmosphere reminiscent of the Last Night of the Proms.

The band will be led by resident conductor, Dr. Malcolm Forsyth, and Dr. David Cook will be our compére.

Tickets are $17 (students/seniors $13). Special discounts are available for student groups (for special rates, call 431-2437 or email us at info@millcreekbrass.ca)

Tickets are available at the door, or in advance through TIX ON THE SQUARE [Charge-by-phone 420-1757 or on line at www.tixonthesquare.ca]

The 125th Anniversary concert on May 24th 2008, in the Great Hall at the world renowned Hamilton Place Theatre, will be a kaleidoscope of music through the ages illuminating the development of S.A. music and banding in Canada.  The evening will feature The Meadowlands Corps Band (formerly Hamilton 1, Hamilton Citadel, and Hamilton Temple) and The London Citadel Band.  This will not be your “run of the mill” band concert as we follow the development of Canadian Salvation Army Brass Banding with light hearted drama, visual presentations and music from early compositions to the latest in brass arrangements.

Joining the bands at this special concert will be Mark Ridenour who is the Assistant Principal Trumpet of The Chicago Symphony Orchestra.  Mark is obviously a very fine player as well as a Salvationist.  He and his family are active members of the Des Plains Corps in Illinois where Mark is the bandmaster and involved in the training of young brass players.  A graduate from Asbury College with a Bachelors degree, Mark also holds a Masters degree from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.  He has appeared as a soloist with the Chicago Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Roosevelt Orchestra and other orchestras and brass bands across the United States and Canada and very much in demand as a soloist and clinician.

The evening will be more than brass only as Joe Caddy will be with us to provide flow and further insight into our brass banding heritage with his dramatic interludes.  Joe is the director of the Bill Booth Theatre company in Chicago, and was a guest this past year at our own Territorial School of Music held at Jackson’s Point.  For those of you who miss the days of “Gowans & Larson” and “Light Fingered Freddy”, Joe will give you the opportunity to become nostalgic as we celebrate so many era’s of our rich history together.

Col. Glenn Shepherd(ret.) will also join us for our weekend celebration.  The Colonel has though the years had association with both bands and has been an active bandsman throughout his officership and his father was a former Bandmaster of London Citadel Band for many years. We are delighted the Colonel has accepted the invitation to be part of this special weekend’s celebration.

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The Mill Creek Colliery Band is pleased to kick off its 2007-08 season by presenting “Brass-A-Mania” , Sunday, November 4th, 3:00 pm, at McDougall United Church (10025 – 101 Street).

Edmonton’s own 28-piece, British-style brass band will present an exciting program, suitable for all ages. Selections will include popular favorites: Dance of the Hours (Ponchielli), March from the Pines of Rome (Respighi), Someone To Watch Over Me (Gershwin), Music (Broadbent) and True North (Norbury). Featured soloists are Ivan Mast (trombone) playing Bolívar (Cook), Chris Diaper playing the sparkling euphonium solo Brillante (Graham), and Cam Martin (soprano cornet) and Doreen Kuschminder (flugelhorn) playing the ever-popular Pie Jesu (Lloyd-Webber).

The band will be led by resident conductor, Dr. Malcolm Forsyth, and Dr. David Cook will be our compére.

This concert will also feature the release of the band’s first CD, Introducing the Mill Creek Colliery Band. Join us for this special occasion.

Tickets are $17 (students/seniors $13). Special discounts are available for student groups (for special rates, call 431-2437 or email us at info@millcreekbrass.ca)

Tickets are available at the door, or in advance through TIX ON THE SQUARE [Charge-by-phone 420-1757 or on line at www.tixonthesquare.ca]

We are now delighted to announce details of some of the special guests who are joining us for this concert. Bramwell Tovey, Musical Director of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, will be joining with The International Staff Band to present FANTASIA FOR PIANO AND BAND ON ‘CHRIST IS THE ANSWER’.

Susan Turner [vocal] and Derick Kane [euphonium] will also be presenting solos that were especially written for them by Colonel Steadman–Allen, in what promises to be a memorable occasion.

Trevor Caffull, MD of SP&S, said ‘To have such wonderful soloists joining with The International Staff Band and International Staff Songsters enables us to put together a really very special programme of music, representing so many aspects of RSA’s tremendous musical output. I am personally thrilled that Bram Tovey has so generously agreed to join us in what we know will be a truly exciting performance.’

Tickets are now available, exclusively through Fairfield Halls Box Office on 020 8688 9291 or online at www.fairfield.co.uk

Friday, May 4th, 7:30pm
Saturday, May 5th, 7:30pm
 
The Mill Creek Colliery Band wishes to celebrate it’s fifth anniversary with you by presenting a brassy salute to the Proms. There will be two performances of our “Proms Celebration”  concert: Friday, May 4th, 7:30pm and Saturday, May 5th, 7:30pm, both at Convocation Hall (University of Alberta, Arts Building).

Edmonton’s own 28-piece, British-style brass band will celebrate its fifth anniversary music with an exciting concert that will delight all ages. The varied program will include The Kingdom Triumphant (Ball), Gaelforce (Graham), Celebratory Overture (Norbury), The Last Spring (Grieg, arr. Steadman-Allen) and Penny Lane (Lennon/McCartney). Soloists will include Chris Diaper (euphonium) on Brilliante (Graham), Ivan Mast (trombone) on Bolivar (Cook/Ashmore) and David Langor and Dan Skepple (cornet) on Quicksilver (Graham). Of course, the regular Proms favourites - Jerusalem, Pomp and Circumstance, and Fantasy on British Sea Songs will be featured and the audience can sing along with these well-loved tunes. Audience members are encouraged to bring flags, hats, etc. to help set a party atmosphere reminiscent of the Last Night of the Proms.

The band will be led by resident conductor, Dr. Malcolm Forsyth, and Sir Francis Price will be our compére.

Tickets are $17 (students/seniors $13). Special discounts are available for student groups (for special rates, call 431-2437 or email us at info@millcreekbrass.ca)

Tickets are available at the door, or in advance through TIX ON THE SQUARE [Charge-by-phone 420-1757 or on line at www.tixonthesquare.ca]

Come and celebrate with the MCCB!

The Canadian Staff Band was involved in an interesting event in early March. On Friday, March 2, the band participated in Hannaford Street Silver Band’s annual Festival of Brass weekend

On Saturday, the CSB travelled to London Citadel, where we were hosted by London Citadel Band for a weekend of music-making with local corps forces.

Canadian Staff Band » Blog Archive » CSB Weekend in Toronto and London.

The Mountain Citadel Band (Hamilton, Ontario) held its sixth annual “Blazing Brass” concert on 10 February 2007. Special guests for the evening were the Peterborough Temple Band (Bandmaster Ron Reid) and cornet soloist Derek Lance of the New York Staff Band.

The Brass Crest ~ News: Blazing Brass VI at Mountain Citadel.

Presents

“EUPHONIUM”

Euphonium Recital and CD Release on the ARKTOS Label Matthew Clark, euphonium and Janet Scott Hoyt, piano Saturday, March 31^st, 2007

7:30 pm.

McDougall United Church

On Saturday, March 31^st, Matthew Clark presents a euphonium recital and release of his new CD titled Euphonium. Janet Scott Hoyt will join him at the piano. The concert will be held at McDougall United Church, 10025-101 Street and will begin at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $12 adults and $10 for seniors/students. Tickets are available at the door or in advance from TIX on the Square (420 1757 or www.tixonthesquare.ca).

The euphonium is a tenor-voiced member of the tuba family and as its name implies, its sound in the hand of a master is sweet, pleasing, luscious, lyrical, dark, virtuosic and explosive. The concert will feature original works by Philip Wilby, Philip Sparke, Brian Bowen and Hiroshi Hoshina; an arrangement of Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise; as well as a spectacularly agile set of variations on Auld Lang Syne by Simone Mantia.

Matthew Clark is quickly being recognised as one of Canada’s premier euphonium soloists. He is the euphonium soloist of The Royal Canadian Artillery Band, one of only six professional military bands in Canada, and based at the Edmonton Garrison.

Janet Scott Hoyt is one of the most sought-after collaborators in the Canadian music scene and is on the faculty of the Department of Music at the University of Alberta, where she supervises a graduate program in piano pedagogy.

FOR MEDIA INQUIRIES please call Matthew Clark at 456-2628, or e-mail euphonium@shaw.ca. Matthew Clark has a new website at: www.matthewclark.ca