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Game changing arrangers

Frank Renton with music that changed the band world forever.

Some fifty years ago with the brass band's concert repertoire being the same old diet of classic arrangements and old-fashioned solos it needed to change. The advent of the entertainment competition particularly The Granada Band of the Year which began in 1971 provided the incentive. Suddenly bands had been thrust into the entertainment industry, and needed writers and arrangers who could deliver a new kind of music. Frank Renton highlights the talents that helped change the band world forever and, in the process, took it to this new audience who were demanding more than those traditional sounds.

30 minutes

Last on

Tue 8 Aug 2017 23:30

Music Played

  • Grimethorpe Colliery Band

    Hogarth's Hoedown

  • Kirkintilloch Band

    You Are The Sunshine Of My Life

  • Brass Band Of Battle Creek & Vincent Di Martino

    Virgin Of The Macharena

  • Eikanger Bjorsvik Band

    Ein Feste Burg

  • Brass Band Of Central Florida

    Oblivion

  • Desford Colliery Band

    Hot Toddy

  • Eikanger Bjorsvik Band

    Hoedown from Rodeo

Broadcast

  • Tue 8 Aug 2017 23:30

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