NCBB 2007 - Dreamcatchers - Paul Lovatt-Cooper (Part 2)

NCBB perform Paul Lovatt-Cooper's Dreamcatchers, which was written especially for them. In turn, Principal players from each section stand up and play a solo passage or cadenza. What an amazing piece...

(part two)

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[oafclegendary]

is that our peter on trombone?

[OXNinaXD]

I love this piece. We played it on a course I was on, and in the brass band where I am playing, we play Paul Lovatt-Coopers "Vitae Aeternum".

[cezza92]

in my school im the only brass player in my year and im a grade 6 EEb tuba player. All the other brass players ( 4 of them) are under grade 4 so there isnt anybody to play the 1st trumpet/cornet parts.

[elh666]

I'm the only one in my school. Lessons are getting expensive because the council keep cutting funds to the county music service. Also it's a girls' grammar so basically everybody plays flute except me *shudder*.

[Suiram1]

There are 3 or 4 in my school, but it enrolls no more than 300 students. I live a little out in the sticks, though. Where I live, travelling 30 km to school is common. There are, however, 3-5 school bands and one (relatively) decent brass band in the vincinity. In the cities, there is a tendency that peoble who are interested in banding go to schools that offer music as a part of their education.

In Norway, the quit rate is highest when starting at secondary school. Then it becomes uncool.

[EllyGraceKing]

Everything really. There are only, i think 3 people in my school who play in brass bands and that's out of 1700.

It seems to be worse in the south for some reason.

[Suiram1]

Youth bands, school bands or the whole banding community?

[EllyGraceKing]

That's really good. it's a shame it's kind of dying out in britain, particularly with people our age.

[Suiram1]

Norway has, as far as i know, a greater tradition for school bands than Britain. The best Norwegian school bands are at the level of decent 3rd and 4th section bands, so the demand for youth bands is not that big.

[Suiram1]

We do, however have several county bands who gathers four times a year. They are organized by the Norwegian Band Federation (NMF), but those are usually wind bands. Exeptions are in the western part of norway. The one in Sogn og Fjordane county is the only one I know of which is organized by NMF, but there are private youth bands in Hordaland and Rogaland counties too. (I played 1st baritone in Hordaland Youth Brass Band last year)