Band plays tribute to classic hits
THE Toowoomba Municipal Band is currently enjoying one of it’s most buoyant periods, said member Leanne Fuller.
She said the band had started a new training band and its second band was now at C-grade level.
The band’s most recent concert, Classic Brass, featured the premier B-grade band where the line-up included an Australian tenor trombone champion who had also won the state Euphonium championship, Baritone championship, Eflat Bass Championship and spent nine years with the Australian Army Band.
Mrs Fuller said the band’s soprano cornet player had a national reputation as an outstanding trumpet player previously with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Queensland Philharmonic orchestra, contest adjudicator and clinician at many music camps.
“Most other seats (in the band) are occupied by current classroom and brass teachers in local schools some who have played in other state orchestras,” she said.
“This is hardly scraping the top of the story’s we could tell.”
The concert was held at the USQ Concert Hall and opened with Rossini’s William Tell Overture, which the band played in it’s entirety.
“This piece is a challenge and regarded as a benchmark for the cornet section,” she said.
“Solo Cornet player Linda Hills did a great job with the difficult solo features during the well-known finale.”
She said the overture was followed by a varied and entertaining program featuring the hymn tune Crimond, the test piece Aotearoa by Philip Sparke, A Russian Fantasy by Gordon Langford then onto an arrangement of When You Were Sweet Sixteen, Lloyd Webber’s With One Look and the theme from Thunderbirds the TV series.