Guernsey Concert Brass Charybdis 2006

Charybdis 2006

The 2006 Annual Charybdis concert took place on Sunday 8th of October at St James Concert Hall.

Despite the unfavourable weather conditions the concert was well attended with the hall being filled nearly to capacity.

As the Lieutenant Governor Sir Fabian Malbon, KBE was in attendance the evening began with the National Anthem

The program then continued with Wellington March and Trafalgar March both by W. Zehle featuring a Drummers Salute by the Corps of Drums of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Plymouth, as always in spectacular form.

The tempo then relaxed with Something by George Harrison, featuring Colin Solway on Solo Cornet.

Unusually for a Nautical concert the band then played the Royal Air Force March Past as a tribute to those lost in the recent Nimrod accident.

This was followed by Goff Richards James Bond Collection and Philip Sparks arrangement of Neal Hefti’s Li'l Darlin' again featuring Colin Solway.

Next came the Uppermillers favourite, Pirates of the Caribbean by Klaus Badelt and finally for the first half Alan Fernie’s A Big Band Explosion.

Post interval the band opened with John Williams Liberty Fanfare. Written in 1986, the piece was commissioned to celebrate the centennial of the Statue of Liberty on July 4 of that year.

Breezin' Down Broadway, again by Goff Richards followed. A stunningly good arrangement of Another Opening, Another Show : There's No Business Like Show Business : Get Me To the Church on Time : Oklahoma :That's Entertainment : 76 Trombones

Next Colin again featured in Morning in Cornwall by James Last, an unusually atmospheric and reflective from this famous Big Band composer.

Three marches followed in three different styles.

Under the Double Eagle, a German march by Composed by Joseph Franz Wagner (1856-1908). Bright and even paced.

Marche Militaire by the French composer Charles Gounod (1818 – 1893) Slow and precise

Amparito Roca (The Sheltered Cliff) by Jaime Texidor (1884 -1957) A Spanish Paso Doble and definitely the most rapid of the bunch.

Then onto the finale and the highlight of the evening, the entry of the Marines Drums to H M Jollies by Kenneth J Alford

The Marines then swapped their drums for bugles for High on a Hill by Moorehouse, Rees and Brady, the Marines playing the open segments and the GCB filling in the valve segments.

The Marines then opened Simon Applegate’s arrangement of Britannic Salute with bugles before changing back to drums.

The concert ended with Hearts of Oak and A Life on the Ocean Wave both arranged by Alan West.

All in all a very successful and well attended evening made once again all the more special by the attendance of the Corps of Drums of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines Plymouth.

Thank you to all involved for the continuing success of this annual event.


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