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The award winning Bournemouth Concert Brass, return to Regent Centre in Christchurch with their annual New Year Viennese Concert on Sunday 13 January at 3.00 pm. Sit back and enjoy the warm, burnished brass sound of the Strauss family and their famous Viennese waltzes, polkas and marches, which are guaranteed to blow those winter blues away.
The Band’s resident conductor, Bill Willis, will be in charge of the baton for the afternoon. Bill, who has been with the Band since 1993, has also written some of the arrangements for this year’s concert.
Strauss favourites like the Blue Danube and the Radetzky March are amongst the highlights of this perennially popular concert, which will include pieces by other famous composers who worked in Vienna at the time, such as Franz Lehar and Mozart. This is guaranteed to be an afternoon to remember for all lovers of British Brass Band music.
Bournemouth Concert Brass are undoubtedly one of the top bands in Britain today – a tribute to their long and distinguished history. The Band was formerly called The Bournemouth Silver Band, which was born at the start of the 20th century in Boscombe and Southbourne.
The Band is former winner of the West of England Championship and have been finalists at the National Brass Band Championships at the Albert Hall. They are also past winners of the prestigious Milton Keynes and Reading Brass Band Festivals.
Shut your eyes as Bournemouth Concert Brass take you down the Blue Danube for their New Year Viennese Concert on Sunday 13 January at 3.00pm at the Regent in Christchurch.
