Podcasts about grimethorpe

The interviews in this episode were recorded on 12th May 1984 at a large Women Against Pit Closures rally at the Barnsley Civic Hall. The event was much larger than expected with an estimated 10,000 women travelling from all parts of the country to the event at the civic hall and had 40 speakers. You are about to hear speeches by Ann Hunter (chairperson of rally), Lorraine Hunter, two miners' wives from Nottinghamshire and Arthur Scargill. Interviews with Chris Hall (of Barnsley Women Against Pit Closures), various miners' wives, nurses from South Wales raining community, miners' wives from Wales, and Susan Sykes, miner's wife from Grimethorpe. Special thanks to Sheffield Archives for digitising the cassette and allowing us to make it available in this podcast.

When the American composer Jack Stamp was appointed International Composer-in-Association to the Grimethorpe Colliery Band in 2019, he conceived a recording project focused on works written explicitly for the GCB, including compositions by himself and Liz Lane, the other GCB Composer-in-Association, alongside other pieces which have played a prominent role in the Band's recent activities. The kaleidoscopic range of styles to be heard here displays the extraordinary virtuosity of one of the world's best-known brass bands.TracksJack Stamp (b. 1954) Handsel Overture (2019)* (7:23)David Hackbridge Johnson (b. 1963) Slow March on Gresford: In memorian E.R. II (2022)* (8:24)Michael Halstenson (b. 1956) Winter's Moon (2022)* (8:13)Liz Lane (b. 1964) Serenata (2019) (4:34)Harrison Birtwistle (1934-2022) Grimethorpe Aria (1973)** (10:03)Robert Bernat (1931-94) Dunlap's Creek (1976) (4:50)Ben Gaunt (b. 1984) More Like What It Is (2023)* (5:55)Liz Lane Beyond the Light (2022)* (6:57)Jack Stamp Vociferation (2022)* (7:02)Edward Gregson (b. 1945) Postcards to Grimethorpe (1993/2022)* (3:31)*First Recordings**Live Recording

Miss Virginia is a new film based on the story of Virginia Walden Ford’s fight to create positive educational opportunities for African-American students in Washington D.C. and stars Uzo Aduba. Elle Osili-Wood reviews. Australian singer Helen Reddy has died at the age of 77. Her biggest hit, I am Woman, became an anthem for the feminist movement. Writer Lucy O’Brien was an admirer and a fan, and she joins Samira to discuss why Helen Reddy is crucial to the story of women in popular music, and also feminism. Sarah Nicolls discusses her new composition, 12 Years, inspired by the 2018 IPCC report that said we have 12 years to prevent irreversible climate change. Sarah performs the narrative work that includes newspaper headlines and invented characters on her unique Inside-Out Piano, a vertical grand designed so that she can play the strings directly to create an array of incredible sounds. The choreographer Gary Clarke grew up in 1980s Grimethorpe, North Yorkshire, at the time one of Europe’s most deprived towns. So when he was asked to create a piece reflecting the experience of lockdown, his dance was inspired by a 1903 film of Alice in Wonderland, but draws heavily on the experiences of his youth. Presenter Samira Ahmed Producer Jerome Weatherald

Siddis is one of the great entertainment events in the band world.  With competitions in several sections over the weekend it’s a real test of a bands programme building ingenuity and technical skill. Frank features some winning performances and recalls some highlights of his times there.  He also dips into the latest recording by Black Dyke and guides us through one of the most popular test pieces of all-time pieces Philip Wilby’s Paganini Variations, a piece that he conducted to Open Championships victory with Grimethorpe. The whole of the Siddis competition will be available to live stream on brasspass.tv

Frank Renton has the names of our BrassPass.tv Young Brass Award Semi Finalists who will trying to impress judges Katy Jones, Principal Trombone of the Halle Orchestra and conductor and cornet virtuoso Russell Gray on January 13th in Manchester’s Stoller Hall. Dear to his heart is Grimethorpe and they are his feature band. Foden’s have teamed up with star trumpet player Mike Lovatt and Frank has possibly the only solo recording from Euphonium legend Harry Mather

Smudge from Grimethorpe calls Guy Harry on Real Radio Yorkshire 2009 by Random audio from UK broadcaster Ian Watko Watkins

With the 166th British Open Brass Band Championships on the horizon Frank considers some of the runners and riders and assesses how they might do.  There’s music from Black Dyke, Eikhangar, Foden’s and  Grimethorpe but be sure to visit the playlist for the complete details.

Dave and Kenny are joined by Paul Holland who reveals the background to his highly suucessful conducting career. In addition, points discussed are adjudicating methods and rates of pay along with the process he and his colleagues go through to pick test pieces for the National Championships. Also on the agenda is Theresa May's stormy times and Phillip McCann's departure from Grimethorpe. The Brass Band Podcast is a British Bandsman production by KGC Media.

Lemn Sissay meets broadcaster and writer Dame Joan Bakewell; micro sculptor Willard Wigan; choreographer Gary Clarke and violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Willard Wigan MBE is a micro sculptor. He creates minute pieces of art, so small they are almost invisible to the naked eye and can only be viewed through a microscope. His materials range from spiders' webs to grains of sand. His latest exhibition, Homecoming, reflects his view of the Black Country where he grew up and features his latest work - a tiny sculpture of Noddy Holder. Willard Wigan Homecoming is at Light House Media Centre in Wolverhampton. Dame Joan Bakewell CBE is a broadcaster and writer. In her memoir, Stop the Clocks, she muses on the life she has lived through, how the world has changed and considers the values she will leave behind. She sits in the House of Lords as a Labour peer - Baroness Bakewell of Stockport. She is also president of Birkbeck College, University of London. Stop the Clocks - Thoughts on What I Leave Behind is published by Little, Brown. Gary Clarke is a contemporary dancer and choreographer. He grew up in Grimethorpe in the heart of the Yorkshire coalfields and his new show, Coal, is inspired by the mining industry and the miners' strike. Coal addresses the hard-hitting realities of life down the pits and features a soundscape of traditional brass band music mixed with thunderous machinery. Coal - the True story of an Industry and a Community's Fight for Survival premieres at the DanceXchange in Birmingham and then starts a UK tour. Patricia Kopatchinskaja is a violinist. Born in Moldova, her family emigrated to Austria after the fall of communism. At the age of 17 she entered the Vienna Academy of Music. She is performing with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment at the Royal Festival Hall at an event called Changing Minds which addresses the impact of mental health on classical music and composition. Producer: Paula McGinley.

Alan Dein present's Radio 4's series of documentaries telling out-of-the-ordinary stories from contemporary British life. In the Sheffield auction room they see it all, from miners' welfare centres, to country manors and repossessed bowling alleys, and whatever state the buildings are in there's nearly always someone willing to bid for them. The process is largely overseen by Adrian Little, whose own father was a livestock auctioneer. His right hand man is Mohammed Mahroof, whose father came from Pakistan to work in the steel works and had no intention of staying in his rented accommodation where he slept twelve to a room. Over a four week period viewings take place on a welfare centre in Grimethorpe, a council library in Sheffield and homes in various states of disrepair. That doesn't seem to deter. Scores of people come and dream about the type of home they can make for themselves in this desirable area of the city. Others don't view at all - preferring to turn up at the auction room to snap up anything which can provide them with a rental income or a conversion possibility. As Mahroof drives round the city he can't resist reciting the value of nearly every building he passes: a habit he clearly inherits from his Dad. And for those in Grimethorpe, the auction represents the end of the days of community provision. Dot watches developers peer and poke their way round the galleried rooms: all of them want to bulldoze the site and erect flats in place of the meeting spaces she remembers from the miner's strike: 'it's sad to see these buildings lost to us,' she says, 'but that's the way it is - the old times have gone for good.' Producer/reporter: Sue Mitchell.