Concert Band Guest Edit
Best of Today
BBC
4 • 837 Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Back in March, to mark 20 years of the Today guest editors we gave people the chance to apply in teams to make a programme with us.
Thousands of you applied and every Saturday through August we’ll be featuring programmes guest edited by those successful teams of listeners.
Today it was the turn of Anne, Moyra, Alan and Andrew who are all members of the Dunbartonshire Concert Band. They wanted to use their guest edit to explore the benefits of community music. They commissioned a special report on music education and they asked us to look at whether playing an instrument help keep your brain “fit” as you get older?
Their programme features the violinist Nicola Benedetti.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | Hello, I'm Moira and I play the clarinet. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm Alan and I play the oboe. |
| 0:09.9 | I'm Andrew. I play the bass trombone. |
| 0:12.6 | And I'm Anne, I play the flute and we're all members of the Dumbartshire concert band. |
| 0:17.6 | This is a special podcast of our listener guest edit of the Today program. |
| 0:21.6 | We wanted to use our guest edit to explore community music, music education, and to find out whether playing an instrument might actually be good for you. |
| 0:31.6 | And on this podcast you'll find some extended reports on our chosen themes, and of course there'll be plenty of music. |
| 0:38.6 | First off so, here's a bit more about us and our programme. |
| 0:48.0 | Good morning, good morning everybody. Welcome back after the holidays. I hope you've had a nice |
| 0:53.4 | holiday. Come and take an air to the win? Thank you. |
| 1:01.0 | We're members of the Dumbartmanshire concert band and we would like to use our guest editor slot today to explore community music not only an enjoyment that we get as |
| 1:12.7 | players but just |
| 1:14.4 | how we spread it throughout the community |
| 1:16.2 | and the value for the rest of the community |
| 1:18.2 | okay let's play a little bit and just |
| 1:20.2 | get ourselves and our ears |
| 1:22.2 | tuned up to each other Shenandoah please from the beginning |
| 1:24.7 | lingering on that first note as we've always |
| 1:26.7 | done |
| 1:27.0 | we're always done. |
| 1:44.4 | My name is Moira and I play clarinet. |
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