The Glorious British Brass Band
Joanna Lumley & The Maestro
Bauer Media
4.7 • 548 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Is there anything quite so majestic as the British brass band? Joanna and Stephen describe their first encounters with these ensembles, how they evolved and which pieces reach out to the soul. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, brass bands first appeared as a means of fostering community ties among workers. These bands have since become popular in various contexts, from marches and competitions to concerts and even movie scores.
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| 1:00.3 | In there, I'll find my husband, the composer and conductor, Stephen Barlow. Now, we've been married almost 40 years and I think however long you've been with someone, you have questions that you'd like to ask your partner. |
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| 1:32.3 | Welcome to Joanna and the Maestro. |
| 1:35.2 | Hello, Maestro. |
| 1:38.8 | Hello, and welcome to this episode of Joanna and the Maestro. |
| 1:43.2 | Maestro, today we're covering one of my favourite subjects, and I believe one of yours as well. |
| 1:45.6 | Brass bands. I love brass bands. |
| 1:50.3 | We've got the flight path overhead, but we don't care because what we want to talk about is brass bands. |
| 1:56.2 | Tell me, first of all, when did somebody first call them or recognize them as a brass band? |
| 2:06.4 | The brass band itself as an item emerged at the beginning of the 19th century, 1810, 1820, |
| 2:17.0 | and they seem to have grown from the major mines, collieries, and the major companies. |
| 2:26.7 | I've seen some inference that one of the reasons they were doing this was to bring workers together into a sort of community involvement together, a project, so that they wouldn't necessarily be gathering to discuss |
| 2:37.7 | grievances of, you know, in the Industrial Revolution, for example, workers had a terrible |
| 2:43.7 | time. |
| 2:45.0 | But the people, the miners, would not necessarily know how to play a tuber or euphonia or anything. |
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