{"id":2040,"date":"2021-01-21T10:06:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T10:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:46:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:46:27","slug":"boscombe-in-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/boscombe-in-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"Boscombe in Sweden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with obscure TV themes from the distant past here is a real &#8220;blast from the past&#8221; (this is much more difficult to identify than yesterday&#8217;s) &#8211; Boscombe Band in Sweden in 1990. This has been &#8216;rescued&#8217; from a VHS tape so the video is a bit patchy in quality &#8211; but we do see (much) younger versions of some of the current members of the band and many others that we remember fondly.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The whole of the evening&#8217;s recording has now been added in <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/boscombe-band-at-jonkoping-in-1990\/\">a separate post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\">Dag Wir\u00e9n : Serenade for Strings &#8211; March (arranged Michael Kenyon)<\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/jvideos\/dag wiren.mp4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">\n<label class=\"reveal-btn\" style=\"width: 300px;\" for=\"showhide\">Show Me The TV Programme<\/label><br \/>\n<input id=\"showhide\" role=\"button\" type=\"checkbox\" \/>\t <\/p>\n<div id=\"hidden-part\">\n<center>This was used as the theme for &#8220;Monitor&#8221;<\/center>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em> :<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>David Phillips<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Very interesting George.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrian Whittingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What piece is this George R McConnell?<\/p>\n<p><strong>George R McConnell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adrian &#8211; it is the March from Dag Wir\u00e9n&#8217;s Serenade for Strings &#8211; arranged by Michael Kenyon for us to use on the tour<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrian Whittingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George R McConnell Sounded familiar! I&#8217;m guessing the band kept it in the repertoire for a while after<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Hinchliffe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Great tour great band great backrow cornets sat next to Andy is Nick Bryant BBC U S news reporter<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kevin Whittingham<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George R McConnell would this be at Sodertalje Corps by any chance? Looks familiar from Singing Company tour 2 years later.<\/p>\n<p><strong>George R McConnell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kevin &#8211; no &#8211; its at J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping which we visited on the first Sunday evening of the tour. They had an excellent in-house TV system and recorded the evening &#8211; it also went down in band folklore as probably our longest ever evening event  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Joy Kerley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks Rachel. Such lovely memories.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Stephen Main i was that young once?!?!?!.!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Milligan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have an lp recording from 1978 of Solna Brass playing it and it is arranged by Rune Froden. It mentions the TV series as \u201cMonitor\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with obscure TV themes from the distant past here is a real &#8220;blast from the past&#8221; (this is much more difficult to identify than yesterday&#8217;s) &#8211; Boscombe Band in Sweden in 1990. This has been &#8216;rescued&#8217; from a VHS tape so the video is a bit patchy in quality &#8211; but we do see &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/boscombe-in-sweden\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Boscombe in Sweden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[76,108],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-brass","tag-salvation-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}