{"id":780,"date":"2020-05-02T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=780"},"modified":"2025-06-15T21:49:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T21:49:25","slug":"my-brass-banding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/my-brass-banding\/","title":{"rendered":"My Brass Banding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was inevitable that somewhere in the list of &#8220;types of musical group I have participated in&#8221; I would eventually get to Brass Bands as that has been where the majority of my music making has been done.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Last Sunday the music that I shared included me on French Horn &#8211; today I have moved to the section where I have spent most time over the last 25 years or so &#8211; percussion.<\/p>\n<p>In the week leading up to Easter there was <a href=\"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/boscombe-band-an-easter-tale\/\">a series of very good videos<\/a> using some of the recordings from<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">\u00a0our Band&#8217;s last CD &#8220;An Easter Tale&#8221;. One of the tracks that was not used (but which is available on the Band website) is the final one &#8211; Robert Redhead&#8217;s &#8220;Christ-Hymn&#8221; and it is that I am sharing tonight &#8211; together with a much less well produced video highlighting my brass banding over the (many) years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you will enjoy the music &#8211; and I guess quite a few of you may spot yourselves in the pictures that are included to accompany it\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<h5 align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/jvideos\/christ-hymn2.mp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert Redhead : Christ Hymn<\/a><\/h5>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<div class=\"video-wrapper\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.systemsthink.co.uk\/jvideos\/christ-hymn2.mp4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Comments<\/em>\u00a0:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jacob Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thank you George \ud83d\ude42 not often i here brass band music now but Christ-Hymn has all ways been one of my favourite to hear and play, Nice to see the memories of Birmingham symphony hall too \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hugh Brennan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Loved these photos George. Your dad and I did so many YP band efforts together. Lots of amazing memories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Howard J Evans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George, really super presentation and lovely to see the photos and memories of the bands. Some really interesting shots in there. Thanks.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Still<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>George R McConnell remember the Govan YP band trip to London. Practice with ISB on the Monday. Great memories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was inevitable that somewhere in the list of &#8220;types of musical group I have participated in&#8221; I would eventually get to Brass Bands as that has been where the majority of my music making has been done.<\/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":[76,105],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-brass","tag-religious"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","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=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsthink.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}