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GREETINGS FROM GENERAL SHAW CLIFTON<br />
ON THE<br />
<strong>125</strong>th ANNIVERSARY OF BOSCOMBE BAND<br />
To: Bandmaster Howard J Evans and the members of Boscombe Band<br />
Dear Bandmaster Evans,<br />
I am delighted to have the opportunity to greet you and all the members of<br />
the Boscombe Band as you celebrate <strong>125</strong> years of ministry through music.<br />
Music-making has for a long time been a distinctive of Salvation Army worship<br />
and Boscombe Corps is renowned for its standard of musicianship,<br />
deportment, and above all, of bringing blessing to its hearers and glory to God.<br />
You have many exciting events scheduled for the year, not least the visit of the<br />
International Staff Band in April and the Chicago Staff Band in May. Special<br />
mention needs to be made of the anniversary weekend in October, led by<br />
Colonel Robert Redhead. May every engagement and endeavour be fruitful<br />
for the Kingdom.<br />
As you look back over many, many years, you will be giving thanks to God for<br />
the faithfulness of all those who have been members of the band. I<br />
encourage you also to look to the future and to seek the guiding hand of God<br />
as you strive to be effective and relevant in your ministry during the years<br />
ahead.<br />
My wife, Commissioner Helen Clifton, joins me in sending you warm wishes,<br />
and may each of you know the blessing and empowering of God as you seek<br />
to witness and minister.<br />
Yours in Christ,<br />
Shaw Clifton<br />
GENERAL<br />
February 2011<br />
Bandmaster Howard J Evans and members of the Boscombe Band<br />
Dear Friends,<br />
Commissioner Betty and I would not want this important occasion to pass by<br />
without sending congratulations to you on achieving one hundred and twenty<br />
five years of service as a Salvation Army Band. This is a fine record of service<br />
and one of which you can be proud.<br />
It is doubtful that any of the present members were in the band one hundred<br />
and twenty five years ago! However, it is only because each is faithfully serving<br />
the Lord today that this celebration is possible. As we celebrate such an<br />
anniversary we are conscious of the quality of dedication which has been<br />
displayed down through the years. The music has been used to bless and<br />
attract people not simply to the Army, but to the message of the Gospel.<br />
The world is clearly vastly different to that experienced by your comrades one<br />
hundred and twenty five years ago. The spiritual needs of people however are<br />
just the same as is the power and love of an unchanging God.<br />
May your continued music-making bring edification to Salvationists and friends<br />
alike but, more importantly, may it encourage and convict those who hear of<br />
their need for a personal, living Saviour - Jesus Christ.<br />
God bless you all.<br />
Yours in Christ,<br />
John Matear<br />
Commissioner – Territorial Commander
Bandmaster Howard Evans<br />
Boscombe Corps<br />
Dear Bandmaster<br />
On behalf of everyone at Divisional Headquarters, I write to<br />
congratulate you and the members of your band as you<br />
celebrate <strong>125</strong> years of Salvationist service and witness.<br />
The excellence of your playing has, over the years, uplifted<br />
both the worship and outreach of Boscombe Corps, and<br />
been the means of drawing many people closer to the<br />
presence of God.<br />
We pray that this will continue to be the driving force of the Band, as you<br />
minister - through your music making - to both corps and community.<br />
Yours Sincerely<br />
Graham Owen<br />
Lieutenant Colonel – Divisional Commander<br />
Dear Bandmaster and Band<br />
Congratulations on the Boscombe Band reaching its <strong>125</strong>th Year! One could not<br />
hazard to guess how many million notes have been played to the glory of God and<br />
blessing of people during that time.<br />
Originally formed to aid the street ministry of the Boscombe Corps, itself only one<br />
year old at the time, it was heard by small crowds of people. Throughout the <strong>125</strong><br />
years the Band’s open air ministry has continued, in places like Fisherman’s Walk,<br />
Boscombe Seafront and Boumemouth Gardens and elsewhere at various times of<br />
the year, but its mission and ministry has expanded greatly. Today, through the<br />
miracle of God’s grace and modern technology, the Band’s playing is heard on the<br />
weekly CD ministry by people as far apart as North America, Australia, South<br />
Africa, parts of Europe and South East Asia.<br />
The Band continues to enhance the weekly indoor worship, the monthly<br />
celebration meetings, the Easter convention, monthly visits to hospitals, nursing<br />
homes, and special events like the summer bandstands, the Bournemouth Air<br />
Show, the Keyhaven songs of praise, fund raising concerts for many different<br />
charities, carolling to raise monies to support our community work, the annual<br />
cenotaph service, the Battle of Britain parade, joint concerts with other bands and<br />
with our own songster brigade, visits to local churches and Corps in the UK, and<br />
tours internationally. This year the Band completes an exhausting, but<br />
exhilarating, tour of Scandinavia.<br />
The Band’s repertoire encompasses a huge range of music from traditional hymns<br />
to complex tone poems, from lively marches to soul-searching meditations, from<br />
the classics to jazzy arrangements of negro spirituals, in fact music for almost<br />
every taste. The Band’s recent CD releases have been acclaimed, not just by<br />
Salvationists but by the Brass Band fraternity, as being of a remarkably high<br />
standard of playing. Through the years the Band has been blessed with<br />
excellent bandmasters, each with their own contribution to its development<br />
and effectiveness. Our current bandmaster, Dr. Howard Evans, has enriched,<br />
enabled and encouraged the Band in a wonderful way. Thank you Howard<br />
and your team of band locals. Roll on the next <strong>125</strong> years!<br />
With gratitude to God and all the members of Boscombe Band,<br />
past and present.<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
Peter and Val Mylechreest,<br />
Majors – Commanding Officers (Boscombe)
Congratulations to everyone at Boscombe on their <strong>125</strong>th<br />
anniversary.<br />
Black Dyke and myself have had close relationships with<br />
the Salvation Army and indeed I have had the pleasure of<br />
conducting in your Citadel at Boscombe.<br />
The Band and Corps are a constant inspiration to all who<br />
visit and with your planed tour to Scandinavia, you carry<br />
your name proudly not only in the UK but around the<br />
world!<br />
Here’s to the next <strong>125</strong> years and what you represent so<br />
well!<br />
Dr Nicholas Childs<br />
Director of Music – Black Dyke Band<br />
The Boscombe Band of The Salvation Army<br />
1st March 2011<br />
Dear friends,<br />
Boscombe Band <strong>125</strong>th Anniversary<br />
We are living in days when many Salvation Army bands<br />
are celebrating significant anniversaries and, as I look<br />
around the territory, I am constantly reminded of the<br />
dedicated and faithful service that Salvationist<br />
musicians give in their local settings. I therefore count it<br />
a real privilege and pleasure to be able to extend my<br />
greetings and congratulations to you all on the occasion<br />
of the Boscombe Band’s <strong>125</strong>th anniversary celebrations.<br />
I am deeply aware of the strong level of commitment<br />
and the high musical standards that have been<br />
maintained at Boscombe throughout the long and<br />
illustrious history of the Band. Such standards are only<br />
achieved and maintained through faithful leadership,<br />
loyal and dedicated support and a strong sense of the<br />
value of Salvation Army banding. I salute the current<br />
leaders and members of the band for their continued<br />
work, but also recognise and acknowledge the strong<br />
foundations and traditions that were laid down and<br />
established by their predecessors.<br />
Knowing the corps as I do, I am confident that this very<br />
significant anniversary will not just be a time when past<br />
achievements are relived and memories stirred. It will<br />
also be a point from which the band will move forward<br />
with renewed enthusiasm and energy to find new ways<br />
of living out the purpose that you outline on every page<br />
of your band website ‘To know Christ, To live Christ, To<br />
share Christ’.<br />
May God continue to bless and use you in His service,<br />
both collectively as a band and as individuals as you<br />
march from this important milestone into the future.<br />
Yours sincerely,<br />
Dr Stephen Cobb<br />
Territorial Music Director<br />
Bandmaster – The International Staff Band<br />
It is a pleasure to send greetings to Boscombe Band on this<br />
remarkable occasion. Achieving <strong>125</strong> years of faithful service,<br />
ministering with music at home and abroad, means that many<br />
people will have been blessed during that time. The world has<br />
changed greatly since 1886, but the need to hear the good<br />
news of the gospel, by a variety of means, including music,<br />
has surely not diminished.<br />
I count myself as one of the many blessed by the band’s<br />
music. In its early days, only local people would have been<br />
able to hear the band; now it is heard around the world<br />
through recordings. Even forty years ago, when I was<br />
commissioned Boscombe Bandmaster, such recordings were<br />
rare. As a composer I am very grateful for the encouragement<br />
that I receive from hearing the band feature my music, and I<br />
have a wonderful sense of reward when I hear that it has been<br />
helpful to others.<br />
As well as extending congratulations on reaching this<br />
milestone, I would urge you all to take inspiration from the<br />
past, and use it to channel your skill and energy towards<br />
achieving even greater things in the future.<br />
May God bless you, your musical message, and all who hear it.<br />
Bandmaster Kenneth Downie
BOSCOMBE SALVATION ARMY<br />
March 2011<br />
I am delighted to send my sincere congratulations on the <strong>125</strong>th Anniversary of the<br />
Boscombe Salvation Army Band, particularly as Bournemouth last year celebrated its<br />
own Bicentenary.<br />
The Boscombe Corps plays a very active role in the local community by visiting<br />
Hospitals and Care Homes every week throughout the winter months, and performing<br />
concerts in the Bournemouth Gardens’ Bandstand during the summer. This, in<br />
addition to running various Clubs for the local residents and providing Christmas Day<br />
meals for those in need.<br />
Of course, the Salvation Army is well known for its Band’s visits abroad and the<br />
Mayoress and I wish them well for their forthcoming trip to Scandinavia.<br />
Councillor Barry Goldbart<br />
Mayor of Bournemouth 2010-2011
G Glass<br />
1886<br />
H Langridge<br />
1886<br />
Jack Pond<br />
1886-1908<br />
Albert Webber<br />
1909-1911<br />
Gilbert Anstell<br />
1911-1926<br />
William Walker<br />
1927-1938<br />
Sylvester Henning<br />
1938-1943<br />
Herbert Mountain<br />
1945-1950<br />
Courtney Bosanko<br />
1950-1964<br />
Kenneth Cook<br />
1964-1971<br />
Kenneth Downie<br />
1971-1974<br />
Geoff Otter<br />
1975-1995<br />
Roland Wright<br />
1995-1996<br />
Garry Lawrence<br />
1996-2001
Since its formation in 1886<br />
Boscombe Band of the Salvation<br />
Army has built a tradition of music<br />
making around the foundation of<br />
"the best for the highest". Within<br />
the Salvation Army the role of a band<br />
is like that of the church organ -<br />
providing accompaniments for the<br />
hymn singing as well as musical<br />
contributions to the church services.<br />
However, unlike the church organ, a<br />
band has the ability to take its music<br />
outside the walls of the church and<br />
into the community. Throughout its<br />
<strong>125</strong> year history the Band has<br />
always focused on Christian witness<br />
and evangelism.<br />
To this day the main purpose of the<br />
Band is to be a living testimony,<br />
whether it be in the Sunday morning<br />
Holiness meeting; playing to patients<br />
and staff at local hospitals;<br />
entertaining crowds in Bournemouth<br />
Gardens from the Pinewalk<br />
Bandstand; or taking the Christmas<br />
message to hotel residents. The<br />
proclamation of the gospel always<br />
provides the focal point.<br />
The Beginnings<br />
The Band now has a 'traditional'<br />
brass band instrumentation but it<br />
was not always thus. Early reports<br />
speak of "4 cornets, a violin, flute,<br />
triangle and drum" and more than<br />
one report highlighted the drummer.<br />
Just a few years after the Band was<br />
formed the Founder's daughter, Lucy<br />
Booth, wrote in the War Cry - "there<br />
was plenty of drum as might be<br />
expected from a man who evidently<br />
is possessed of the idea he has a<br />
mission and the standard of the<br />
instrumentalists was far above the<br />
ordinary".<br />
The Bournemouth Guardian in<br />
February of 1887 was much less<br />
charitable towards the drummer.<br />
If the Salvation Army wish to retain<br />
the goodwill of the residents here<br />
they will endeavour to restrain the<br />
ardour of the man with the big drum.<br />
It is very annoying for paterfamilias<br />
to be roused from the 40 winks he<br />
generally indulges in after his<br />
Sunday dinner and for<br />
materfamilias, just as she has<br />
succeeded in getting her olive<br />
branches to settle down for the<br />
night, to have them frightened out of<br />
their wits by the banging of the<br />
drum. Less noise and more music<br />
would be more creditable to the<br />
band, and pleasanter to those who<br />
are obliged to be hearers.<br />
By 1895 the Band had grown in size<br />
to 31 members and, according to all<br />
available photographic evidence, has<br />
never fallen below this number.<br />
The Travels<br />
It was in 1891 that the Band<br />
undertook its first recorded trip<br />
outside of Bournemouth - along with<br />
over 100 local Salvationists the<br />
Band boarded the SS Empress and<br />
set sail for Swanage - playing music<br />
on the journey to help defray the<br />
expenses! This was the first of many<br />
trips to be undertaken by the Band.<br />
In addition to well over one hundred<br />
towns and cities throughout the<br />
length and breadth of England and<br />
Wales the Band has also travelled to<br />
Scotland (Glasgow - for the Glasgow<br />
Garden Festival and the Salvation<br />
Army's Scottish Congress), Ireland<br />
(Belfast) and the Channel Islands (St<br />
Peter Port, Guernsey).<br />
On one occasion the Band went<br />
away for a weekend, visiting the<br />
corps of Alton during the August<br />
bank holiday of 1924. Travelling in a<br />
charabanc that they nicknamed the<br />
'egg boiler', they had only reached<br />
Holmsley in the New Forest when the<br />
inevitable happened and the radiator<br />
boiled over. While waiting for the<br />
vehicle to be repaired the bandsmen<br />
did not sit idly by, but enjoyed a<br />
game of cricket. Inevitably the<br />
evening festival started two hours<br />
late, but the rest of the weekend did<br />
pass without further calamity.<br />
Many invitations were received for<br />
the Band to visit corps in the North<br />
of England, but distance always<br />
proved an obstacle. It was overcome<br />
on Friday 16th June 1950 when forty<br />
four bandsmen, plus wives and<br />
sweethearts departed Boscombe for<br />
an eight day tour of the Midlands<br />
and the North - an event then<br />
considered unique in post war<br />
Salvation Army banding. Travelling<br />
over 800 miles, the Band gave<br />
festivals at Nottingham Memorial<br />
Halls, Sheffield Citadel, Hull, South<br />
Shields, Leeds (where they also<br />
played for their lunch at the<br />
Montague Burton factory),<br />
Manchester and Birmingham Citadel.
At South Shields, the bandmaster<br />
took good wishes to Bandmaster<br />
George Marshall, whose weak<br />
condition made it impossible for him<br />
to receive all the Boscombe men<br />
who desired to visit him. He sent<br />
instead a stirring message to the<br />
bandsmen.<br />
With only limited free time - to visit<br />
the Founder's birthplace at<br />
Nottingham, examine the crooked<br />
spire at Chesterfield, and visit a steel<br />
works in Sheffield - the tour was<br />
rather strenuous for the bandsmen.<br />
They no doubt were encouraged by<br />
the support of the ladies for whom<br />
accommodation was reserved in<br />
hotels and hostels, at a total cost of<br />
£4 1s 6d.<br />
This was not the first tour for the<br />
Band. In 1947 they were awarded<br />
the singular honour of being the first<br />
Salvation Army band to campaign<br />
overseas after World War II.<br />
Brindley Boon wrote an evocative<br />
account of the departure from<br />
London for The Musician.<br />
As the clock of a nearby church<br />
began to strike eight on Thursday<br />
evening (June 19th) the Hook of<br />
Holland continental train slid<br />
casually out of Liverpool Street<br />
Station carrying Boscombe Band on<br />
the second stage of its journey to<br />
Holland.<br />
For the 48 men comprising the<br />
touring party it was no casual<br />
departure. Theirs was the first<br />
British corps band to visit the<br />
continent of Europe in this new postwar<br />
era and whilst Major George<br />
Baker (the Boscombe CO -<br />
accompanying the band as IHQ<br />
representative), Bandmaster Herbert<br />
Mountain and the bandsmen were in<br />
excellent spirits, keenly anticipating<br />
the campaign, they were humbly<br />
conscious of a heavy responsibility<br />
resting upon them.<br />
By the time the last stroke had<br />
sounded the train had become<br />
swallowed up in the distant cloud of<br />
engine smoke and as the small<br />
company of well-wishers, headed by<br />
Major Saywell, quietly dispersed it<br />
was difficult to realise that, if<br />
everything went 'according to plan',<br />
the band would have arrived on<br />
Dutch soil before the friendly clock<br />
again struck eight.<br />
The Band returned to Holland in<br />
1961 revisiting many of the venues<br />
of the earlier tour including<br />
Oosterbeek Cemetery near Arnhem<br />
where they had the opportunity to<br />
remember those who had given their<br />
lives for their country.<br />
In 1990, the Band once again went<br />
on tour, this time to Sweden. Hosted<br />
by Södertalje Band a busy week saw<br />
the Band travelling as far south as<br />
Jönköping and as far north as Umeå<br />
for the divisional congress.<br />
The Band’s last two tours have seen<br />
them cross the atlantic - first to<br />
Florida and then further north to<br />
Minneapolis, Chicago, Toronto and<br />
New York, along with a number of<br />
other venues. In addition, a small<br />
group of bandsmen have also played<br />
in Moscow’s Red Square.<br />
Recordings<br />
Early in 1938 the BBC sent Mr Denis<br />
Wright to hear and assess the Band's<br />
broadcasting potential. Following<br />
the audition the bandsmen sat<br />
tensed like ramrods, holding their<br />
breath until the verdict had been<br />
announced. When told of their<br />
success they slumped with relief<br />
and, after the departure of the<br />
assessors, they were nearly dancing<br />
with joy such was their excitement.<br />
Although surely thrilled by the<br />
outcome Bandmaster Walker could<br />
not even raise a smile but sat stern<br />
faced, as usual. Denis Wright highly<br />
commended the bandsmen on their<br />
technique and general performance.<br />
Soon arrangements were made for a<br />
live broadcast which took place at<br />
Bristol Citadel where the Band was<br />
leading the meetings on the 12th<br />
and 13th of February. The<br />
programme notes described the<br />
Band as "one of the best in the<br />
South of England. A great favourite<br />
with Sir Dan Godfrey who speaks in<br />
appreciative terms of its musical<br />
efficiency. The band not only gives<br />
splendid festivals but are particularly<br />
adapted to conducting very<br />
impressive and inspiring services".<br />
On Sunday afternoon the Band<br />
performed their festival as normal<br />
then, after a short interval,<br />
commenced a live broadcast at 4pm.<br />
The twenty minute programme<br />
consisted of Scandinavian Songs,<br />
the cornet solo Wondrous Love -<br />
played by Harold Walker - and the<br />
march The Fount.<br />
Back at Boscombe, Adjutant Wingett<br />
had forestalled any absenteeism<br />
from the afternoon meeting by<br />
installing a radio - daring any of the<br />
congregation to stay at home.<br />
Wives, families and friends sat with<br />
bated breath as the Band came over<br />
the air. When the broadcast finished<br />
there was a sigh of relief and<br />
thunderous applause.<br />
Preparations were soon under way<br />
for the Band's second broadcast on<br />
25th April in the Alexandra Hall,<br />
Bournemouth which earned the<br />
Band a fee of 12 guineas. A printed<br />
card was given to each bandsman<br />
warning against possible pitfalls in<br />
the music and advising of uniform to<br />
be worn. The bandmaster added:<br />
"Be calm and do not overblow. This<br />
is your great opportunity - take it"<br />
The advice was heeded, and the<br />
resultant broadcast was very well<br />
received, with many letters sent<br />
complimenting the Band on their<br />
wonderful playing, tone and<br />
execution.
The Boscombe new building scheme<br />
prompted the Band to produce its<br />
first cassette in March 1983.<br />
Recorded at the Bournemouth<br />
studios of Two Counties Radio, the<br />
cassette took its title “Fisherman's<br />
Walk” from Kenneth Downie's march<br />
and featured a wide range of brass<br />
and vocal music, including Daystar,<br />
Glory and Brooklyn Citadel. Eric<br />
Ball's specially written meditation<br />
Brantwood was also included,<br />
together with solos played by Roland<br />
Wright (cornet) and Graham<br />
Lawrence (euphonium).<br />
Over 1000 copies of this cassette<br />
were sold, even though it was never<br />
made available through shops. In<br />
1985 the recording was re-released<br />
in LP form as Priceless Treasure,<br />
with the title coming from one of the<br />
featured songs. Marching Along was<br />
the Band's second recording,<br />
produced in both LP and cassette<br />
form in 1985, and featuring only<br />
marches and marching songs.<br />
Extracts from these recordings were<br />
often featured by the local radio<br />
stations - 2CR and Radio Solent -<br />
and the Band has also made a<br />
number of recordings especially for<br />
the BBC, both for radio - on Listen to<br />
the Band on Radio 2 and Bandstand<br />
on Radio 3 - and on television.<br />
In more recent years the band has<br />
made a number of CDs - you can<br />
find details of these elsewhere in the<br />
brochure. These recordings have<br />
enabled the Band to be heard in<br />
many far flung corners of the world<br />
that it could not possibly hope to visit<br />
and taken the Band’s message to<br />
thousands of people.<br />
Summer Activities<br />
Ever eager to find new avenues for<br />
band service, Band Secretary Percy<br />
Cutler and the CO Major Baker,<br />
approached Bournemouth Council in<br />
1946 for permission to use the<br />
Fisherman’s Walk bandstand.<br />
Undaunted by refusal Major Baker<br />
later returned to the park<br />
entertainments officials, armed with<br />
the band scores of the Unfinished<br />
Symphony and Memories of the<br />
Masters.<br />
Once convinced that the Band did<br />
feature this type of music in their<br />
festivals a trial programme was<br />
arranged and the Band duly played<br />
at Fisherman’s Walk during the<br />
August Bank holiday.<br />
A short season of about 4 bandstand<br />
programmes was also given in 1947,<br />
but the real breakthough came in<br />
1948 when the Band was invited by<br />
the council to give a series of ten<br />
concerts. Each programme<br />
commenced at 7pm, lasted ninety<br />
minutes and featured music from a<br />
repertoire of fifty pieces. With<br />
marches, selections, meditations,<br />
hymn tune arrangements, the full<br />
range of Army music was<br />
demonstrated. Three soloists of that<br />
time were regularly featured - Harold<br />
Walker, even in his late forties, never<br />
failed to thrill with his cornet solos;<br />
YP Band Leader Reg Tubbs, who had<br />
been the Band’s soprano player<br />
since 1936; and Chris Hayes on<br />
trombone. Nine guineas per<br />
programme was gratefully received<br />
for the band fund.<br />
From this grew a tradition,<br />
maintained to this day, of a series of<br />
bandstand concerts throughout each<br />
summer - recently at Pinewalk<br />
Bandstand in Bournemouth.<br />
This is just one of the ways in which<br />
the Band participates in community<br />
events in association with the civic<br />
authorities. Since 1971 the Band<br />
has led the march of war veterans to<br />
the cenotaph on Remembrance<br />
Sunday, accompanying the hymns<br />
and providing music during the<br />
laying of wreaths.<br />
Another tradition was started in<br />
December 1966 with a concert in<br />
Christchurch Priory. The report in the<br />
Bournemouth Echo read<br />
For the first time in history the Priory<br />
Church, Christchurch, resounded to<br />
the sound of Salvation Army brass<br />
bands, when the massed bands of<br />
Boscombe and Christchurch,<br />
together with their combined singing<br />
companies and songsters, presented<br />
a carol concert at the Church. The<br />
event drew one of the largest<br />
congregations ever known to the<br />
church - some people had to be<br />
turned away - and raised £85 for<br />
Christchurch Hospital League of<br />
Friends. The 40 musicians of the<br />
Boscombe Citadel Band, under<br />
Bandmaster Kenneth Cook, played a<br />
selection of Christmas music<br />
including Christmas in Europe and<br />
the tone poem The Kingdom<br />
Triumphant.<br />
Although this series of concerts was<br />
interrupted during the 1980s it is<br />
now once again established as a<br />
regular part of the Band's annual<br />
programme. Taking place near the<br />
beginning of December it is seen by<br />
many to mark the start of Christmas<br />
and alongside regular summer<br />
concerts and the Battle of Britain<br />
service each September means that<br />
the Band is now a regular visitor to<br />
the Priory.<br />
In July 1970 the Punshon Memorial<br />
Church invited the Band to lead an<br />
after church holidaymaker's service<br />
and this saw the commencement of<br />
another engagement that became an<br />
annual fixture in the Band’s<br />
calendar.<br />
A great honour was bestowed upon<br />
the Band in March 1979 when they<br />
were chosen to play for the visit to<br />
Bournemouth of Her Majesty Queen<br />
Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.<br />
Assembled in Madeira Road, the<br />
Band played for two hours while the<br />
royal couple visited the police station<br />
and had a walkabout but, due to the<br />
vast crowds, few of the bandsmen<br />
were able to get even a glimpse of<br />
them.
Prestigious Events<br />
Visits to Crystal Palace in the early<br />
part of the 20th century presaged<br />
involvement in prestigious events in<br />
famous concert halls.<br />
In November 1934 the Band were<br />
honoured by their inclusion in a<br />
festival at Queen's Hall, London,<br />
together with the bands of<br />
Tottenham I, Harlesden, Rayleigh<br />
and Kettering. The first Boscombe<br />
item was the cornet solo Tucker,<br />
played by Harold Walker, during<br />
which he accidentally blew out the<br />
slide of his first valve. Calmly he<br />
bent down, replaced it and carried<br />
on. The audience were thrilled at his<br />
brilliant delivery of this difficult solo<br />
although the composer, Erik Leidzen,<br />
writing his impressions for ‘The<br />
Bandsman and Songster’ found<br />
more than a few faults with it!<br />
In June 1962 the Band was<br />
honoured by a second appearance in<br />
the Royal Albert Hall for the<br />
Bandmasters' councils festival. As in<br />
1949 they shared the platform with<br />
Coventry City Band and the ISB, with<br />
Tottenham Citadel being the other<br />
guests. More recently the Band was<br />
further honoured by appearances in<br />
two major London festivals. At the<br />
Royal Festival Hall, 8th October<br />
1980, they shared the platform with<br />
bands from Derby Central, Ilford and<br />
Belfast Temple, and played Ray<br />
Steadman-<strong>All</strong>en's Daystar and at the<br />
Bandmasters’ Councils festival held<br />
in the Royal Albert Hall, 2nd June<br />
1984, they featured another of this<br />
composer's major works - The Holy<br />
War.<br />
For a number of years Eric Ball had<br />
friendly associations with Boscombe<br />
Band, regularly being invited to<br />
conduct a Fisherman's Walk<br />
bandstand programme, lead a band<br />
practice and attend the annual<br />
dinner. He became<br />
widely respected and<br />
admired by the<br />
bandsmen, and it was<br />
fitting then that on his<br />
80th birthday in<br />
November 1983 a<br />
special concert was given<br />
by the Band - supported<br />
by the songsters.<br />
Apart from Symphony of<br />
Thanksgiving - included at his own<br />
request - every item on the<br />
programme was written by Eric Ball<br />
himself and the occasion was truly<br />
savoured by the congregation of<br />
400, which included Harry Mortimer<br />
and other special guests.<br />
It is not only in the United Kingdom<br />
that the Band has performed in<br />
famous venues - whilst on tour<br />
abroad the band have had the<br />
honour and opportunity to play in<br />
great auditoriums such as the<br />
Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and<br />
the Historic State Theatre in<br />
Minneapolis.<br />
The Band Today<br />
One recent concert featured Duncan<br />
Hopkins (double bass) as soloist.<br />
This concert was typical of many<br />
instances throughout its history<br />
when the Band has used its music<br />
making to build bridges to the<br />
'secular' music world and therefore<br />
gain opportunities to witness to<br />
completely new audiences. Recent<br />
examples include working with Brett<br />
Baker (trombone) and Steven Mead<br />
(euphonium - a former member of<br />
the Band) on recordings and in<br />
concert as well as partnership<br />
concerts with Fountain City Brass<br />
Band (USA), SWT Woodfalls Band<br />
and Foden's Richardson Band.<br />
Such prestigious events are few and<br />
far between and account for only a<br />
small portion of the Band's workload.<br />
They are more regularly to be found<br />
playing at hospitals or homes for the<br />
elderly; proclaiming the gospel in the<br />
street or on the seafront; witnessing<br />
on the march or in the bandstand.<br />
<strong>125</strong> years after its commencement,<br />
Boscombe Band is one of the busiest<br />
in the Salvation Army.<br />
Today the Band comprises around<br />
thirty-seven men and women - who<br />
each give of their time and talent as<br />
volunteers. This considerable<br />
commitment enables the Band to<br />
continue to proclaim the Christian<br />
message through its music.<br />
Clearly these few pages can only<br />
scratch the surface of the history<br />
and heritage of the men and women<br />
who have served in the Band. It is<br />
perhaps fitting to end this summary<br />
with words from Bandmaster Walker<br />
on his retirement.<br />
We have spent years in pegging<br />
away at ourselves and at the music,<br />
but the band has now arrived at the<br />
stage where it is proving a blessing<br />
to thousands who listen to it from<br />
time to time, whether in the Citadel,<br />
in the openair or on the cliffs in<br />
summertime. Many testimonials to<br />
this fact have been received, both<br />
from persons of high rank and from<br />
the man in the street.<br />
Of the musical efficiency of the band<br />
others must speak. Suffice it to say<br />
that I lay down the baton with<br />
confidence that the band is going to<br />
be better than ever. 'Onward and<br />
Upward' must be its motto.<br />
We salute all who<br />
have gone before!
Back Row : Ray Jones, Stephen Main, Niall Marshallsay, Adrian Whittingham, John Pearce-Haydon,<br />
Keith Varley, Nicola Oakden<br />
Front Row : Craig Snell, Kevin Whittingham, Mark Forsyth, George Lawrence, Victor Hinchliffe<br />
Back Row : David Phillips, Ray Moye, Garry Lawrence, Tony Christopher, Malcolm Randell, Barney Lawrence<br />
Front Row : Maurice Smith, Ben Thompson, Colin Lowe, Kevin Bromage, John Starkes
Tom Lynch, Wayne Nock, Trevor Smith, David Wilkinson<br />
Brian Wright, Ian Mercer, Ian Clapcott, John Meredith, Ross Mercer
Back Row : Craig Snell (Treasurer), Terence Carey (PR and Media),<br />
Howard J Evans (Bandmaster), Garry Lawrence (Deputy)<br />
Front Row : Brian Wright (Sergeant), Ray Jones (Librarian),<br />
George McConnell (Secretary)<br />
Matt Worthington, George McConnell<br />
Eric Frampton<br />
The map to the left shows where in<br />
England and Wales the Band have<br />
visited during the last <strong>125</strong> years.<br />
As mentioned in the history pages<br />
the Band has also been to<br />
Scotland, Ireland and Guernsey as<br />
well as undertaking overseas<br />
tours.<br />
Visit the Band’s website to see<br />
details of the tours that have been<br />
undertaken and maps of the<br />
venues that the Band has visited.<br />
www.boscombebandsa.org.uk
In its <strong>125</strong> years the Band has had the privilege of being<br />
associated with (and conducted by) many great musicians -<br />
some from the local area, such as Sir Dan Godfrey (who was<br />
largely responsible for the success of the Bournemouth<br />
Municipal Orchestra) and Eric Ball (a legend within the brass<br />
band world who often worked with the Band, including<br />
regularly conducting at the bandstand concerts), and some<br />
international vistors, most recently with William Himes and,<br />
later this year, Robert Redhead.<br />
However, just fifteen have been privileged to be bandmaster -<br />
many of them amongst the leading musicians and composers<br />
of the Salvation Army. This is exemplified by the current<br />
bandmaster, Howard J. Evans.<br />
Howard has been the bandmaster at Boscombe since April<br />
2001 and has a well-established musical career as a pianist<br />
and teacher as well as a conductor. He graduated with a<br />
Mus.B(Hons) degree from the University of Manchester and<br />
also obtained LRAM, LTCL and ARCM(Hons) diplomas in piano<br />
teaching and performing as well as brass teaching. As a<br />
postgraduate pianist of the Royal Northern College of Music,<br />
Manchester, he obtained a Diploma in Performance Studies.<br />
His piano studies were undertaken with the British pianist<br />
Gordon Fergus-Thompson and later with the distinguished<br />
Russian pianist and international teacher, Sulamita<br />
Aronovsky.<br />
As a pianist and conductor he has performed extensively at<br />
many major concert venues throughout the United Kingdom,<br />
including the Queen Elizabeth Hall, the Bridgewater Hall and<br />
the Royal Albert Hall. He has also made regular visits<br />
overseas to Canada and the USA, as well as to European<br />
countries such as the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Germany,<br />
Austria and Switzerland. In addition he undertakes work as an<br />
examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of<br />
Music and maintains a piano teaching practice.<br />
For some time he has also been involved in the Salvation<br />
Army brass scene, becoming the National Bandmaster United<br />
Kingdom in 1988. In May 2000 he was appointed Director of<br />
Music in the Netherlands and conductor of the Amsterdam<br />
Staff Band. During a period of nearly six years with the band<br />
he undertook two major tours - to USA West in 2003 and to<br />
the UK in 2005.<br />
During the last few years he has also been in demand as a<br />
guest conductor for a number of bands at significant events,<br />
directing a Celebrity Brass Band in the premiere recording of<br />
the brass version of Karl Jenkins’ The Armed Man; appearing<br />
with the Leyland Band at the RNCM Festival of Brass in 2008;<br />
directing the Grimethorpe Colliery Band for their appearances<br />
at the Deal Festival in the summer of 2008 and the Festival of<br />
Brass in 2011; and an appearance at the Festival of Brass in<br />
2010 with the famous Brighouse and Rastrick Band.<br />
In 2005 Howard completed a performance based<br />
Masters Degree with Distinction from Salford<br />
University, majoring in conducting. Since January<br />
2007 he has also been working as a Lecturer at the<br />
University and was appointed to a Fellowship in<br />
October 2008, specialising in performance areas.<br />
This was followed in July 2009 by the award of a<br />
Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree from Salford<br />
University. His doctoral studies included the<br />
recording of The Armed Man. The significance of<br />
this recording rests in pushing the boundaries of the<br />
brass band genre and integration with other<br />
performance disciplines which allows it to build<br />
bridges with the wider music community. Also<br />
within the doctoral submission was the recording<br />
Sanctuary (with the Boscombe Band), a unique<br />
survey from a major area of the Salvation Army’s<br />
reflective music in a form known as the<br />
‘Meditation’. This received critical praise for<br />
renewing a sense of intellectual and musical centre<br />
within church music through the medium of the<br />
brass band literature. Sanctuary was also noted for<br />
performances that gave significant new insights<br />
into repertoire which had developed its own<br />
historicity of performance practice. Distinguished<br />
premieres of the work of Ray Steadman-<strong>All</strong>en, one<br />
of the most distinctive voices within the brass scene<br />
across all boundaries, were also a major feature of<br />
his doctoral success.<br />
In November 2010 Howard was appointed as a<br />
permanent Lecturer in Performance and is now the<br />
Classical Performance Director for the Music<br />
Directorate.
Having a father who occupied the<br />
principal cornet seat of the<br />
International Staff Band for a<br />
number of years, there was always<br />
an expectation that Craig would one<br />
day learn to play the cornet. At the<br />
early age of four Craig’s journey<br />
began and then soon took off when<br />
he started playing in the YP Band at<br />
his local Salvation Army Citadel in<br />
Romford.<br />
His family moved to Bournemouth<br />
in 1984, where he began attending<br />
local and national music camps run<br />
by the Salvation Army - for a<br />
number of years enjoying Cobham<br />
Hall Territorial Music School.<br />
Craig joined Boscombe Band in<br />
1986 in the Band’s 100th year and<br />
began his rise up the cornet bench<br />
‘one part at a time’, until eventually<br />
sitting next to his father following<br />
his attainment of principal cornet at<br />
the age of twenty-three. Craig has<br />
also enjoyed the position of<br />
assistant principal cornet or<br />
principal cornet in the Household<br />
Troops Band for ten years, the<br />
Clarence Adoo Brass Band since its<br />
inception, and for various concerts<br />
for local Champion Section bands<br />
including Woodfalls, Bournemouth<br />
Concert Brass, Bodmin Town Band<br />
and Hyde Band. He was also a<br />
member of the Egon Virtuosi Brass<br />
Band.<br />
Barney is a fourth generation<br />
Salvationist and Boscombe<br />
bandsman. He started playing the<br />
cornet as a six year old, passing his<br />
grade 8 exam with distinction when<br />
he was fifteen. He then switched to<br />
Tenor Horn at sixteen, and passed<br />
his grade 8 on horn when he was<br />
eighteen, before passing his grade 8<br />
in music theory a year later.<br />
Barney has always been a lover of<br />
music, studying it at GCSE and A<br />
Level at school. He is very active<br />
within the corps, playing in the Band<br />
as well as playing bass guitar for the<br />
corps songsters. He has also played<br />
bass guitar for the choirs at<br />
Territorial Music School, Northern<br />
Summer School, the Territorial<br />
Youth Choir, and also Salvacosta.<br />
Barney works at Cliff House Holiday<br />
and Conference Centre, which is a<br />
Salvation Army run hotel in<br />
Bournemouth.
Trevor has played in all sections of<br />
Salvation Army bands excluding<br />
percussion with most of his time at<br />
Boscombe being on trombone. He<br />
has played over twenty fie different<br />
solos on four different instruments -<br />
including the Vaughan Williams<br />
Tuba Concerto with orchestra.<br />
In his youth he participated in semiprofessional<br />
orchestras doing pit<br />
work for musicals, opera and many<br />
different choral societies. He has<br />
played with people such as John<br />
Ogdon, John Wilbraham, David<br />
Cripps, Michael Laird, Sarah Walker<br />
and Felicity Lott<br />
Trevor is a Capital Plant Sales<br />
Manager for the largest milking<br />
machine manufacturer in the world.<br />
His interests include travel, eating<br />
out, his grandchildren, listening to<br />
music and regular workouts at the<br />
gym.<br />
John started playing at the tender<br />
age of four within a few years he<br />
was travelling round the north of<br />
Scotland as euphonium player in<br />
Inverness Salvation Army band<br />
learning his art as a stand up<br />
soloist. He was eighteen when he<br />
joined the renowned Govan Citadel<br />
band under the guidance of<br />
Bandmaster John Baillie and he<br />
moved to Boscombe in 1988 where<br />
he really started to learn his craft<br />
under the late Geoff Otter and<br />
former principal euphonium<br />
Graham Lawrence.<br />
John has also been a member of the<br />
Woodfalls Band under the<br />
leadership of Dr. Nick Childs and<br />
Melvin White and is now a member<br />
of Bournemouth Concert Brass.<br />
John is a devoted family man -<br />
husband to Jo and father to<br />
Catherine and Stephen and in all<br />
that he does he embodies the ethos<br />
of “the best for the highest”.<br />
John is a first generation<br />
Salvationist having been introduced<br />
to the Army by the parents of his<br />
friend David Wilkinson at the age of<br />
ten. Attendance at Sunday school<br />
eventually led to becoming a learner<br />
and subsequently joining the YP<br />
Band under the leadership of<br />
Norman Cutler and, for the majority<br />
of the time, Roy Doncaster. Initially<br />
playing second cornet, John spent<br />
most of his time in the YP Band on<br />
euphonium.<br />
In 1961 he transferred to the senior<br />
band (Courtney Bosanko) on Eb<br />
tuba. From 1962 until 1965 John<br />
joined the RAF Music Services as a<br />
tuba player serving at RAF Uxbridge,<br />
Locking and Akrotiri. On his return<br />
to the corps he became the Band's<br />
principal Eb tuba which remains his<br />
current position.<br />
In 2009 John attained a PhD in<br />
composition from Salford University<br />
under the auspices of Peter Graham<br />
and holds a Master of Arts (Dist.)<br />
degree in composition. He also is a<br />
Fellow of the Trinity College of<br />
Music, Licentiate of the Trinity<br />
College of Music and an Associate<br />
of the Royal College of Music.<br />
John, a retired Facilities Manager, is<br />
married to Diane who is the corps<br />
pianist and they have two children -<br />
Timothy and Holly - and a<br />
granddaughter - Abigail.
James Anderson<br />
Camp Happyland<br />
Goldcrest<br />
The Pioneers<br />
Michael Babb<br />
Love Cannot Fail<br />
John Larsson<br />
Eric Ball<br />
Glory To His Name<br />
Star Lake<br />
The Eternal Presence<br />
The Old Wells<br />
The Kingdom Triumphant<br />
Leonard Ballantine<br />
Heart Beat<br />
His Eye is on the Sparrow<br />
'Mid <strong>All</strong> The Traffic<br />
O Magnum Mysterium<br />
Morten Lauridsen<br />
Norman Bearcroft<br />
Just Like John<br />
Spirit of the Army<br />
Suite - Reflections<br />
The Call of Christ<br />
The Calvary Track<br />
Albert Orsborn<br />
The Word of Grace<br />
David Bertie<br />
Gabriel’s Oboe (The Mission)<br />
Ennio Morricone<br />
Thomas Bidgood<br />
The British Legion March<br />
Ivor Bosanko<br />
Share My Yoke<br />
Joy Webb<br />
Brian Bowen<br />
Amen, Amen!<br />
City of God<br />
Ray Bowes<br />
Abide with Me<br />
Dudley Bright<br />
Are You Joyful?<br />
Paean<br />
The Greatest of These<br />
William Broughton<br />
Deep River<br />
Negro Spiritual<br />
Stephen Bulla<br />
Washington Salute <strong>125</strong><br />
Morley Calvert<br />
My <strong>All</strong> is on the Altar<br />
Phil Catelinet<br />
Reclamation<br />
Bramwell Coles<br />
Lloyd<br />
Cuthbert Howard<br />
The Story of Old<br />
James Asher Parks<br />
Treasures From Tchaikovsky<br />
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky<br />
Victors Acclaimed<br />
Martin Cordner<br />
In Christ Alone<br />
Stuart Townend, Keith Getty<br />
Light-Bringer<br />
Round-Up<br />
The Name<br />
Ray Cresswell<br />
The Defenders<br />
James Curnow<br />
A Psalm of Praise (Psalm 100)<br />
Breathe on me, Breath of God<br />
Ellacombe Chronicles<br />
Procession of Nobles<br />
Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov<br />
Henry Walford Davies<br />
RAF March Past<br />
Howard Davies<br />
You Know That We Love You<br />
Trevor Davis<br />
<strong>All</strong> over the world<br />
Swan Lake - Extract from Act I<br />
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky<br />
Kenneth Downie<br />
Brother James' Air<br />
The Lord's my Shepherd<br />
James Leith Macbeth Bain<br />
Christmas Angels<br />
Coming Home! music of reconciliation<br />
William Thompson<br />
Even Me<br />
Grant us Thy peace<br />
In Perfect Peace<br />
Jesus Answers Prayer<br />
My Name is Written There<br />
Myfanwy<br />
Joseph Parry<br />
Purcell Variations<br />
Quiet Time<br />
Reverie<br />
Silent Vigil<br />
Stars of the Morning<br />
The Great Parade<br />
Through the Blood of the Lamb<br />
You Know That We Love You<br />
After the song by Howard Davies<br />
Paul Drury<br />
Such Love<br />
Howard J Evans<br />
Amazing Grace<br />
Beauty for Brokenness<br />
Chassidic Dance<br />
Easter Hymn<br />
Full Surrender<br />
Joy Through the Ages<br />
Dedicated to all those who have<br />
served in Boscombe Band -<br />
“Now you are kept for good by the<br />
Shepherd of your soul”<br />
(1 Peter 2:21)<br />
Lobe Den Herren<br />
Miles Lane<br />
Now Thank We <strong>All</strong> Our God<br />
Passport to Heaven<br />
Ride on in Majesty<br />
St Clements<br />
St Francis<br />
Westminster Abbey<br />
When He Cometh<br />
Ray Farr<br />
Toccata in D minor<br />
Johann Sebastian Bach<br />
Dorothy Gates<br />
Agape<br />
<strong>All</strong> Glorious<br />
Dean Goffin<br />
Nimrod<br />
Edward Elgar<br />
Wonderful Healer<br />
Henry Goffin<br />
The Red Shield<br />
Arthur Goldsmith<br />
Hallelujah Chorus<br />
Georg Friderich Handel<br />
William Gordon<br />
God be With You<br />
Ralph Vaughan Williams<br />
Barrie Gott<br />
Let There be Praise<br />
Dick and Melody Tunney<br />
Light Walk<br />
Power in the Blood<br />
Peter Graham<br />
Bravura<br />
A Fantasy on British Folk Songs<br />
Dance Before the Lord<br />
Dear Lord and Father<br />
Lament<br />
Ronan Hardiman<br />
Shine as the Light<br />
Swedish Folk Song - O Lord my God<br />
Traditional<br />
The Shining Star
Arthur Gullidge<br />
Emblem of the Army<br />
Philip Harper<br />
In Love For Me<br />
Carol and Jimmy Owens<br />
Eiliv Herikstad<br />
<strong>All</strong> to Jesus<br />
William Himes<br />
<strong>All</strong> That I Am<br />
Cause for Celebration<br />
Festival Prelude - Ellacombe<br />
Motivation<br />
Pastorale - Precious Fountain<br />
for my father on his 80th birthday<br />
Prayer of Thanksgiving<br />
Procession to Covenant<br />
This I Know<br />
To my friend, James Anderson,<br />
for his faith and courage<br />
To Know Thee<br />
To the Chief Musician<br />
Total Praise<br />
Richard Smallwood<br />
Paul Hindmarsh<br />
Pilgrim Song<br />
Wilfred Heaton<br />
Brian Hogg<br />
Trust and Obey<br />
Albert H Jakeway<br />
Ave Verum<br />
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<br />
Jerusalem<br />
Hubert Parry<br />
Rosehill<br />
Dean Jones<br />
Written in Red<br />
Michael Kenyon<br />
The Magic Flute Overture<br />
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<br />
Simon Kerwin<br />
Eg Veit I Himmerik Ei Borg<br />
Castle in the Sky<br />
Norwegian Traditional<br />
Erik Liedzen<br />
Steadily Onward<br />
Paul Lovatt-Cooper<br />
'neath Dublin Skies<br />
Andrew Mackereth<br />
Fall Afresh<br />
Daniel Iverson<br />
George Marshall<br />
God So Loved the World<br />
Sir John Stainer<br />
John Meredith<br />
Come See the Lord<br />
Down Ampney<br />
Heaven’s Gate<br />
Here is Love<br />
In Moments Like These<br />
Jesus is the Name<br />
Lord of the Years<br />
Make me a Channel of Your Peace<br />
One More Step Along the World I Go<br />
Pieds-en-l'Air<br />
Peter Warlock<br />
Tell Out my Soul<br />
The Quiet Heart<br />
June Collin<br />
What a Faithful God<br />
Ed Mylchreest<br />
I the Lord of Sea and Sky<br />
Hugh Nash<br />
Demelza<br />
Kevin Norbury<br />
Pie Jesu<br />
Gabriel Faure<br />
Ramsgate<br />
Edgar Hollis<br />
Ralph Pearce<br />
Ascalon<br />
Grace<br />
Whisper a Prayer<br />
Richard Phillips<br />
Blaenwern<br />
There Will Be God<br />
Joy Webb<br />
Who is He?<br />
Benjamin Hanby<br />
Steven Ponsford<br />
Fanfare to Worship<br />
Turris Fortissima<br />
A. Stanley Raikes<br />
Cairo Red Shield<br />
Robert Redhead<br />
Christ Hymn<br />
Euphony<br />
Quintessence<br />
Reflections in Nature<br />
Goff Richards<br />
Hymns of Praise<br />
I Will Follow Him<br />
Franck Pourcel, Paul Mauriat<br />
I'll Walk With God<br />
Nicholas Brodszky<br />
Olaf J Ritman<br />
Denn er Hat Seinen Engeln Befohlen<br />
(Psalm 91)<br />
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy<br />
Greater Things<br />
The Lord Bless You And Keep You<br />
John Rutter<br />
Ian Robinson<br />
To a God Like This<br />
John Larsson<br />
Paul Sharman<br />
Righteousness, Peace and Joy<br />
Erik Silfverberg<br />
Don't Let the Devil<br />
Graham Press<br />
Nobody Knows<br />
Negro Spiritual<br />
Tony Small<br />
Benedictus<br />
Karl Jenkins<br />
Kenneth Smith<br />
Bless our Army!<br />
The Wonder of it <strong>All</strong><br />
George Beverley Shea<br />
Ray Steadman-<strong>All</strong>en<br />
A Gaelic Blessing<br />
John Rutter<br />
Angels Watching Over Me<br />
Negro Spiritual arr. Joy Webb<br />
Evening Hymn<br />
Hadleigh Camp<br />
Holy, Holy, Holy (Nicæa)<br />
Suite - Lord of the Sea<br />
The Ransomed Host<br />
Alastair Taylor<br />
Chorale and Prelude - Beethoven<br />
Andrew Wainwright<br />
Carol of the Bells<br />
traditional<br />
Andrew Lloyd Webber<br />
Jesus Christ Superstar<br />
Gavin Whitehouse<br />
Forever You Will Be<br />
Craig Woodland<br />
Don't Doubt Him Now<br />
Leonard Ballantine
For full details of all the band recordings visit<br />
www.boscombebandsa.org.uk<br />
Older<br />
Recordings<br />
Our current CD is detailed on a<br />
later page in this brochure<br />
A collection of Salvation Army meditations<br />
Featuring Brett Baker<br />
The two bands live in concert and featuring<br />
Brett Baker on trombone<br />
Double CD with 30 marches<br />
Featuring Steven Mead as soloist with the<br />
band he grew up in
Friday at 7.30pm : Band Dinner<br />
Saturday at 2.30pm : March through Bournemouth town<br />
centre to Civic Reception at the Town Hall<br />
Saturday at 4.30pm : Reception for present and former<br />
bandsmen<br />
Saturday at 7.30pm : Evening Concert<br />
Sunday at 11.00am : Holiness Meeting<br />
Sunday at 4.00pm : Sunday Concert<br />
Special guests for the weekend will be Colonel Robert<br />
Redhead and his wife Gwenyth. The Redheads retired in<br />
Canada from active service on July 1, 2005. While<br />
continuing to receive invitations to share in ministry in a<br />
variety of ways in all parts of the world, since September<br />
2008 they have become “worship practitioners” in their<br />
local corps of Orillia where they co-share the leadership of<br />
the Worship Committee. In addition, Robert is the lead<br />
worshipper with the worship team, and leader of the corps<br />
band.<br />
Their last appointment was as the General’s<br />
representatives for the Development of Worship and<br />
Evangelism through music and other creative arts. For two<br />
years they travelled extensively, in fulfillment of their<br />
mandate, visiting territorial leaderships and conducting<br />
workshops in 31 territories and commands.<br />
In June 2004 they hosted MOSAIC in Toronto, the second<br />
International Music and Other Creative Ministries Forum,<br />
attended by 61 territorial creative ministries leaders from<br />
34 territories and commands, with an African version of the<br />
forum being held later in the same year in Nairobi, Kenya<br />
for delegates from 6 African territories and commands.<br />
In the years immediately prior, they had been Chief<br />
Secretary and Territorial Women’s Ministries Secretary<br />
respectively in both the New Zealand, Fiji and Tonga<br />
Territory, and the Canada and Bermuda Territory, and had<br />
held divisional leadership in the latter territory.<br />
Earlier, from 1990 - 1994 Robert had been the Head of the<br />
International Music Editorial Department and bandmaster<br />
of the International Staff Band. Later he became the Head<br />
of Creative Ministries in the new UK territory. During this<br />
time, sweeping changes were made to International Orders<br />
and Regulations governing Salvation Army music and<br />
musicians, opening up what had previously been a very<br />
closed area of Salvation Army ministry. During this time<br />
Gwenyth applied her gifts towards teaching biblical studies<br />
at the UK training college for officers.<br />
Prior to this, in 1985, they had been appointed as<br />
corps officers of the Southmount Corps in<br />
Vancouver, Canada, following nine years at<br />
Territorial Headquarters during which time Robert<br />
served as Territorial Music Secretary and<br />
Bandmaster of the Canadian Staff Band.<br />
Gwenyth became the territory’s first Drama<br />
Consultant, and began to use her gifts through<br />
the medium of writing and drama towards<br />
creative approaches to worship. She collaborated<br />
with Robert in the writing and production of<br />
several musicals.<br />
Besides writing lyrics for many published songs,<br />
Gwenyth has had a novel published, and many<br />
articles featured in Salvation Army periodicals<br />
internationally. Robert’s music has been<br />
published by the Salvation Army around the<br />
world, and many of his works have been recorded.<br />
The Redheads were born and bred in England,<br />
and trained to become Salvation Army Officers in<br />
London. Robert was commissioned in 1964 and<br />
married Gwenyth following her commissioning in<br />
1965. Corps and training college appointments<br />
were followed by six years in the International<br />
Music Editorial Department before they were<br />
appointed to the Canada and Bermuda Territory.<br />
They have two daughters, two grandsons, and one<br />
granddaughter. Joanne is a school principal and<br />
lives in Bolton, Ontario. Corinne, and her husband<br />
Steven Cameron, are corps officers at the Haven<br />
of Hope Church in Regina, Saskatchewan.
The Band have a number of special events this year, but the focus of its service will continue to be its week to week<br />
activities supporting the services at Boscombe as well as outdoor activities - in Bournemouth Gardens, at the hospital and<br />
at various homes throughout the area. Listed below are some of the extra events that will be happening and that will<br />
keep the Band busy throughout the year.<br />
Saturday February 5th<br />
Supporting Staines Songsters<br />
at Boscombe<br />
Thursday, March 17th<br />
Band Open Evening and CD launch<br />
Saturday April 9th<br />
Wedding of Ben Thompson and Ali<br />
Thursday April 21st<br />
Maundy Thursday Music<br />
Friday April 22nd<br />
Good Friday Service<br />
Saturday-Sunday April 23rd-24th<br />
Visit of the International Staff Band<br />
Saturday May 7th<br />
Visit to Exeter<br />
Friday-Sunday May 27th-29th<br />
Visit of the Chicago Staff Band<br />
June 11th-19th<br />
Tour of Scandinavia<br />
Thursday June 30th<br />
Concert at Christchurch Priory<br />
guest soloist- Les Neish (tuba)<br />
Friday July 1st<br />
Pinewalk Bandstand<br />
Friday July 15th<br />
Pinewalk Bandstand<br />
Thursday July 28th<br />
Pinewalk Bandstand<br />
Sunday July 31st<br />
Keyhaven Songs of Praise<br />
Thursday August 11th<br />
Pinewalk Bandstand<br />
Sunday September 18th<br />
Battle of Britain Day Parade<br />
Friday-Sunday October 21st-23rd<br />
Band <strong>125</strong>th Anniversary Weekend<br />
Sunday November 13th<br />
Bournemouth Cenotaph<br />
Sunday November 13th<br />
A Night to Remember<br />
Thursday December 1st<br />
Christmas Concert at<br />
Christchurch Priory<br />
Friday December 16th<br />
Tree of Light Service<br />
Sunday December 18th<br />
Hospital Carol Service<br />
Sunday December 18th<br />
Corps Carol Service<br />
Saturday December 24th<br />
Carolling at Hotels<br />
Sunday December 25th<br />
Bournemouth Hospital<br />
For up to date information about the Band’s engagements visit<br />
www.boscombebandsa.org.uk<br />
March - The Defenders - Ray Cresswell<br />
Coming Home - Kenneth Downie<br />
Horn solo - His Eye is on the Sparrow - Leonard Ballantine<br />
Are You Joyful? - Dudley Bright<br />
Joy Through the Ages - Howard J. Evans<br />
Cornet solo - The Call of Christ - Norman Bearcroft<br />
Lord of the Sea - Ray Steadman-<strong>All</strong>en<br />
The Quiet Heart - June Collin trs. John Meredith<br />
Euphonium solo - The Ransomed Host - Ray Steadman-<strong>All</strong>en<br />
Male voices - The Calvary Track - Albert Orsborn arr. Norman Bearcroft<br />
The Eternal Presence - Eric Ball<br />
Première recordings
The first tour of Norway was made in 1891 by the Norwegian Staff Band. Hopefully our travels around<br />
the country will be far easier than was the case in those days. However, one thing we do have in<br />
common is the reason for taking our music around the country. That original staff band adopted a<br />
“mission statement” (in today’s parlance) that is apt for our own tour as well.<br />
To bless as many people as<br />
possible, encourage officers<br />
and soldiers and use every<br />
opportunity to play, sing and<br />
witness for both great and<br />
small, and win souls for Jesus.<br />
Vi gleder oss til å bli bedre kjent med Norge
Dear Comrades,<br />
A trip from Boscombe, in the south of England, to Trondheim, in<br />
central Norway, may not be as daunting today as it would have<br />
been in those far-off days of the marauding Vikings. Despite the<br />
challenges of transporting a brass band bass section (I am<br />
referring to the instruments, not the players – though you may<br />
well have cause to wonder about some of them as well, if your<br />
bass players are anything like some of those I’ve encountered in<br />
the various bands in which I’ve occupied a seat on the trombone<br />
bench!), modern travel is such that the relatively short distance<br />
is covered long before the journey becomes uncomfortable.<br />
The cultural distance between Boscombe and Trondheim (or any of the other Norwegian cities you will visit) is traversed as<br />
easily these days... there is no need to be apprehensive about meeting these descendents of Thorkell the Tall – they have<br />
been transformed into a peace-loving, amiable people who though reserved generally, are very warm in their welcome of<br />
visitors - especially their own. Your love for Christ, for the Army, and for brass banding (preferably in that order!) will<br />
ensure that the welcome you receive is warm, the hospitality benevolent and the reception of your ministry enthusiastic.<br />
“The song of the Lord began with the trumpet” (2 Chron. 29:27) is often quoted in the context of a band’s ministry. It is<br />
appropriate because it describes worship being led by the musicians in the context of the sanctification of God’s people.<br />
We look forward to being blessed, sanctified, and – yes – entertained by your ministry. Welcome!<br />
Clive Adams<br />
Territorial Commander<br />
Dear Friends!<br />
We are very excited about hosting the Boscombe Citadel Band as part of<br />
your Scandinavian tour. The Salvation Army Corps centres you will be<br />
visiting will have made great preparations believing that your visit will<br />
present an opportunity to celebrate Christ in their locality in a wonderful<br />
way. They also hope that the occasion will also present a chance to<br />
experience enriching fellowship with fellow salvationists from overseas.<br />
Norway should be at its most beautiful at the time of your visit, and I am<br />
sure that you will enjoy the journey almost as much as the meeting with<br />
salvationists, the concerts and the meetings. Please be assured that we<br />
are praying for you and the tour.<br />
We are happy that you followed the saying "look to Norway"! And the<br />
best way is come to see it with your own eyes. You are most welcome.<br />
May God bless you.<br />
Major Jan Harald Hagen<br />
Territorial Music Secretary.<br />
Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Ellis, tour leader, is<br />
well acquainted with Scandinavia having served<br />
in Norway for nearly 30 years in a variety of<br />
appointments at corps, divisional and territorial<br />
levels. His service has taken him to all the<br />
Nordic countries, including Iceland, The Faeroes<br />
and Spitzbergen.<br />
Now retired to his home territory, the Colonel<br />
soldiers at Boscombe and is well acquainted<br />
with excellence of the Band, and appreciative of<br />
their faithful service week by week in the<br />
Bournemouth area.<br />
The Colonel's book What a Hope! was published<br />
in 2010 and has been well received throughout<br />
the British Territory. It will be on sale during the<br />
Band’s tour of Scandinavia
Saturday 11th June and Sunday 12th June<br />
København (Copenhagen) is the capital and largest city of Denmark,<br />
with an urban population of over 1m (2010) and a metropolitan<br />
population of nearly 2m (2010). It is situated on the islands of<br />
Zealand and Amager. Copenhagen has repeatedly been recognised<br />
as one of the cities with the best quality of life. It is also considered<br />
one of the world’s most environmentally friendly cities. The water in<br />
the inner harbour is so clean that it can be swum in, and 36% of all<br />
citizens commute to work by bicycle.<br />
In addition to a concert at the Temple on the Saturday evening the<br />
Band will also be marching on Sunday morning and participating in<br />
the Holiness meeting.<br />
Sunday 12th June<br />
Göteborg (Gothenburg) is the second-largest city in Sweden (after<br />
Stockholm) and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. The city was<br />
founded in 1621 by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. It lies by<br />
the sea at the mouth of Göta Älv - the river running through the city<br />
- and is the largest seaport in the Nordic countries. The city proper<br />
has almost 1m inhabitants in the metropolitan area and is also<br />
home to many students, as the city includes both the University of<br />
Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. Volvo Cars<br />
was founded in Gothenburg in 1927.<br />
On the previous visit to Sweden in 1990 the Band did not come to the<br />
west of Sweden so this will be their first concert in Gothenburg.<br />
Monday 13th June<br />
Halden is a beautiful town, situated between Oslo and<br />
Gothenburg (Sweden). The majestic Fredriksten fortress<br />
towers over the town with the marina nestling at it's foot. The<br />
fortress was previously the bastion of Norway's defences and<br />
the town itself is today's gateway to Norway.<br />
The Band will perform a short outdoor concert at the fortress at<br />
lunchtime during their journey from Gothenburg to Askim.<br />
Monday 13th June<br />
Askim is a town and a municipality in Østfold county. It was<br />
established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 and is the<br />
largest population centre in Indre Østfold. It lies next to the<br />
longest river in Norway, Glomma, which forms the border with<br />
Spydeberg to the north and west, and Skiptvet to the south.<br />
Askim produces large amounts of hydroelectricity at three dams:<br />
Solbergfoss, Kykkelsrud, then Vamma. There was nickel mining<br />
at Kykkelsrud at the turn of the 20th century. These mines are<br />
also one of the few places where "kulenoritt" is found. An<br />
industrial city for most of the 20th century, the main employer,<br />
Viking, shut down its rubber product manufacture in 1992.<br />
Glava is the main employer today.<br />
The Band will be giving a concert in the Askim Menighet.
Tuesday 14th June<br />
Røros is a town and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county - part of the<br />
Gauldalen region. Røros was established as a municipality in 1838 and<br />
was split into four municipalities in 1926 (Røros town, Røros landsogn,<br />
Brekken, and Glåmos), but these four were merged together again in<br />
1964. Røros municipality has been used by the South Sami people for<br />
reindeer herding up until today. Known for its copper mines, Røros is<br />
one of Norway’s two nationally significant mining towns with activity<br />
starting in the 17th century - the other one being the "silver-town"<br />
Kongsberg.<br />
Wednesday 15th June<br />
Trondheim, historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in<br />
Sør-Trøndelag. It is the fourth most populated city in the country. The settlement was<br />
founded in 997 as a trading post, and was the capital of Norway during the Viking Age<br />
until 1217. From 1152 to 1537, the city was the seat of the Archdiocese of Nidaros;<br />
since then it has remained the seat of the Diocese of Nidaros and the Nidaros<br />
Cathedral. Trondheim lies on the south shore of the Trondheimsfjord at the mouth of<br />
the river Nidelva.<br />
The Band will be giving a concert at Lademoen Menighet, an openair in Trondheim and<br />
will also have the opportunity to visit the Ringve museum.<br />
Thursday 16th June<br />
Lillehammer is a town and municipality in Oppland county, globally known for<br />
hosting the 1994 Winter Olympics. It is part of the traditional region of<br />
Gudbrandsdal. As of January 2010, the population of the town of Lillehammer<br />
was 26,381. The city centre is a late 19th century concentration of wooden<br />
houses, which enjoys a picturesque location overlooking the northern part of<br />
lake Mjøsa and the river Lågen, surrounded by mountains.<br />
Friday 17th June<br />
Drammen is a city and municipality in Buskerud county. It is a suburb of<br />
Oslo. The municipality of Drammen was established in 1838. The rural<br />
municipality of Skoger was merged with the municipality of Drammen in<br />
1964 and was transferred from Vestfold county to Buskerud county at the<br />
same time. The city has 62,566 inhabitants, making it Norway’s seventh<br />
largest.<br />
Saturday 18th June and Sunday 19th June<br />
Oslo was founded around 1048 by King Harald III "Hardrada" of Norway.<br />
The city was largely destroyed by a fire in 1624 and The Danish-Norwegian<br />
King Christian IV rebuilt the city as Christiania (briefly also spelt<br />
Kristiania). In 1925 the city reclaimed its original Norwegian name, Oslo.<br />
The diocese of Oslo is one of the five original dioceses in Norway, which<br />
originated around the year 1070. As of 2010, the metropolitan area of<br />
Oslo has a population of 1.5m and is increasing at a record rate of over<br />
2% annually, making it the fastest growing capital in Europe. This growth<br />
stems from immigration changing Oslo into a multicultural city. In 2009<br />
Oslo regained its status as the worlds most expensive city.<br />
On the final weekend of the tour, the Band will have an openair concert in<br />
Oslo and a concert on the Saturday evening as well as sharing in worship<br />
on the Sunday.
Victors Acclaimed Bramwell Coles OR Rosehill Albert Jakeway<br />
To the Chief Musician William Himes<br />
Congregational Song<br />
Two solos from:<br />
Cornet : Gabriel's Oboe (The Mission) Ennio Morricone arranged David Bertie<br />
Cornet : Glory to His Name Eric Ball<br />
Horn : Demelza Hugh Nash<br />
Horn : His Eye is on the Sparrow Leonard Ballantine<br />
Euphonium : Bravura (A Fantasy on British Folk Songs) Peter Graham<br />
Euphonium : The Ransomed Host Ray Steadman-<strong>All</strong>en<br />
Trombone Trio : I Will Follow Him Franck Pourcel and Paul Mauriat<br />
arranged Goff Richards<br />
Eg Veit I Himmerik Ei Borg OR <strong>All</strong> to Jesus Eiliv Herikstad<br />
(Castle in the Sky)<br />
Norwegian Traditional arranged Simon Kerwin<br />
Ellacombe Chronicles James Curnow OR Quintessence Robert Redhead<br />
–Interval–<br />
Chassidic Dance Howard J Evans OR Light Walk Barrie Gott<br />
A Hymn to Christ<br />
Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is<br />
above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven<br />
and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus<br />
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. (Phil 2: 10-11)<br />
Are You Joyful? Dudley Bright<br />
Congregational Song<br />
<strong>All</strong> Glorious Dorothy Gates<br />
Ascalon Ralph Pearce<br />
Coming Home! music of reconciliation Kenneth Downie<br />
Joy Through the Ages Howard J Evans<br />
Dedicated to all those who have served in Boscombe Band<br />
Now you are kept for good by the Shepherd of your soul (1 Peter 2:21)<br />
Christ Hymn Robert Redhead<br />
Benediction
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Acknowledgements :<br />
Formal Band Photography - Alan Edwards (Studio 38)<br />
Brochure Concept - Terence W Carey<br />
Brochure Printing - Kolour Krazy (www.kolourkrazy.com)