Programme Note
This short tribute to the Grimethorpe Colliery Band was written as a result of a request from the conductor and composer Elgar Howarth. It was first performed at a concert at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, to raise awareness and support for the Band after the closure of many of the Yorkshire coalfields, including that at Grimethorpe, as a result of the Thatcher Government’s policies. The work is reflective and rhetorical in mood.
Written: 1993
Instrumentation:
Brass band
Genre: Brass Band
Publisher: Unpublished
Duration: 1'
First Performance: 1993
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, UK
Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Elgar Howarth (conductor)