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Tom Harrold Phil Shotton George - our band doggie!

The third was a new work by Tom Harrold. varied programme, including music from film
Tom (b.1991) is a Glasgow-born composer composing legend Ennio Morricone, music As Conductor Phil Shotton said:
whose award-winning music has received from the stage and screen; ‘Beauty and the
performances worldwide by a multitude of Beast’ and ‘Oliver!’ and even music from the “This was the first band I ever played in (nearly
performing groups and artists. Tom’s recent Beatles! The wind orchestra of over 100 30 years ago), the first band I ever conducted
projects include Darkened Dreams (a Proms musicians was joined by choirs from OLOL
commission that was broadcast live Catholic Primary School and the Merseyside and the band that put me firmly on the path
simultaneously on BBC Radios 3 and 4), NHS Choir. I’m on now - as you can imagine I’m extremely
Nightfires, a BBC SSO commission that proud of what we have achieved, and loved
was described as “among the most exciting This concert was 40 years in the making celebrating this milestone in the Bands history.
pieces by a Scottish composer in the last 25 and showed the high standards that can be The audience was excellent and a wonderful
years” [The Herald], and Raze, which opened reached with a community wind orchestra
the last night of the 2016 BBC Proms. and the power of collaborating with other afternoon of music took place”.
These works were showcased alongside a organisations, composers and soloists.

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