Just listened to Green Hornet from the soundtrack of the film Kill Bill vol. 1; it is superb. It is a trumpet piece played by Al Hirt, a phenomenal trumpet player who sadly died 4 years ago. It has elements of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumble Bee in it. Whilst I’m talking brass I might [...]
A surprisingly good and well attended rehearsal plus the first committee meeting of 2004. We had the first rehearsal of 2004 last night at band. It went quite well really; most of the players turned up, in fact I can only think of one player who didn’t turn up who hadn’t got an excuse. I [...]
Well, as promised, I had another cornet practice tonight and it was a lot more constructive than last night. The tone was much improved do; rather than just doing a warm up and then blowing through some tunes I just did a warm up and then some exercises from Clark’s Technical Studies. Couldn’t get anything [...]
Had a bit of a hectic weekend with band related stuff. As I’m the contest secretary for Watford Band I thought I’d get the new registrations and transfers sorted out for the upcoming contests. I hadn’t realised that there’s a 4 week delay in making a transfer effective and this pushes right up to the [...]
There are four of us in the Wiley family in Watford. There's me Greg, my wife Louise, our son Euan and our daughter Eva. There's also our cat Fundi. You'll find a bit more information on our about us page.
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