DOCTOR OF MUSICAL ARTS PERFORMANCE PORTFOLIO ...

This musical presentation was designed to encompass all the other elements of
the portfolio, from the music of Christopher Eley in 1785 through to Gordon Jacob in
the mid-twentieth century and finally the present day composers in Martin Ellerby and
Peter Graham. 2
Throughout this portfolio a period of musical history of two hundred years has
been covered, discovering and exploring the very best of British wind band music
performed by one of the most famous Military bands in the world.
I strongly believe that if we are to embrace and nurture new music, we should
also, as a matter of duty, treasure and keep alive, through public performance, the vast
wealth of musical heritage in wind band writing of our forbearers.
It was with this in
mind that this project was first formulated. As 'Band in Residence' at the University
of Salford, the project provided an informed and educationally productive overview of
this vast time period in the historical evolution of wind music conceived specifically
for the Coldstream Guards.
2 Programme notes, University of Salford concert, see appendix VIH: A.
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