Leslie ann downie7/12/2023 She has worked both with mainstream property matters and with pro-poor interventions for State-subsidized housing. The broadcast featured the band both as a brass and a vocal combination.Īlthough stepping down as bandmaster a few weeks later, Kenneth DownieĬontinued to serve the band as a flugel horn player and pianist with hisīrilliant piano improvisations providing the highlight of many a band programme.After a career as a property lawyer (with lecturing experience in family law, social law and business law at UNISA and UCT) Leslie now applies her experience to alternative strategies for conflict resolution. One of the bandmaster's last engagements was a BBC TV Songs of Praise broadcast recorded at Romsey Abbey on 22nd November 1974. The saturday night festival given in Regent Hall was reckoned to contain some of the best playing heard from Boscombe Band for many years. Woods accompanied the Band as its special leader, and on most occasions seekers were recorded as a result of this joint ministry. The Band was much in demand for weekend campaigns which took them to Castleford, Devonport Morice Town Hartlepool, Bargoed, Yeovil, Coventry, Gorseinon, Regent Hall and Wealdstone. To Bournemouth Cenotaph, once again establishing a precedent that is still maintained. Royal National Hospital to Punshon Memorial Church but on Sunday 10th Novemberġ971 for the very first time they led the British Legion Remembrance day parade The weekend concluded with a monday night band dinner - a social event for bandsmen, band reservists and families that was held annually for many years.įor several years the Band had led the Hospital Sunday procession from the ![]() ![]() Solos were provided by Songster Leader Maisie Wiggins (trombone) and Delia Jones (vocal). This item was featured in the evening festival together with Bandmaster Downie's own, unpublished, rhapsody Through the Blood of the Lamb. to 6pm on 26th May 1973 in aid ofĪ special band weekend on 12th and 13th October 1974, commenced with an openīand rehearsal in which Major Leslie Condon explained the intricacies of Call of the Righteous. Another fundraising gesture led to the band holding a play-in from 10am. Were Stephen Cobb (cornet), Dudley Bright (trombone) and Jane Otter (vocal),Īnd £55 was raised for the South African Band. Zabale of Johannesburg in June of that year. ![]() Guest soloist, and a special programme arranged on behalf of Bandmaster Raymond Included a partnership with Poole Band in May 1973, when Richard Martin was Musical programmes were given at Wimborne Minster, Winton MethodistĬhurch, Summerbee Secondary School and Dorchester Prison. The Bishop of Winchester, in connection with a conference for the deaf and dumb. Ironically, one of the band's firstĮngagements under his leadership was to provide music at a service, conducted by Often meant that volume was reduced to a mere whisper, even if many bandsmen He immediately set about developing his own skills as bandmaster, andĬhanging the style of the band's playing. The sixth of seven Boscombe bandmasters to have had musical compositions publishedīy the army - surely a record unique to Boscombe. Having already written music for both vocal groups and brass. He was considered one of the army's most talented young musicians When commissioned Boscombe bandmaster, at the age of 24, He studied music at the Royal Manchester College before taking a degree atĭurham University. 0riginally from Greenock, where his family were life long salvationists, Kenneth Downie was commissioned bandmaster in May 1971 when he moved toīournemouth from Southport to become head of music at Summerbee Secondary
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