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Virtuosi GUS Band

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Active from
  
1933

Genre
  
Pop

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Albums
  
Great British Music for Brass, Blue Jeans, Brass in Persepective

Record labels
  
EMI, Columbia Graphophone Company

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The Virtuosi GUS Band is a world-famous brass band, based in Kettering, England. Originally known as the Munn and Felton Works Band, it was formed by Fred Felton in 1933 in Kettering, England. Since then, the band has won many prizes and competitions over the years.

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History

On 2 January 1933, the Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph reported the formation of the Munn and Felton Works Brass Band. In that article, Mr Fred Felton, co-managing director of the firm, said: "We are out to make it the finest combination in the country, and to make it a contesting band of note throughout the country". Two years later the new band were champions of Great Britain. Since then, under the names of Munn and Felton, GUS (Footwear), The GUS Band, Rigid Containers Group Band, Travelsphere Holidays Band and now the Virtuosi GUS Band, the band has travelled Britain, Europe and America, appearing in concert halls, on television and radio, and has released many records and CDs.

Major Honours

The band's contesting successes include winning 1 World Championship, 6 British National Championships, 2 British Open Championships, and 15 Midlands Championship titles.

Musical Directors

The following list of resident and guest conductors is compiled from past contest results.

Partial Discography

The band has released over 50 albums, a selection of which are listed here:

  • Christmas Fantasia - The Music of Andrew Wainwright
  • Freeh-Way
  • A Mingled Chime
  • Bandology
  • British Bandstand
  • Bandstand (volumes 1 to 10)
  • Brass in Perspective
  • Celebration Golden Jubilee
  • European Journey
  • In a Tribute to Eric Ball
  • Journeys in Brass
  • Kings of Brass
  • Rhapsody in Blue - with Don Lusher OBE Soloist
  • Travelling Light
  • The World Champions Play Test Pieces for Brass
  • English Landscapes
  • Around the World in Eighty Minutes
  • Songs

    Napoleon Galop2010
    Cossack PatrolBrass in Persepective · 1968
    KenilworthGreat British Music for Brass · 1976

    References

    Virtuosi GUS Band Wikipedia


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