Foden's celebrate 75 years

On the 21st October 1977  75 years of Sponsorship by Foden Ltd was celebrated with a Founders Concert at the Recreation club attended by many ex members among them Harry Mortimer. Earlier in the year Allan Littlemore asked his friend Don Burgess to compile a short history of the band. It was titled “By Royal Command” and was published just before the concert.                        

Band secretary Marlene Howarth arranged an exhibition of the bands past in the adjoining room to the concert bringing together old pictures, Uniforms and the Crystal Palace trophy were loaned to the band for the occasion and subsequently returned to the Welsh Folk Museum in Cardiff after the event. 

Musical Director James Scott,  Guest Conductor Harry Mortimer

The evenings events were hosted by Don Burgess.

1. Cossack (William Rimmer)

2. Overture The Thieving Magpie (Gioachino Rossini)

3. Alpine Echoes (Windsor) Cornet Solo Alan Brotherston

4. Angels ever Bright and Fair (Handel)  

5. Melody and Caprice (Hespe) Trombone Solo Norman Law

6. Capriccio Italien (Tchaikowsky)

INTERVAL

1. Pat in America (Eden) 

2. Invincible (H. Scott)  Euphonium Solo Colin Cranson

3. Severn Suite (Elgar) Test piece

4. La Traviata – Prelude Act 1 (Verdi)

5. Sparks (Alford)  Xylophone Solo Ken Pavey

6. March Slav (Tchaikowsky)

7. Beautiful Zion (arr Mortimer)

NATIONAL ANTHEM