CYBB Articles

Eric Ball in Cornwall

The Mozart of the Brass Band Movement was how Dr Roy Newsome described Eric Ball, the highly regarded Composer, Adjudicator and Conductor whose Birth one hundred years ago is being marked all over the world by brass band enthusiasts... (Read More)

Goff Richards in Cornwall

"I think the march has clarity and energy and is a far higher quality than is usually found in brass band music. The scoring is excellent, you obviously have a special gift."
So wrote Malcolm Arnold to a young Godfrey Richards who had had the temerity... (Read More)

Malcolm Arnold in Cornwall

"Happy but not idyllic - there's nothing idyllic about writing music and bringing up a family".
That was how Malcolm Arnold described the years between 1965 and 1972 when with his second wife Isobel he lived at St Merryn in Cornwall... (Read More)