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STOCKPORT has a long musical heritage, largely hidden, little known, mostly forgotten - but we still have some remnants left, including
Stockport Plaza Cinema and the
Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust Stockport Wurlitzer
- one of the largest in Europe, built for Paramount. The only "Publix" model outside America. Recordings available from the site.
Nearby, Manchester also still has a fine Cavaille-Coll Organ which few locals know about.
Stockport is home to good brass bands, including the
Vernon (Formerly Poynton)
Brass
Band and Poynton Youth Brass
Band. Brass bands include Stockport Brass (formerly BT Band, formerly POEU Band)
Band, Fairey Band,
Stockport Silver Band, Elmfield Band,
and a steel drum band the Stockport
Pantonic All Stars, Stockport Recorder College. And more.
To check out brass band CDs, look at the listing at Harrogate Band's excellent
web site- you will need to look at each band's web site to see what arrangements they have to distribute their CDs. (Alas, some bands record lots of
CDs and then make it impossible for anyone to buy any!!!).
Also playing in Stockport is Stockport
Symphony Orchestra.
We have an absolutely first class Stockport Youth
Orchestra and an equally gifted Stockport Schools Band and Stockport
Youth Wind Orchestra.
Brass Band news is available from 4 Bars Rest
Concerts held at Stockport Town Hall on one page.
The BBC Radio 4 UK Theme which was discontinued in April 2006. (Was played at 5.30am on handover of frequencies from World Service to Radio 4)
An interesting site, Unheard Beethoven has midi format files of music you haven't heard.
Some fine music MID files on offer from these sites -
Classical Composers Midi | Classical Midi Connection |
Herberts Midi Music || Music for Pianos (Midi)
Births and deaths of UK musicians at Music
Remembrance || Listen to and watch the original Al Jolson.
Streaming Audio
The first links are direct to RealAudio streams:-
Hober Thinking Radio | BBC World Service | BBC Radio News Summary
The BBC have a number of audio and video feeds- links to live radio and radio programs on demand are now spread all over their web site, but
this BBC page - has links to each station- you just have to know in advance which station carries a program you want. Many shows remain available for seven days using the "Listen again" option. Low bandwidth connections are supported. Standalone Realplayer or embedded.
To download old radio (OTR) MP3s, visit RadioLovers.com - with so many OTR sites now only offering paid for services or streams, it is nice to report that Internet Archive OTR has a growing collection, of often superior quality MP3s. Prefer RealAudio? Lots of streaming old radio programmes in RealAudio from otr.net (including some not on the Internet Archive site).
A useful source of UK radio feeds is Radiofeeds. If your browser does not support the protocols, links to rtsp addresses can be pasted into Realplayer whilst addresses in the form mms can be pasted into Mediaplayer. Addresses of the form http://43.43.43.43/radioname require the very latest Windows Media Player.
For world radio stations, visit PublicRadioFan- very large listing - same notes as above UK page.. Streaming European Classical and Jazz music streams.
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