A track from a new CD by world-famous Foden's Band playing an Oscar-winning composer's music was played on Radio 3 today (Thursday). 

"March Overseas" – arranged by a Malcolm Arnold Society member Neil Richmond, was due to be played on Radio 3 this morning. 

The track is from the new CD "Malcolm Arnold - Music for brass band" which came about thanks to Sandbach man, Ken Talbot, secretary of the Malcolm Arnold Society. 

Ken from Cooksmere Lane spearheaded the project to fuse Foden's Band and one of Britain's leading composers.  

Ken is secretary of the Malcolm Arnold Society. (Photo: Ken Talbot)

He is secretary of the Malcolm Arnold Society, an organisation set up to commemorate and celebrate the Oscar-winning composer's work and life as we told here

He said: "The March: Overseas was first written for military rather than brass band, to a commission from the Central Office of Information for the 1960 British Trade Fair held in New York City in 1960. 

"In 2008, the aforementioned Neil Richmond spotted its potential and re-cast it for brass, in which guise it retains the cheerful aspect of a typical British quickstep. 

"Neil was present at Sandbach school when the recording was made in March of this year." 

The new CD is being pressed and the booklet printed and is due out in the next two weeks.   

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