Need help finding classical music for ds (quite specific)

[Pruners]

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Vaughan Williams. Just about anything of his sounds bucolic and suitable for looking at steam engines, or milkmaids, or cricketers... or old ladies cycling to matins or whatever it was.... I can't remember the name but there's one piece that always makes my kids think of pirates....something to do with Folk songs.... a great favourite.

What about Eric Coates, or any compilation that includes English light music - the sort of thing they used to play on the wireless in the 1940s?

Also think the sublime Henry V score by Walton might appeal to your DS.

I agree with a lot of what Mrs JC has already said - military/concert band stuff. In fact it's the sort of thing our concert band does all the time. We're doing a concert of this sort of thing this Sunday afternoon (Suffolk Concert Band, Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe, for anyone who is near and would like to come!)

Definitely composers like Walton, Coates, J P Sousa marches, also Alford marches, and the sort of stuff you used to hear on the radio, e.g. Calling All Workers, Coronation Scot, that sort of thing.

Hooooooold on there SoMuchtoBats, much more of that kind of talk and you'll be suggesting the child listens to brass bands next

Poor wee lad. Got visions of Pruner's next thread "my DS likes wearing a flat cap and eating gentleman's relish. Should i be worried?".

(nice plug by the way - hope it goes well!)

Oy pruners...more ideas added! Been shopping yet

Quite like a brass band, me.

It'll be too late in the evening for your wee chap yet, but on a Friday evening (from 7ish) the Great Western Railway Wind'n'Brass Band sets itself out on the concourse at Paddington and does marches & swing & whatever & it's FAB