Lt Col Trevor Sharpe has died.
- 13 September 2010 20:3070367He was my Bandmaster in the Buffs and also at Kneller Hall.He will be remembered as one of the judges of the 1970s and 80s B.B.C. T.V series The Best of Brass.To others he will be the man who wrote Fanfare and Soliloquy,even more will recognise a name that comes up in the credits as the man who conducted the theme music for "Dads Army "with the Coldstream Guards . He join the army like me as aband boy and worked his way up to be the head of the the British Army Music.
- 13 September 2010 21:0270380Mr Sharpe played apart in my life I will never forget ,he was a celebrated musician. songwriter composter of at least 2 extremely well know hit records and awarded an OBE for his music and played the clarinet like you never heard one played before.
- 13 September 2010 23:2170464Oh dear. Thank you for letting us know, Vic.
Simon was fortunate enough to be given a complete set of Dad's Army for his birthday recently, and since then we've been watching one or two episodes each night. It'll have an extra bit of poignancy this evening.The Dover War Memorial Project
www.doverwarmemorialproject.org.uk - 13 September 2010 23:3370471I must say Maggie I have not seen him for some years,but I am very upset about it,I am always talking about him and he was a great person to look up at and say,,"If only I was that good" he was a one off.
It was nice to see you both at the weekend and your talk in the church went down well with all of us. - 14 September 2010 10:3670519Vic we were only talking about him a couple of months ago. He really was a superb musician and bandmaster.
- 14 September 2010 16:2970584That is right Mr Tranter ,he was just that and there will never be one like him again.