Title of Brass Band movie

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11-12-12
A British brass band has a new director and they don't like him. The band has been undisciplined with each player adding “twiddley bits." They decide to be difficult and to just play the music. They reach the final of a competition and decide that they will reward the director by going back to their old style which is, obviously, a total disaster

I think the director may have been Trevor Howard. The movie is not “Brassed Off.”



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11-12-12
Trevor Howard starred in a movie called ...And the Band Played On (1980) (aka The Shillingbury Blowers), I can't find hardly any info on it other than a one line description on IMDB.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081504/

Found a longer Synopsis.

An old-fashioned drama about old-fashioned values in an old-fashioned town called Shillingbury, this conventional film may not be quite the ticket for a more cynical, demanding audience (whatever their age). Pop musician Peter (Robin Nedwell) and his wife Sally (Diane Keen) take refuge in Shillingbury when their mod, mad life in the Big City gets more than they can handle. The problem is that the small town's band assaults the senses, especially the musical senses, every time the group gathers to play. They can empty out a room quicker than a fire alarm. So Peter agrees to take them on, coach them, and bring back an audience. As a result, the band members rebel because they love their old leader, Saltie (Trevor Howard) and resent his being shoved aside. Their rebellion, it turns out, produces exactly the opposite of what everyone in the town had expected, including themselves.
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