IN a double bill of brass, the York Late Music concert series presents Big Meeting: Celebration of David Lumsdaine at 85 and Orichalcum Brass Quintet at the Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York, on July 2.

From 6pm to 7pm, you can listen to Lumsdaine's Big Meeting, an innovative electronic work made from recordings of the 1971 Durham Miners' Gala that assembles snatches of brass bands, choirs, speech and song, alongside the sounds of an historic occasion.

"Presented in surround sound, this is a rare opportunity to hear in performance a work which The Times described as having 'the lively slice-of-life atmosphere of Charles Ives'," says Late Music administrator Steve Crowther. "Mill around and surround yourself in the sound of brass bands and voices as they fill the city of Durham, here in York."

At 7.30pm, Orichalcum Brass Quintet will perform new music for brass, complemented by arrangements of works from the Renaissance choral repertoire, under the leadership of Black Dyke and Grimethorpe trumpet player James Stretton.

Their programme includes the premiere of David Lancaster’s York Late Music commission, Breathless; a new arrangement of Arvo Pärt’s Magnificat by Murphy McCaleb; Michael Nyman's Masque Dances; James MacMillan's Adam's Rib and Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize winner Dani Howard's Blue Pavilion.

In a tribute to John McCabe (1939-2015), Orichalcum will play his Hawk In Winter Light, “inspired by the sight of a hawk circling obsessively on a bright November day”.

Tickets for Big Meeting are free with an Orichalcum Brass Quintet ticket, which cost £10, concessions £8, students £3, on the door or at latemusic.org/