An original member of Canadian Brass, he went on to conduct various ensembles including the New Chamber Orchestra, and once put together a program of Debussy and Ravel for 70,000 fans of the rock band Phish
In 1976 at Toronto’s St. James Cathedral Auditorium, he was conducting the New Chamber Orchestra, which he had founded. For the concert’s encore, Mr. Phillips dedicated Bach’s Air from theto Robert Welch, Ontario’s Minister of Culture and Recreation. The piece ended abruptly before completion, as Mr. Phillips explained that in keeping with the minister’s funding policies, the orchestra had reduced the piece by five per cent.
What he did not do, contrary to a myth he himself perpetuated, was play the piccolo trumpet solo on the Beatles’ 1967 song. “He repeated this many times to many people,” said Stuart Laughton, a fellow trumpeter in the original Canadian Brass lineup. “He later confessed to me that he had been kidding.”The Four Elements
Canadian Brass was formed in 1970 by tuba player Charles Daellenbach and trombonist Gene Watts. An all-brass ensemble was a relatively new concept, but the quintet developed a unique rapport with concert audiences with its cheerful musicality and lively onstage dialogue. Canadian Brass, still active, achieved success with baroque music, Dixieland tunes and new compositions.
By 1976, the orchestra began getting steadier work and was able to afford paid rehearsal time with the help of grants from Wintario, the Toronto Musicians’ Association and city and borough governments. That summer the orchestra played a series of free evening concerts in parks in central Toronto and suburban areas.
“To look out at the audience was just incredible,” he later told the local newspaper, the Press-Republican. “It was wonderful. No nerves or anything.” Practices took place in a federal building where Mr. Denver was the janitor. The band, which took part in local parades and memorial functions as well as music competitions outside the city, lasted until 1955. Their most famous alumnus was trumpeter and educator Fred Mills, who, in 1972, replaced Mr. Phillips in Canadian Brass.
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