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HOMEPAGE APRIL 2012

A very happy Spring to everyone, whether you are celebrating Pesach, Easter, Nowruz, or belatedly just the vernal equinox......and of course being a holiday weekend in England, it has rained.

Thank you for all of your feed back – in the first quarter of 2012, we attracted over 3,000 unique visits each month to this site, so time again to suggest some new programming ideas for wind orchestras for next year.

Time too to pack for Hong Kong, where next week I hope to see the magnificent Tian Tan Buddha; (the 8th April is traditionally the birthday of the Buddha.) I shall be working with the Hong Kong Festival Wind Orchestra in a wonderfully varied programme which will include the Pequena Suite by Luis Serrano Alarcón, Guy Woolfenden’s perennially youthful Gallimaufry, and a couple of my favourite commissions, Timothy Jackson’s magnificent Passacaglia and Adam Gorb’s Dances from Crete.

Meanwhile, back to this edition of my Homepages, and its contents of

1 Programme notes on more than 170 works

2 Essential CD of the week for BBC 3 for Week 1 in April

3 Essential CD of the month - one of my commissions in at 94 in Amazon

4 Recording Engineer of this century

5 Composer of the Month from Switzerland

6 Alarcón in Germany, Hong Kong, Singapore, Spain and Manchester

PROGRAMME NOTES

At last the promised listing!

Over 170 programme notes of selective repertoire

ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK

It was played on BBC RADIO THREE 9.am every morning for the first week of April? What was it,

SARAH WALKER presents a selection of must-hear music including the Essential CD of the Week.

CD OF THE MONTH

ORIENTAL LANDSCAPES in at number 94 of The 99 Most Essential Autumn Classics, released 14th October 2011

DAME EVELYN GLENNIE and the Singapore Symphony

BIS CD 1222

RECORDING ENGINEER OF THE CENTURY

with 98 discs published of WASBE Conferences.

Who is he?

COMPOSER OF THE MONTH - OLIVER WAESPI

Several composers in their early forties are to my mind writing significant music for wind orchestra and have emerged as important new voices.

Who are they

NEWS OF LUIS SERRANO ALARCÓN

In Germany
                        Hong Kong
                                                Singapore
                                                                        Spain
                                                                                        Manchester