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A Very Happy New Year - January 2012
Enver Hoxha's New Year message to the Albanian people in 1967: "This year will be harder than last year. On the other hand, it will be easier than next year,"
However, I am full of optimism. Why?
STOP PRESS NEWS 10th January 2012
William Francis McBeth Remembered
Two Competitions for Composers
Start the New Year with a wonderful piece of light music
for band by Luis Serrano Alarcon, his Little Suite
Pequena Suite para Banda by Luis Serrano Alarcon (1. Intrata)
Pequena Suite para Banda by Luis Serrano Alarcon (2. Vals)
Pequena Suite para Banda by Luis Serrano Alarcon (3. Nana)
Pequena Suite para Banda by Luis Serrano Alarcon (4. Galop)
And then go to the website of James Syler at Ballerbach
Concerto Ideas For 2012-2013
Planning for next season? Try a concerto or a choral work from the Maecenas catalogue.
Concert Of The Month
A post-concert hug with the regular conductor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Dr. Jessica Kun.
Dancing Across the Pond was the title and theme for a great programme at Wilfrid Laurier University in December.
The Composer Speaks - Bernard van Beurden
With over 30 major works for wind band, why is this composer so little known outside Holland?
I like it, but is it Art?
Perhaps you prefer Dickens and Fassbinder, while I prefer Stephen King and Austin Powers; how can you prove that your taste is better than mine?
Discovery of the Month - Mulholland Drive
Michael Omer's Mulholland Drive was played at the BASBWE Conference in 2003. Did anyone write about it?
Sherborne International Summer School for Wind Conductors
Formerly Canford 5th - 12th August 2012
Sherborne Summer School, formerly Canford, is probably the most international conducting course in the world.
Only £500.00 (Euro 580.00 $775.00) for seven nights full board, and full tuition fees
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Three top Asian works at the 15th WASBE Conference
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Philharmonic Winds conducted by Tim Reynish
Dances From Crete by Adam Gorb
Pageant of London by Frank Bridge
Mvt 1 Solemn March, Richard 111
Mvt 2 First Discoveries: Introduction
Mvt 3 First Discoveries: Pavane
Mvt 4 First Discoveries: La Romanesca
Ye Banks and Braes by Percy Grainger
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Queensland Wind Orchestra conducted by Tim Reynish
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Philharmonic Winds, conducted by Leonard Tan
Marching Song of Democracy by Percy Grainger
Marco Polo; the Cathay Years Movements 1 & 2 by Luis Serrano Alarcon
Marco Polo; the Cathay Years Movements 3 & 4 by Luis Serrano Alaracon
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Philharmonic Winds conducted by Luis Serrano Alarcon
Pequena Suite by Luis Serrano Alarcon Mvt 1
Pequena Suite by Luis Serrano Alarcon Mvt 2
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Three Downloads For School Band
Maecenas publications from Tim Reynish's commission series
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WASBE
Visit the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles website -
The New Percy Grainger Companion
Edited by Penelope Thwaites - published by Boydell & Brewer.
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Latest Tim Pods
January 2009
Bingham: Bright Spirit,
Ellerby: Paris Sketches,
Gorb: Bermuda TriangleDecember 2008
Connor: Tails aus dem Vood Viennoise,
Carroll: Winter Dances,
McNeff: Image in Stone (excerpt),
Gorb: Adrenaline City