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Timothy Reynish Brookside Cottage 62 Moss Lane Leyland Lancashire PR25 4SH United Kingdom Telephone: +44 (0) 1772 421079 timreynish@tiscali.co.uk New or updated pages 4th December
January 2009 Bingham: Bright Spirit Ellerby: Paris Sketches Gorb: Bermuda Triangle December 2008 Connor: Tails aus dem Vood Viennoise Carroll: Winter Dances McNeff: Image in Stone (excerpt) Gorb: Adrenaline City November 2008 Edwin Roxburgh: Elegy for Ur Matthew Taylor: Blasket Dances Fergal Carroll; Song of Lir October 2008 Tim Jackson: Passacaglia Chris Marshall: Resonance Michael Ball: Saxophone Concerto September 2008 Adam Gorb: Dances from Crete / Farewell / Sunrise & Safari August 2008 Chris Marshall: L'Homme Arme |
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HOMEPAGE 4th DECEMBER STOP PRESS - London December 2nd ADAM GORB THE WINNER OF THE BASCA AWARDS, DECEMBER 1 2009 ADAM GORB and FAREWELL
Full details of the awards are here and you can listen again on BBC iPlayer for the next 7 days here. Forward to around 1hr 43mins into the programme. HAPPY HOLIDAYS First many seasonal greetings to anyone who browses this site. Once again it is time to wish everyone, albeit for some belatedly, for some rather early, a very happy Bohdi Day, Diwali, Eid Al-Addha, Hannukah, Modranect, Sadeh, Yule, Christmas, Parairvana Day, Hogmanay,Tohji-Taisai, Doing Zhi, Saturnalia or New Year, whether you are on the beach, on the ski slopes or by the fire. Apologies to any readers left out. Have a great holiday. GERBIL OF THE YEAR
It is great to discover that three of my commissions were played by Trinity College of Music Wind Orchestra on 22nd October, two others were played by leading British Conservatoires on Friday 27th November, details below, while another appeared at the Royal Northern College in their concert on October 25th. This was a final tryout for a recording of Adam Gorb’s Towards Nirvana and Farewell which will be included in a CD of all of his “serious” music to be published by NMC in the New Year. Finally a huge vote of thanks to my long-suffering webmaster, Mark Heron. News here of the RNCM Conducting course which he organises, and of course of Canford Summer School Conducting Course. In the last month there have been well over 5,000 unique hits on this site, so a huge vote of thanks too to you all for taking the time to browse. We are uploading the long awaited file on Guy Woolfenden, and revised files on Concerto Repertoire and an update on British Wind Music from 1981. Hope you have a great holiday and please let me know any news or questions. Best wishes Tim Reynish timreynish@tiscali.co.uk NEW UPLOADS: BRITISH WIND MUSIC 1981-2009 (revised November 2009) CONCERTOS revised November 2009
Well
over 300 submissions were sent to BASCA for the 2009 Awards which fete
new works receiving their first UK performance between April 2008 and
March 2009. As an indicator of trends in commissioning, it was
significant to note that 49 entries were received for the Chamber
category alone. Senior figures such as Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Sir John
Tavener, Jonathan Harvey and Alexander Goehr
received nominations together
with established names from the next generation, Simon Holt, Anthony
Powers and Mark-Anthony Turnage among them. Previous winners Judith
Bingham, Adam Gorb and Gabriel Jackson were also on the lists as were
John Adams and Magnus Lindberg for the international prize. Roger
Wright, Controller of BBC Radio 3 and Director of the BBC Proms, says: “This
is the seventh year of Radio 3’s association with the British Composer
Awards. The Awards continue to reflect the immense creativity that
flourishes in this field today and we are delighted to support them.
Contemporary music is central to the work of Radio 3, the world’s most
significant commissioner of new music.”
The 2009 British Composer Awards Shortlist for Wind Band or Brass Band
Composer: Simon Dobson
Work:
Farewell
Composer: Adam Gorb
Work:
The Gilded Theatre
Composer: Kenneth Hesketh
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REPERTOIRE SERIES VOLUME 5 CELEBRATING THE 75TH
BIRTHDAY OF AULIS SALLINEN AWARD WINNING
MUSIC OF GORB BRITISH WIND
MUSIC OF TODAY
Not a vintage for great new repertoire, though there were enough significant works to put out a first eleven – probably I could have included another half dozen. The Abigala I found to be a very engaging 3 minute opener, and I hope that he writes more for us – commissions required here. The Basford is a wonderful choral work, 40 minutes long, and I found it captivating. The Corigliano was for me the outstanding experience of the year, an incredibly dramatic setting of Bob Dylan poems, transcribed brilliantly by Verena Moesenbichler. Tranquility, one of my commissions, was a pool of peace and quiet in a noisy WASBE conference, though I very much enjoyed the works by Joel Puckett and Jim Mobberly for the same reason. Joel’s work can be heard by following the links later in this homepage. My listing included two works of terrific energy cast in an exciting language by Chinese composers, Chen Yi and Zhou Long, a very beautiful fantasia on the Moonlight Sonata by Yo Goto and another fantasia on music by Gabrieli by the brilliant young composer, Kathryn Sakfelder. These are a few of my favorite things. COMPOSERS IN THE NEWS The Finnish
composer Aulis Sallinen is one of the leading composers of his
generation in the world today, and has frequently been hailed as the
natural successor to Jan Sibelius, but with eight symphonies, six
operas, more than fourteen concertante works, chamber and choral music,
his music covers a far wider range than his illustrious compatriot. The
Palace Rhapsody was written in 1996 in response to a joint commission
from the Royal Northern College of Music and the College Band Directors
National Association. The 75th birthday of Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen will be celebrated in April 2010. This birthday year gives the perfect opportunity to visit and revisit Sallinen’s wide catalogue of music. Sallinen’s music has received recognition with the award of the Wihuri International Sibelius prize (which he shared with Penderecki) and in 1981 the Finnish Government made him Professor of Arts for Life - the first appointment of its kind, thus making it possible for him to devote all of his time to composing. PIET SWERTS born 14TH November 1960 I have enthused in several homepages about Cyrano by Piet Swerts which I first heard at the WASBE Conference in 2003. I wrote: From France, we had the premiere of Cyrano by Piet Swerts, and from Belgium Jules Strens‘ Danse Funambulesque, both large-scale exciting works in the genre of Pütz’s Meltdown, or Comitas’s A Night on Culbin Sands. I think that any of these works would be for a good band at around American Grade 4/5. Cyrano is published by De Haske. I am afraid that I do not know any of Swerts’ other works, but here is a listing from the web and I suspect that many of these pieces are worth investigating. Martenizza – Spring Overture, symphonic band, 1993; Centennial, symphonic band, 1994; Apocalyps II, symphonic band, 1995; Fantasy Tales, symphonic band, 1996; Ragtime, 1997; Epitaph, symphonic band, 1997 Shirim (Klezmer Rhapsody), symphonic band, 1998; The Titanic Saga (symphonic poem), symphonic band, 1998; Remembrance, symphonic band, 1999; Ion, piano, orchestra, 1999; Fantasia para un marques, guitar, strings, 2000-01; Chain, brass band, 2001; William Tyndale Overture, symphonic band, 2002; Minerva, 2002; Wings, piano, symphonic band, 2002; Cyrano, symphonic band, 2003 SIDE BY SIDE Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama BBC National Orchestra of Wales Conductor John Reynolds & Jonathan Mann Oboe David Cowley
Friday 27 November
2009 7.00pm
SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture EDWIN ROXBURGH An Elegy for Ur HODDINOTT Welsh Airs and Dances STRAVINSKY Symphony of Winds DEREK BOURGEOIS Serenade Op 22c / Hwyrgan Op 22c GRAINGER Lincolnshire Posy A special collaboration between
the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and the Royal Welsh College of Music
and Drama focusing on music written for Wind Band. 27 Friday Orchestral Series: 'Bright Spirit'
WORLD PREMIERE OF NEW WORK BY STEPHEN MCNEFF Adrian Boult Hall, Birmingham Conservatoire Birmingham Conservertory Wind Orchestra
Conductor: Guy Woolfenden
Jonathan Dove: The Ringing Isle Judith Bingham: Bright Spirit Guy Woolfenden:
Rondo Variations for solo clarinet and wind ensemble Darius Milhaud: Suite Française Stephen McNeff: Creation for Symphonic Wind Orchestra (world premiere) Kenneth Hesketh: Masque The world premiere of Creation for Symphonic Wind Orchestra by prize-winning composer Stephen McNeff is the highlight of today's concert. McNeff's reputation as a dedicated composer for this important genre of music is enhanced by his recent CD, Image in Stone. The rest of this evening's programme celebrates the works of four other contemporary British composers and one French master. RNCM CONDUCTING COURSE MAY 2009
Conducting
Weekend: Friday 30 April to Sunday 2 May (Friday 1400 to Sunday
1800) The course is
open to both active conductors and observers and will focus on key
practical issues including conducting technique, interpretation,
rehearsal and preparation. In addition to sessions with a variety of
orchestras and ensembles there will be workshops with rehearsal pianists
and discussions on topics of interest to conductors led by other RNCM
Faculty members. Video playback facilities will also be available and
all participants will receive a DVD of their conducting over the
weekend.
Repertoire will include:
Mahler -
Symphony No 4 Brahms -
Violin Concerto Stravinsky -
Octet Mozart -
Serenade in Eb K375 for wind octet, Serenade in D K250 “Haffner” Opera extracts
- to be confirmed The cost of
the conducting weekend is £175. Download the
application form
Application form
CANFORD SUMMER SCHOOL OF MUSIC CONDUCTING COURSE 2009 Mark Heron wrote on the BASBWE website in August: Just back from the 2009 Canford course. 22 conductors from all over the world, a great wind orchestra of students and very fine non-professional players, 4 performances, 91 gigabytes of video, umpteen pieces of repertoire and goodness only knows how many beers. One of the unique things about this course is the mixture of students: orchestral and wind band conductors, some already very experienced, others less so, with a wide variety of backgrounds and ages from many parts of the world. The dates for the 2010 course are 8th to 15th August. Details will be available on the school's website and on this site. Repertoire may include: CANFORD/BASBWE CONDUCTING COURSE
Basford - Songs and Refrains Binney - Nancy’s Lament Carroll - Pipers of Bretherton Davey - Wee Cooper of Fife Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy Hesketh - Vranjanka McNeff - Ghosts Milhaud - Suite Francaise Mozart - Serenade in Eb Orr - John Gay Suite Woolfenden - French Suite
SYMPHONIC WIND ENSEMBLE Ball - Resurgam Ball - Saxophone Concerto Bourgeois - Symphony of Winds Coleman - Jazz Funeral Fletcher - Vanity Fair Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy Hesketh - Vranjanka McCabe - Canyons Milhaud - Suite Francaise Taylor - Blasket Dances Woolfenden - Illyrian Dances
SUN PAINTS RAINBOWS ON THE VAST WAVES by David Bedford ERRATA I was recently fortunate to conduct this work again with the Band of HMS Collingwood, HM Royal Marines, Gosport, and we attempted to sort out all of the errata that have come to light. Please let me know of any further mistakes in score or parts.
# There are some balance problems , especially between woodwind and brass in the sections around 79 and 288 where two oboes and cor anglais must play ff as do the heavy brass or whole clarinet section. I have taken the liberty of adding a trumpet to these two bars – without permission. FREE SCORE & PARTS + REMIX COMPOSITION CONTEST! From Stuart Sims Director of Instrumental Studies Associate Professor of Music (on leave) California State University, Stanislaus One University Circle Turlock, CA 95382 209.667.3423/ ssims@csustan.edu Greetings colleagues, I'm pleased to announce, in collaboration with composer Tanner Menard, the FREE release of performance materials for his groundbreaking work for band, joe's last mix. Many of you know, love, and have performed this piece, and we're trying something a little different with it now: http://www.loosefilter.com/jlm/
On the website, you can download PDF files of full score and parts, released under a Creative Commons 3.0 license (details on site), for you to use and enjoy. You'll also find a few different recordings of the piece.
We are also excited to announce, along with this release, a REMIX composition contest. Details are on the site, but in short, we're seeking both composed and electronic remixes of joe's last mix, from composers of any age/experience, with the first round of composed remixes due by March 1. The best submission will receive a performance and recording by the Arizona State University Wind Ensemble on April 15, and other submissions as well as all electronic remixes will be posted on the site for all to enjoy.
Please visit the site, get some free music, and let me know what you think! Any and all feedback on this experiment from our terrific community would be most appreciated! (Also, if you've performed joe's last mix and have a recording you'd like to share, please send it along and I'll post it on the site.) December 19
Les Contes
d’Hoffmann January 9
Der Rosenkavalier January 16
Carmen February 6
Simon Boccanegra Coming to a
cinema near you, well to dozens of cinemas in about 20 different
countries, live opera from the Met. You are taken backstage, you
interview the stars, and the opera is filmed in gorgeous close-up with
subtitles – quite an experience.
MÚSICA PARA VIOLA Y ORQ. DE VIENTOS BY Vicente Moncho
Dear Colleagues and friends, I am sending you here my latest piece for Wind Orchestra. It is not only for Symphonic Band because the Simphony Orchestra withouth strings, can perform the piece. I am sending you here the You Tube´s links. You will have to excuse about the balances because it is a "domestic" audio. This piece will be published by Kliment KG Musicverlag in a short time. The set of part will be for rent.
I hope you enjoy it. Best Wishes, Vicente Moncho
“Música para Viola y Orq. De Vientos”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWKT27-9q0U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPgKCMfJMdM
CANADA
Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble Marc Crompton writes: The Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble is a professional-level wind band in the Vancouver area of British Columbia, Canada. PSWE is spearheading the commissioning of a new work by Adam Gorb that is a subversive patriotic march. The piece will be 6-7 minutes in length and will be in the vein of a Charles Ives or Kurt Weill dig at marches. Assuming that we get support for the project, this piece that will be suitable for high school and more advanced ensembles, will be completed for the fall of 2010. It will be premiered in the 2010-11 PSWE season. What we are looking for is folks who are interested in supporting this commission. Anyone can support to the tune of $500 Canadian. For this financial contribution, each supporter will receive a copy of the score and parts (pre-publication) and will have their name printed in the published score. This is an excellent way of supporting composers and generating new works that will hopefully become part of the repertoire. If you are interested, please comment to this post or email me directly. GERMANY PREMIERE BY MARCO PÜTZ On 10th of November "...then thy words will take wing..." was premiered at St. Katharin church in Osnabrueck (Germany). It's a 21' piece in 4 movements for Wind Orchestra, Violoncello-Solo (Soloist: Yuri Kim) and Children Choir about 4 drawings by Z. Tolkatchev (Liberaton of Auschwitz). The texts are by Nelly Sachs and Rabindranath Tagore. The piece has been commissioned by several organisations, among the " Freundeskreis von Yad Vashem in Deutschland ". New is in of a new work for solo Tuba and Wind Ensemble by Brian Earl, Principal Tuba of the La Scala Milan Opera, written for Alessandro Fossi, which will be premiered at the Conference of the International Tuba and Euphonium Association in Arizona in 2010. For more information about Brian earl and his compositions, checkout his new website www.brianearl.net His chamber opera Nosferatu, written on a libretto by Lorenza Cantini, resident producer at La Scala, for 15 winds, 10 singers, a small chorus and a few dancers, is seeking a premiere production. Contact Brian Earl at brianrichard.earl@inwind.it for further information. LATVIA 2006 saw the 200th anniversary of the death of Michael Haydn, celebrated by the commissioning of a setting of the mass by the South African composer Shane Woodborne. The world premiereof the Rohrau Mass was given in Rohrau, the composer’s birthplace, by the Musikverein Rohrau, and was later performed at the Universityof Latvia and recorded by the University Wind Band and Mixed Choir Juventus conducted by Janis Purins. In four movements, lasting just over twenty two minutes, the work is eminently suitable for amateur wind orchestras and choirs, and the score can be accessed by browsing on ROHRAUMESSE or http://www.orchestralart.com/werke/woodborne_rohrauermesse.pdf More information also from Janis Purins Janis.purins@jvlma.lv LUXEMBOURG National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales on tour! Marco Pütz was guest conductor of the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales in their tour of Luxembourg, with Philippe Schartz as soloist. Philippe, originally from Luxembourg and currently Principal Trumpet with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, gave the first performance of a specially-commissioned concerto by Welsh composer, Gareth Glyn, at Trifolion, Echternach's newly-opened concert hall. The NYWOW's programme also comprises works by other composers from Wales, including Gareth Wood, and from Luxembourg, including Roland Wiltgen and Marco Pütz. Details of the Trumpet Concerto from Gareth Glyn PROGRAMME FOR TOUR Gareth Glyn Millenium Fanfare Roland Wiltgen SchmeitzTrilogy Gareth Glyn Trumpet Concerto Gorb Awayday Gareth Wood Legend of the Bear Marco Putz Sinfonietta MARCO PÜTZ reports that his wind band version of Four Earth Songs will be published by De Haske. Polish composer Norbert Palej, now relocated to Toronto where he is Professor of Composition at the University, will have two wind works performed in early 2010. February 27, 2010 - MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto, 7:30 p.m. The University of Toronto Wind Ensemble, conducted by Gillian MacKay, will perform Souffle de Lumière [Breath of Light]. April 1, 2010 - MacMillan Theatre, University of Toronto, 7:30 p.m. The University of Toronto Wind Symphony, under Jeffrey Reynolds’s baton, will perform my Three Movements for the Young: Vigil, Game, and Prayer. For the third time, Spanish commissions from Gregory Fritze, chair of composition at Berklee College of Music, took first prize in the World Music Contest at Kerkrade. This year’s composition was Magallón: Instrumento de Civilizaciones, commissioned by the Sociedad Artistico Musical de Magallón (Zaragoza). For more details of Gregory Fritzes, contact gritze@berklee.edu. Segundo Congresso Nacional de Directores de Banda The second National Congress of Band Directors took place in Alcoi, Spain from 30th October to 2nd November. The event is an initiative by band conductors in Spain who have formed a new association aimed at furthering communication and sharing knowledge. Still a fledgling organisation, the event was on a fairly small scale with only one concert and two days of seminars and discussions. Mark Heron was the guest conductor for the concert and conducted a programme of English music: Vaughan Williams Toccata Marziale; Guy Woolfenden Gallimaufry; Ken Hesketh Masque and Adam Gorb Yiddish Dances. Felix Hauswirth was among the clinicians. UK ADAM GORB has
been commissioned to write a work
entitled War of the Worlds to be premiered by Bromley Youth Concert
Band, conductor Michael Purton, at St John’s Smith Square on Sunday
March 7th at 6.00 pm, drinks from 5.30 pm.
The work will be about twenty minutes, and will be based on the
novel by H G Wells who was born in Bromley. DRUIDIC PREMIERE FOR MICHAEL SHORT Michael Short’s Water Music was given its world premiere at a concert entitled King Bladud’s Concert in Bath on 7th June. Also in the programme given by Zephryian Woodwind Orchestra was Sulyen Caradon’s King Bladud and the Goddess. GEOFFREY BURGON is writing a Saxophone Concerto for Marlborough College to be premiered in May 2010, conducted by Alex Arkwright. USA Some months ago I enthused about Joseph Turrin’s chamber opera The Scarecrow scored for singers and a chamber wind ensemble. By putting your browser on the links below, you can hear the whole of this exciting work: University of Texas at Austin - Live Performance on 02/24 Conducted by Joseph Turrin - Directed by Robert DeSimone For best quality use a good set of speakers or headphones mp3-The Scarecrow_overture_2.6 MB mp3-The Scarecrow_act1_14.2 MB mp3-The Scarecrow_interlude_1 MB mp3-The Scarecrow_act2_25.3 MB IT PERCHED FOR VESPERS NINE Two recordings and a programme note for this fine work by Joel Puckett can be found at http://www.joelpuckett.com/vespers.html
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