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GENERAL NEWS 1

Also available at £10.00, 15 Euros or $15.00, including postage and packing.
CHAN 9549     Percy Grainger works for Wind Orchestra volume 1
CHAN 9630     Percy Grainger works for Wind Orchestra volume 2
CHAN 9697     British Wind Band Classics, Holst and Vaughan Williams
CHAN 9805     German Wind Band Classics, Hindemith, Schoenberg, Toch and Blacher
CHAN 9897     French Wind Band Classics, Berlioz, Schmitt, Milhaud Bozza and Saint-Saens
DOYCD 037     Morning Music – Midnight Music: The Wind Music of Richard Rodney Bennett and Irwin Bazelon
DOYCD 042     The Wind Music of Guy Woolfenden
DOYCD 043     The Wind Music of Edward Gregson
Available from Tim Reynish, 62 Moss Lane, Leyland, PR25 4SH, UK, price £10.00, 15 Euros or $15.00, including postage and packing.

Also from Shattinger or your local record retailer.

2 INTERNATIONAL WIND FESTIVAL
ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC, MANCHESTER, UK

The next International Wind Festival sponsored jointly by the Royal Northern College of Music and BASBWE, the British Association of Symphonic Bands andWind Ensembles, will be held during the weekend of 4/5/6 November 2005, in conjunction with Saxophone Weekend.

Plans include an in-service day for teachers, world premiere of the Richard Rodney Bennett Concerto for Saxophone Quartet and Wind Ensemble. For further details, contact Ian Duckworth.

3 AUSTRALIA

The Band of the Royal Australian Airforce under John Buckley performed Martin Ellerby’s Paris Sketches (Maecenas) in Newcastle, New South Wales at a public concert which was broadcast live across Australia via ABC Classic FM. In the past months, the RAAAF have also performed Ellerby’s Dona Nobis Pacem and the Tuba Concerto. To index

4 CANADA

Keith Kinder writes that a group are putting together an annotated and graded list of Canadian wind band music that, hopefully, will include a CD of excerpts. We've "only just begun" as the song says. His new book Prophetic Trumpets: Wind and Wind-Chorus Music by Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner" is to be published by Pendragon Press

5 CHINA

Japan -Macao – Hong Kong - Singapore
Eastman Wind Ensemble

Program A:
Fandangos/Roberto Sierra (Scatterday)
Elegy/Mark Camphouse
Hemispheres/Joseph Turrin
intermission
Overture to Candide/Bernstein (Grundman)
Vocalise/Rachmaninoff (Hunsberger)
Leader, Lieder (Concerto for Trumpet)/Dana Wilson, James Thompson, trumpet
(Trumpet encore)
Sousa Sesquicentennial Suite

Program B:
Toccata and Fugue in D/Bach (Hunsberger)
Suite of Old American Songs/Robert Russell Bennett
Dance Movements Philip Sparke
intermission
Profanation from the Jeremiah Symphony (No.1)
Bernstein (Bencriscutto)
O Magnum Mysterium/Lauridsen (Reynolds)
Concerto pour trompette et orchestre d'harmonie (1987)/Jacques Hetu,
James Thompson, trumpet
Sousa Sesquicentennial Suite