Welcome to the Tim Reynish Website
Updated 1st November 2004
Dear Colleagues,
Greetings and again thanks for your suggestions and comments. Proposals for important unknown repertoire come from Eduard Oertle of Stuttgart and Colonel Timothy Foley, recently retired Director of the “President’s Own”. Important CDs have been sent in by Christian Lindberg, trombonist extraordinary, Donald DeRoche, and also by Fred Speck, Cody Birdwell, Jo Hermann and John Carmichael from my recent tour of Kentucky and Tennessee. These will be reviewed later in November.
News on this November Homepage of newly recommended literature, for the WASBE International Youth Wind Orchestra and also of repertoire for two European conducting courses. If you have news for the December update, please get it to me by 15th November at timreynish@tiscali.co.uk
News is up on the CBDNA Web of the Conference clinic sessions as well as concert programmes. See you all in New York. Here also are listed four composers born in 1905 so if you want a prompt towards new repertoire, look no further. News too of a book which should be in everyone’s library; any composer of significance who wrote for wind before 2000 is likely to be treated in Norman Smith’s incredible book. I would suggest that national and international organisations should treat that as a core repertoire list for the 20th century, to which we all need to add supplements for national repertoire, contemporary repertoire, etc.
NEW ON THE SITE
80 links completed
Some Thoughts on Score Study by Mark Heron
History and assessment of 1981-2004 completed
Conducting clinic by Walter Beeler
NEW SITE: www.edwardgregson.com
CANFORD SUMMER SCHOOL WIND BAND CONDUCTING COURSE
England, august 7 – 14 2005
Repertoire now available.
JUNGFRAU MUSIC FESTIVAL Switzerland, Masterclass for Conductors Interlaken July 4 – 9 2005
CONFERENCES IN 2005
24 – 27 February CBDNA in New York
10 - 16 July WASBE in Singapore
4 – 6 November BASBWE in Manchester
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH WIND ORCHESTRA
Meeting in Singapore 10 – 16 July conductors Felix Hauswirth and Yasuhde Ito
Artistic Director Glenn Price – put your mouse on this title for full details
BIRTHDAY COMPOSERS for 2005
For repertoire ideas:
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD NEXT YEAR
1905 7th November William Alwyn
1905 4th April Eugène Bozza
1905 23 August Constant Lambert
RECORDING OF THE MONTH
Christian Lindberg conducts the Swedish Wind Ensemble
BIS-CD-1268
Includes Alven Suite The Mountain King and Fest-Ouverture; Varese Integrales; Mats Larsson-Gothe Prelude and Dance; Lindberg Concerto for Winds and Percussion
BOOK OF THE MONTH
PROGRAM NOTES FOR BAND by Norman E Smith
Essential reference book available from $55 from Bayside Music
Smith, Norman E. Program Notes for Band
This large-format, 752 page hardcover volume gives you program note material for more than 1,600 band compositions by more than 700 composers. It's all here: reasons for titles and dedications, related historical events, and circumstances relating to premiere performances. Other features include degree of difficulty, reference recording information, original and English titles, publication dates, and performance times. Whether you use printed programs, or your band's announcer introduces then numbers on your concerts, or both, you will be glad you added this volume to your band library!
PREMIERE OF THE MONTH
Dancing Galaxy by Augusta Read Thomas, 11 November at New England Conservatory, Boston, Frank Battisti conducts world premiere of the composer’s own arrangement of Galaxy Dances, especially written for and dedicated to Battisti.
SCORE OF THE MONTH
For School Bands Grade 4/5 Improvisations; Rhythms Andreas Makris
For Community Bands 3/4 Pageant of London Frank Bridge
CONCERTOS OF THE MONTH
VUH by Dieter Mack for Solo Percussion, Wind Orchestra and Three Percussion
Recommended by Eduard Oertle
DISCOVERY OF THE MONTH
Three of a Kind by Mark Phillips, recorded on MMC 2078
CHAMBER WORK OF THE MONTH
Recommended by Timothy Foley and Mark Heron
Giya Kanchelli Magnum Ignotum (1994) Duration: 22'
for chamber ensemble fl.2ob.2cl.2bn/2hn/db/tp
Recorded by Royal Flanders Philharmonic on ECM Label
PUBLISHER TO EXPLORE
Ballerbach Music
CANFORD REPERTOIRE for Conducting Course and Symphonic Wind Orchestra for 2005
BASBWE WIND band Conductors Course
In association with the BASBWE Educational Trust
Tutors:
Timothy Reynish
Mick Dowrick
Phillip Scott
This course is for wind band conductors at the intermediate and advanced levels. Up to twenty-five students will be accepted as “active “ participants working from two repertoire lists., Lists A and B are for the more experienced student, whilst List B is for the less experienced student. Observers are also encouraged and will be fully involved in general technique sessions., discussions and playing in the class ensemble, but they will only conduct at the discretion of the tutors. The class will explore conducting techniques, score preparation, rehearsal and training skills. A CD and score library will be available for reference and special emphasis will be placed on extending knowledge the knowledge of repertoire at all levels. A video recorder will be sued to analyse technical requirements and development. The course will run concurrently with the Symphonic Wind Orchestra and there will be close liaison between the two. All participants should bring with them any instruments they play in order to accommodate ensemble work within the class.
All students are required to prepare their chosen repertoire thoroughly before and are invited to bring a score and set of parts to one work which they would wish to introduce to their colleagues
CONDUCTORS LIST A
Ellerby Paris Sketches Maecenas
Mozart Serenade in C Minor Barenreiter
Marshall L’Homme Armé Maecenas
Stravinsky Octet Boosey and Hawkes
CONDUCTORS LIST B
Bourgeois Metro Gnome Hafabra
Carroll Song of Lir Maecenas
Gorb Bridgewater Breeze Maecenas
Holst Marching Song Novello
Woolfenden Mockbeggar Variation Ariel
SYMPHONIC WIND ORCHESTRA
The Symphonic Wind Orchestra is designed for experienced amateurs and students to play and study significant repertoire for Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. Reference should also be made to the repertoire listed for the BASBWE Wind Band Conductors’ Course. A regular feature will be wind ensemble and chamber music playing. Some of the repertoire listed will be studied in depth, the remainder in repertoire sessions.
Applicants are asked to note any “doubling” instruments they play and can bring, (Cor Anglais, Alto or Bass Clarinet etc) on their application forms.
SYMPHONIC WIND ORCHESTRA - REPERTOIRE
Ball Omaggio Novello
Bingham Three American Icons Maecenas
Bourgeois Symphony for William Hafabra
Clark Samurai Maecenas
Grainger The Power of Rome Mills
Grainger Children’s March Schirmer
McAllister Pascha Maecenas
Nelson Rocky Point Holiday Boosey
McNeff The Winged Lion Maecenas
Sallinen The Palace Rhapsody Novello
Wood The Caldron Maecenas