Welcome to 
HAPPY NEW YEAR at last, but what happened to my home pages since last August?
Many apologies, but my webmaster was inundated with work, I was travelling in Spain and the USA but we have now made contact and plan to get this out for February 1st.
My best man and best mate, Guy Woolfenden, would have been 80 this year so do consider programming a piece by other than Gallimaufry or Illyrian Dances.
Wherever you are, whatever the month and the weather, it is always time to start thinking of repertoire for next season, and so I am completing my survey of Felix Hauswirth’s masterly book of repertoire ideas, with a ramble from N – Z. This home Page is full of other repertoire ideas, usually with links to Youtube. Good hunting, and have a very good year.
Tim
MY CONCERTS LAST FALL
WORLESTON CHAMBER CONCERT OF DECTETS
Sunday October 23 near Nantwich,
Programme includes Gounod, Raff and
Guy Woolfenden Serenade for Sophia
Sunday 6th November BILBAO MUNICIPAL BANDA
1200 midday at Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao
Holst Suite no 1
Jackson Passacaglia
Woolfenden Gallimaufry
Hesketh Vranjanka
Gorb Yiddish Dances
Alarcon La Lira de Pozuela
USA TOUR
I feel I must check on the State of the Nation after the impending election, so once again I shall be going West, even though sadly no longer young. Hope to see you all at the Midwest or at a concert somewhere:
Nov 11 – 15 Cleveland State University
Nov 15 – 21 University of Kentucky at Lexington
Nov 21 – 30 University of Southern Florida Tampa
Nov 30 – Dec 6 University of Louisville
Dec 12 – 17 Mid West Clinic
Repertoire will include (Links below to performances)
Jess Turner Through the Looking Glass Cleveland
Luis Serrano Alarcon Duende Cleveland
Christopher Theofanidis The Here and Now Kentucky
Timothy Jackson Passacaglia Kentucky
Guy Woolfenden Gallimaufry Southern Florida
Adam Gorb Yiddish Dances Louisville
Guy Woolfenden Illyrian Dances Mid-West
1000 PLUS AUSGEWÄHLTE WERKE FÜR BLASORCHESTER UND BLÄSERENSEMBLES
1000 PLUS SELECTED WORKS FOR WIND ORCHESTRA AND WIND ENSEMBLES
1000 PLUS OEVRES CHOISIESPOUR ORCHESTRA A VENT ET ENSEMBLES A VENT
1551 – 2009
Here is a book which every library, every conductor and wind ensemble director, and most players should have in their library, the latest 8th update by Felix Hauswirth to his masterly reference directory to repertoire. It is available in hard copy or on line from:
http://www.ffmusicians.com/suche/?suche=hauswirth&x=0&y=0
or from Jeff Girard instrumental@midwestsheetmusic.com
It’s a little late for 2016 but good for 2017
TWO NEW WORKS FOR YOUR CHRISTMAS CONCERT
from Maecenas www.maecenasmusic.co.uk/
Christmas Extravaganza by Malcolm Binney
A New Christmas Festival for Wind Orchestra
A Garland of Carols by Chris Holmes
Three Symphonic Carols for Band
TWO IMPORTANT CENTENARIES IN 2017 and TWO IMPORTANT WORKS FOR WIND
JOHN ANTHONY BURGESS WILSON
25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993)
Better known as the author Anthony Burgess,
I wish people would think of me as a musician who writes novels, instead of a novelist who writes music on the side.–Anthony Burgess
1987 Mr. Burgess’s Almanac
2fl.2ob.2cl.2bn. – 1hn.1trp.- timp. 2perc. piano.
JOHN GARDNER
2nd March 1917 - 12th December 2011.
1977 Op.139 English Dance Suite 1977 OUP (hire)
"One of the best composers Britain has produced in the past century." (Martin Anderson, The Independent)
Published by OUP
Picc.2fl.2ob.Ebcl.3Bbcl.Ebacl.bcl.Ebcbcl.2asax.tsax.bsax.2bn. 4hn.3tpt.3corn.3tbn. euph.tba-timp.3-5perc-cb 23 minutes
www.johnlintongardner.co.uk/
WIND MASTERPIECES
CONCERTO FOR PIANO AND WIND ORCHESTRA
SEXTET FOR PIANO AND WIND QUINTET
TRIO FOR CLARINET, VIOLA AND PIANO
TRIO FOR FLUTE, VIOLA AND HARP
PUBLISHED BY
Donemus (Foundation / Publishing)Rijswijkseplein 7862516 LX The HaguePhone: +31 (0) 70 2500 786
Email: info@donemus.nl
LEO SMIT 1900 - 1943
APOLOGIES to CARINE ALDERS, Leo Smit Stichting
I was so excited writing about Smit’s two wind works in my last web home page that I never checked for mistakes, and so need to apologise to the Leo Smit foundation; their co-odinator writes:
Dear Mr. Reynish,
I was very happy to see your August homepage devoted to Leo Smit and Dick Kattenburg! It may interest you to know that we are working on an online catalogue of more than 35 suppressed composers living and working in the Netherlands. The English language website will include biographies, sound samples, links to published works and links to manuscripts. I send out a monthly newsletter on our concerts, but this is in Dutch. To stay informed, I would advise you to follow us on facebook: www.facebook.org/LeoSmitStichting. Most of the posts are in English.
May I draw your attention to some unfortunate typo’s in your homepage? In the title you have renamed Dick Kattenburg under the name of Dick Ketting and further down in the article his name is misspelled as KattenbErg instead of KattenbUrg.
If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me!
Best wishes,
Carine Alders
zakelijk coördinator Leo Smit Stichting
p/a Berkenweg 36
3818 LB Amersfoort
020-4227001 / 033-4613186
06-14665918
twitter @LeoSmitSticht
www.facebook.com/LeoSmitStichting
Contact Carine for information about these composers
OTHER ANNIVERSARIES LAST YEAR AND THIS
2016
Michael Ball born 1946
Sir Richard Rodney Bennett 1936 - 2012
Philip Grange born 1956
Derek Healey born 1936
Joseph Horovitz born 1926
Tristan Keuris 1946-1996
Christopher Marshall born 1956
Colin Matthews born 1946
Marcel Wengler born 1946
2017
David Bedford 1937 – 2011
Anthony Burgess 1917 - 1993
Gordon Crosse born 1937
Martin Ellerby born 1957
John Gardner 1917 - 2011
David Del Tredici born 1937
Guy Woolfenden 1937 – 2016
POUL RUDERS
Koncerthuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
DR SymfoniOrkestret
Paul Meyer, conductor
Bartok Hall, Debrecen, Hungary 8th July 2014
Nanset Wind Ensemble, conductor Odd Terje Lysebo
Orchestration 4(pic).4(ca).4(2bcl.cbcl).4(cbn)/6441/timp.3perc/hp.pf
Duration 20 minutes Published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen/Music Sales
Tim Reynish writes:
I have now listened a couple of times to a rehearsal recording of this work; I must agree with Odd Terje Lysebo, that this is an especially fine piece, worthy to stand alongside the Stravinsky Symphonies of Wind Instruments, Magnus Lindberg Gran Duo and Skrowaczewski Music for Wind. Odd writes that he is conducting at the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Lisbon in 2017 – WHAT A PROGRAMME!
Skrowaczewski Music for Wind and Brass
Ruders Sonatas
Lindberg Gran Duo
The composer writes:
The present suite SONATAS is a composition subtitled ´six pieces of music for large wind ensemble, percussion, piano and harp´. It opens with a REVEILLE, a short ´wake-up call´, a fanfare opening the gate into what follows. The second movement is called PASTORALE and certainly is that, a peaceful unfolding of gentle chords and sounds of a bucolic nature. Nothing dramatic happens, whereas in the third movement SCHERZO the woodwinds chase each other in a wild relay run. Then, all of a sudden, the mood changes, and we are plunged right into the middle of the darkest night. In the NOCTURNE, unnervingly subtitled sinistro, the low rumbling chords in the trombones and prickly outbursts in oboes and horns form the sinister backdrop to this wordless Grand Guignol. Which merges seamlessly into PANORAMA, an unfolding festive, almost pageant like ´sound-scape´of dancing rhytms and jubilant scales. Slowly, however, the tempo drops and the former boisterous body of sound is being slowly and mercilessly ´skeletonized´ - and at the end there is nothing left. RETRAITE - "the last post". The day is over, the sun sets.
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