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Tim Reynish                                                                                                  *** Canford Summer School 2006 ***

2331 James Whalen Centre for Music

Ithaca College, School of Music

Ithaca, NY 14850

Tel 607 274 7919

timreynish@tiscali.co.uk

CELEBRATING BASBWE 2006 QUARTER OF A CENTURY OF ACHIEVEMENT

… the more we encourage composers to use the wind ensemble, the better it's going to be, particularly with the generation of wind players that’s out there now

    Sir Simon Rattle

    President of BASBWE

Is there a future for wind music? Two transatlantic events coming up this Spring make me optimistic about the way we are going, while in the Fall we in the UK will celebrate quarter of a century of BASBWE in a series of regional conferences….new works, new venues – have a good year.

Sunday, March 19, 2006, 2:00pm

Strathmore Centre

Leonard Slatkin conducts

“The President’s Own” Marine Band

Anna Marie Mottola, piano

BACH/Krance: Sinfonia from Cantata No. 29

BACH/Reed: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring from Cantata No. 147

BACH/Stokowski: Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor

PROKOFIEV/Patterson: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26

CORIGLIANO: Circus Maximus

COMPOSER AND EUROPEAN PREMIERE OF SPRING 2006

DARON HAGEN

Daron Hagen is one of the most sought after composing talents in the USA today. If you follow the link above to his website, you can hear clips from concertos, opera, choral and song. These include Susurrus, commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington and premiered under Leonard Slatkin in 2003, and the equally ravishing Romeo and Juliet for Flute, Cello and Orchestra but sadly none from any of his fine wind works.

Works for and with wind ensemble / band

• Sennets, Cortege, and Tuckets (1990)

• Concerto for Flügelhorn and Wind Ensemble (1994)

• Concerto for Cello and Wind Orchestra (1998)

• Night, Again (1998)

• Forward! for brass and percussion (1999)

• Bandanna Overture (1999)

• Wedding Dances from Bandanna (2000)

• Prelude and Prayer from Bandanna (2000)

The two concertos alone contain wonderful evocative music, and it is exciting that the European premiere of Bandanna on 29th April will be followed by the release of the recording of the opera on Troy Records with the UNLV Opera Theatre Chorus and Wind Symphony, conducted by the composer. The commissioning of Bandanna by the CBDNA showed an extraordinary prescience; it was premiered at the CBDNA Conference in 1999 at the University of Austin, Texas, in 1999, conducted by Michael Haithcock, and it will be good to be able to re-appraise the work on disc. His next operatic commission is Amelia, scheduled for Seattle Opera in 2010, conducted by Gerald Schwarz.

TWO EUROPEAN WIND CONDUCTING SCHOOLS

CANFORD SUMMER SCHOOL WIND BAND CONDUCTING COURSE England, 6 – 13 August 2006 directed by Phillip Scott, Mick Dowrick & Tim Reynish

JUNGFRAU MUSIC FESTIVAL Switzerland, Masterclass for Conductors Interlaken July 10 – 15 July 2006 directed by Glenn Price

For American schools, go to CBDNA Home Page

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 2006

National Flute Association Annual Convention, Pittsburg, 10 –13 August

International Double Reed Society,  Ball State University USA , 25 –  29 July,

International Clarinet Association, Atlanta, Georgia, 9-13 August,

38^th Horn Symposium. Cape Town, South Africa, 21 – 29 July

International Trumpet Guild, Rowan University, Glassboro, 6 – 10 June

International Trombone Festival, Birmingham Conservatoire, 20-23 July

International Tuba & Euphonium, University of Denver, Colorado, 26 – 30 June

Percussive Arts Society International Convention  Austin Texas, 8 – 11 November

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES 2007

3 - 4 March 2nd GERMAN WIND FORUM 

STUTTGART STATE ACADEMY OF MUSIC

28 – 31 March CBDNA 2007 National Conference

Host, Michael Haithcock

Director of Bands

University of Michigan

School of Music

Ann Arbor, MI 48197

mlhaith@umich.edu

Phone: (734) 764-5588

Fax: (734) 763-5097

8 – 14 JULY WASBE CONFERENCE IN KILLARNEY

CONFERENCES IN UK 2006

International Trumpet Festival of Wales April 7 - 9

International Trombone Festival, July 20-23

BIRMINGHAM CONSERVATOIRE

The British Flute Society 5th International Convention  August 17 – 20

ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC, MANCHESTER

CELEBRATING BASBWE 2006

BASBWE REGIONAL CONFERENCES IN 2006 Contact for information

Yorkshire 13/14 October Huddersfield University Simeon Yates

London 15 October Guildhall Peter Gane

Midlands 5th November Birmingham Conservatoire Mark Heron

North West Warrington date & details to be confirmed Mark Heron

Wales date to be confirmed at RWCMD Mark Heron

Scotland date to be confirmed Mark Heron

ONE DAY BASBWE REGIONAL CONFERENCE Sunday October 15th

in the Guildhall School of Music and Drama & The Barbican

A one day feast of concerts, classes and clinics

Theme: THE WIND, BRASS AND PERCUSSION OF THE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA With a little help from the Saxophones

Trade Exhibition in the Guildhall School & Barbican

HEADLINE CONCERT IN THE BARBICAN

Joint Orchestras of Guildhall School of Music & Drama & Royal Academy of Music

Conductor Sir Colin Davis

CBDNA & NBA 2006 SOUTHERN REGIONAL CONFERENCE AT NASHVILLE

Fourteen concerts, a repertoire session from Jim Cochran of Shattinger and numerous clinics and discussions, this was a typically action-packed American conference. As guest conductor of the Intercollegiate Honors Band, I was unable to get to many of the concerts, but there were many performances to note. Former WASBE President Dennis Johnson conducted an international programme from USA, England, Italy, China and Israel. A former clarinet student from RNCM Helen Goode-Castro gave a great performance of Daugherty’s Brooklyn Bridge with the Vanderbilt ensemble conducted by host Tom Verrier, a more intimate performance than the premiere at Carnegie Hall More Daugherty from Memphis conducted by Kraig Williams, an oboe concerto Firecracker, programmed with Profanation by Bernstein in a fine transcription by Bencriscutto and the equally fine arrangement by Mark Spede of a movement by Hindemith.

The great Bobby Adams bought 108 students from Stetson and gave us an object lesson in control of dynamics and tone in Strauss, Graham and Maslanka, the quietest and loudest band of the conference but with never any loss of quality. This was followed by equally fine playing from University of Kentucky with two busy and for me over-excited pieces, Scott Lindroth’s Spin Cycle, and a world premiere of John Mackey’s Turbine, an evocation of an aeroplane trip. The work I especially enjoyed was David Maslanka’s Desert Roads for solo clarinet, the excellent Scott Wright, and small ensemble, touchingly beautiful. The last University group I heard was East Carolina under Scott Carter and Chris Knighten who gave a nicely balanced programme of Stravinsky’s Circus Polka, Grainger’s Bell Piece, Daugherty’s Bells for Stokowski and a witty quasi- jazzy work by Britt Theurer called Animal Rights. I was sad to miss all of the school band concerts, and also FSU under Pat Dunnigan, playing Karel Husa’s Music for Prague 1968, as well as Georgia State and University of North Carolina. For full programmes, go to the CBDNA website.

My own programme was made up of three symphonic works and a bluesy serial concerto movement as a tribute to Richard Rodney Bennett’s 70th birthday. Programme notes are in the programme notes file.

ITHACA WIND ENSEMBLE 27th APRIL 2006

ITHACA SYMPHONIC BAND 25th APRIL 2006

Soloist Frank Campos

Associate Conductor Dominic Hartjes

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