Click on the links above for BASBWE, CBDNA, WASBE and NBA websites

TIM REYNISH WEBSITE

HOMEPAGE APRIL FOOLS DAY 2008

Greetings for ALL FOOLS DAY.

STOP PRESS 1      MAECENAS MUSIC & CANFORD SUMMER SCHOOL have re-located to

PO Box 629

Godstone

RH9 8WQ

tel: 01342 893963

fax: 01342 893977

STOP PRESS 2      CLOSING DATE JULY 5th

Frank Ticheli 2nd International Composition Contest (www.Contest.FrankTicheli.com).

YOUTUBE

Many thanks to Mark Heron for making a video of the concert at Manchester Cathedral by Chethams Wind Orchestras. The performance of Timothy Jackson’s Passacaglia has been posted on YouTube and can be viewed by going to www.BASBWE.org or by browsing on:

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/jackson-passacaglia-reynish/1809936074

INTRODUCTION TO HOMEPAGE INDEX

My web-master Mike Grieff pointed out that we have been developing this site for nearly four years and have amassed a vast amount of information. As I said in my last Hompage, we are attracting over 7,000 unique hits each month, but various browsers have written in saying how baffled they are by the organisation of topics,  or rather the lack of it. So below is an attempt to throw light on the Homepages and INDEX those since September 2005; the first year of homepages, 2004 – 2005,  are catalogued month by month under HP Archive.We hope you will find this useful to supplement the listing of main topics which appears on the left of each Homepage. Happy Browsing.

PROGRAMMING THIS SPRING

I am lucky to be celebrating Spring in 2008 with concerts at the one of the leading specialist music schools in the world, the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales (especially in this year of the welsh Grand Slam), one of the world’s leading military concert bands, one of the top amateur wind ensembles and finally one of the leading Conservatoire wind ensembles. The programmes are listed below.

CONDUCTING COURSE

There are still a few vacancies at the Canford/BASBWE International conducting course. For more information follow the BASBWE link above or look at www.canfordsummerschool.co.uk

NEW PUBLICATION FROM GUY WOOLFENDEN

Newly out from Ariel is Guy’s DIVERTIMENTO, written for Birmingham Symphonic Winds at WASBE 2007 and available on CD from Mark Custom records on 7221-MCD, score and information from www.arielmusic.co.uk

NEW PUBLICATION FROM JAMES SYLER

In response to a commission from twenty leading USA Universities, James Syler has written an ingenious and fascinating minimalist work called Tattoo in which the wind orchestra divides into two, woodwind and percussion who repeat fragments rhythmically though not together, and brass who play more controlled chords and fragments underneath this minimalist kaleidoscope.  Lasting about eight minutes, this is a great work to introduce your players to the aleatoric world  of Steve Reich and his colleagues. Highly recommended - more information from www.JamesSyler@aol.com

PROGRAMMES

CHETHAMS SCHOOL WIND ORCHESTRAS

15th  March Manchester Cathedral

Gorb – Sunrise and Safari

Gorb – Eine Kleine Yiddische Ragmusik

Connor – Tails aus dem Vood Viennoise

Interval

Masque – Hesketh

Passacaglia - Jackson

Euphonium Concerto - Wilby

Dances from Crete – Gorb

NATIONAL YOUTH WIND ORCHESTRA OF WALES

5th and

6th April University of Wales at Cardiff

 

Gorb - Awayday                      

Strens - Danse Funambulesque 

Jackson - Passacaglia                 

Ball - Saxophone Concerto      soloist Lara James

 Interval

Gorb - Farewell                     

Grainger - Marching Song of Democracy 

Hesketh - Vranjanka  

STAFF BAND OF THE NORWEGIAN ARMED FORCES

18th April  Oslo

SONG & DANCE

Holst - Marching Song

Woolfenden - Illyrian Dances

Jackson - Passacaglia

Grainger - Marching Song of Democracy

Interval

Hesketh - Masque

Tomlinson - Suite of English Dances

Gorb - Dances from Crete

Sunde - CharM    

PHILHARMONIC WINDS of Singapore

15th June Singapore

Hesketh – Vranjanka

Del Tredici – In Wartime

Marshall – U Trau

Interval

Aloncon – Concertango

Goh – New Work

Gorb – Dances from Crete

ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ENSEMBLE

1st July Manchester

Oliva – Torso

Marshall – Resonance

Gorb – Farewell

Interval

Messiaen – Et Exspecto Resurectionem Mortuorum

ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ENSEMBLE

7th July Tewkesbury Abbey

Messiaen – Et Exspecto Resurectionem Mortuorum

ARTICLES

British Wind Music 1981 – 2008                                                      March 2008

Creating a repertoire – 90 Commissions                                           August 2006

Irish Wind Band repertoire                                                         September 2006

Japanese Music – a brief overview                                              December 2006

Music at Kneller Hall                                                                  December 2006

Performing Practice – a guide to better performance                              July 2006

Please Conduct, Don’t Talk by David McCormick                        February 2007

Simon Rattle in Interview                                                                      July 2006

Tim Reynish Interview for Classical Music                                      October 2005

Taming the Decibels                                                                              July 2006

COMMMISSIONS

William Reynish Memorial Commissions                         February & March 2008            

COMPACT DISC NEWS

Band of HM Royal Marines – Nigel Clarke                                   February 2008

Band of HM Royal Marines - Diversions                                       February 2007

Band of US Marines “President’s Own”                                                July 2007

Bazelon Midnight Music featured                                                   October 2007

Gotham Winds Symphony                                                                   April 2007

International Repertoire Discs                                                               July 2007

Killarney CDs available from Mark Custom                                December 2007

Philharmonic Winds of Salzburg                                                            July 2007

Royal Norwegian Navy Band                                                               July 2007

State Opera Orchestra Stuttgart in Opera arrangements                       April 2007

University of Kentucky                                                                        April 2007

COMPETITION NEWS

British Academy 2006 Award to Andy Scott                              December 2006

British Academy 2007 Award to Edwin Roxburgh                      December 2007

Fennell Prize to Tommasini                                                          December 2006

Lambersart Award                                                                     December 2006

Manhattan Beach Award                                                            December 2006

NBA 2007 Winners                                                                     February 2008

Norwegian Wind Band Federation                                                      April 2007

Tokyo Kosei Competition                                                                     July 2007

COMPOSERS NEWS

Aagaard-Nilesen,Torstein                                                              October 2007

Aloncon, Luis Serrano                                                                December 2007

Becker, Sam                                                                                February 2008

Bourgeois, Derek                                                     June 2006 & February 2008

Brubeck, Chris                                                         June 2006 & October 2007

Camphouse, Mark                                                                        February 2008

Carroll, Fergal                                                                                     June 2006

Chaitkin, David                                                                              October 2007

Clarke, Nigel                                                                                February 2008

Danielpour, Richard                                                                       October 2007

De Haan, Jacob                                                                            February 2008

Del Tredici, David                                                                         October 2007

Gorb, Adam                                                                                 February 2008

Hagen, Daron                                                                                     April 2006

Hesketh, Kenneth                                                    June 2006 & February 2008

Horne, David                                                                                        July 2006

Jackson, Timothy                                            December 2007 & February 2008

Jacob, Gordon                                                                              October 2007

Lindberg, Christian                                                                        October 2007

Lindberg, Magnus                                                                          October 2007

Mackey, John                                                                                   Spring 2006

McNeff, Stephen                                                                        December 2007

Messiaen, Olivier                                                                          February 2008

Osman, Leroy                                                            January 2006 & June 2006

Pütz, Marco                                                                                 February 2007

Roxburgh, Edwin                                                    July 2006 & December 2007

Sallinen, Aulis                                                                                October 2007

Shostakovich, Dmitri                                                                   December 2007

Swerts, Piet                                                                                    January 2007

Ticheli, David                                                                               February 2008

Turrin, Joseph                                                 December 2006 & February 2008

Wilson, Dana                                                         June 2006 & December 2006

Woolfenden, Guy                                                                            January 2007

Zabel, Frank                                                                              September 2005

CONDUCTING COURSES

Canford, Interlaken & USA                                           February & March 2008

NEWS

Mozart Gran Partita Score on line                                                 February 2008

Skalkottas Concerto for Violin & Viola                                       December 2007

Websites of British Conductors and Composers                         September 2007

PREMIERES

Chaitkin premiere of Celebration                                                           July 2007

Gorb premiere of Midnight in Buenos Aires                                  December 2007

Husa premiere of Cheetah                                                                     July 2007

Leitner Concerto for Double Bass                                                         July 2007

Moncho Premiere of Tango Band                                               December 2007

Rouse premiere of Wolf Rounds                                                           July 2007

PUBLISHERS NEWS

David Whitwell publications                                                              March 2008

Maecenas launch Accolade Series                                                February 2007

Maecenas launch Genesis Series                                                 December 2005

Maecenas to release Chris Colman’s Jazz Funeral                       December 2007

New publisher on line www.editiondb.com                                  December 2007

Stormworks nominated my Publisher of Year                              December 2007

REPERTOIRE & PROGRAMMING

Band of HM Royal Marines                                                          February 2007

BASBWE Glasgow Conference 2007 Reviewed                              August 2007

CBDNA Conference 2007 Ann Arbor Reviewed                             August 2007

CBDNA Nashville Regional Conference                                             April 2006

Change of Pace, slower reflective music                                     September 2007

Elder Conservatoire, Adelaide , programming                                    August 2006

Guildhall School of Music & Drama                                               October 2005

International Conference 1981 reviewed                                           August 2006

IthacaCollege                                                                                      May 2006

L’Homme Armé – rehearsal problems tackled                             December 2006

National Youth Wind Ensemble                                                  September 2007

New Music from MIT, New England                                          September 2005

Not a core repertoire List                                                                     July 2006

Premieres 2005 – 2007                                                                   August 2007

Repertoire in Larvik , Norway                                                           August 2006

Repertoire in Singapore , Slovenia and Switzerland                             August 2006

Royal Northern College of Music                                                          May 2006

School Band Recommended repertoire                                            August 2007

Selective List for National Band Asssociation                                    March 2008

Trumpet Concertos                                                                     December 2006

US Marines Band                                  April 2006, June 2006 & February 2007

WASBE Germany Conference 2007 Reviewed                                August 2007

WASBE Killarney Conference 2007 Reviewed                                August 2007

You Cannot be Serious – a review of “serious repertoire”                      July 2006