HOME PAGE: JAN 2006

A very happy, prosperous and musical New Year to anyone who browses on this web site. I hope that you can find something interesting and useful. If you want to make any comment, add an article, or if I can help with any information, please contact me on timreynish@tiscali.co.uk

2005 will be a year remembered for some terrible reasons – the continuing conflict in Iraq, the Tsunami, earthquakes round the globe, Katrina and other natural catastrophes in USA, Cuba and elsewhere, as well of course the man-made and hence preventable disasters in the Middle East, in Africa, in London and elsewhere. Let us hope that 2006 is a year of peace, progress and celebration.

Tim Reynish

INDEX

STOP PRESS !!

The Composer, Ryan Fraley, has given me permission to post a link to his site; you can download his Three Warm-up Chorales for Band  by following this URL:

http://www.ryanfraley.com/3chorales.htm

Three Warm—up Chorales for Band

Concert Band • Grade 3

I. Intonation

II. Balance

III. Expression

Three warm—up chorales designed to facilitate a quick but thorough ensemble warm—up. Each chorale is written to provide idiomatic opportunities to focus on intonation, balance, and expression respectively. The source material comes from three popular melodies from Percy Grainger, reharmonized.

The chorales were commissioned by Phi Mu Alpha's Ball State University chapter to honor Dr. Joe Scagnoli's retirement in 2005. They are available to download and print for free courtesy of Phi Mu Alpha.

ESSENTIAL DATES

2006: 29 APRIL Make a date with the European premiere of Bandanna

Conductor Mark Heron

2006: 1 – 4 NOVEMBER WASBE SOUTH AMERICA CONFERENCE CORDOBA vicom@onenet.com.ar

2007: 3-4 MARCH GERMAN WIND FORUM, STUTTGART ACADEMY

2007: 28 – 31 MARCH CBDNA National Conference, University of Michigan

2007: 8-14 JULY WASBE CONFERENCE IN KILLARNEY

FIVE BIRTHDAY GREETINGS FOR 2006

100 YEARS Elizabeth Lutyens

85 YEARS Karel Husa

80 YEARS Joseph Horovitz

70 YEARS Richard Rodney Bennett

60 YEARS Michael Ball

There is an excellent article on the works of Karel Husa in the current Newsletter of WASBE which can be accessed by members.

I have revised my own article on Richard Rodney Bennett on this website under Composers, but later this year Evan Feldman’s excellent assessment will be published in The Composers’ Insight Volume three edited by Timothy Salzman.

(More information on Elizabeth Lutyens, Joseph Horovitz and Michael Ball in February updates).

TWO EUROPEAN CONDUCTING SCHOOLS

CANFORD SUMMER SCHOOL WIND BAND CONDUCTING COURSE England, 6 – 13 August 2006

JUNGFRAU MUSIC FESTIVAL Switzerland, Masterclass for Conductors Interlaken July 10 – 15 July 2006

TWO ESSENTIAL BOOKS FOR YOUR LIBRARY

AN ANNOTATED GUIDE TO WIND CHAMBER MUSIC Rodney Winther, 

published by Donald Hunsberger Wind Library 2004, Warner Bros

BEST MUSIC FOR CHORUS AND WIND Keith Kinder, published by Manhattan Beach Music 2005, edited Bob Margolis

NEW FILES FOR JANUARY

CHAMBER MUSIC – WORKS FOR DOUBLE WIND QUINTET

COMPOSERS – RICHARD RODNEY BENNETT REVISED

COMPOSERS – INTERVIEW WITH CHRIS MARSHALL

CONFERENCE REVIEWS - BASBWE 2001

CONFERENCE REVIEWS – BASBWE 2005

CONFERENCE REVIEWS - CBDNA 2001

PROGRAMME NOTES ON OVER ONE HUNDRED LESSER KNOWN WORKS

CONCERTOS REVISED

CONCERTOS FOR CLARINET

DANCE MUSIC

ARTICLE - YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS !

REPERTOIRE - TROMBONE & WIND ORCHESTRA or ENSEMBLE

COMPOSERS - INTERVIEW WITH GORDON JACOB

COMPOSERS - FIVE DUTCH COMPOSERS

PREMIERES

Our series in memory of William Reynish has five commissions to be premiered in the forthcoming year:

Resonances by Christopher Marshall Ithaca College, 27th April

Oboe Concerto by Edwin Roxburgh RNCM, 27th June

New work for mezzo soprano and ensemble by Stephen McNeff, to be programmed

New work by Christopher Painter, to be programmed

Trumpet Concerto by Marco Pütz, to be programmed

Tim Reynish conducts the US premieres of two other works in the series in 2006. The US premiere of Vranjanka by Kenneth Hesketh, premiered by the Guildhall School of Music and Drama Wind Orchestra at BASBWE, will be at the CBDNA Southern region Conference at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 25th February.

Michael Berkeley’s Slow Dawn will receive its US premiere at Ithaca College on 27th April.

BALLET FOR MEXICO

Leroy Osmon, leroy_osmon@yahoo.com writes:

I have finished work on a new ballet with symphonic band accompaniment. The work was composed for the State Band of Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico (the finest symphonic band in the country) and will be performed on April 17 and 25, 2006.

I am hoping that perhaps some of you might be interested in a performance of the work or know someone that might be. It would be a work that could be done in conjunction with the dance department of a university or a professional dance company outside the university setting. At this time the score is complete, however, parts will not be finished until sometime in December of 2005. (Unless I receive a grant from the American Music Center they will remain in manuscript, although I do have a 'better than average' manuscript, a performance from manuscript might be a concern to some of you).

The ballet is titled "The Garden of Earthly Delights" and is drawn from the work by H. Bosch, dating 1504, of the same name. There is an introduction followed by 3 acts that are each divided into 4 scenes. (Individual movement titles are listed below.) In addition there is a short Interlude between the 2 and 3 acts. This makes a total of 14 sections or 'movements'. The total performance time is approximately 58 minutes. The work is a grade 5+ and is scored for standard symphonic band instrumentation.

NEW WORK BY CHRISTOPHER MARSHALL

The wind ensemble from the prestigious Senzoku Gakuen College premiered Okaoka in the 12th WASBE conference in Singapore in July. Okaoka was commissioned by Jim Cochran of Shattinger Music and Cort McClaren of C. Alan Publications which publishes this piece. Its website is www.c-alanpublications.com

NEW WORKS BY BRITISH COMPOSERS for 2006

Pantheon by Jacques Cohen, commissioned by the National Youth Wind Ensemble of Great Britain, will be premiered April 2006, conducted by Phillip Scott

Joseph Phibbs,, whose Cantata Rainland was premiered at the Royal Albert Hall last year, is also writing a new work for the Ensemble.

A new work has been commissioned from Joe Duddell by The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines, Portsmouth

Adam Gorb is writing two works for the US Academy Airforce Band, to be premiered in February 2006 and in 2007.

Paul Patterson has been commissioned to write a new work for Cornwall by Janet Elston

JAZZ

EVOLUTION OF JAZZ IN BRITAIN 1880-1935

Catherine Parsonage has written the definitive history of jazz in Britain. And it's a great story! Having lived for many years in an American jazz cocoon, I was continually amazed by the multiple responses to the music in the British Isles. And Parsonage's compelling narrative makes it all the more vivid.

Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature

State University of New York

For further details please see

http://www.jazzevolution.org.uk

or

http://www.ashgate.com

BRAZIL

News of the premiere and publication of Vicente Moncho’s piece for solo Saxophone, Brass and Percussion which was premiered in Tatui last November (one year ago) with Brass and Percussion of the Orquestra de Sopros Brasileira, playing Dale Underwood and conducted by Dwight Satterwhite. "Music with a touch of Tango" is being published by Stormworks-Europe.