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!! STOP PRESS - 21st May 2008 !!

A rare chance to hear:

Corigliano – Circus Maximus: Symphony No. 3 for large wind ensemble

Played by University of Texas Wind Ensemble conductor Jerry Junkin on their July European Tour.

July 9 Wed - Interlaken , Switzerland 20:00 Concert - Jungfrau Festival,

http://www.jungfrau-music-festival.ch/mainframe.htm

July 12 Sat – Schladming , Austria 18:30 Concert, Mid-Europe Festival, Schladming

http://www.mideurope.at/index-en.htm

July 13 Sun – London , England 19:00 Concert in London ’s Cadogan Hall

http://www.cadoganhall.com

July 16 Wed - Wiltz , Luxembourg 20:45 Concert - Wiltz Open Air Music Festival

http://festivalwiltz.lu/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/accueil&lg=en

July 18 Fri – Spain ( Valencia ) 20:00 Concert, Valencia Palau de la Musica,

http://www.palaudevalencia.com

July 21 Mon – Spain ( Madrid ) 22:00 Concert – Festival Veranos de la Villa 2008

http://www.esmadrid.com/es/portal.do?IDR=622&TR=C&IDM=25&NM=1

HOMEPAGE FOR 20 MAY 2008

Spring is sprung,

De grass is riz

I wonder where dem birdies is…..

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ADAM GORB ON YOUTUBE

This Spring, I had the privilege of conducting some great programmes with fine ensembles in Manchester , Cardiff and Oslo ; in Manchester Cathedral, Adam Gorb and I celebrated our significant birthdays with over one hundred students from Chethams School and local authorities, taking it in turns to play. Mark Heron has posted our birthday performances from Manchester Cathedral with the Chethams School Wind Orchestras of Adam’s exciting Dances from Crete and Tim Jackson’s superb Passacaglia on YouTube – here is one link

http://video.aol.com/video-detail/gorb-dances-from-crete-part-1-of-3-reynish/97734421

ADAM GORB’S FAREWELL

In Cardiff the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales tackled a tough programme featuring Adam Gorb ’s searingly tragic new work, Farewell, programme note and review below.

SUPERB ARTISTRY IN OSLO SONG AND DANCE

In Oslo I spent a wonderful five days making music in a much lighter programme with what is one of the best professional band in the world, the Band of the Norwegian Defence Force. They rehearse and give concerts in a magnificent concert hall, purpose-built for them, and many of their past directors have been string players, resulting in a flexibility of phrasing, an awareness of b alan ce and a natural feel for ensemble second to none. A good friend Arild Andersen attended my concert in Oslo, wrote a few notes on each work, and my wife is convinced that this is a way forward for us all, short notes rather than the wordy screeds which I usually indulge in, so apart from my thoughts on Adam Gorb ’s new piece, I shall follow Arild’s lead in talking about the Welsh programme; browse the following link for my REVIEW

YOU READ IT HERE FIRST

Certainly, my passion for wind ensemble music is on the wing, helped by two major new initiatives from Kentucky and one from CBDNA webmaster Stuart Sims. In the homepage musings in the past few months, I idly wondered whether the wind orchestra fraternity was making best use of the world wide website, especially of video and recordings, and I also returned to my hobby horse of some enthusiastic grad student starting up a wind equivalent of Daniel’s book on Orchestral Repertoire. Both are happening. Browse above on Wind Repertory Project to find an amazing initiative by Nikk Pilato of University of Louisville , while the Wind Band FM link will take you to the other end of Kentucky to a 24 hour a day programme of – wind music, put out by Travis Miller. I cannot claim to have discovered these two incredible sites, they were brought to my attention by Stuart Sims whose CBDNA blog carried a fascinating series of web contacts. Browse above for hours of wind music and information.

MAY INDEX

Building a Wind Repertoire Database

Concertos for Horn and Wind Ensemble

National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales

Premiere of Farewell & Programme Note

Professional Wind Ensembles in Norway

Review by Arild Andersen of Song and Dance Programme in Oslo

Wind Music on Radio 24/7 & PURCHASE OVER 400 CDs ONLINE

INDEX for Homepages

NEWS IN BRIEF

1 Francis Pieters’ magnificent biography of Désiré Dondeyne is published by Editions Robert Martin and Editions HaFaBra, price 45 euros

2 Ed Quick writes below about the performance of John Corigliano’s Circus Maximus by the Detroit Symphony under Leonard Slatkin with members of the University of Michigan .

3 Guy Woolfenden conducted the premiere of his latest work, Reflections, with the Oxford Sinfonia Wind Ensemble on 26^th April

4 Matthew George conducted world premieres of Deserts by Philip Sparke and Out of Nowhere by Rolf Rudin together with the Mass by Martin Ellerby at CBDNA North Central Division Conference.

5 Goh Toh Chai’s most recent work Symphonie Bombastique, will be premiered by the Philharmonic Winds, Singapore , on 15^th June.

6 Russell Hammond writes from Sydney about his new Optimo Software Website which can be found on www.optimosoftware.com

ED QUICK WRITES

Last weekend I had the great pleasure to hear a monumental work by John Corigliano, his Symphony #3 "Circus Maximus". If you have the opportunity to hear a performance of this powerful, dramatic work for band, you must do so.

The circumstances of the performance I heard in Detroit , Michigan are unique. This performance was not at a university band concert. Rather, it was the final work on a concert given by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra that also included Berlioz "Roman Carnival Overture" and Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony #4! Members of the University of Michigan Symphony Band joined the wind and percussion section of the Detroit Symphony. The concert was led by none other than Leonard Slatkin, the DSO's new conductor designate. The concert hall was full and the audience response was very enthusiastic with a long standing ovation at the conclusion of the Corigliano work.

Those of us who work with and love bands know that there is a huge body of fine original compositions. It was so good to see a major work for band be considered as an important piece worthy of performance by a major symphony orchestra. Let's hope that more of this sort of collaboration becomes more frequent.

Ed Quick
Retired Director of Bands, Detroit School of Arts
Director, Detroit Civic Wind Ensemble

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CONCERTOS FOR HORN AND WIND ENSEMBLE

Some time ago I wrote in a forgotten Homepage after the Eastman Symposium:

It used to be as hard to find works for horn and wind ensemble as London busses, but suddenly five have come along, almost all together; Dana Wilson’s Concerto for Horn and Wind Ensemble is a virtuoso work which exploits every facet of the horn but yet keeps in touch with the audience. It was given a terrific performance by Gail Williams who had premiered the orchestral version. The other works now available for horn solo include a Concerto by WASBE member Marco Pütz from Luxembourg, The Glass Bead Game by James Beckel, whose daughter I think must have been playing in the Cincinnati Wind Chamber Ensemble, Shindig by Dan Godfrey, at present a visiting professor at Eastman, and the Last Scenes for Solo Horn and Wind Ensemble by Verne Reynolds

Now there are a goodly few works for solo horn which are well worth exploring, from Martin Ellerby’s evocative romantic Summer Nights, in homage to Berlioz, to the magnificent though taxing concerti by Dana Wilson, Simon Wills and Oliver Waespi. Here is an interim listing; I would welcome additions and update material – I hope the links still work

Title	Composer	Source of material	Duration if known
Concerto	Makala, Kazamierz	Uni of Illinois	24.26
Concerto	Mercadante, arr	Molenaar
Concerto	Pütz, Marco	Bronsheim	9.31
Concerto	Waespi, Oliver
Concerto	Wilson, Dana	Ithaca College	18.52
Concerto	Wills, Simon	simon@wills-tribe.co.uk	16.41
Conversing with the Stars for 2 horns	Hau-Man, Lo	haumanlo@cuhk.edu.hk	10.51
Dimensions	Yermish, Howard	Howard Yermish
Glass Bead Game, The	Beckel, Jim	Jim Beckel	18.00
Innsbruck Concerto	Krol, Bernard
Last Scenes	Reynolds, Verne	Eastman	12.07
Sea Dreams for 2 horns	Maslanka, David	David Maslanka	31.22
Shindig	Godfrey, Dan	Carl Fischer	12.23
Summer Nights	Ellerby, Martin	Studio Music	16.01

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REPERTOIRE REVIEWS

As always, I feel that repertoire is the key to our development, but somehow we need to make sure that there is a record of our concerts. For instance, I have searched the web for reviews of the latest world premieres of works by Karel Husa, David Chaitkin, Christopher Rouse in the USA , by Nigel Clarke or Adam Gorb here in UK .

NORWAY

No press for the world premiere in Cardiff and Monmouth, no press either for the great concert in Oslo, so I am posting a review below, jotted down by conductor, flautist and music school principal, Arild Andersen, which will at least put on record the excellent performances by the Oslo group. We can only hope that such a fine group will make recordings, tour festivals, and take their place amongst the elite musical groups of Europe .

Norway is a major centre of amateur and professional wind music, and it is good to see on the internet that the professional Kristiansand Blåseensemble still flourishes. This ensemble is part of the Kristiansand Symfoniorkester, another fine professional group from Norway which I last conducted in 2004 in the following international programme. There is an excellent recording of unusual marches under their conductor, Bjorn Sagstad, called Over the Hills and Far Away.

November 11^th 2004 , KRISTIANSAND

Homage to Stravinsky Ole Schmidt Denmark

Versuche uber einen Marsch Marcel Wengler Luxembourg

Piano Concerto Igor Stravinsky Russia

Interval

L’Homme Armé Christopher Marshall New Zealand

CharM Helge Sunde Norway

Dances from Crete Adam Gorb United Kingdom

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WIND MUSIC ON RADIO 24 HOURS 7 DAYS A WEEK

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NATIONAL YOUTH WIND ORCHESTRA OF WALES

Composer Adam Gorb (50) greets conductor Tim Reynish (70) after the second performance of Adam’s new piece Farewell, venue University of Cardiff Music Department, Sunday 6^th April 2008 . The work was premiered by the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales at Monmouth School for Girls 5^th April.

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WIND REPERTORY PROJECT

Are you seeking programme notes and orchestrations? Not quite there yet, but Nikk Pilato is working on it. Look into WIND REPERTORY PROJECT.

Nikk writes:

The Wind Repertory Project™ is an attempt to create a comprehensive database of wind literature, expanded by contributions of selected band directors/conductors, students, and wind band enthusiasts worldwide. Here you will find detailed information on literature for winds, including program notes, instrumentation, errata, and much more. At this point we are still in infancy, adding new articles every day. We need your help in order to make this a truly invaluable resource for our profession. If you feel you can contribute information to The Wind Repertory Project™, please visit the FAQ first, then contact the webmaster.

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REVIEW Friday 18^th, Akershus Festning, Oslo

GUSTAV HOLST GUY WOOLFENDEN TIMOTHY JACKSON PERCY GRAINGER

REVIEW

Arild Andersen, conductor and flautist wrote this about the music:

Timothy Reynish visited Norway and the Staff band for a concert on Friday 18th April, in their new hall Ridehuset, located in Akershus Festning, Oslo . And what a great concert it was, I can´t remember last time I enjoyed listening for a band concert as much as I did this time. The sound and acoustics in the hall is great and it was a very interesting program too. They played in the first part:

Marching Song by Gustav Holst, nice to hear, not so much played in Norway I think.

Illyrian Dances by Guy Woolfenden, great piece, I need to do that one myself.

Passacaglia by Timothy Jackson, very interesting piece, original for 32 horns, ye that’s right, I will get that one at once, great sound in the wind band, and the last chord – OH YES!.

Marching Song of Democracy by Percy Grainger (not often played in concert either I think, needs to be done a lot more.

Intermission

Second part:

Masque by Kenneth Hesketh, a very colourful piece, fast, interesting writing, with a lot of things going one. More bands in Norway should do this one.

Suite of English Dances by Ernest Tomlinsen, new piece to me, great writing, effective use of the ensemble, very nice orchestrated for band.

Dances from Crete by Adam Gorb , is just great I think, and it looks like the musicians is loving it too. Very clever writing and nice to hear again.

Encore was CharM by Helge Sunde, one of the most interesting new marches in Norway today.

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KENNETH HESKETH ERNEST TOMLINSON ADAM GORB

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PROGRAMME NOTE AND REVIEW OF FAREWELL

Adam Gorb writes:

FAREWELL is a large-scale symphonic Adagio lasting about twenty minutes. In this piece I’ve decided to split the Wind Ensemble into two separate ‘orchestras’. The first ensemble consists of clarinets, saxophones, trumpets, trombones, euphoniums, tubas and harsh sounding percussion, and the music is predominantly desperate and anguished. The instruments in the second ‘orchestra’ are flutes, oboes, bass clarinet, bassoons, horns and more gentle percussion, and the mood is more calming and introspective.

At first the ensembles play exclusively from each other, but eventually they merge and reach a massive climax focusing on a chord of D minor. At this point, a third ‘ensemble’ is heard for the first time – the notes C and F# (which have not been played at all in the work so far). These notes are played ppppp and come to haunt the end of the work. The title refers to Haydn’s Farewell Symphony, but instead of all the players walking off leaving two instrumentalists to finish, here a solo oboe and clarinet step forward and quietly lament, while the rest of the band intone an eternal modus in diabilis.

Tim Reynish writes:

While Adam has scored enormous successes with his lighter works such as Yiddish Dances and Dances From Crete, Farewell represents a marked departure from his more populist works. This is stark tragedy – I talked to the National Youth Wind Orchestra of Wales about having recently seen a production of King Lear in Stratford, Ontario, performed with the passion of Grand Guignol, horridly realistic scenes of murder, (and I’ll swear it was real blood when they gouged out his eyes.) Musically Farewell is incredibly strong, the first part characterized by a series of sharply defined fragments which gradually climax together, giving place to a bleak ostinato on horns or bassoons under more lyrical phrases in solo woodwind. There is a brief flourish of activity, with virtuoso reminiscences of a Klezmer Band, a return to the bleakness before both elements, and orchestras, join in an incredible Mahlerian climax, followed by a coda. I believe that the work takes the wind orchestra on a journey of tragic dimensions, and that this is an important a statement in tragedy for the wind repertoire as his two sets of dances are in comedy.

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NATIONAL YOUTH WIND ORCHESTRA OF WALES

Saturday 5^th April, Monmouth School for Girls

Sunday 6^th April, University of Cardiff Concert Hall

Awayday Adam Gorb Maecenas

Danse Funambulesque Jules Strens HaFaBra

Passacaglia Timothy Jackson Maecenas

Concerto for Alto Saxophone Michael Ball Maecenas

Soloist Lara James

Interval

Farewell Adam Gorb

Marching Song of Democracy Percy Grainger Southern

Vranjanka Kenneth Hesketh Faber

I can do little more than report factually on the concert which fulfilled what I need from a programme, varied repertoire which poses four challenges, Emotional, Musical, Intellectual and Technical and which, though unfamiliar, sweeps the audience and players along on a journey of exploration. All too often we programme a transcription of orchestral music, a selection from a West End show, a couple of marches, just to sweeten the pill; our contemporaries in the Youth Symphony Orchestra admittedly have a larger repertoire base to build from, but can you imagine the European Youth Orchestra, or the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain playing Star Wars or Phantom of the Opera?

CARDIFF REVIEW

Awayday I commissioned as an easier alternative to Candide. It is more difficult, but excellent fun and very rewarding; the welsh came very close to mastering it.

Danse Funambulesque is a fine romantic work by Strens, dating from the twenties. Hints of Ravel and Holst, with a very exciting build-up. Now available in a new edition from HaFaBra

Passacaglia is a masterpiece at about Grade 4

Saxophone Concerto by Michael Ball is Grade 6 for soloist, Grade 4 for accompaniment, memories of Bartok and Walton – there is now a piano version.

Intermission

Farewell is a magnificent tragedy by Adam Gorb – it should be recoded

Marching Song of Democracy – we dedicated our performance to Owain Glendwr – what a magnificent, neglected, Straussian tone-poem.

Vranjanka - I love the way that Kenneth Hesketh writes such interesting parts for sub-principals. This is an exhilarating seven minutes of Serbian rhythms and tunes.

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INDEX 2005-2008

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

Syler, James April 2008

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

Gorb premiere of Midnight in Buenos Aires December 2007

Gorb premiere of Fanfare May 2008

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

Ariel new Woolfenden work published April 2008

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

Maecenas new address April 2008

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