TIM REYNISH WEBSITE

OCTOBER 2006

CANFORD SUMMER SCHOOL OF MUSIC 2007 at SHERBORNE

SIXTEEN YEARS OF BASBWE CONDUCTING COURSE

The first BASBWE/Canford Conducting course was held in 1991 following a decision at the Glasgow BASBWE Conference to run a course annually. Since then over 300 students have attended the course at Canford Summer School, which is now held in the beautiful surroundings of Sherborne School in West Dorset.

For details go to the CANFORD SUMMER SCHOOL WEBSITE

NEW:

191006 - L’HOMME ARMÉ - SOME PERFORMANCE PROBLEMS TACKLED

201006: CONDUCTING THOUGHTS1 - TECHNIQUE OF DIRECTING

171106: CONDUCTING THOUGHTS 2 - CHOICE OF REPERTOIRE

171106: CONDUCTING THOUGHTS 3 - PREPARATION

201106: THE WIND MUSIC OF DANA WILSON

GUBAIDULINA FESTIVAL IN JANUARY

Back in June 2005 I enthused in my Homepage about a work of which I had never heard by one of Russia’s leading composers, Sofia Gubaidulina. Thanks to the BBC, we have a chance in January to hear a cross section of her work, to watch film of her life, to hear her in interview, and in particular to hear HER great work for mezzo soprano and wind orchestra, Hour of the Soul.

Sunday 14 January 2007, 5.00pm

Ticket prices: £10 all seats (unreserved)

Weekend and Day Passes available

LSO St Luke's, The UBS & LSO Music Education Centre, 161 Old Street, London

Hour of the Soul

GUBAIDULINA - Introitus

GUBAIDULINA - Hour of the Soul

Guildhall Symphony Orchestras

Guildhall Wind Ensemble

Mikhael Agrest conductor

Nicolas Hodges piano

Karen Cargill Mezzo-soprano

Poetic imagery and religious symbolism drew Gubaidulina to the work of the strikingly original Moscow-born writer Marina Tsvetaeva, not least to her disturbing poem of 1923, Hour of the Soul. Tsvetaeva, officially ostracised following her return from exile to Russia in the late 1930s, committed suicide following the outbreak of war in 1941. Gubaidulina’s interpretation of Hour of the Soul translates the poem’s evocation of the soul stripped bare into music of spine-tingling drama

WASBE CONFERENCE 2007

TO RUSSIA WITH LOVE

VOLGA WIND ORCHESTRA, SARATOV

Saturday October 21st 2006

I have just received my visa for this long planned trip to Russia to introduce the professional wind band of Saratov to new British music. Russia will be a new experience for me, and I am looking forward to making contact with a number of professional wind band conductors in the area.

At the same time, I am starting my duties with the National Band Association as Chair of the International Division at the invitation of President Bobby Adams, and seeing to the press the latest CDs in my repertoire volumes, this time of two concerts at Ithaca College with music from England, Greece/USA, Hungary, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mallorca, New Zealand and Wales. My first two volumes included music from Belgium and Spain.

REPERTOIRE SERIES

VOL 3 - ITHACA COLLEGE SYMPHONIC BAND

VOL 4 - ITHACA COLLEGE WIND ENSEMBLE

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIND ENSEMBLE VOL 1 4949-MCD

UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIND ENSEMBLE VOL 2 5347-MCD

Volume 1 and 2 are already available from Mark Custom Records, volumes 3 & 4 should be ready by the Midwest.

MARK CUSTOM RECORDS

This set me pondering on the purpose of the four band associations to which I belong. Their aims include the following statements:

NBA

TO PROMOTE the excellence of band performance throughout the world.

TO ENCOURAGE the composition and performance of quality band music at all levels.

CBDNA

….to assist members in seeking individual and collective growth as musicians, educators, conductors, and administrators.

WASBE

To promote symphonic bands and ensembles as serious and distinctive mediums of musical expression and culture

BASBWE

To advance the status of symphonic wind bands and ensembles and the education of the general public

What particularly interested me was that the NBA is the only association which aims at excellence of bands worldwide but also aims at music education. Their statement of purpose runs as follows:

The National Band Association Board of Directors established as a primary task in December, 1984, the development of a statement of purposes of instrumental music education in the schools. The statement, delineated by NBA Past-President William J. Moody, was approved by the NBA Board of Directors in December, 1985. The NBA statement identifies the purposes of instrumental music education and links these purposes with the need for strong, continued support of music in the curriculum.

All four associations have developing websites, well worth visiting, (your browser should get you straight on to them) and at present that of NBA shows an incredible variety of activity unmatched by the others. However, how much more would we achieve in creating a worldwide body of literature and an international audience for our greatest ensembles if there were real communication and cooperation between the four associations and other similar bodies.

Back to my own website, my long suffering webmaster plans a seven part “Thoughts on Conducting” for uploading in November, plus a three way discussion on Interpretation of Chris Marshall’s L’Homme Armé. He has already uploaded the following over the past four months:

OCTOBER 2006

ARTICLE - MUSIC AT KNELLER HALL

JAPANESE MUSIC – A BRIEF OVERVIEW

SEPTEMBER 2006

WASBE IN IRELAND 2007

IRISH WIND BAND MUSIC

THOUGHTS ON REPERTOIRE

AUGUST 2006

90 NEW WORKS - A COMMISSIONING PROJECT 1981-2006

1981 WASBE CONFERENCE – MY RECOMMENDATIONS

NEWS FROM ROUND THE WORLD

NEW WORKS FROM UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT

JULY 2006

TWO WORLD PREMIERES – ROXBURGH & HORNE

CONDUCTING - PERFORMANCE PRACTICE

CONDUCTING - TAMING THE DECIBELS

NOT A CORE REPERTOIRE – 160 UNFAMILIAR WORKS

SIMON RATTLE IN INTERVIEW