Welcome to 
HOMEPAGE JUNE 2016
Tim Reynish
SPECTACULAR WIND BAND CONFERENCE IN PRAGUE JULY 2016
This conference will focus on Czech composers who have made significant contributions to the wind band. These composers include Karel Husa, Antonín Dvořák, Václav Nelhybel, Jaromir Weinberger Julius Fučík and others.
Greetings; I wish I could go to Prague, one of the greatest cities in the world.
Charles Bridge
My trusty web manager, Jason Ayres, has developed a statistics counter, and we are averaging more than 60 hits a day, with over 130 page views, many of them looking into the advice on conducting techniques by Mark Heron and myself. I have therefore revised my article on Performance Practice, and added an entrée to our conducting pages. If you find anything of interest, encourage your friends, colleagues and students to browse.
There is new music featured below from Michigan, Luxembourg and Portugal for symphonic band, fanfare band and wind ensemble. The next edition of this Home Page should be out for September 1, so please let me have your news about premieres, commissions, tours or just concerts. Have a great summer, or winter.
Tim
Five works to watch and listen to this summer
For Symphony Band
TUMBAO by Roberto Sierra Transcribed by Mark Scatterday from Sinfonia no 3, La Salsa. University of Michigan Symphony Band, conductor Michael Haithcock
FOR FANFARE BAND (or wind band)
JUBILEE VIBRATIONS by Marco Pütz, Concertino for Vibraphone and Band
Version for Fanfare Band - Fanfare Municipale Luxembourg-Bonnevoie conductor Romain Kerschen, soloist Sven Kiefer.Duration12.39 also transcribed for wind band
TWO WORKS FOR WIND CHAMBER ENSEMBLE (Strauss Serenade line-up)
AN ANTHOLOGY OF JOY by Lembit Beecher
Premiere by University of Michigan Symphony Band, conductor Michael Haithcock
solo viola and winds (2 2 2 2 – 4 0 0 + D.B.) duration: 25 minutes
available from the composer lembitbeecher@gmail.com
A BRITTEN CELEBRATION by Sergio Azevedo (Strauss Serenade line-up)
Camarata Silva Dionisio conducted by Alberto Roque
(2 2 2 2 – 4 0 0 + D.B.) duration: 10.16 minutes published AvA Musical Editions
…and
An Octet with no horns by Guy Woolfenden- 2:2:2:2 conducted by Guy Woolfenden SUITE FRANCAISE published Ariel Music
DANA WILSON AT SEVENTY
Born 1946 A birthday greeting with links to
Concerto for Trombone (2015)
Article on Dana Wilson revised
BERNARD VAN BEURDEN 1933 – 2016.
Prolific composer for wind band, wind ensemble, fanfare band, piano accordion and many other genres.
PREMIERE OF NEW HESKETH WORK
In Ictu Oculi “Three Meditations for Wind Orchestra”
CONDUCTING PERFORMANCE PRACTICE
An article with generalisations on performing for conductors.
CONDUCTING RESOURCES
On my website are a number of articles developing these ideas, with thoughts culled from the great books on conducting, put together by my colleague Mark Heron and myself. Enter the conducting tab to find:
Score Study Part 1: What's The Score?
Score Study Part 2: Some Thoughts on Score Study
Master Class or Take the Decibels Down
Warm Ups - Warming-up your Ensemble
Knowing the Conductors Role
Technique Of Directing
Choice Of Repertoire
Score Preparation - Analysis and Score Marking
Conducting, Not Directing
Rehearsal Techniques
Improving The Sound Of The Band
Please Conduct, Don't Talk
GUGGENHAIM MUSEUM, BILBAO
I am looking forward to visiting this amazing collection in November when I conduct four of my commissions with the:
Banda Municipal de Bilbao
Conductor Tim Reynish
Bilbao, Palacio Euskalduna
6 November at 12.00 midday
Gustav Holst/First Suite in Eb
Timothy Jackson/Passacaglia
Guy Woolfenden/Gallimaufry
Kenneth Hesketh/Vranjanka
Adam Gorb/Yiddish Dances
HOMEPAGE MAY 2016
Tim Reynish
On a day, alack a day! Love, whose month is ever May, Spied blossom passing fair, Playing in the wanton air. |
R.I.P
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Control+ left click on this heading to hear all fifteen wind works by Guy.
GUY WOOLFENDEN COLLECTED WORKS
Guy Anthony Woolfenden sadly died on Friday 15th April at his home in Sibford Ferris, Oxfordshire, aged seventy eight.
I had only recently started on my homepage for May, which was planned to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare by introducing any browsers to the Shakespearean works of Guy Woolfenden, when news came that Guy had died at home, peacefully, surrounded by his family. Our careers and lives had criss-crossed for nearly sixty one years, ever since we met in the horn section of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Guy was undoubtedly one of the greatest composers of music for the theatre, and we are so lucky that he took material from so many of the plays and turned them into suites of music which are charming, witty, well scored and often just plain beautiful. He was my best man fifty four years ago, and also my best mate, but despite all that and my natural bias, I urge you to explore the works that perhaps you have not heard. There are some gems to play instead of Gallimaufry and Illyrian Dances.
LOVE TRANSFORMING for Wind Ensemble
Love Transforming is an extended slow movement charting the progress from strident despair to peaceful fulfilment through the expressions and emotions associated with love, isolation, confusion, turbulence, resolve, poignancy and finally rapture. Materials in the piece are not developed, simply presented from different angles and include lines from Shakespeare's 'Love Labour's Lost' sung by two female members of the ensemble: 'Love whose month is ever May'; but in this instance the love is not lost but gained.
NEW DISCOVERY
One of the most impressive works I have heard in the last few years is The Here and Now by Christopher Theofanidis, available on this Telard disc together with works by Del Tredici and Bernstein.
Published by Bill Holab Music duration 33 minutes and available for soloists, chorus and orchestra and now also for WIND ORCHESTRA
TWO WORKS FOR BAND BY GERARD SCHWARZ
ABOVE AND BEYOND Gerard Schwarz (2012)
World Premiere Strathmore, North Bethesda, MD United States Marine Band, Gerard Schwarz, conductor
Reviews ...it develops into a really fine and rather thrilling work, skilfully scored for the forces available.
PREMIERE OF RUDOLF AND JEANETTE by Gerard Schwarz (2016)
Premiered in Alexandria 26 February 2016
Rudolf and Jeanette was written in 2007 for a chamber ensemble of 14 players, premiered in Seattle, Washington by the Music of Remembrance series. As when I made the large orchestra version from the chamber version, I have made many revisions to create a new work for band. I am very grateful to LtCol Jason Fettig for doing the premiere with “The Presidents Own” United States Marine Band in February and have dedicated the work to LtCol Fettig and the Marine Band.
PREMIERE AT UNIVERSITY of MICHIGAN by LEMBIT BEECHER
An Anthology of Joy
solo viola and winds (2 2 2 2 – 4 0 0 + D.B.)
duration: 25 minutes
An Anthology of Joy was commissioned by Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, University of Michigan and Oberlin Conservatory. It was premiered by the University of Michigan Symphony Band on April 8, 2016 and by Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings on April 17, 2016, both concerts featuring James Van Valkenburg, viola, and Michael Haithcock, conductor.
Control/left click on the title to watch a wonderful performance of Michael Daugherty’s Labyrinth of Love for soprano and chamber ensemble with incomparable
HILA PLITMANN
NOT THE CORE REPERTOIRE
ARE YOU PLANNING YOUR WIND LITERATURE CLASSES AND PROGRAMMES FOR NEXT YEAR?
Why not lead your students out of the box and explore the wonderful world of wind music recorded in my International Series.
UPDATE ON NEW MUSIC
I have just received an update from Albert Roque on new music for chorus and wind and he recommends
by Daniel Davis
Visit the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles website