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HOMEPAGE MARCH 2016
Tim Reynish
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Born September 8, 1934-Died March 14, 2016
INSPIRATION FROM MAX
1961, Cirencester Grammar School, and a day watching a young music master called Peter Maxwell Davies! I had decided to quit horn playing at Sadler’s Wells Opera, and teach music at a Grammar School in Minehead, Somerset, and a few hours with Max changed my life. His class, with a group of 14 year olds, began with everyone sight singing and playing (if their voices had broken but not settled down) William Byrd’s 3 part Mass. Then the boys began introducing their own compositions, mainly little miniature music dramas, and the class ended with everyone performing part of a piece by Max, which I imagine was an early draft of O Magnum Mysterium, total inspiration. Without Max’s genius and personality, I could not even approach his style of teaching, but throughout my career I have tried to eschew “cheesey” music, whether teaching 11 year olds, working with the school orchestra, choir or opera, or in the last 40 years working with wind orchestras and ensembles. What a wonderful role model he proved to be.
2016 is 400th anniversary of the death of
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Why not programme a work by GUY WOOLFENDEN – browse below for his complete works
..where you will find performances of all of his works including:
Gallimaufry 1983 - from his music for Henry IV
Deo Gracias 1985 – from his music for Henry V
Illyrian Dances 1986 – from his music for Twelth Night
Curtain Call 1997 – from his music for Richard III
Bohemian Dances 2005 – from his music for A Winters Tale
NB In 2017 we celebrate the 80th Birthday of GUY WOOLFENDEN
STEPHEN STUCKY
November 7 1949 – February 14 2016
Stephen Stucky, one of the leading American composers of the last half century. has died aged sixty six. Over twelve years he contributed five significant works for wind ensemble
Voyages for Cello and Wind Orchestra 1983-1984
Funeral Music for Queen Mary (after Purcell) 1992
Fanfares and Arias 1994
Threnos 1998
Hue and Cry 2006
Watch a Steven Stucky performance on video; control/click on
THRENOS played by Winnipeg Wind Ensemble, conductor Brent Johnson
LOST STRAVINSKY WIND BAND WORK TURNS UP AFTER 100 YEARS
The discovery was made by a librarian and outlined in an article in The Guardian by Stravinsky biographer Stephen Walsh.
TWO RCM COMPOSERS AT 90!
DEREK HEALEY born 2nd May 1926 in Wargrave UK
JOSEPH HOROVITZ born 26th May 1926 in Vienna
THREE WILLIAM REYNISH COMMISSIONS REQUIRING PREMIERES
2009 Norbert Palej Percussion Concerto
2014 Edwin Roxburgh Piano Concerto
2014 Matthew Taylor Bignor
FOUR NEW WORKS FOR SCHOOL BAND
Spring Into Action Adam Gorb published Maecenas
Spring at Nine Stones Fergal Carroll published Maecenas
Cathedral Variations Fergal Carroll published Maecenas
Renaissance Revisited Derek Bourgeois published HaFaBra
For latest information on all Maecenas Publications, browse here
DISCOVERY OF THE MONTH Rolf Wilhelm
One of my favorite brass concertos is the charming Concertino for Tuba and Wind Band, published by Strube of Munich, info@strube.de, charming humorous, sometimes, jazzy but never corny. Checking on it to answer a query, I discovered that Rolf Wilhelm has also written a Concertino for Euphonium and Wind Bandplayed here by Steven Mead and the Lithuanian State Wind Orchestra.
RECORDING OF THE QUARTER
NEWLY ISSUED BY NAXOS
ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY WIND SYMPHONY
Conductor MARTIN SEGGELKE
House Plants in Terra Cotta Pots Roy Magnusson
Duae Cantatae Breves Sydney Hodkinson
Evening Music Jayce John Ogren
Sinfonia no 1 “Kaprekar” Francesco Jose Martinez
This much lauded series continues with a sequence of four premiere recordings played by the elite Illinois State University Wind Symphony. Roy Magnuson's House Plants in Terracotta Pots is described by the composer 'as a simple statement of something simply thought.' Sydney Hodkinson's expressive Duae Cantatae Breves explores the slow and meditative potential of the wind band. Jayce John Ogren's richly imagined and poetic Evening Music is followed by Francesco José Martínez Gallego's exciting, monumental Sinfonía No. 1 'Kaprekar'.
NEW MUSIC FROM AROUND EUROPE
LUXEMBOURG
PREMIERS by Marco Pütz
Festive Fanfare
6th January 2016, Stadthalle Gersthofen
Schwabisches Jugendblasorchester conductor Toni Scholl
Publisher www.Bronsheim.nl
Jubilee Vibrations, Concertino for Vibraphone and Band
20th January 2016 at 8.00pm
Fanfare Munipale Luzembourg-Bonnevoie
Conductor Roman Kerschen
Commissioned by Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg, to celebrate centenary of the Vibraphone
Publisher www.Bronsheim.nl
PORTUGAL
New WASBE Board member Alberto Roque has recently released two CDs which will be reviewed in my next edition of this Website:
NEW HARMONIEMUSIK works byAzevedo, Cachao, Faustino, Veyrier and Davis
REFLECTIONS works by Waespi, Penders, Hemel and Badings
SPAIN
Just released THE MUSIC OF OSCAR NAVARRO
The God’s Olympus – Symphonic Suite arr Navarro
Second Concerto for Clarinet arr Wind Band
The Fly
Andres Contrabandista – paso doble
WWM 500.199
Plans for 2016 include the premiere of a new piece for clarinet quartet and Wind Band, 3rd Concerto for Clarinet and Band and a commission for the Swiss Competition BKMV
SWEDEN
World Premiere of ROBOT GARDENS by CHRISTIAN LINDBERG
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Christian Lindberg
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Hall, Friday 4th March 2015
OTHER WORKS FOR WIND ENSEMBLE by CHRISTIAN LINDBERG
1999 Mandrake in the Corner for Trombone and Wind Band
2000 Mandrake in the Corner for Two Trombones and Wind Band
2002 Behac Munroh for Trumpet Trombone and Wind Band
2003 Concerto for Winds and Percussion - commissioned by WASBE
2007 Brainrubbish for Wind Orchestra
2016 Chickabone Checkout – commissioned by Chicago Symphony
Wind Orchestra version to be premiere in May
THAILAND
NARONG PRANGCHAROEN
Won Barlow Prize in 2014, commissioned to write LOKATTURA which was premiered by US Marine Band and Florida State University in 2015. To hear some of his music, browse on
MANTRA Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Wind Ensemble conducted by Thanapol Satabrahmana with CCM Wind Symphony
UNITED KINGDOM
PREMIERE BY KENNETH HESKETH
Kenneth Hesketh - In Ictu Oculi — world premiere of this 17-minute piece - “Three Meditations for Wind Orchestra”
NATIONAL YOUTH WIND ENSEMBLE
Conductor Phillip Scott
Royal College of Music 2.15 Saturday 9th April
Percy Grainger - Colonial Song
Philip Sparke - Dance Movements
Saturday 23 April 2016
7.30pm
St. John’s Church, Waterloo
Lambeth Wind Orchestra
Conducted by John Holland
‘Best of British’
Adam Gorb – Adrenaline City
Stephen McNeff – Clarinet Concerto (soloist: Linda Merrick)
Guy Woolfenden – Illyrian Dances
Lucy Pankhurst – Four Sonnets [world premiere]
Buxton Orr – A John Gay Suite
WWI Centenary Epilogue:
Arthur Butterworth – The Banks of Green Willow
Raising funds for Alzheimer’s Society
Ticket Prices - £12/£8 on the door; £10/£5 in advance
NBA/William D. Revelli Composition Contest Winners Announced
Due to the high quality of this year’s applications, the members of the selection committee were unable to determine a single winner. Therefore, two compositions were named winners of the 2015 NBA/William D. Revelli Composition Contest. Congratulations to John Mackey for his composition Wine-Dark Sea and to Paul Dooley for his composition Masks and Machines.
CONDUCTING COURSE Sherborne, United Kingdom
July 31st, 2016
International Wind Conducting Course with Mark Heron, Bjørn Sagstad and Cynthia Johnston Turner. Composer in residence: Martin Ellerby
http://www.sherbornemusicsummerschool.co.uk/windconducting.html