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HOME PAGE DECEMBER 1st 2018
Have a great Mid-West, a wonderful Christmas, Hannukah, Yule, Saturnalia, Diwali, Poya, or, if you are American, National Fruit Cake Month!
SELECTING REPERTOIRE FOR NEXT SEASON
In a few days, many people will travel to Chicago to meet old friends and colleagues, and to search out new repertoire for consideration for next season. Browse this home page for ideas and save a lot of money.
I'd much rather hear you make a mess of typical modern music than to hear you tootle-ing forever at a lot of baby's stuff.'
Percy Grainger wrote this in 1943, seventy five years ago. How far have we moved the wind band and wind ensemble since then?
Tim
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REPERTOIRE FOR AMATEUR BANDS
I recently conducted a repertoire playthrough with the Cambridge Wind Band, introducing them to the following works by three of my favorite composers, whose music does not, to my mind, pander to the milksops of sissified mother’s darlings.
Kenneth Hesketh Masque (Faber)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGtj6jWAVns
Adam Gorb Bohemian Revelry (Maecenas)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YnunfpsUBQ&list=RD0YnunfpsUBQ&start_radio=1
Guy Woolfenden Celebration (Ariel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nP9DwF4o1Q
Luis Serrano Alarcon A British Paso Doble (Alarcon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=111&v=65-Piwetwa
Two great conferences in 2019, CBDNA in Arizona, February 20-23, and WASBE in Bunol, Spain, July 10–13.
GRAINGER ON TACKLING DIFFICULT MUSIC - 1943
I hate forcing my will on the fold. But still more to I hate shielding-the-wind from all these milksops of sissified mother's darlings who sit there yawning in the band, thinking they've played everything & know everything. If they want me to do anything with them I'll jolly well see to it that they get something to chew on & taste some of the rocks on the rocky road of now-tiney tone-art. Not that that the young folks do want me to do anything with them, much. When I draw near the wind-band or the string-wind-band I always think I hear soundless groans from the young folk & from their loving guides. Everyone (outcounting me) wants the young folks... to have so much joy in their tone-art... As I said to them at the last rehearsal of Lincolnshire Posy, anent the changing barrings:
'Don't mind if you play a few wrong notes; don't mind if you get the rhythms wrong. Please don't think I will suffer if you do. My job is to show you what modern music is like. These irregular barrings were started over 40 years ago, so its about time you begin to get used to them. I'd much rather hear you make a mess of typical modern music than to hear you tootle-ing forever at a lot of baby's stuff.'
INTERNATIONAL REPERTOIRE RECORDINGS
A few non-commercial repertoire ideas for next season. CDs available from Mark Custom or from Amazon
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VOL.11 ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ORCHESTRA - (52691 – MCD) Conductor Timothy Reynish Marimba Simone Rebello |
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Elements: Suite for Percussion and Wind Ensemble (1998) |
Adam Gorb |
England |
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Three American Icons; Suite for Wind Ensemble and Percussion (1997) |
Judith Bingham |
England |
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Heathcote’s Inferno (1996) |
Roger Marsh |
England |
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VOL.10 ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ORCHESTRA (52580 – MCD) Conductor Clark Rundell THE MUSIC OF DAVID BEDFORD |
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Praeludium (1990) |
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Sun Paints Rainbows on the Vast Waves (1984) |
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Canons and Cadenzas (1995-6) |
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Sea and Sky and Golden Hill (1985) |
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Ronde for Isolde (1986) |
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VOL.9 ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ORCHESTRA (52579 – MCD) MANCHESTER BOYS CHOIR THE MUSIC OF EDWARD GREGSON Henry Herford baritone James Keenan treble Conductors Edward Gregson Timothy Reynish |
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Celebration (1991) |
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Metamorphoses (1979) |
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Miss Brevis Pacem (1987) |
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The Sword and the Crown (1991) |
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Festivo (1985) |
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VOL.8 ROYAL NORTHERN COLLEGE OF MUSIC WIND ORCHESTRA (52578 – MCD) Conductor Timothy Reynish Trumpet Martin Winter MORNING MUSIC – MIDNIGHT MUSIC |
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Morning Music (1987) |
Richard Rodney Bennett |
England/USA |
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Trumpet Concerto (1993) |
Richard Rodney Bennett |
England/USA |
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The Four Seasons (1991) |
Richard Rodney Bennett |
England/USA |
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Midnight Music (1991) |
Irwin Bazelon |
USA |
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VOL7 – U S COAST GUARD BAND (9979-MCD) Megan Weikleenget – Soprano; Greg Case – Alto Saxophone; Thomas Brown - Trumpet |
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Masque (2001) |
Kenneth Hesketh |
England |
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King Pomade’s New Clothes (1954) |
Ranki Gyorgy |
Hungary |
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Five Folk Songs (1966) |
Bernard Gilmore |
USA |
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Suite of English Folk Dances (1952) |
Ernest Tomnlinson |
England |
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Concertango Mvt 1 (2004) |
Luis Serrano Alarcon |
Spain |
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Elegy for Miles Davis (1993) |
Richard Rodney Bennett |
England |
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Dances from Crete (2003) |
Adam Gorb |
England |
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Marsch from “die Versuchung” (1981) |
Marcel Wengler |
Luxembourg |
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VOL6 – PHILHARMONIC WINDS, SINGAPORE (9576–MCD) Li-Wei Qin – Cello * Zechariah Goh Toh Chai – Conductor ** |
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Danceries Set 2 (2011) |
Kenneth Hesketh |
England |
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U Trau (2014) |
Christopher Marshall |
New Zealand |
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Concerto for Violoncello and Wind* (1980) |
Friedrich Gulda |
Austria |
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Symphonie Bombastique** (2008) |
Zechariah Goh Toh Chai |
Singapore |
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VOL.5 – LIVE IN CONCERT (8655-MCD) Irish Youth Wind Ensemble * SUNY Fredonia Wind Ensemble** Baylor University Wind Ensemble*** United States Marine Band “The President’s Own”**** Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama Wind Ensemble***** |
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A John Gay Suite**** (1973) |
Buxton Orr |
England |
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The Palace Rhapsody***( 1997) |
Aulis Sallinen |
Finland |
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Symphony No 1 in C*** (2000) |
Adam Gorb |
England |
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Vranjanka* (2005) |
Kenneth Hesketh |
England |
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Blasket Dances** (2001) |
Matthew Taylor |
England |
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Adrenaline City***** (2006) |
Adam Gorb |
England |
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VOL. 4 – ITHACA COLLEGE WIND ENSEMBLE (6804-MCD) |
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Improvisations-Rhythms (1975) |
Andreas Makris |
Greece/USA |
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Reflections (2000) |
Richard Rodney Bennett |
England/USA |
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L’Homme Armé (2003) |
Christopher Marshall |
New Zealand |
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Resonance (2006) |
Christopher Marshall |
New Zealand |
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Dances from Crete (2003) |
Adam Gorb |
England |
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Marsch (1981) |
Marcel Wengler |
Luxembourg |
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VOL. 3 – ITHACA COLLEGE SYMPHONIC BAND (6733-MCD) |
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King Pomade Suite no 2 (1953) |
Ranki Gyorgy |
Hungary |
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Elegy for Miles Davis (1993) |
Richard Rodney Bennett |
England/USA |
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Symphony of Winds (1981) |
Derek Bourgeois |
Majorca |
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Blackwater (2006) |
Fergal Carroll |
Ireland |
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Tails aus dem Voods Viennoise (1992) |
Bill Connor |
Wales |
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VOL. 2 – UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIND ENSEMBLE (5347-MCD) |
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Dances from Crete (2003) |
Adam Gorb |
England |
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Gran Duo (2000) |
Magnus Lindberg |
Finland |
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Awake, You Sleepers (2002) |
Laurence Bitensky |
USA |
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Per la Flor del Lliri Blau (1934) |
Joaquin Rodrigo |
Spain |
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VOL. 1 – UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY WIND ENSEMBLE (4949-MCD) |
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Samurai (1995) |
Nigel Clarke |
England |
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Diaghilev Dances (2003) |
Kenneth Hesketh |
England |
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Danse Funambulesque (1930) |
Jules Strens |
Belgium |
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L’Homme Armé (2003) |
Christopher Marshall |
New Zealand |
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Danse Funambulesque (1930) |
Jules Strens |
Belgium |
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Concerto for Wind Orchestra (2003) |
Christian Lindberg |
Sweden |
CSABA DEAK
born Budapest 16th April 1932
died 23rd February 2018
One of the most significant composers of wind music of our times has recently passed away.
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