Re: Re: Re: how long will band music survive?


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Posted by Dave on June 24, 2000 at 19:55:01:

In Reply to: Re: Re: how long will band music survive? posted by Rick Denney on June 23, 2000 at 09:06:40:

Fans of band music (and consequently their audiences) need to investigate some of the serious composition that is taking place out there today. There are many fine young composers who are writing serious yet unalienating masterworks. Enough of the Cohen Medley, Pineapple Poll or transcriptions of orchestral warhorses that impress no one but the rest of the clarinet studio. For starters, check into recordings of the Cincinnati Conservatory and North Texas under the direction of Eugene Corporon. He is continually on the cusp of new works for wind ensemble. Pieces such as David Maslanka's "A Child's Garden of Dreams", "Hearts Music" and "In Memorium"; Karel Husa and "Smetana Fanfare" and "Concerto for Wind Ensemble"; Joaquin Rodrigo's "Adagio"; Michael Colgrass' "Winds of Nagual",and Michael Daugherty's "Desi" are fine examples of accessible wind music being written today, not to mention works for the medium by composers such as Stravinsky, Persichetti, Holst, Hindemith and Schoenberg. Band music is much more than Swearingen, Holsinger and any of the other musically questionable compositions primarily written as training pieces. Let's not limit our ears and ourselves as well as our audiences to the "McDonald's" of wind music.

Dave








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