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Bridoflicial Journal of the North American Brass Band Association. lnc. lssue 51February 1993

NABBA Championship'93Washington, DCTENTATIVE SCTIEDULE

Thelollowing schedule has b€en proiected by ourhosts, TheUS A]my Bras9 Bsnd, and cl€aredwilh President Kneeburgand lh€ Contesl Chair. The tinalschedule willbe published inlhe Championship Program.

Frlday, Aprll2, 19933:00 P.M. NABBA Board of Direclors Meeting-

Reg€ncy Hyatt Hot€l3:(xH:00 P.M. Rehearcalareasavailablelorpaiicipaling

NABBA bands6:dl9:00 P,M. Exhibils open-Fort Myer Community

Center7:0(Hr10 P.M. NABBA Roadlng Band Session-

Brucker Hall's MlnorStudio. All Welcomel8:1H:40 P.M. NABBAMembershlpMeetlng-Brucker

Ha 's Minor Studio8:45-10:00 P.M. Clinic by Phlllp SparkewithThe Nallonal

Cspltal Band (Stephen Bulla)-BruckerHall's Loboda Sludio

Saiurdoy, April 3, 1993Due to the numberol bands registered andthe specialclinicsotlered two judging siles are necessary. These two studiosare across lhe halllrom eachother. Exhibits in the Fori MyerCommunhy Center wil l be open 9:00 A.M. - 4:00 P.M.

Loboda Studlo Schedule(Challenge/Champlonshlp/ilaster Classes)Judges: Bloomquist, Bulla, and Sparke; Cor{roller: Holz8:20 A.M. Welcome and Opening Ceremonies8:il5 A.M. Challenge #1-Allegheny Brass Band9:25 A.M. Challenge #2-Varsity All Slars10:05 A.M Championship #1-Ohlo Colleglate10:/f5 A.M. Championship #2-Trlangle Brass Band11:25 A.M. Lunch12:35 A.M. Chamoionshio #3-Atlantlc Brass Band

1:15 P.M. Champ. #4-Braaa Band ot Columbus2:00 P.M. Masler Class wllh Cornetlst PhlllD Mccann3:00 P.M. l'raster Class wllh Euphonlumlsts, The

Chllds B.olhers4:00 P.M, Breaklor Dinner

MINOR STUOIO SCHEDULE (Youth/Honors)Judges: Bob and Nick Childs, Mcoann; Conlroller Hronek8:30 A.M. Youih #1--.Junior Varsity Allstars9:q) A.M. Youth #2--Gettysburg Brass Band9:30 A,M. Honors #l-North Carolina Staie U10:10 A.M. Hgnors #z-Chester Brass Band10:50 A.M. Hono6 #3-Easl€rn lowa Brass Band11:30 A.M. Lunch12:35 P.M. Honors #4-Sh€ldon Theater Brass'12:35 P.M. Honors #s-lllinois Brass Band

Saiurday Evenhg Schedule6:20 P.M. Load Buses at Hyatt Regency6:30 P.M. Buses Depan7:20 P.M. Arrive al George Mason Universily Arts Center7:30 P.M, NABBA Awards Ceremony8:00 P.M. GALA CONCERT-Fealuring The US Army

Brass Band, The US Army Herald Trumpetsand Brass Quintet:Guesl soloists Bob & NickChibs and Phil Mccann; Guesl ConduclorsPhilip Sparke and Colonel Bryan Shelbourne.Free Admission bul ticket requiredl For licketinlor {703) 993'8888.

10:00 P,M. Rsturn to Hyatt Regency via buses10:30 P.M. SOCIAL GATHERING-HyaII Regency Ball

room. Ticket is $5for ages 21 and older;$4torunder 2l (Group rales available in packels torparticipating bands)

Sunday, April3, 19939:20 A.M. Load Buses9:30 A.M. Deparlure9:50 A.M, Arrive at The Tomb o{ the lJnknown Soldier,

Arlinglon National CemeteryChanging of lhe GuardWREATH LAYING by NABBAOptionalTours of Fort Myer and AdingtonNalional Cemelery

10:00 A.M.10:05 A.M.10:15 A.M.

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2 The Erass Band Bridge Fsbruary 1993

Editor's Notes

The long-awaited CONVERSATIONbetween Philip Sparke and severalnot€d NABBA mcmbers-Tom Mycrs,Paul Droste, and Bob Bemat-has fi-nally rnade THE BRIDCE. The infor-mative and entcrtaining pi!'cc will bedividcdinto two portions, thc rcmain-der to be shared in our April issue. Ihave tlied to relay as much preciseschedule inf ormation aboutout Wash-ingtonChampionshipasour hostswereablc to projerct by the dcadlinc I gavethcm. Certainly somc of this may t'€adjusted but lvc fcd lh!'broad outlinesrvill hold.

Our annual CHAMPIONSHIPS of f!'rmuch more than iust a battle of thebands. Wc hoP(as many NABBA mem-bers as possiblcget to thc Band Read-ing Scssion and the NABBA Member-ship Mcetitrg on Friday night. Theywill thenbeable to cnioy PhilipSparkc,Steve Bulla, and The National CapitalBand in thcir joint CIinic. Mr. Sparkewill probably us. onc of his excellcntcompositio s as a dcmo pi€c abouttJoth his own compositional style andproccss as rvcll as about brass bandpcrforrnancf. Tho (rxhibits {rom vari-ous music dcalcrs, publishcrs, instru-mcnt man!facturers will be op€n bothFriday and Sabrday. Of coursr, thcrewill great fcllowship and socializing inaddition toSrcatband music. Idohopcall of us tak.'spcrial advantage of themaster class('!i on Saturday aften'loonwhata sF'.ialcvent this will b€ forallofus. Indc(d, the wholc wcrkcnd isagr('at opporlunity for each of us toleam f rom onea|rother, cncouraSeoncanother, supp()rt one anothcr!!

I challenge our m(]mbership to b€comeactively involvcd in the rogular on-going work of NABBA by becomirginvolvrt on our Board of Directors.Dctails of thc nomination process anda copy of the nomination form arc in-cluded in this issuc.

Trvo other events beyond Washingtonare also highliBht!'d-l ) TheSalvationArmy'scxccllcnt Hendon Corps Band(London) willbe touring the SouthernstatesdunngApril; 2)TheCreat Amed-

can Brass Band Festival inJune.I hopeyou can take ad van hgc of these specialbrass band feasts as well.

Remember-THE BRIDCEisyourpur-nal. Let me knoiv rvhat you wish toread and sharc about in its pages.

Finally,let us covenant together not tobe so conccrn!.il about who will winwhat place in April, but rather to becoDsumcd with thc desire to supportthe best musical efforts our friendsand

Suestswilloffcr to us durin8 thes€ twospecial days at Fort Myer. Scc you then!

R.W- Holz

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XI

President's Corner

Creetings from sunny (and humid)Florida. Tlis issue of THE BtuDCE willreach you just before our Championships in Washington, D.C., and I hopethat you have already made plans toattend eitherasa band memberorasaninterest€d party. You will read aboutfinal plans and schedulesfor thisevcntin this issue, and thcre are two itcmsrhat I would like to highlighr.

First, we will continueourreadingbandfrom last year. If you arc intcrestcd inbrass bands, new literature, or wouldjust like to play with a group, plcascjoin us for this informativc scssion Fri-day night. Bemcl Music has graciouslyconsented to supply us with new andstandard compositions.

Sccondly,l would Iike foryou to "notc"thc membcrship mecting which willdircctly follow thc readingsession Fri-day evening. Notice the time changefrom its usual location onSaturday!Atthismecting, we will prcsentawards tooutstanding individuals in thc brassband ficld as well as inform the mcm-bership of acti vities of thc,Associa tion.A sumrnary of activities ofthe NABBABoard meering from Friday afternoonwillalso be presentcd. This meeting isalso you. opportunity to exprcss yourfccling and ideas about the operationand proSramsof the Association.I shalllook forward to sceing you thcrc.

As you will also see in this issue, therumout ofbands for thc Crcat Amcri-can Brass Band Festival Contest wasexcellent. Congratu lations are in orderfor The Blass Eand of Columbus andtheir fine conductor, Paul Droste. Thisband has been most active in the pastyear with appearances at the T.U.B.A.convention, and this Spring they willapprar at the Intcmational TrumpetCuild Convention. We are fo unate tohave such a fine band representing usat thes€ prestigious events.

This time ofyear also bringsin the tapeenrries for the NABBA Video Contest.mile thiscontcstdocsnotusuallydrawa large number of bands, the groupsthat have sent in tapes have showntremendous improvement in a short

pcriod of time. This q?eofcontestwasoriginallybegxn to encouragebands toparticipate in a competition who weretoo far away from thc Championshipsite,orwhocould notattend becauseoflack of funds. In this contest, iudSescommentsarcEivcn directly to thebandbased on an entertainment style pro-gram. This gives the group some feed-backon thequality of theirpcrfomanceand also cstablishcs a record (on vidcotape) of the band's style of program.This vidcocanbe very hclpful toshowprospective groups or individuals whomight wish to contract the band. ThisissomcthinS to consider for tuturcgoals.

As I mentioned in thc last issue, it isvery important thatNABBA expand itsmembership base in ordcr to providemore services. Please share your copyofTHE BRIDCE with a friend and cn-courage them to ioin us in tl€ great Fyofbrassbands.

Scc you in Washi|lgton, D.C.!

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Sarophone, and Violin.Applicants mr,rsi send resurne, l!ll-lenglh photograph, and casselteauditiontape. Selecled applicantswillbe invited lo Washingion, 0Cfor a live audilion at governmenlexpense. Successlul applicantsrnusl enlisl in The united statesArrny lor assignmentto The U.S.Army Band. For inlormalion, callorwrite:The tlnft ed States ArmyBand, ATTN SFC Cohen, P.O.Box 70565, Washington, 0C200241374. PH (703) 696-3643;FAX (703) 696.3904

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February 1993 The Brass Band Bddge 3

Conversationwilh Philip Sparke, 8ob Bernal, Paul Droste, and Tom Myers

Philip S park e-Composer, Arranger,and forStudio Music, MusicEditorandR.rordinS Prcduccr.

BobBelnat MusicDirNtor,TheRiverCity Brass Band,

Paul Droste Dir(rk)r, Brass Band ofColumbus-

TomMyers thcn Editor,THE BRASSBAND BRIDCE,

TIlis convL'rsatiolr occurrcd during thenn)rniDBaf l | rPhi l ipSparko'sTrump€tConcerto was prfmierod by TheRive!City Brass Band with Music Dircctor&)b Bcrnnlconduct inS. Phi l ipalsocon-d uctl'ri scvera I of his works. Paul Drostcarrd Tom Mvcrs rtk'n.lcd thcFcbruary7, l1)92, conccrt. Thi!i.)rticle lvas transcribr'd and oditcd by Tom Mvcrs nndvcrifi|{i by lh('participants bcforc be-i ' )g submitt( 'd b THE BRIDCE.

Tom Myers: I'hilip, rvhcrc would youl ikc k) start?

Phi l ip Sparke: How mu{hdoyou rvart

Tomr EvorythinS you'rc rvilling k) tellus. For cxnmplc, did you play anjnstrum(rnt nt school? Hor{ did yougct inkr lhr brass band lvorld

Philip: I dccid('d k) pla)' the vi(tin atschool. I got quite a kmg rva), atmastcring it, but not far enough. ifound rvhat I couldn't do lsas thclcfl-h.ind firrgcr rvork at thc sameIimcns thc nght-hand borv lvork.SoI thought the ansrver ivastoplaythctrumpct, which only n(rrdL\l onc otthos(! I got rid of the vidin, got atrumpct, arrd tnught myself to playit. That's how my intcrcst in brass

Tom: Whcn Pnul nnd I lr,cre at theconcertlast night, wemenhoned thatwc couldn't tcll by your composi-

4 lhe Erass gand Bddge February 1993

FhilipSpatue

li{nrs !vhnl instrumcnt vou plav. Of-tcnyoucnn tcl la conr F)ser 's instru-ment, sir)cc thev cmphnsizc or !vritL'vcry wcll ft)r it.

Phi l ip: Righl.

Paul Droste: You h.rvc thcouphoniumworld t(x)k'd, bccausc of your FdrrldsV, thc nic!'c.ldcnza i\ HnmnnVMrri., and othcrs. You cithcr playthc cuphonium or lovc i t .

Phi l ipr Al though I was a trumpctplayer, th( ' rcnson is thnt thccupho-

ium hns somcthi |g tht no othcrbrrss irrstru m.Ir t has thatrnnrvcl-ous.irnrrtilr' ranSo ak)vc the stavL'(staff). Thc corncl, honr, and trom-bono, bnsically 8ot a bit rveak upthorL', but thc otrphonium Sets stron-ger and strongcr in what it can do.

Tom: At whnt agc did yoo start on thetrunrp{rl?

Philip: Abimt 15 or 16, I supposr.

Tomr Thals a little latc for starters.

Phi l ip: Ycn, thnt 's rvhy I didn' tgct anyfurther than I did.

Tom: And rvherdid you startcomPos-ing?

Philip: That ivas earlicr, around 11 or12.

Tom: Hoiv did that come about?

Philip: An unclc left a piano to myfamily, and I iust stnrt0d foolinSaround with i t , p icking out tunosand thinBs.

Tom: Did your vtulin work givc youcnough kr\owledg!. about music t0start wri t ing?

Philip: I supposc so, y!'s. Tho stuff Iw.1s lvritnrg lvas sort of inritatiolMozart, which is rvhat I rvnsplayingin thr' school orchestrn.

Tom: Now lvhe'r you co mpose, d o youthink in tcrnrs of sound, nreaning,illu\trntnn (as in you( &tr,t Dntktdrd Co.r'l)ov Hyrrr, cmoti(nr, or all of

Philip: Emotnm,c(rrtnirly. I do'1'toftenusc a story as cxpr!'sscd in C&d,orlHvrrr . What I do is nchrnl ly just.f ramework. Idon' t gct inspircd by astory and th('r composo.l k)ok forafram$vork on which b hanga pieccof music. I jusl liko pioccs to cxcitepeoplL', excitlr lheir ('nn)ti(nrs.

Tom: I think of)rour nrusic in almost al lcasos ns o\tr0nx'ly hnppy and Posi-t ivf .

Phi l ip: Mmm.

Tom: Renll)' refreshing b h(.ar.

Philip: Anthony Bur|css,a veryknorvl-edgcable guy lvho hasals{) writtcnabrass band piece, madca vcrygoodpoi)r t in in art ic lcwhen l ic was talkin8 about SchoL'r)bcrg nnd postSchocnberg. Hc said thrrcal troublcwith s!'rialism isyou l:arr rot cxprcsshapprncss rvith it. It is always mad-ness or lunacy or sadnoss or qrirki-

nessi those are easy. I think hds right.lys one of the reasons the style wasn'tsustaind. There was no flexibility.

Paul: What compose$ would you listamonS your influences? Every oncein a while a little bitof Shostakovitch,Ge$hwin, or otherc sneak into yourhusic.

Philip: I wouldn't actually includeShostakovi tch or Gershwin as directinf lLrences. Early on it wasStravinsky. All the stuff I wrotc incollege was very much l ikeStravinsky, neoclassical. But sincethen,l think Copland and Ravel aremy two mal)r influences.

Bob Bernah Whcn we were rehearcingthe Trumpet Concerto for the fircttime, the players looked puzzled. Isaid, "Now togetinto this,you haveto undeFtand that one of Philip'sfavorite composers is MauriceRavel." And they said, "Oh, yea!"The ncxt time through, it fell rightinto place.

Philip: I remember last night, by thcway, I don't know whether you'vediscovcrcd it, there are two bars ofPulcinellain the84ft Drnce and Cow-bo! Hytnn. Deda-dum, ba-da-dum,jadadum, da-da-dum! It's just forf ln I hlrl in +l1e.

Paul: The opening to youreuphoniumFdrlasy is, to my ear, very much likeVaughan Williams-the frigidity ofhis Sinf onia Antartica.

Philip: Yes, yes.

Pattlt And in The Year of the Dngon, doI hear a quote from theShostakovitchFifth Symphony?

Philip: Well, that is onc that is alwayspointed at me, I don't see that at all.

Paul Oh,I thinl its fair.

Philip: I know the notes they mean, butthere are about 400 pieces of musicthat start with those thrcc notes. Fora starL his was minor, and mine ismostly major. The rhythm is thesame, butyou can say the same abou tTill Eulenspiegel .

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Paul:And the nice D maiorchord inthetrombones at the end oI The Year oflfir D/agor, rightout of Brahms.

Philip: Ils Brahms. Definitely Brahms.

Paut Once I talked to a composer whofound years later that hc had cribbeda thcme unintentionally. He said, "lthoughtwhcn I putitonpaperitwasrny own, but I found outlater thatitwasnl original." I'm not asking ifyou'vccver had that expedence, butyou mentioncd Copland and Ravel.Are their kinds of sounds goingthrough your hcad as you compose?

Philip: Yea, that's sort of the way itworks! I think what happens whenI'm writing is that I get somewhereand then I/m sweahng for thc ncxtliound to come, And moac often thatnot, it will b€ a sound l'vc hcardsomcwhcrc bcfore, by definition Ithink.

Tom: How do you approach an origi-nal work? Do you skctch out thecntirc composition or do you com-pose it vertically asyou go?

Philip: I go morc or lcss dircctly to the(ull score, but via sketches made atthepiano.I didn'tdo it thcothcr way(makc a condensed *ore first), bc-cause I didn't know that was theway it was done. Most trcoplc do itthat way,perhaps I should startdo-ing it. I thhrk it clcans up your or-chcstration, berause if you're doingthe full saorc afterwardt it givcsyou a chancc to thinkmorc!carcfullyabout how you'rc orchcstrating it.

Bobr Do you know of the Americancomposcr Roger Sessions?

Philip:Yes.

Bob: Hecomposed in orchcstral order,startinS with thc piccolo part.Itiustboggles thc mind. Like Mozart, itwas in his head. Session{ music is socomplicad.

Philip: A composition studcntof minestarted wi th a march, and he broughtthe soprano part to me. I said, "Oh,wcll where is the sore?" Hc said, "I

6 lhe Brass Band Bridge Fsbruary 1993

havent got one." He was alreadyhalf way through the second cometpart. And it was a wonderful, won-derful march. I iust couldn't belie!€it. Incredible.

Paul: Do you comlDse at the keyboard?Do you use a computer? Has yourmethod of compositionevolved te(h-nically?

Philip: No. I write at and away fromthe keyboard. Normally I get thebasic idea away from the keyboard,then go to a piano to make surc Ihavc thc right notes down, more orless. But I haven't yet used a com-puter. l'd lovc to, but you need totakc time off to learn it, tha(s thetrouble.

Bob: I have a keytroard like thatdowni n my office in the bascment. I'm stillusing itlikea Hammond organ, Thetechnology is thcrc. A friend tells methat whcn I master the thin& it willcrank out thc score and parts. LikePhilip,l havc to take the time to l('arnhow to usc it.

Tom: In approaching your composingwork, do you set a numbcl of hoursa day for composing or just do itwhcncver it happens? You tu st sh.tflowingand lct it flow?

Philip: No, it's more haphazard thanthat. I do it whcn I gct time. I can'tplan it likc that.

Tom: I s.'c you jugSling betwcrn com-poser,anangcr, rccordingproducer,conductor, and adjudicator. That dis-tribution is bascd on whatever de-mands pcoplc ask of you? How doyou decide to allocatc your atten-tion? Inother words, howdoyou getthe time to compose?

Philip: I havc a full time job at StudioMusic-

Tom: Whatis that?

Philip: Music cditor,9 to 5, five days aweek. I conduct a brass band andthat has to comc second becauscthey're not flexiblc. Any time I haveleft, I write.

Tom: Nights and weekends.

Phtltpr That's right, exacrly right.

Tom: Thags unbelievable. Your outputis so huge comparcd to the tirne youhave available. Maybe you could tellus the story about Slirslrcam.Tl\a( 6a very interesting, almosf unbeliev-able creation in a very short period.

Philip: Well, I'm not certain it is, be-cause I'm sure others have writtenmarches in a day, Perhaps, ifs thebest way to write a march, in fact. Ifound out on a Friday noon thatthere was no British submission foran intemational music competition,and they weren't going to entcr. So Iwrote one. I walkcd in on Mondayand said,you'vegotone.Whatl wasdoing, talk about cribbing, no one'smcntioned this, I wanted to wriE ase'cond&rdololy(byEricoste ing),which I think is an absolutely won-derful march and of which there isnothing elsc likc it.

Bob: You know, I agrec with you, butThc River City Brass Band hateBardolqy , so we stopped playing it.

Paul: Thafsbccause they grcw up withit.

Bob: I think that is right.

Philip: Yea.

Paul I playcd it badly i'r high school.

Philip: So the modcl wasalready thcrc.I rcally did just try to knock outanothcr one of thosc.

Paulr What was thc contest?

Philipr I think itran for about l5 or 20years.I didn'tknow anything aboutit. For years and yea6, it was donevcry quiedy. Cordon lnnSford didit for about 10 years in a row.

Bobr Oh, really. Cordon was the rcpresentative from England?

Philip: Yes- No one els€ kncw aboutit.There was a litde line in the SrilislBandstnafi. It was the EuropeanBroadcasting Union (EBU) NewMusic for Bands Competition. All

thenationalbroadcastingcompaniesof the EBU, of which there are nineor ten, comrnissioned two new piecesfor band, a rnarch and a free-stylework. It could be for wind band,brass band, danc€band/ any sort oftrand. The submission was recordcdand a panel of several iudges, in adifferent country each year, sortedout the rctordings and vod on thefirst place winner.It was quite effec-tive for fhc ncw musicbusinest butthe contest wasn't very well publ!crz!'o, sFanSe.

Tom: How did you devclop, for cx-ample, the lhemes in Srr;rshed,n?

Philip: Oh, I don't know.

Tom: You just knocked them out, thcyjust happened?

Phtltp: It just comes, yea.

Tom: Forcxamplc,in the second shain,you have an interesting section thatby acc€nts uses a threebeat, five-beat combination?

Robt ln Slipstrca,n?

Todr: Yea.

Bob: Just by way of syncopation. lfsnot a change in meter.

Tom: No, but when you listen to it, youask, whatdid he do therc. Thcrc's athrc! bcat, rnaybe a four, and then afive.

Bob: Thafs iazz.Philip: Yea.

To'l: lt's a really fuesh sound for amarch.

Philip: Right,yes, I s€ewhatyou rnean.Very often we get a bar syncopa tion,but not much more than a bar.

Paul If l get the quote dSht I think itwas an articlc in the Bilish Bands-ttan many years ago where you wereaskcd about writing for orchestraand forbrass band. You mcntionedthat if you write for orchestra. thepiece gets played once, badly.

Philip: That's exactly right.

Paul: And ifyou write forbrassband,itgets played oftcn and gels playedwell.ls that right?

Philip: Absolutcly. Ycs.

Paut Given all the orchesEas and brassbands in the world, from the eco-nomic standpointof making a livingasa composer/ canyou makeiteasieras a comPoser for brass band or or-chestra?

Philip: I actually don't think you canmake a living as a brass band com-poser. I think there is no question.

Paut I think of Hcnrory Music. Howmany bands arc capablc of playingthat? Of coursc, you could writean

orchestsal piece of similar difficultyand find that pcrhaps more orches-tras could play it thanbands.

Bob: Evcn !r), Paul, thcrc is nobody Iknow ofwho is really makinga liv-ing as a composcr for orchesha, as afull time Fb.

Tom: As oppos€d to a music cdihor orProfessor of music.

Bob: Exacdy. As I was telling Philip,when I startcd studying withCopland in 1960, he was 60 yearsold.Ithad bccn less than a year that,for the first timc, he didn't have toworry about doingodd jobs in orderto keep body and soul together. Thcreason was that CBS News had takenFa,fatelor acomtnon Mtt asits therrr

song,, and once a week lte 8ot a chctkfor $3,000 from CBS.

Paul Notbad.

Bob: Well, it was played ten times aw€€k. And that was whcn hc wasAmcrica'sleadingcompose.. Beforethat, he always had to bc thinkingabout doing something othcr thancomposing to eam a living. I don'tthink that has changed today.

Paul: Are you wd ting for Brou ps otherthan bras$ bands and your solowork?

Philip: Yes. I'm doinS as much windband as I am brass band. At themoment, probably more,but it'shalf

Studio Music-classroom music forBritish schools, clarinet trios, flutctdos, hymn arrangements, reaordedmusic, those sorts of things.

Tom: You'vc transcribed some of yourbrass band music for wind band.,lrlril.? Orefhrfe conres to mind,

Bobt Ycar ol lhe DtuBofi translates ex-trcmcly well.

Tomi This summer, I heard a corps-stylc marching band totally dcstroyyour.lrr biice O?efhl /e. It wasan abso-lutc disaster. I wondercd how yourea.t when you hear a poor perfor-mancc of your work?

Philip: No differently than hcaring apoor perfornance of anybody else'swork. It is iust thc Performance Ican,t stand. Even with this scrics ofconccrts (withThe Riv€r City BrassBand) I don't fccl any patcrnity tothc music atall.It could be fiveothercomposers as far as I'mconccrncd.

Tomi Oncc you've completcd a com-position,doyou need to L't it fadeabit, get some distancc from it, beforeyou realize what you havc actually

Bob: Tell himabout the Tlumpet Con-

Tom: Or is it instantanmus, you reallydo knowexacdy whatyou havedone

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Phi l ip: l t var ics ( | r i tc a lot . Thcr( 'nrL'som!'bi ts that rcal ly st ick in thonrcmory, but th!' Trumpet ConcertoI rvrote lnst aufum and sort of putarvny. I'vc lvrittcn fourorfivepi('cessince thcn. Whcn I hcard it for thofirst timc hcre in Pittsburgh, thL'rL'!r'('r('bits thal I couldn't r.'mcmbcrhorv Iil !vrittcn thcmor ivhorc lheyhad come from.

Tom: So you can 8ct a fcw surpris!'s,hotx'full), all positivc, R,hen youhavoa gnp bcttsc\rn composing indconduct ing.

Philipr Yra.

Paul: l ln!,(' you sp(if i('d onlv trumpctfor thnt piece,or would vou acccpt a

Phi l ip: l t 'sci ther. I think i t is a trump! ' tpiecc.I think i t is morcdcclamak)rythan lvricnl.

Tom: In somcoftheothcr arts, dance inparticulnr, the chorcogrdpher willgo back after a numbcr of perfor-manccs to tlvcak the rvork some

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more, because it wasn'tc'xactly rvhalh.. or shc ivantcd. Do you occasion-al ly do t lut with yourmusic,or onceit'son paper, it'sdon!', and you go k)

Philip: It has happ(ned,yes. Tlrcrc arepieccsinprint I wish lhad thcchnncek) change, but you don't gct thecharlc!'. Not to any grcatextent. Thcrcha!c bcen somc pi('ccs, particularlya pi('cc I lvrote lor Dcsfdd, ydrlir-

lirts o,t ntt E,u9mn, which Horvardwnntcd chansd. Hir s.1id, for thecontcst in Norrvav, he'd rathcr vouusc hissoprarc plaver herc and addan cnding that is a bit long$, thatsort of thin8.

Bob: Howard had you change it?

Philip: Oh yea. Hc came to me scvcraltimcs. When hL'did it with Dcsford,thcn took it to thc Eikanger Band inNorway, he had m0 rcscore it agaiiin places because they hatl a vervgood soprano plav$ he rvant(l to{caturc. It rvas a contest piocc, you

Tom: Philip, lvhich of your oriSinal

lvorks do you think are your best?

Philip: Well, I think the Trumpet Con-certo must rate fairly high on thatlist. l'm absolutcly delightcd withhearing it. Bcfore that, I would saylrlrilt! O1)erlurc a\d Malui Suite,ivhich is quitean easy piecc and onethat I felt in control of all the ivaythrough, lvhich is a nicc fecling-

Tom: Are thosL also the rvorks you'dlikc to s€\: survivc two hundr('d years

Phi l ip: I ivouldn' t havc a l ist .

Tom: The plavcrs and conductors dc'cidc rvhat thcv lvant to survivc?

I'hilip: Yea. I don't go for !vriting piccesfor lhe futurc, I writc pir'cos for to-

Tom: Sure.It had to havc bccn an intcrcstingcmotion whcn you conductedSitst&atr last ni8ht. I wondor whatit fccls likc to rcalizc that ii a veryshortp.riod of timcyou'vecrcat!\l amarch lhat probably will slrrvive avery knrg fime a nd may tK'com('oncof thc fr vori t!' works of rnn ny bands.

Phi l ip: Rcal ly, l 'n1 not sayrnl l that 's ofno intcr(5t, but i t 's of vcry l i l tL ' in-

Tom: You'rL' movirlg forward and notw0rrying rbout that.

aob: I thirk,Tom, most compl)vrrs feelthat tvav. I do c('rtainly.

I 'h i l ip: Yca.

Bob: I r{as t('lling Philip thnl Irecciveda r.,.lur'st for wind batld lranscrip-tion ofDrnl4"s C/cpli froma k)rmcrstudcnt of milrL' lvho uscd to headthc brass band ir North Carolina,iack Slamp.

Paul: Oh, surc.

Bobr I started to work rnr it irt Thanks-

Siving, and it moved riSht alon8.Holvcver, beforc l'd finished thetranscriptior I tvas surprisl{l to dis-cover that I had nlrcady donc an'othcr ivlnd band lranscriprion teny{:arsago. I had totallyhad f(}rgotten

about it. So I told Jack I would behappy to do a new fransqiption, bu tI found I already did it ten years ago.I think most composers are that way,once igs done, ifs out there on its

Paul: What was your break and entrypoint into music arranging and com-posing? I know some of your earlierpublications were through R. Smithand now later through Studio. Wheredid the foot-in-thedoor come?

Philip: Two things happened when Iwas at college. I was ananging forwind band at that stage because mycomposition professor was a windband conductor at the college.Ceoffrey Brand put a notice on theboard for any composition studentswho might fancy writing somethingnew for brass band to come to seehim. So I went. He played mea recordol Prclude for afi Occasion and said wewant another piece like this. So Iwrote Corcelt Prehde, which is an-other piece like that. Very shortlyafter that, there was a competitionthat only occuned once - it wassuPPosed to be annual, but it onlyhappened once - ananged by theschool band association for a newpiece for school band. I wrote mePri2ewifinds f or it, a d itmanaged towin 6rst prize. It was published byR. Smith. I then went to work forthem as a copfst. It all sort of snow-balled from there.

Tom:Copyist scribing the parts komthe score?

Phtlip: And doing scores as well. Yea.

Tom: From a condensed score to a fullscore and then to the parts?

Philip: Yea.

Tom: There are certain musical signa-tures that I would call the PhilipSparke sfyle that tend to appear inyour ar:rangements - six or moreeighth notes in a crescendo ...

Philipr Yes.

Tom: ... Up by lourths for four or five

beats.

Philip: Yep.

Tom: Arc there any other signaturesthatyou conscientiously put in? Arethose fun games for you or just partof your musical signature?

Philip: I'm notsureitworks like that.lthink what l'm doing is using mylimited abilityto its greatest,my lim-ited hamonic languagc in as manyways as l can.lt's not a deliberate...

Tom:Thenatural outcomeof yournatu-lal process,

Philip:Yea. Itisby definition islimited,and that limitation is what peoplecall your style: (laughter)

Paul: Those of us in this country havelimited access to the brass bandworld of England. We subscribe tothe Brif,sfi Bahdsrran and the Br4ssB4nd Wold,but we are not in on thecutting edge, we re more followersthan the leaders. Where is the brassband rnovement going right now,both compositioMlly and in compe-titions and test pieces?

Philip: I don't know the answer. Eventhough I've thought about it, you'reasking at a time of enormous fluxover there. Boos€y & Hawkes, whodon't run the brass band scene, butthey run the most important compe-tition, are beginning to take over abiL which is not being enjoyed bymost people.

Paul Didn't they put a time limit ontest Pieces?

Philip: Tha(s the first of things. Theyalso made enormous changes in thebrass band competition rules drisyear by installing a fifth section andals{) allowing professionals in bandsfor the firct time.

Paul We're just starting to read aboutthat.

Bob: But thatisreally a coming to g pswith sornething that has b€en a real-ity for a long time. We think of themas beinS amateur brass bands but

they're "amateu$" who are makingmore than some of the prcfessionalsin Th€ Riv€I City Brass Band. SomeG.U.S. members were making about$10,000 a year at one time, just seatmoney, It is not an amateur phe-nomenon the way we think of it.And it has gotten worse in the lastten yeart wouldn't you say?

Philip: Yes.

Bob: It hasgotten out of hand.

Philip: I also think the passing of HarryMortimer in the same year as allthes€ changes is BoinS to cause aright-angle move ofsome sort, Some-body else has to take the lead. Harrywas doing it by default. Someonehas to take on the lead of the move-ment,and I think that might be takenby younger people.

Bob: Rather than somebody like BramGay?

Philip: Yea, I think so.

Bob: He'll continue to be thc philoso-pher.

Philip: That's riglrt, yes.

Bob: I justgota really depressing letterfrom him about two weeks ago,about the future of the brass bandmovement in the U.K. There's ar-ticle in this month's B/as s Band Worldalong the same lines. Not a happy

Philip: No.

Paul; What about compositions? Arewe ready to go a little bit more con-temporary, avant-garde, or have weleveled off to what bands, conduc-tors, and audiences will stand? Iguess I am thinking more along thelines of test pieces than other works.

Philip: Again, I'mnot sure. Whenyoutalk about the avant-garde, you'retalking about dassical music. I thinkwhat has happened is that brassbands, b€cause of their natural con-servatism, which I think is marvel-ous, have always tread forward in astraight line, while the classical mu-

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sic folks say they know best. I r'hatwent up to the ethereal heights in the1960sand l9T0sisnowcomingdownto meet us,I think. The conservatismof brass bands is no\ / being vindi-cated. The classical folks have proventhat all that is new is not good, notgold. I don't thint( you're going tosee much change in brass bandworks. I thinl it will plod steadilyforward, and symphonic music hascome down to meet iL really.

Bob: \Mren you think about contestmusic like Clordcrlcrer Fell5, thoseare majorstcps forward, but theyarenot Bcrio's Sinfonia.

Philip: No. The bigdif fcrcncc of courscis that,being an amateur movementas oPPosed to a Profes:sional ono,everything has to be done becausep€ople want to do it. Thc audiencehas to want to comc listcn to iL thcband has to want to play it andthercforcyou havc no licensejust towrite what you want and cxPcctpcoplecithcrto play itor listen toit,which does happen in the classicalworld.

Tom: lthappcns in thc wind band, too.

Philipr Yea.

Tom: In the academic setting, somc ofthc vcry cxpeimental music is forthe musicians, perhaps thc corduc-tor, but rarely for dre audicncc.

Philip: The quote thatepitomizcsit forme was during a first rehcarsal ofThe Planets, whcn a cuphoniumplayerwasbrought in from the localbrass band. The conductor stoppedand said, right, now we'll play thceuphonium tune. And thc cuPho-niumplaycrsaid, you don'tcall thata tunedo you? (laughter) I mean, tomc, that says it all.

Editor's Note: CONvERSATION willbc completed in our April issue

Columbus Chosen forGABB Festival, June 93

The BIass Band of Columbus hasbeenchosen to represent NABBA at TheCreat Amcrican Brass Band Festival,June 1'l-13, Danville, KY. Columbusplaced firct out of seven bands thatsubmitted tapes to the GABB FESTI-VAL panel made up of George Fore-man, Vincent DiMartino and RonaldHolz. TheAtlanticBrassBand and theIllinois BrassBand tied for therunner-up position; the remaining bands, notin placc ordcr, wcre Alletheny, East-ern Iowa, Triangle,and Sfi okyMoun-tain. Paul Droste's group will receivc$2500 from CABB FESTIVAL to hclpwith their expenses ii coming to thcFestival. Columbus would not be cli-gible to entcr theCABB FESTIVALTapeContestagain urhl 1996.

Thc CABB FESTML line-up will in-clude (as of February lst) The RiverCity Brass 8and, The Dallas Brass,The Olympia Brass Band (Ncw Or-loans-stylc carly jazz), The AtlantaTemple Band of The Salvation Army,Saxton's Cornet Band, DodworthSaxhom Band, The Naperville Mu-nicipal Band, and thehostgroup. TheAdvocate Brass Band. More dctailsonadditional groups and soloists will beavailable ir our April issuc.

ln addition, CABB FESTIVAL,incoop-cration with The Sonneck Society, willsponsor its second Band History Co -fcrcnce on Friday, June llth. Thc pri-mary focusof theday willbeThe Ameri-canMarch. l-eadingbandscholarswhowill bc making presentations includeRaoul Camus, Paul Bierley, FrankByme, Ceorge Foreman, and cvcn yourfaithful editor, RonHolz. The insertinthis issue of THE BRIDCE suppliesmore informationon the GABB FESTI-VAL and wehope to have an inscrtonThe Band History Confcrcnce in ourApril issuc. Plan to attend the wholcthree daysll

The thrcc judges who listened to theseven tapes wish to commend eachgroup for their efforts. Ncarly everytape demonstrated good Programchoices for such a public, outdoorfcs6-val. The quality was of plalng wasgenerally good throughout thc rangeof bands. The panel will recommmdthat next year one short "scf'piece beplayed byeachband in order to insurean unequivocal point of comparison.Similarly, the judges recommend thatbandsplace their fi nest playingcarly inthe tape arld that thcy avoid concertworksexcc(ding7-8 minutesinlengthdue to the nature of the performanccsatCABBFESTIVAL. This wasanexcel-lcnt start for the cooperativc venturebetwecn NABBA and CABB FESTI-

God & CountryConcert

Brass Band ol Columbus

The SASF Brass Bandol Asbury College

Prof essor Vlncent DlMartlno,TrumpeUCornet Sololst

Salurday, April 24, 1992

7:30 P.M.

King Ave United [,{elhodisl Church(near Ohio Slate Campus)

Columbus, Ohio

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Febru8ry 1993 The grass Band Brldge 11

Brass Band Music Review

By Dr. Paul E. Drosle

Three interesting and usable brassbandpieces were published by RoschillMusic in 1992 and are available in TheUnited States from Bemel Music.

Rosehill has published several arrange-ments of music of Andrew Lloydwebber in the Past. AMIGOS PARASIEMPRE (Friends for Life) was theOfficial Theme of the 1992 BarcelonaCames- ThisarrangementbyPeterCra-ham is in a "gende rraranela" style. Itisshaight-forward melody with accom-paniment and scored in safe keys andranges. The melodic interc'st is mainlyin the tutti solo cornets and solo eupho-nium. Only the solo/first cornets andcuphonium go abovc the staff. This isapleasant and agreeable piece that wouldfit on most programs and would re-quire minimal rehearsal. lt is about 4minutes long and comes with a full

From the pen of Elgar Howarth comesa "dif ferm(, arrangemcnt of C,e6hwin'sEMBMCEABLE YOU . The scoring ismostly for tlombonesolo in ballad stylewith an accompaniment tl|at is inter-esting cnough to sharc attendon withthe melodic line. There is an effectivekey change followed by a rctum to thetonic for the final section. Thc workfinishes with a short trombone cadenza.

EMBRACEABLE YOU requires a tlom-bonist with a range up to a written highE FlaL and with a sound strong enoughto play above an occasionally thick ac-companiment. The anangement fallsin the range of "mediumdifficult," butwould be well worth the rehearsal time.The lenglh isabout4 rninutesand thereis a full s<ore.

FANT.4SY FOR TROMEONE by rarnesCumow is a safe and playable solo witha safe, playable accompaniment. It isalso published with a piano actompa-nimmt. It starts in ballad style with a

pleasing tune that is eventually joinedby a counter-line in the comets. Analleyo spititoso s€ction c.eates an in-stant change of style and mood. ThegTandioso section leads to a repeat of theallegospiritosoa d a properly convinc-ing ending.

This is an effective piee for youth bandsand soloists, renecting Mr. Cumow'sinterest in music written for the publicschool market. There are no majortechnical demands 60r the soloist or theband. Students will enFy plalng thispiece, and adults will be pleasedlisteners. The technical level is in the"medium-easy" range and there is afull score. Playing time is about fiveminutes,

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April2 Richmond, VAApril3-4 Washington,D.C.April5 Baltimore, MDAp l6 Travel DayApril T Knoxvillq TNApril8 Charlofte, NCApril9-1r Atbnta, GAApril 12 Birmingham, ALApril 13 Travel DayApril 14 Tampa, FLApril 15 West Palm Beach, FL

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Th€ Hendon B.nd was first formed in1885 and has become intemationalyrecognized for its fine Christian brassmusic. In rccent years the band hastoured throughout The United King-dom, Eumpe, and, in 1988, pa.ts ofTheUnid States and Canada. The band's

regular function is within the corpecomfiunity center of Hendon, in northwest landon, where the band plays forseveral worship services each Sundayas well as a wide mngc of evangelicaland social service support efforts.

The bandmaster is Stephen Cobb, cur-rently principal solo cornetist anddeputy bandmaster of The Intema-tional StalI Band of The SalvauonArmy. He succeeded his father, RolandCobb as bandmaster of Hendon somefourteen years ago. Roland Cobb, alsoformer solo cometist with the ISB, suc-ceeded HIS father as band leader atHendon! Thus drere is a total of morcthan 70 years of leadership by the Cobbfamily with Hendonl

The band will feature a wide range ofsoloists, including Gordon Hill, formerp ncipal trombone of the ISB, andMichael Wilson, solo cometist withHendon for the last twelve years. Theband's repertoire will include the veryfinest in Salvation Army brass bandliteEtur€ and arrangernents from theclassics. THE BRIDGE higt'ly recom-mends that NABBA members any-where near this band's cgncerts makeev€ry effo to catch their fine musicalpluy'og.

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The Brass Band Works of P.J. Powell(1897-1965)

By Arch Smilh(Allegro Band Muslc, Ngw Zealand)

Since my association with Allegro BandMusic, I have enioyed reading yourofficial journal, THE BRIDGE, and fol-lowcd thc developmcnt and activitiesof membcrs of thc North A rnerican fra-temity with interest.

I thought it would trc of intercst toknow that Allegro Band Music has aconsiderablc collcction of earlier brassband music, much of it verysuitable forlowcr gradebands. Top bands wantingto find ou t-of-print brass band classicsmay also be able to find from Allcgroexactly the work thcy scck.

Allcgro's historic files are dcrp, andthat is csp(ially true of music for thatuniversal band activity, marching, forboth €ontest and conccrt.

Many of thccarlyconductorsand bandtraincrs wrote cxccllent marchcs. Al-though some rcccntcompositions havesupersed€d thatcarlymusic, wcfind inNcw Zlrland that wc continually rc-tum to thcse earlier compositions.

For cxample, in the '1960's a D gradcband won our Quickstep Compctitionwith good musical marks from thejudges by using thc march C,4SI8LLCOCH byTJ. Powcll.ln the samc ycatThe National Band of New Zealandused this same march brilliantly in sev-cral tour p€rformanccs. Thcse earliermarchescontinuc to bc featured in ourContcst Quickstep and Strcet Marchcompctitions, as well as in the conccrtpcrforryrances of most of our bands,year aftcr year.

T.l. Powell was a Wclsh band conductor and kainer who ttecame highly rc-spectecl for his march compositions.Many of his works were named aftcrcastles of his homeland.

Polvell's scorcs rcvr'althat, providcd aband has good soloand rcpianocornet,baritonc, aftl euphonium playcrs who

can play parts that range from quitebasic to reasonably diff icult, thc rcmain-derof the band will give a good strongbackground, rhythm, and tonc. Thismeans that Powcll's marches are verysuitablc for shect marches by juniorand D grade ba'rd s. Highcrgrade band swill find them just as enjoyable andeffectivc.

The followingT.J. Powell music is still available in limitedquantities from Allegro Band Music:

Bo dstand...................,..Contest March...................NZ $19.95&onfuadier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Concer t March. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37.00

Cnstell Cnerdydd ...........6/8 March................................... 14.95

Caste\|C1etfi\i..............March..........................................20.00

Castell C0ch..........,....,,..The famous march .....................30.00

Co lestor, The ...............Good Contest march .................39.95

Duo for Euphoniums.....Duet and Band ...........................21.00

Gay Hussar . . . . . . . . . , , . . , . . . . .Quick March. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14.95

Life's Trensures ............. Easy Suite... .................................27.95

Serenade Espngttole ....... Delighdul Item .......-...................21.95

Sn(nude,t Fantasy ..........Ode to the Welsh mountain .....79.00

Thunderclourl ,............... Contest Malch ........... ................39.95

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Plcasc 6nd the Allegro ad in this issueto sec how easy it is to ordcr fromAllcgro. ]lre Ncw Zcaland dollar iscurrcntly worth about US$.52, so yourcost for thcabovc items isaboutllalf theamount listcd. Wc'are happy to acmptyour USorCanadian checksand cr(:ditcards,

Editols Note: Arch Smith is a wcll-known, respectcd music educator, bandconductor, and arranger fromAuckland, New Zealand

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North American Brass Band Association. Inc.

Form to NominateA Member of the Board of Directors

NameofNomineeplease inl ot lype

Statement of nominee's background and brass band experience.

I agreo to my name being placed in nomination lor a position as Member-at-Large on the NorthAmerican Brass Band Association, Inc. Board of Directors. lfelected, lagreetoserve at leastthreeyears, attending as many NABBA functions as lpossibly can, attending at leaslone board meetinga year, and will tulfill committee work and other assignments as may be required. I will hold validmembership in NABBA throughout my lhree-year term on the Board.

Flrsl Nomlnator's Slgnature Signature of Nominee

First Nomlnator's Printed Name Date

Please return this completed torm by April 30, 1993 to:

Second Nominator's Signature Mr. Bert Wiley, NABBA SecretaryP.O. Box 2438Cullowee, NC USA 28723

SeCOnd Nominator'S Printed Name This form may be duplicated as needed.

14 lhe Brass Band Bridge February 1993

Brass Band News

NABBA BoaTdNominationsDue April 30, 1993

In lheory, al loast s€ven vacanciesinth€NABBABoad ot 0?ectolswilloccur an Sepl.mbsr, 1993.

The River City Btas8 Band's 1992-93season highlights include the expan-sion of their subsaription series intoJohri5town, PA at thc Uni vcrsi ty of Pitts-burgh branch. Altogcther, their seven-pr(Eram series is now prescntc\i at cightWestem Pennsylvania sites, 56 perfor-mancEs in all, for nearly 4,000 subscrib-els and total audience of nearly 40,000!

Cuestartistsfor 1992-93: AllenVizzutti(trumpeo; Joe Negri (razz guitar), DonAliquo (flutc), and Dick Napolitan (vi-braphone); RoyNewsome(conductor);

and the Pittsburgh Steelers' nrascot,Stcvie St{rler.

Five works arc bcing givcn premieresvia RCBBcommissions thisyear: O(to-ber-voya8e, by Joe Ncgri (for iazz trioand brass band); November-SoxsdBanal Ce te nial March, by Leo atdSmith; February-Co cerl ino t 'orFhqelho and Brass Band, by WilliamHimes oohn Culp, soloist); March-Royal Sd'rle, by PhilipSparke; AprilDanre Oi'erlrrre, by loseph tenkins.

In March the RCBB will travcl to theWcst Coasl March 28, for the Ambas-sador Auditorium's Pcrforming ArtsScrics. On the wcekcnd of April 30-May 1 and 2 they will bca part ofTheIndianapolis Symphony Orchcstra'sPops Scrics. Mini- tours in January(South Carolina) and May (EastcrnPA)have expanded thc group's outrc'ach.As highl ighted elscwhere in THEBRIDCE, thc RCBB will bc onc of themain attractions at Thc Crcat Ameri-can Brass Band F('stival, Danvillc, KY,Junc 1213.

Exccrptcd from lhe SPARKE CON-VERSATION, wc can quotc furtherachicvcments for the RCBB, courtesyof Bob Bcrnat's voice: "Wccxp!'ct to doa bt more rccordings. That's whcrc wescc ou r major increa se lin activityl. Weare doing two in our ncxt fiscal year(1992'93) and will cvc'rtually gct abou tthree per year for tho grcat practicalreason that wc nccd thc income. Theysupport our tourinS. lf wc get thoserecordingsoutarouid the country andthe world, ourability to gct contractslpcrformanccs iscnhnncd." In November the band rc{ordsi CONCERT INTIIE PARK, rclcassl on both cassetteandCD. Llterthisyeartheband shouldcomplete FOOTLIFTERS, a disc fea-tur ing 18 Bri t ish and Americanmarches, forrL'lcascin WestemEuropeby Polyphonic Produclions.

To top off this incrcdibly successfulyear theRCBBisable to announcc thattheir National Endowment f or the ArtsChatlenscGra nt fu 'd -raising campaignreached the $675,000 goal inlune 1992,onc ycar ahead of sch€dule!!

Triangl€ Brass Band was invited topcrform for thc sccond year in a row atThe Southeast Brass Confcrcncq Octo-ber 31-November 1, 1992 on the cam-pus of The Urivcrsity of North Caro-lina, Chapcl Hill. Thc Conference fea-tured scveral top-notch clinicians andsoloistt including May Ann Craig(eu-phonium),Philip Farkas(Fr@ch Hom),Mark Could (Trumpct), David Lewis(Tuba), John Marcellus (Trombone),and Rick Lillard (Jazz Trombone).Crown Chambcr Brass opcn€d the Con-fcrcncc ivith a concert and the mom-ing/aftemm sessions that followedfeahrrc'd clinics and mastc'r classes bythc above-named artists.

Salurday evcnirrg's Cala Conccrt, en-titlcd A CELEBRATION lN BRASS,opcnci with thc UNCSymphonic Bnnd,directcd by Dr. ,amcs Hile. The bandperf ormed Shostakovicll's F tsl iL,c Ooerl,{ruand thcn assumed thedifficultandunsung rolc of accompanyirS variousgucst soloists. Thc solo works cltoscnranScd from traditional HcrbcrtClarkcarranSements to more contemporarypilres, such as th.'Collq uv Jot SoloTrottrbone and Sv|4fioti Ba, (1967) pLr-formcd by Jdrn Marcellus. The firsthalf of thc pro8r.rm concludrd withTange ts fot BrussQtt hI tI at I Svn4laicBand, a 1990 work of k)lm Wesson,which fcaturcd Tl1c Unitcd States ArmyBrassQuintet wi th tlr symphodcband.UNC'S Jazz Band, diroctc.d by JamesKetch,took thcstrgc for thc srcond halfof thc progrnm and delishled theaudi-cnce lvith classic jazz tuncs, such asEllington's Il Dott t MNn a Thins, aswoll ascontcmporary jazz sounds. RickLillard rvas thc fcafur('d artist with thisgroup and c'rlc'rhinqj the audiencervith his smooth trombonc srylc, skat-singing techniqur's, and wator-bottleanrics,

Sunday morning's Confcrence openedwith master class scssions conductedby mcmbcrs of The U.S. Army BrassQuintet. The Triangle Brass Band'sconcert commenccd at 1l:00 A.M. In-t€rim conductor Dr. James Hile as-scmbled a powerful and yctcntcrtain-ing piogram to showcase thcgroup on

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To no|rllnslo e q|lallllod candl-date, plear€ complete the nomi-natlon torm provld.d In lhls ls-lue (or copy ol lt) rnd msll it byAprl l30, 1093 to:

Mr. Berl WlleyNABBA s€cret.ry

P.O. gox 2438Cullowhee, NC 28723

USA

Only individ ual membe|s and m em -b€f-band d€lsgalss are eligibl€ lohold oJfics. All nominses musl b€cur€nl NABBAMsmbsrs. Th6lermol lhe n€w Eoard n€mbers will b€lhtee y€ars, lrom lhe Boad's An'nualM€eting in S€ptember 1993lolhe Board Mesting Sept€mb€r 1 996.

Tarm €xpir€s S€pt€mbor 1993:Cha €s funold, Roben Crcfi, PaulDrost€, Mi l t Hovelson, OonKn66bu€, Oon Slin€, Richard Toll€y

T6rm €xpif€s S6pt6mber 1994:Brian Bowman, G€orge Fosler,Ronald Holz, B€th Hronek, Tomlllyers. Sara North, Tom Palmalier,Michael Russo, Ben Wiley, Johnny

this occasion. Selections includedcrqx:n's Prehule lor a Occasion, TheB.B. and C.F. Ma,'cfi by J. Ord Humc,Spark's Barn Dance an.l Cozoboy Hynn,Afnold's Little S itc for Bnss and Ser?nad? by Dcrek Bou rgcois. Euphoniumsoloists Randy Guptill and Eric Crushwere feahrr€d on Bryce's Rmdellelo forT!'o Euphoniwns and Dr. Hile's ownarranging talents werc showcased asthe Band performed hisadaptatlonsofSalrntion Is Cruled (Txhesnokof0, thrc€movemcnts of Verdi's REQUIEM, andHopak by Khatcha turian, which scrvcdai thc band's encore. Sunday's aftcr-noon session featu red a clinic on Teach-ing BrassStudentg and concluded witha recital by Thc U.S.. Army BrassQuin-

The Triangle Brass Band cnFyed thciropportunity to participate in TheSou th-east Brass Conference a|,ld look for-waad to continuing to rcprcsent thcbrass band tradition at similar confer-enccs, both those "close to homc" andwhcrcver brass players comc togetherto share cducational and pcrformancegrowth.

The Batnbridg€ Brilish Erass Band.Conductor Ed Mobley has scnt THEERIDCE this positive rcport on thcirrecent effortsi

Bainbridge, a Ceorgia town of 15,U00Iocated in the Southwest region of thestate, is home to a Bdtish BrassBand.ltis thc only such band lNon-SalvationArmyl in Ceorgia as faras I can dcter-mine,

When I first camc to the community tobecomc President of Bainbridge Col-lege, a new two-year s.hool, I disaov'ered the concrcte base of a former ga-zebo in thc downtown park. We begangathering brass players on this founda-tion of thc, gazebo and play for thesingi g of carols each Chrishnas Eve.Thc players would numbcr 7 or 8 andwould be composed of whoever happencd to be in town for the holidays. Irealized in 1986 that the interest wasgreatcnough to foundarealbrassbandin the style of the British bands. The

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nextsrcPwasa giantone: I approachedSam Cri ffin, publisher of the local news-papcr The POSI SE4RCHUGHT,anda good friend, who is often the origina-toror supporter of maverick ideas. 5amliked thc idea immediatelyand enthu-siastically agrced to sponsor the band,rcsulting in a complete set (exceptTB's)of Yamaha instrumcnts, which wcrefinanced through a five-year lease/Purchase plan.

I read Perry Watson's book, The Car€and Fceding of ACommunity BritishBrass Band, and attend€\d his work-shop in Raleigh; hc latcr cond uctod oneof thc Yamaha workshops inBainbridSc'.

Thc players represcnt an all-Americancross !{'ction of the communityr for-cstcr, optometrist, studcnts, busincsspeople, technologist, teachers (includ-ing a fcw band directors), and Episcopal priest (who learned hom scrakh),and even a dcdicated tuba playcr whohapp€ns to bc a superior court judgc.We have rchearscd in band rooms andothcr locations; howevcr, the prescntfacility isthcmostsatisfactory. Wc prac-tice weekly in a children's thcater oper-atcd by thc collegc in a local mall.

Th€ Batnbridge British Brass Band isregarded, I bclieve, as the town band.The gazebo was rebuilt on theoriginalsite and offers a tum-of-the-centurylook to thc, bcautiful park in the townsquarc, where numerous cvents takcplace. Thc Christmas Eve carols arcnow a traditional program. If thcwcather is fair, and itmostly isherc inSouth Ceorgia, theaudicncc will num-ber close to a thousand. The POSr-SE,4RCHLIGHT provides the audiencewith words to the carols. We use acomPere and scriPt with most Pro-grams.

Tlrc band has played a variety of out-doors events: Swine Time Festival,Mayhaw Festival, Mayor's Day, July4th, and a "Brown Bag' (rcasion scv-eral times a year. one of which is thctown's annual Rivcrside ArtsfesL athrec-day major civic atkaction.

Additionally, the band has playcd forseveral church services, where rve buildour music program into the normalordcr of s€rvicc, using hymns from theparticular hymnbooks.

Out of town pcrformances include thefeatured entertahrment at two memo-rial celebmtions at Andersonville, siteof the well-known Contederate prison.

Reccntly the BBBB performcd at a col-orful Christmas show at nearby Scmi-nolc State Park, where thcre was alighted houseboat parade, culminatingin thc lighting of thc grcat trcr acrossthe lak.-a beautiful sight.

Although I have attendcd a nationalcontest as an observer/listener, theband has not compcted. The compe-tency of the musicians ranges from aMa sters in Tru mpct PcrforrrEnce tro oncwho hadn't buched a hom in twentyyears, Rchcarsals are sometimessparsely attended, arrd wedo not havca waitinS list to enter; however, wedoenioy what we do, and some day wemay attend a contest.

Onc example of the dedication of theEBBB members is thcir willingness tosupport the work of Thc SalvationArmy. Thc local chapter refers to us asan honorarySA Band and recently pre-sented the band a plaque to rc{ognizetheband's efforts. For the second con-secutive year, the band divided intotwo teams and playct at four locationsto promote the Christmas kcftlcs onw(€kends. Igsa pleasantduty, and itisnice to see the smiles direated towardsthe bright rsl EBBB shirts.

Wehavea complete set of instrur€nts,a Bood library, plcnty of opportunitiesto perform, and somc very dedicatedpe'.'plc who are wilhrg to play in rainor shine, fair or cold, iust for the Ioveofit. Isn't that what ifs all about?

The United States Army Brass Bandfinishc\d 1992 witha successful tour ofthe mid-Atlantic coast and a pint ap-pcamnce with Th€ Atlantic Brass Band.The New Ycar brought a retum toWashington for participation in the In-

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augxral activities. Captain ThomasPalmatier led The Army Herald Trum-pets in numcrous televised perfor-mances and played a key behind-thc-scenes role in planning music supportto inaugural events.

The last week of January found TheBand's headquarters brimming withtubas and euphoniums for The A-rmyBand's 10th Annual Tuba-EuphoniumConference, Familiar faccs such asNABBAboard membcr Brian Bowman,Harvey Phillips, Dan Pcrantoni, andWinston Morrismade this special anni-vcrsary cvcnt. Theconfcrcncc fcaturcdthe first ever Armed Forces Brass En-semble, conducted by NABBA boardmember Tom Palmatier and includingthe finest performers from all the ser-viccs. Thc conccrt fcaturc\d thc iust-published brass choir anangements ofDr. Rogcr Cody.

During February 25-27, The Army Bandhosted the Eastern Trombone Work-shop featuring famousiazz trombonistCarl Fontana. All of this seivcs as awarm-up for theaIrival in our nation'scapital of the finest brass bands fromNorth America-at NABBA '9311 Theweekend promises to have a rccordturn-out and star-studded cast ofjudges, clinicians, and soloists will of-fer somcthingforevcryone. Checkclsclvherc is this issue for further details.Participating bands will receive pack-ets with all the inforffation drey needfor a successful visit. CourtesyofJanetHowells-Tiemy, US Army Brass Band.

By 8.W. Holz

We are plalng "catch-up" in our recordreviews and should be back on $hed-ulebyour April issue. In thcmeantimethese minircviews contain highlightsonly butwith the underlying assump-tion thatthcrcvicwer recommends therecording unless otherwise stated.

SweetByand By Canadian Slaff Band(Brian Burditt WRC8-6524 Progmm:The Creat Reviaal (Cordon), S?reet Byard Bv (Ballantine), Variants on SLFra'rc'i (Chaulk) IDavid Chaulk cu-pfronium soloistl, Fot Our Transglssioks lcalveri, Majesty lDownie), C4iroRel Srield (Raikes), The Etennl Quesl(Steadman-Al len) lc larence white,trombone soloistl, Rrteric (Downic),Peace Like a Rioer (Bulla) lFeaturingtrombone scctionl, Fi,a/e lo SyErphony*4 (Tchaikovsky/Cordo'I.'), Lod, Holu Ilo?e Yo! (Condon) JThis item on CDonlyl TT: 70.00 I belicvc this is thc fincstrecording I have heard of this band.Brian Burditt should bc cornrnendcdfor somc splcndid work with tlis tal-ented enscmble. Their soloistsare firstratc and thc litcraturc providcd is anexcellcnt cross-section of rccent SAmusic and old classics. Brassband shr-dents will be intercstcd in MorleyCalvcrt's.ha llcnging d cvotional work,Fot O r Tnksgftssiotts, as well as thcearly Steadman-AIlcn hombone fea-ture, Tlc Elenal orest. New compos;tions and arrangcments by Bill Cor-don, Len Ballantine, and KennethDownie receive especially good atten-tion. The technical brilliancedisptayedon the Tchaikovsky transcdption is butonc bit of cvidcncc dlat allows thisband very high ra*ing in the NorthAmedcai brass band scene. HighlyRecommended !

Tribute: A Collectionof ClassicAmefri-can Showpieces for Euphonium StevenMead, Euphonium Soloist; MichiganState University Wind Ensemble (Kenneth Bloomquist) Polyphonic CPRM118D. Program: Otigi tnl Fantusie(Picchi/Mantia), Nt t tn lune lKing),Frcn the Shores of the Might! Pacific

(Clarke), Rndpsody (Curnow), BrauLifnColofado (Deluca/Robetfs), Cohcertinoin B Flat (Klengel/Falconel, Fattasia diCohce r lo lBoccalati / Kent-Akers),Estrerrifa (Poncc/Lakc), Atla ti Zeph-yrs (Simons), Belieue Me Il All ThoseEtdeati g Young Cftdl,r's (Mantia/Bras(h/Maldonado), Flouer Song f rcmCartnen (Bizet/Hadin9), At rl latlgSyre (Mantia). A British cuphoniumvirtuosoioinsProfessor Bloomquistandthe Michigan Statc winds in this de-lightf ul lribute to h^/o grcatcuphoniumplaycrs active in America thiscentury:Simonc Mantia and Leonard Falcone.Stcvcn Mead needs no intrcduction tobrass band fans! We allow this windband feature in THE BRIDCE becauseso much significantlitcraturc foron€ofour primary instrumcnts is so well-presented on this recording. Thc cas-sette review copy I receivcd alloivsMead's warm, lyrical sound to domi-nate in appropriate manncr thc finewind accompaiiments. Ampleand in-formative notes on the music, Mantiaand Falconc, and tllc pcrformcrs areprovidcd in thc i|rscrt. The programhas just the right bala ncc bctrvccn stan-dard variation solos of the late l9thccitury variely and more rcccnt or morcunusual euphonium litcraurc. Well-produced package-Highly rccom-mended, especially for studcnts of thocuphonium.

Euphonic Sounds: The British Tuba

Quartet Polyphonic CPRZ 009D. Pro-gram: Celeslial Sr/ii8 (Bulla), Il Rito/no(Dicro/Ferguson), Th.)t Didtl' I BeLicueMc (Kern/Holcombe), Qm rl ef lo r B rass(Ramsoe / Bu t tery), Mo coeur selecotlrle de a 2016 (Lasso/Robinson),

Iohn, Co, e Kiss Me No1u (Byid/Winter),Bocorc (Poweu/Buttery), The FapoileR g (Joplin/Sabourin), Spiritual lazzS,rttc (arr. Niehaus), Greunsleeues larr.B[ttery), Gd MeTolheChrrchO Tine(Lerner and Lowc/Belshaw), Ai frotnSrife #3 ( Bach / werdcn),The Pitlk Pan-trer(Mancini /Krush), Euphot ti c Sot l,tls0oplin/Werden), Yor Made Me Iooevor (Monaco/Holcombe), Finale t'romWillian TeII Ooerture \Rossirri /Smalley). The second Steven Mcad cae

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sefte we received ftom Polyphonic isalso a winner! Here three young veter-ans of the British brass band and sym-phonic scene irin Mead in a delighdulpotpourri of items for 2 euphoniumsand 2 tubas. They overcome the timbrallimitationsof thecombination,in termsof listener attention, by srippllng awonderful variety of pieces, from seri-ous 'tlassic" comDositions to Brcad-way tunes to Renaissance madrigals. Iespecially enioycd the first cut StevcBulla's Celesl ial Srire, f i l led withquodlibets from past brass tnnd clas-sics by Coffin, BaU, Leidzen, et. al.

Vadanb: Music For Euphonium andPiano David Chaulk, Euphonium,andStephcn Bulla, Piano. Independent Re-leas€ from the two artists (Bemel Musiccan locate). Program: E!/tony (Red-headr, Shetund@h (^rr . B\rlla]', The CarniLsl of Venice (Arban/ Iaidzen),Cot$e'cral iofi (C1lalrlk), Ransom?d (Marshall),Atdonte anl Scherzo (Chaulk), Syrn-phonic Varianls (Curnow). DavidChaulk, euphonium soloist of The Ca-nadianStaff Band,demonstratcson thiscassette why hc is one of NorthAmedca's finest exrDnents of his in-strument, He is alsodeveloping into afinc composcr of brass band works,several examples of which, in pianotransciption, are on this tape. I undcr-shnd this recording was pu t togcthcr afew years back but has only iust beenedited and rnastcrcd by Steve 8ulla,who servesas thecompctrentaccompa-nist. The euphonium is recorded verywell, while the piano is justa bitbright(almostelectsonic) for my taste, but thisis not a sedous drawback. In manyrespects this tape is, using the sportscliche, a clinic insolid euphoniumplay-ingl The old Arba 's Car ivol, ̂ s arrangcd by Erik Leidzen,isSiven a par-ticularly breathtaking reading, alonSwith some whimsical adjustments inthe intcrludes provided by Mr. Bulla.

Toccata: The Sovetrign Brass (Sextet).WRC4-6454. World/The SalvationArmy. Program: P/aiss (Heaton),Ifl lleCrlden(Broughton),Ca,adian Folkso gsr/ite (Calvert), 8lrrrle Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov/Broughton), CalLtry Track

(Chaulk), Tocdrta (Hcato ), Processbnol the Nobles (Rimsky-Korsakov/H\tntetr, Carnioal For Sir (Arban/Leidzen/Chaulk), Frsnc, (Chaulk),Sle.ues Groughton), LiSrf w'lt (Gott),Rondo AIla Turca (Mozart/Hunter),P/orrises (Broughton). This brass sextetplus a percussionist is made up ofveryfine musicians ftom the Toronto area,most of whom are activc in SalvationArmy brass bands, includ ing s€veral ofwhom are principal players in TheCanadian Staff Band. Sevcral of theitefits are scorcd-downed veEions ofSA classics, like Hcaton's Toccala(which,by theway, wasoriginally writ-ten as a piece of chamb€r brass!) andCal vcrt's Srit€. other i terns cofite frcmthe fine Sextet Jounel published byThc SA's Eastem Territory, New York.The instrumentation usually calls for 2cornets, alto, tromtlone, euphonium,and bass, but on this cassette the toptwo players frequcntly usc Flugelhornand /or piccolo Fumpet for spc,cial linesand cffccts. The playing is at all timcsvery fine with rnany superb moments.All brass band musicians should havechamtJer brass cxpcricnce, Here is agood starter hpc that shows what i$available fo. such a combination! The.ccording is excellent (we expect thatfrom Ted Marshall thcsc days) with agood '1ive" fctl to thc group s sound.

National Brass Band Championshipsof Great Britain and GALA CON-CERT, 1992, Grimethorpc (FrankRenton), Black Dyke+ (James Watson),Mass€d Bands' (Howard Snell andDerek Bourgc\ois), and Soloists RogerWcbstcr (comct) and Nicholas Childs(euphonium). Livc rc(ordin& October17, 1992. Polyphonic QPRL 056D. TT:71.22 Program. Ha1ryy and Glorious(Bourgcois)*, Crirord (arr. Richards)',Toccola lron Ory Sympho y ll5(Wido./Sparkc)+,Ier4,t rcsses fot Trun -,ores (arr. Harvey)+, Neru len$aletn(Wilby)-Winning performance byCrimethorpe; Cfand Mrrch fun Aida(Verdi/D. Wrigho', /ir frotn Suite 13(Bach/Snell)., Panlotni,ne (Sparke)*-Nicholas Childs, soloisl li MenoriatnR.(. (Howarth)+, Your Tiny Ha d

(Puccini,/Langford)+-RogcrWebster,soloist; Entry of Lhe Cladi4tors (Fucik)* Ireceived this CD just as THE BRIDGEwas Soing to pr€6s and dcrided, due tothe dad nature of the live recordingand becauseitis a fine example of theyearly spectacular in The Royal AlbcrtHall, to include it in this issue. Thecontest-winning performancc byCrimethorpe is ri vctin& their off-stagecornetist really capturcd the spirit ofWilby's idea, despite the limitationsthat must have bccn placed on him.What an excellent addition to brassband litera rurc! Black Dyke holds thcirown with a warm, musical reading ofHowarth's In Mervriatn RK and pro-vidc plenty of brass pyrotechnics onthe Widor transcription. The two solo-ists offer topflight, scnsitive perfor-mances, showing rvhy they were cho-s€n for such a prc'ssurc spot. The Mas,scdBands-Brittania Building, CWSGlas8ow, and Brass Band Willcbroek(Netherlands)-add theexpcrtcd pompand large-stroke g('stures that oncwould wish for such a CALA. Highlyrccommended recorilinS!

The LexlngtonBrass Band

in Concen

Sunday, March 28, 1992

Central Christian Church

Lexington, Kentucky

Vincent DiManino, Trumpet Soloist

Dale Warren, Trombone Soloist

Free AdmissionA donalon will be rcquested.

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