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RReeppoorrtt Douglas Stotter, editor Spring 2002 From the Podium Dear Colleagues, Thank you for your attendance and support of the divisional years. Compositions so noted would be distributed to chosen en- conferences that have occurred in recent weeks. It has been my sembles in the summer of odd (2003) calendar years for possible pleasure to attend several of these events and I have received won- performance the following spring. derful reports from each venue. Grassroots activity at the divi- - By mutual agreement of ASCAP and board of CBDNA, the sional level is vital to the health of our organization and is often award will be called the ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize. the spark for our national agenda. There is a great deal of wonder- I hope you will relish the opportunities present in this new part- ful work going on within the umbrella of CBNDA and I am grate- nership. This joint venture will put us on the front lines of com- ful to all of you for your contributions to our profession. munication and creation with the best young composers in our As we look forward to our national conference at the Univer- country. It will also perpetuate a dialogue between the members sity of Minnesota, March 26-29, 2003 I hope you will plan to of CBDNA and the leaders in American composition at a new attend. The venue is outstanding and we are working very hard to level of mutual involvement. All of this for the reasonable cost of plan a conference that will meet the needs for a wide variety of $5,000 every two years! professional interest. I am pleased to announce an exciting new The Report you are reading is one of five remaining issues to adventure for CBDNA that will bear its first fruits in Minneapolis. be distributed both as an electronic and printed document. Fol- With the permission of the national board, I presented a pro- lowing the summer 2003 issue of the Report, all issues will be posal to the American Society of Composer and Publishers distributed electronically. The savings available to our organiza- (ASCAP) in January of 2001. The proposal, outlined below, has tion through this new method of distribution allow us to consider finally been approved by the ASCAP and CBDNA boards and is projects such as the ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize. ready to go “online”. The details of the proposal are outlined below: May our reward be great! - CBDNA will co-sponsor a biennial award for young compos- ers with ASCAP. Michael Haithcock - CBDNA will fund a prize of $5,000 each time the award is presented. - In return for CBDNA funding the prize, ASCAP will adopt the following items: a. award one prize in even calendar years beginning December 2002 b. announce the winning composer at the CBDNA Forum held at the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic in mid- December in the appropriate years c. a jury of three composers chosen and funded by ASCAP and In this Issue: two wind band conductor’s chosen and funded by CBDNA will be convened to select the winning composition/composer News ............................................................ 2 d. the jury should meet jointly to make the final decision at the ASCAP offices in New York by December 1st in the appropriate Hidden Treasures ....................................... 3 year e. ASCAP will promote and administer the competition in like Premieres ....................................................4 manner to its other awards except where noted above. - Further, CBDNA will guarantee a performance of the winning Divisional Conferences.............................. 6 composition at the following national conference held in the spring of odd calendar years. The 2002 winner will receive a performance at the University of Minnesota conference to be held March 26- Programs, State by State ........................... 9 29, 2003. - Additional works noted by the jury to be finalist in the compe- Business....................................................18 tition will be circulated to ensembles performing at regional CBDNA conferences held in the spring (2004) of even calendar 2 - NEWS NEWS The Twenty-Seventh annual Symposium Grand Mesa Music Publishers (800/265- The second CBDNA Young Band Com- for New Band Music, sponsored by the 1042) has just released a modern wind position Competition was held during the Virginia chapter of CBDNA, was held band orchestration of Mendelssohn’s clas- 2001 Mid-West International Band and February 8-9, 2002 at the University of sic Overture for Band, op. 24. The edition Orchestra Clinic. Tom Dvorak, University Richmond. From among 41 submissions, by Robert J. Garofalo is based on of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was chair of the three composers and their works were cho- Mendelssohn’s 1838 band score with mi- Competition Committee. sen to participate: nor adjustments taken from the 1826 cham- The winning work is Americans Lost for Mark Kilstofte: Ballistic Etude No. 3 ber winds version. In reorchestrating the Youth Wind Symphony by Christopher David Macbride: Teeth overture, the editor has maintained the Tucker. It was commissioned by the Greg Sanders: MeTro original voice leading and instrumentation DeSoto, Texas West Junior High School The composers conducted their works in whenever possible. In addition, the entire Band open rehearsal sessions and participated in work has been transposed down a major Americans Lost is dedicated to Ameri- a panel discussion. second (from C to B-flat concert) to ac- can families who have lost loved ones due The performing group for the Sympo- commodate modern wind band instru- to unnatural causes and is dedicated to the sium was the Virginia Intercollegiate Band, ments. Thus, for example, the B-flat so- victims of September 11, 2001. It is struc- which was comprised of students from ten prano clarinetists will be reading and fin- tured as follows: Virginia colleges and universities. gering their parts exactly as they would if Part 1 they were playing the original version on I. Fallen Remembrances C clarinets. This edition is dedicated to II. Tragedies The University of North Carolina Colonel Gary F. Lamb and The United Part 2 Greensboro School of Music hosted the States Army Band, Washington, DC. That III. ashes to ashes 13th Annual Carolina Band Festival and ensemble will perform the work under IV. Healing of the Heart Conductors Conference on February 21 - Garofalo’s direction at Brucker Hall, Ft. Christopher Tucker is a composition stu- 23, 2003. Two highly select high school Myer, VA, on Aprill 11, 2002. dent of Donald Grantham and Dan Welcher. honor bands were chosen by a competi- Notes about the work from the introduc- He has also participated in master classes tive audition process. The Concert Band tion to the score (used by permission): with John Corigliano, Warren Benson, (conducted by Hal Cooper, Arkansas This overture, originally titled Nocturno, David Maslanka, Samuel Adler, Elliot Del Tech University) is comprised of students was first composed in 1824 for the resi- Borgo and Walter Hartley. In 1999 he was currently in the 9th or 10th grade and the dent wind ensemble at Bad Doberan, a one of five composers to participate in the Symphonic Band (conducted by Ray fashionable seaside resort near Rostock in NBA Young Composers Mentor Project Cramer, Indiana University) by students northern Germany. Mendelssohn, age 15, where he studied with Mark Camphouse, in the 11th or 12th grade. Students sub- was vacationing there with his father when Timothy Mahr and Jack Stamp. mitting tapes and applications represented he heard the group perform. In a letter Arrangements are pending for Ameri- some of the very best music students from home to his sister Fanny, young Felix listed cans Lost to be published by Daehn Publi- an eight-state area including North Caro- the instrumentation as 1 flute, 2 oboes, 2 cation. In the meantime the work can be lina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, C clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 C horns, 1 C ordered through Shattinger Music (1-800- Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and trumpet, and English bass horn, which he 444-2408 or www.tuckermusicworks.com. Georgia. described as a large brass instrument with Additional information regarding Ameri- Students participating in the Honor a beautiful deep tone that looked like a big cans Lost and Christopher Tucker is avail- Bands also attended special clinics pre- jug or syringe. The original 1824 score to able via his web-site. sented by the instrumental music faculty Nocturno was lost but recopied (apparently This is an exceptional addition to the at the UNCG School of Music. While stu- from memory) by the composer in 1826. young band repertoire. CBDNA members dent instrumentalists were participating in The recopied score was also lost until the are encouraged to familiarize themselves the Carolina Band Festival, many of their early 1980s when it was discovered, after with this years winner and encourage per- teachers, primarily band directors, partici- a time lapse of more than 150 years, in a formance whenever possible. pated in a conducting workshop called the West-Berlin library. Carolina Conductors Conference which In 1838 Mendelssohn completed a new included lectures, demonstrations, and version of the work for 23 winds plus per- address for submissions clinic sessions for band directors. Clini- cussion (Janitscharen) and retitled it cians included Mark Kelly and John R. Ouvertüre für Harmoniemusik (Overture Douglas Stotter, editor Locke (UNCG). for Band). This version, which was pub- CBDNA Report lished posthumously by Simrock in 1852, Department of Bands calls for piccolo, flute, 2 oboes, 2 F clari- Merrill Hall nets, 2 C clarinets, 2 basset horns (tenor Indiana University clarinets pitched in F), 2 bassoons, contra- Bloomington, IN 47405 bassoon, English bass horn, 4 horns (2 in [email protected] C and 2 in F), 2 C trumpets, 3 trombones, NEWS - 3 and percussion (snare drum, triangle, crash State University-Fresno, Louisiana State HIDDEN cymbals, and bass drum).