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Interestin NABBA'sPREMIER NABBA and Vsriotionson Terra Beata by James "owN PlAcE" VIDEO COMPETITION is rising.The Curnow as well as featuringeuphonium deadlinefor entrieshas been moved to soloistJoel Pugh on Gregson'sSymphonic November1, 1988 to enablethose inter- Rhapsody.As part of the weekend'sactiv- estedgroups to producetheir video. Selec- ities,the BBC will hold an open rehearsal ted judgesfor this eventare Paul Droste, Fridayevening with all contestparticipants EarlyJune 1987 saw the sod turned on Presidentof NABBAand Conductorof the invited.I attendedan open rehearsalof land leased to us by the Chester Village Brass Band of Columbus;Mike Swaffar, Black Dyke at the 1985 EuropeanBrass Church commission. During July and NABBA's Treasurer and accomplished Band Championshipsand found that this August the main building was erected by musician;and yourstruly, K.D. Kneeburg, typeof exerciseis valuable for conductors as Roger Aalders (Bb tuba) and Ron Murphy Vice Presidentof NABBA and formercon- wellas bandmembers. (solo horn) and a variety of helpers from the ductorof SunshineBrass. The Technical TESTPIECES CHOSEN band and friends. Work parties were ongo- Advisorwill be ReeseEdwards from North ing and we were able to get permission to CarolinaState University. My videoplayer is TheChampionship Division test piece is move in in January(1988). Finishing touches warmedup and I amready to beentertained Plantagenetsby Edward Gregson.This are still to be done, but we hope to have the so hurry with thoseentries! workwas the 1973 RegionalQualifying Test official opening early this month. The main Piecefor the NationalBrass Band Cham- CHAMPIONSHIPSvII rehearsalhall is upstairsand featuresdouble pionships(Great Britain). It is publishedby doors leadingto a balcony on which we hope The seventhannual NORTH AMERI- R. Smith. to do some outdoor concerts.Half of the cost CAN BRASS BAND CHAMPION. Honors Division barids will be chal- for the deck was donated by the widow and SHIPS will be held in Asheville.North lengedwith GustavHolst's famous A Moor- relatives of the late Carl Hiltz who was a Carolinaon the weekend of April14lIS/16 side Suite.This memorabletest piecewas valued member of the cornet section for at the AshevilleCivic Center. Host hotel. writtenin 1928 for the CrystalPalace Con- many years,and this will be dedicated to his The QualityInn on the Plaza,will accom- test (Great Britain). It is published by memory. Downstairs will have a recreation modateall participatingbands as well as R. Smith. area, a library, kitchen facilities and wash- audiencemembers. Entry packetswere Americancomposer Stephen Bulla has rooms, and storage room. Many businesses mailed out to all brassbands early this written a new work entitled City Scopes and individuals have donated services, month.If youneed further information con- which will be used as the ChallengeDivi- materials,and cash along with some govern- cerning entry, contact J. Perry Watson sion's test piece. Published by Rosehill ment funding, to enable this dream to come (addresson page 4). Deadlinefor entry is Music.one of the movementswill test the true, and so far we have been able to stay out February13, 1989 and mustbe submitted bands'jazzstyle. of debt. Just to have our own facility has to Bert Wiley, Contest Host, (addresson EnglishCountry Scenesby Eric Ball is proved to be a tremendous asset,and well page4). the selectionfor the Youth Division.Pub- worth all the work required to achieve our lishedby PaxtonMusic, this three movement "own place"! In just sevenyears the band has SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL compositionwas commissioned specially for fully equipped itself with top quality instru- The bandchosen to performthe GALA the Youth Sectionof the 1971 National ments, uniforms, extensive library and now CONCERTatChampionships VII isa band Finalsfor the NationalBrass Band Cham- our band hall. pionshipsof GreatBritain. we all know and admire.The BrassBand of - Gordon McGowan, Conductor Columbus,winner of the Championship From the Editorsto all entering bands GOOD LUCK! Divisionof the 1986,1987 and 1988 Qon- tests,has been asked to performthe Satur- day eveningGala Concert.They are plan- ning to play Ruslonand Ludmilo(Glinka) continued on page 6 2 rxa sRAssseND BRTDGE ON THE BANDSTAND c'5 The Brighouse and Rastrick Band Conducted by Adrian Leaper and Derek Broadbent lEws POLYPHONIC) PRL 031D

Side One:1. The British Bandsman (Broadbent),2. Romance from The Godt'ly Officialpublication of the North American By Don Kneeburg (Shostakovitch/Broadbent).3. Alpine Samba BrassBand Association. (Broadbent),4. Napoli (Bellstedt/Brand),5. Jubilee Overture (Sparke). For,obout ond by British-typebross bonds throughoutNorth America. JAMES SHEPHERD Side Two: 1. Rhythm and Blues (Sparke), VERSATILE BRASS 2. Carnivalof Venice (Arban/Catherall),3. Editor..... KorenD. Kneeburg (POLYPHONIC)PRL035D March to the Scaffold (Berlioz/Wilkinson), 'Lakme' Assistont 4. Flower Duet from (Delibes/ Side The Editor.....Don W.Kneeburg One: 1. Arrivalof the Queenof Sparke), 5. Overture: Waverley (Berliozl (Handel/Hopkinson), Sheba 2. Moonlight Snell). 17304 LynnetteDr., Lutz, FL 33549 in Vermont(Blackburn & Suessdorf/Charle- €l3t 949.1022 This album. which is also availableon son),3. LongJohn's Hornpipe (Wiggins), 4. compact disc. was recorded in 1986 and LazybonesBlues (Phillips). 5. ThreeEnglish 1987 aI two different locations. Derek MEMBERSHIPDUES: (Arnold/Walker). Dances Broadbent conducts side one with great lndividual .. . .. $ 20.00 successand a great sound from the Band in fusociate 10.00 Side Two. 1. Rhythmand Blues(Sparke), that recordingsite. Side two isconducted by Memberband 50.00 2. The LittleWhite Donkey (lbert/Hopkin- Adrian Leaper in an environment that has Corporate 100.00 son),3. Fantasieand Variations(Arban/ littlereverberation and givesthe band a dull Sustaining 250.00 Hopkinson).4. Three Miniatures(Barry). sound.The new march. The BritishBonds- Patron 500.00 TheJames Shepherd Versatile Brass is a mon,by Derek Broadbentis well craftedbut Leadership 1000.00 twelvemember ensemble with conductor breaksno new ground in form or harmony. Moil to: Garry E. Cutt.The instrumentationincludes The Romonce is a excellent transcription David Pickett,Membership Chairman 4418 BlackstoneCourt four players(doubling on cornet// and should be a part of every band'slibrary. Bloomington.IN 47401 /),one tenor Broadbent'sA lpine Sombois also a popular horn,tenor and basstrombone, euphonium, number which U.S. bands could utilizewell tuba, a keyboard player, and two per- in program building.Nopo/i isperformed by The North Americon Brass Bond cussionists.As the nameimplies the group cornetistRoger Webster and is an excellent proudly Associotion recognizesthe performsa widevariety of musicfrom classi- example of polished workmanship. This lollowing for their support: calto blues.The founderof the ensemble. reviewerwould like a littlemore excitement. JamesShepherd, was forten years principal but it is well played. Philip Sparke'sJubilee 'highlight' cornetwith the Black Dyke Mills band and is Ouerture, is another from this a legendin hisown right.The tenor hornist is young composer.and it is the type of com- LEADERSHIPMEMBERS: GordonHigginbottom who will be remem- positionthat could servewell as an opening MusicalInstrument Division beredfor his excellentperformance at the or closing number. YamahaMusic Corporation,USA NABBA Championshipin Indianapolis. Side two of the album. as mentioned GRANDRAPIDS. MICHIGAN Theother members are also fine instrumen- earlier.suffers from a lack of reverberation talists.The two soloistsfeatured are bass and asa resultgives the band a lifelesscolor. CORPORATEMEMBERS: trombonistDavid Dransfield on Lazgbones Rhythm and Blues by Sparke is a difficult Boosey& HawkesBand Festivals B/ues.and cornetistSteven Ridler with the number for ensembleprecision and suffers MIDDLESEX.ENGLAND Arban Fantasie and Variations. Mr. on the recordingfrom a lack of communica- The SelmerCompany Dransfieldis an excellenttrombonist and tion between percussionistsand band. A ELKHART.INDIANA performswell in the bluesstyle but playsa good work but not easyto put together.(A little on the sharp side of the pitch. Mr. better performance can be heard on the AllegroBand Music Ridler,who playsa good dealof flugelon album.) AUCKLAND.NEW ZEALAND James Shepherd Versatile Brass the album,presents a goodperformance of Robert Childs performs the Carniuol of Purdy'sBrass Connection the Arban work but playsa little on the flat Venice with his usual outstanding techni- RALEIGH.NORTH CAROLINA side.The VersatileBrass as a whole per- que. This performance includes cadenzas RayburnTours, Ltd. formsvery well but this reviewerwould like which were a part of the duet version per- DERBY.ENGLAND to hear a better quality of music. The formed at the 1984 Great Britain National transcriptionsare already established Championships.Robert continues to be the StudioMusic Company piecesin the repertoireand they work well LONDON.ENGLAND best example of euphonium performance for thegroup. It isthe newerliterature on the today. The transcription olthe Morch to the 'dead' album that sufferswhen comparedto the Scot'fold does not work well in the old.Not thatthe old is betterthan the new, acoustics of this album. In addition, this butthat the newis not of the samequality as reviewer feels that the tempo is too fast to UPCOMINGDEADLINES theold. This is a valuablerecording for brass portray the seriousness of this march. bandswho are using smallerensembles Sparke's transcription of the Flower Duet JanuaryL5, 1989 from the band to perform at variousfunc- April15, 1989 : tions.It will providenot onlygood examples July 15, 1989 of performance,but alsoideas on arranging for this sizeof group. continuedon page 6 ANAMERICAN IN TOKYO THEBRASSBANDBRTDGE3 During a recent businesstrip to Tokyo, I was pleased to have dinner with Mr. Toshikazu Nagasaka,conductor, and Mr. Hidenori Naraoka, Eb tenor horn player, of The Band of the Black Colt. My company's Tokyo office found Mr. Nagasaka'sname in the telephone book and called to arrange the dinner. I learned of the band fromThe World of Bros.sBonds by Violet and Geoffrey Brand, who visited the Band severalyears earlier. When Mr. Nagasaka is not conducting, he works as a tax accountant. Joining us was Mr. Eishu Kosuge, a business associatefrom Daiwa Securities America in New York, who translated when my very weak Japanese, their good English, and our natural language couldn't communicate our thoughts. We met for a wonderful Chinese dinner high above Tokyo overlooking the Imperial Palace.We had many questions and comments for each other. The universality of both music and our brassband literature was obvious, even to those dining near us, as we discussedand sang our songs of mutual interest. The single-tonguing used in the Band is the same as our "ta" attack.They also use the softer "da" attack when appropriate, which they know is the standard attack used in most British bands. Apparently the Japanese find the "ta" articulation very difficult to learn because "ta" is not a frequent sound in their language. Double and triple tonguing therefore also takes considerable work to develop. Both Mr. Nagasaka and Mr. Naraoka were outstanding at tonguing. The literature used in Japan is identical to that used by British bands. Through recordings, both men were quite familiar with many American songs.For example, we jointly sang the beginning of Fillmore's RollingThunder.l gave them the Frederick Fennell edited arrange- ment of ihis march (published by Carl Fischer with the European brass band set, plus a transposed part for Eb soprano cornet) for the Band. The Band imports their music directly from publishers in the U.K. I suggested that Allegro Music in New Zealand also would be a good source. To get arrangements of their own Japanese songs, the method is the same as in North America for our songs - the conductor usually affanges the song, with copyright permission, or adapts a concert band arrangement. (Shouldn't we create a new standard position - composer/arranger - in brassbands?) So, I have yet to find a good commercial source for Japanesesongs arranged for brassband needed for my Around-The-Brass-Band-World concerts. The instruments played by the Band are selected and owned by the musicians and are the same brands used in the U.S.A. and the U.K. How is the Band funded?Simple, by contributionsfrom the members. I hadonequestion forthem aboutthe relationship between theJapanese conductorandthe band, which I thoughtwouldmake conducting in Japanvery difficult. When Seiji Ozawawas much youngerand had just returnedto Japanfrom his Americanconducting education (please see the Sony videotapedocumentary Ozowa, which is quoted below), "his countrymen felt he haspicked up too manywestern ways," especially the direct- nessin correctingfaults. "Japanese musicians are accustomed to respectfrom theirconductors, and they especially resent outspoken criticism from oneso young as Ozawa. A Japaneseconductor is like a Buddhawho knowseverything but saysnothing. Somehow the musicianis even- tuallysupposed to deriveinspiration without being told anythingdirectly. But Ozawacan't do that.If they'reflat, he just tells them they are flat." The orchestrarefused to play for Ozawa. My question was whether this indirect method still existsin Japan and, if so, is the method frustratingand slow for both the conductorand band? Mr. Nagasakasaid that thisis a famousstory about Ozawa and, of course,occurred many years ago. He said,"Today, flat is flat!" As a con- ductorand musician,I was relieved. With numerousconcerts and brassband festivals, the Britishbrass band movement is very active in Japan.Additional brass bands include the Conch-ShellBand ( a very logicalnatural name), the UtsunomiyaBrass Society, the KoriyamaCity Band,Tokyo BrassConcord, the TamagawaUniversity Masters Band, and The BlackColt Youth Band. Itwasa greatpleasureto talkwithMr. Nagasaka and Mr. Haraoka. When I amnext in Tokyo I hopeto heara rehearsalor concertoftheirfine brass band. Clearly, British brass bands are flourishing in Japan! - ThomasA. Myers Director& Founderof the Screamers& Lvric BrassBand

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BRASS BAND TRIVIA Many years ago, when first starting his business, Bill Lewington sold a piccolo trumpet to David Mason (of the Philhar- Since this is the last issue of "The Brass monia) for the princely (about Band Bridg e" before the Christmasholidays, sum of f58 At the request of , we would like to wish all of vou a verv safe $100.00). David recorded the high piccolo trumpet and Merrv Christmas! solo in the hit record using the -K.D. and Don Kneeburq.Editors samef58 piccolotrumpet. In August 1987, the trumpet brought a bumper pay off when at the auction sale of Beatle memorabilia. it I was sold for an incrediblef5.800! (about From The Editor's Desk $1o,ooo). (lnformotion courtesy of The Brltlsh Bandsmon). THEBRAss anNo entoct 5 FESSIONAL'S RNER

The Hannaford Street Silver Band had a to the prospective buyers. Because of the possible through a grant from the Laidlaw very busy and exciting 87-88 season.The professionalnature of the Hannaford Street Foundation and featured Curtis Metcalf as seasonopened on October25th, 1987 with Silver Band and the fact that we use twenty- soloist. We were also fortunate to premiere our own subscription concert entitled two instrumentalistsplus conductor, we find Gary Kulesha'sarrangement of his Romonce "Classics in Brass". Renowned Canadian that we are competing with symphony which was originally written for string composer Malcolm Forsyth came to orchestras in terms of our concert fees and orchestra. lt works very well for brassand is Toronto to conduct the world premiere of the venues that are likely to hire us. The fact superbly orchestrated. his Songs from the Qu'Appelle Volley. This that the orchestrasare often subsidizedand We appeared as guestsof the Guelph piece was commissionedby the HSSB with we are not does not help. However in this Spring Festivalthe following evening and help from the Ontario Arts Council. case, the concert sponsors decided they played a variation of this concert for an esti- Our next concert took place four days wanted us and with the assistance of the matedoutdoor audienceof fifteenhundred. later as the guests of the Barrie Concert Touring Office of the Canada Council, the Shortly after the final chords of the 1812 Association.The HSSB has been fortunate tour was made possible. Ouerture there was an hour long fireworks in that they are increasinglybeing asked to Within a week of returning home, we display.lt wasquite an eventand a greatend be the guests of concert societiesthat have headed to Orangeville Ontario for a guest to the Victoria Day weekend. hitherto catered to orchestras. This was appearanceon their concertseries and then July 1Othfound us once againperform- such an appearance. The concert sponsors back to Toronto for our own Christmas con- ing at the Music At Sharon festival. Sharon had requested a program of music from the cert with choir on December 13th. Ontario was the home of the once famous British Islesand so performed for them our The New Year found the Hannaford Sharon Band;an ensemblethat during their "last night at the Proms" style "Calling All StreetSilver Band in a rather peculiarposi- heyday won competitions as far away as Britons" concert. Well known conductor/ tion. We have all heard the name of Dimitri Philadelphia.As with our previous appear- composerHoward Cable led the ensehble. Shostakovich as a composer of orchestral ance there, we performed a "turn of the cen- After a break of a few weeks, we started musicbut how many of our members know tury" program which included works by preparations for a six concert tour of New that he included a brassband in his opera Mozart, Strauss,von Suppe, Sousa, various Brunswick and Nova Scotia. As with all Lody MacBeth of Mtzensk? Well -the score period solos and some arrangements by tours, this one had it's problems.Anticipat- calls for Eb soprano cornets, Bb cornets, Eb John Beckwith of early Canadian music. We ing a strikeby Air Canada,we paid more for altohorns,Bb baritonesand basses.While concludedthe concertwith a sing-a-longof guaranteedseats on CanadianAirlines. The on tour in the Maritimes a call came in asking music of the era. Howard Cable was the very seatswere fine but we found out when we whether we could provide the brass band able conductor on this occasion. arrived in New Brunswick that we were for this opera in the Canadian Opera Com- Sincethen we have been gearingup for shortfive suitcasesand all of our percussion pany's January production. The answer was what appearsto be an equallybusy season equipment!The airlinessecurity kept sucha yes,and in factthe ensemblereceived much this year. In a few weeks we will be showcas- '88 closewatch on those itemsthat they did not acclaim for their performance of the brass ing at Ontario Arts Council's Contact leaveToronto! Luckily our concert sponsors band parts. from which we hope to book some new - were happy to have us there even without The performances of Lady MacBeth were a tours. Our own series opens at the end of tuxedosand helped us borrow enough per- good warm up for our next series concert this month with a program of British and cussionequipment to allow the show to go which was entitled "Twentieth Century Canadian music.We head into the record- on. The rest of our equipment arrived Brass".For this concertwe were pleasedto ing studios two days later to record the pro- promptly at the hotel shortly after our con- have composer Edward Gregson come over gram for the Canadian Broadcasting cert ended. The joys of life on the road! from England and conduct a program which Corporation's SM5000 label. This label has From Woodstock we traveled to Perth- included his own helude for on Occosion previously been the domain of the major Andover, St. John, Fredericton, Moncton and Donces and Arias. Calvert'slntroduc- symphony orchestras, and so we are very and finallyon to Halifax.In Frederictonstu- tion. Elegg ond Coprice. McCabe's Cloud- flattered to have been asked to record for it. dents from four different school districts catcher Fel/s, Sparke's Jubilee Ouerture, Much as we would like it'to be released were busedin to an "open rehearsal"which Howarth's Porade, Satie's Gymnopedies immediately,it may take some time once it's we held the afternoon of our concert in that and Ravel's Pauane. It was an ambitious in the "can". We are recording a CD's worth city.When possible,we try to combine mas- program, but an excitingone and Gregson of music and hope to see it in that form on ' ter classesand instrument demon strations was wonderful to work with. An added the shelves. for the local school boards where we tour. bonus was noted Canadian composer and Everywherewe performed,wewere met by student of McCabe, Gary Kulesha at the - RobertSutherland appreciative audiences and helpful concert organ during the conclusion ol Cloud- associations. catcher Fells. This tour resultedfrom the New Bruns- We concluded our serieswith a Victoria wick Arts Council hearing and liking a tqpe Day concert entitled "Fireworks". Wayne of us at the Ontario Arts Council's Contact Je{f.reyreturned to the podium to conduct '86, which is a sort of'musical trade s\ow this program of "fireworks" for brass. Scott where various concert organizations gei to Irvine's new composition Concertino lor see what is availableand conversely,musi- Euphonium received it's world premiere. cal organizations can try to sell themselves The commissioningof this work was made 6 rHegness geND BRIDGE CriticsReuiew continued t'rom page 2 THE CIASSIFIED'S for sopranoand Bb cornetis a must for all Are you wonderinghow to sellthat I.ETIEFSTOIHEEDTOR bands who wish to feature these instru- antiquecornet or whereyou canadver- ments.This is an excellentwork suitablefor tiseyour musicservices to brassbands- all programs.The Berlioz' WauerleyOuer- people?The followingis a list of cate- lurepresents the same problems as the other Dear Editor: goriesand detailson how to place an classicaltranscriptions. The acousticsof the recordingsite and the doubtful quality of ad: May I congratulate Perry Watson for the this work leave it lacking.As mentioned ProfessionalCards article "What isthe Tenor of Your Horn Sec- earlier,this recordingis availableon com- For Sale tion?" As a tenor horn player myself, living pactdisc and ispart of a growingnumber of Players/r4usicDirectors Wanted (unfortunately) in England, I am firmly of the brassband performancesavailable in this Music,Accessories and Supplies opinion that the sentiments and beliefs format. Eventhough the discsare slightly Wanted expressed in the article are absolutely cor- more expensive,they make up for it in the Miscellaneous rect. In England, there was even an attempt to replace the tenor horns by using tenor qualityand clarityof sound. Ratesper issue: cors-this was with my old band-Bessess $.50perword(with 12word minimum), O'th' Barn (though I was not playing with Contestscontinued page 7 t'rom $20 for 2Vz" x 1" box (inclusiveof them, I took an active interest). However, RULESCHANGED wording),$30 for 2Yz"x 2" box (in- the whole sound structure changed for, I clusive of wording), $40 for quarter believe. the worse and after awhile tenor The ruleconcerning substitution for per- pagead, $60for halfpage ad, $100 for horns came back in. has been changedto allow formingbands fullpagead. Camera ready art mustbe Maybe one reason some bands in the glgljjgljgut longasthe maximum number providedfor all ads. USA and Canada are anti-tenor horn is of playersdoes not exceed30 on thestage at becausethey do not understand its poten- Pleasemake checkspayable (U.S. cunency) onetime. tial, let alone realize it. You only have to to the North American Brass Band Association 'peckhorn' FUTUREVENUES andsend ad informationwith check to the Editors hear the word to immediately (addressand deadlineson page 2). downgradementally this underratedinstru- ChampionshipsVIII - April 7,1990 - menI. Rttsburgh,Pennsylvania Though carrying the unfair stigma of a ChampionshipsX - April 25,199t - second rate instrument.the tenor horn status CedarRapids, Iowa can be elevated to its rightful place if the players who are now passive started to exploit its (and their own) potential.

- Gordon Higginbottom

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