Beginning Thursday April 5 2007 at 7:30 PM EST, I'll be hosting a (6) week program featuring the music of Alec Wilder. This broadcast originates in Sullivan...
I am a masters student at the Eastman School of Music in Wilder's hometown. I play horn, and my husband plays trombone. While recently perusing a horn...
Tuesday, April 10th, Jackie Cain will be interviewed live by jazz historian Phil Schaap regarding Jackie and Roy and their assocoation with Alec - to listen...
We are one of Wilder's publishers (Margun is the other one). I have never heard of this piece and it is not listed in Margun's catalog either and not listed...
Thank you to everyone who has replied to my question about the Horn and Trombone Sonata that somebody apparently has hidden away, if it does indeed exist! In...
Dear Emily, I've been looking into this, and I have a strong feeling that there is an incomplete or incorrect title listing in that bibliography. Ron Prather...
Demsey, David
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Apr 13, 2007 6:34 pm
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I was the General Manager of Margun Music back in the early 1980s when we were trying to discern what exactly was in the Wilder catalogue. I do not recall a...
To all Wilder fans and friends, We're sorry not to be able to attend the celebrations in NYC this weekend as Wini had cataract surgery yesterday. All is well...
Glenn & Wini Bowen
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Apr 24, 2007 10:53 pm
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The "Music on Barcelona" concert Friday, April 27 will include Alec Wilder's Suite for Clarinet, Horn and Piano performed by James Preus, clarinet; Steven...
Steven Ovitsky
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Apr 27, 2007 4:48 am
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ALEC WILDER CENTENNIAL CONCERT Merkin Concert Hall Sunday, April 29th, 2007, 6:30 pm PROGRAM SUCH A TENDER NIGHT (1939) IT'S SILK, FEEL IT (1939) JACK, THIS IS...
Bravo! Everyone involved should be proud of the event! The performers were magnificent; the music was well chosen and I felt Alec's spirit in attendance. ...
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May 2, 2007 1:27 am
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I would appreciate your alerting the participants in the Alec Wilder Group to the news of my family's recent launching of a website on my father, Cy Walter's,...
It is impossible for me to imagine a better representation of the essence of Alec Wilder than the program given at NYC's Merkin Hall this past Sunday evening,...
Levy,Robert
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May 2, 2007 7:51 pm
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I believe the pianist from Eastman is Bill Dobbins, not "Dobbs." But I've been wrong before ... David Lahm...
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May 2, 2007 7:53 pm
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All in all, I am pleased with the performance of our Alec Wilder Group website at Yahoo. But I have observed that occasionally some postings "fall through the...
Hello- If anyone's interested, I've put together an overview of Alec Wilder's life and music. It's intended to be given at continuing education centers, senior...
The newest issue of Stereophile Magazine has a lengthy article on Mr. Orrin Keepnews, one of the most ardent contributors to the Alec Wilder Group over the...
On his new CD titled "Borrowed Time" [Tone Center], guitarist Steve Kahn has included the Wilder-Engvick-Palitz song "Moon and Sand" (here called "Luna y...
ANNOUNCEMENT ALEC WILDER CENTENNIAL TRIBUTE Drawing from personal conversations and correspondence over the course of their friendship, Richard Wyszynski...
Joining a quintet fronted by trombonists Dave Graf and Brad Bellows, songstress Lucia Newell included a version of the Wilder-Engvick-Palitz song "Moon and...
(catching up with old mailings after an absence) One possible reason for missing Yahoo Group mailings may be, depending on your e-mail service, that the...
I suppose it was inevitable that Wilder songs would eventually appear on YouTube, that amalgam of amateur videography. Four clips -- two are a student...
The recently released "Bill Charlap Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard" [Angel] (always a wonderful venue to hear this very fine group) includes a performance...
Last evening, Jason Luthy (assisted by Allison Ringold) performed Wilder's "Sonata for Euphonium and Piano" in a recital at the First Presbyterian Church in...
Can someone suggest a reliable, thorough history of American popular song? I love Alec Wilder's book, but am looking for something less concerned with...
In the announcement posted several days ago (June 10), regarding the Alec Wilder Tribute Concert, August 3 at the Harold Washington Public Library in Chicago,...
You might want to start with these two: Good luck. Happy reading. Easy to remember : the great American songwriters and their songs by William Knowlton...
Richard Dillman
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Jun 20, 2007 8:18 pm
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Check out also William G. Hyland's "The Song is Ended: Songwriters and American Music, 1900-1950" from Oxford University Press (1995). John Biderman...
This is great! I'll just happen to be in Chicago that week. While looking at the Chicago Public Library website I also found this: "The Chicago Public...
On April 9th, at the University of Iowa, the New Music Ensemble from the University of Minnesota performed two of the Wilder octets ("Neurotic Goldfish" and...
