From: John Stanley <john@...>
Subject: Re: [wasbeschools] Re: Young Band Repertoire
To: wasbeschools@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, 16 August, 2008, 6:10 AM

Rebecca,

I forgot to write how much I like Old Churches. I did it last year with an honor band here in the Bay Area and it was a wonderful experience. I actually think the students liked it more than the teachers?? One of my students at Sonoma State University  did a research work on it last year and he performed it with his rather modest band. Colgrass has written another work for middle school but I believe it is much more difficult.

Trust all is going well there. Nice here to have a few days of leisure time.

Courage Conquers,

John

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John Alden Stanley, EdD
Professor, Music Education
Sonoma State University
WASBE Special Projects

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From: rebeccawdavidson <rebeccawdavidson@ yahoo.com>
Reply-To: <wasbeschools@ yahoogroups. com>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 02:40:26 -0000
To: <wasbeschools@ yahoogroups. com>
Subject: [wasbeschools] Re: Young Band Repertoire

 
 
 

Hi, Marc:

I'll echo "Old Churhes" by Colgrass.  My colleage and I have also had
success with Daniel Buckvich.  Our Advanced MS Band
performed "Electricity" this spring and really liked it - kids did
too.  It's posted on You Tube purely for the visual lighting effects:
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=RvSCQVXAulk
We also enjoyed "Abracadabra" by Ticheli and "Among the Clouds" by
Brian Balmages.

I'm anxious to have a listen to other suggestions you guys have
given.  Will post others if I think of it.  This is a much needed
discussion!

Rebecca Davidson
Assisant Director - MS Band
Singapore American School

Marc Crompton <mdcromp@...> wrote:
>           I just came back from a day of adjudicating and have to
say that I heard very little
> stimulating repertoire for young bands. It is easy, these days, to
find repertoire that is
> challenging and stimulating for more experienced players but the
amazingly huge dung
> heap of music that is often catagorized as "educational" is
depressing.
>
> We don't need another formulaic overture with a challenging but
repetitive snare drum line
> that does nothing for the music other than keep the drummers busy
so they don't kick
> something over and disrupt rehearsal. Why do people keep buying
this crap? The sad
> thing is that it used to be a North American plague but others have
caught it and spread it
> around the world thinking that this is music that needs to be
emulated!
>
> What truly inovative music exsits out there that young musicians
can play that is exciting
> you?
>
> I'll kick off the discussion with a few of my favourites:
>
> Parade of the Wooden Warriors - Adam Gorb
> Candlelight Procession - Adam Gorb
> Tsch, Tsch, Nes - Fred Stride
> Festival Celebration - Fred Stride
>
> Each of these are fairly simple but offer something that keeps the
players and the audience
> on their toes.
>
> What have you got?
>
> Marc