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Repertoire 2011

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Dear Col­leagues,

Please find below links to the new rep­er­toire list for con­cert band music for 2011 and the updated rep­er­toire for orches­tra list. There are new works present in orches­tra from Hal Leonard which are pleas­ing to see–a revis­it­ing of some older titles. The new con­cert band works include some really excel­lent works this year, espe­cially at the younger levels. I am sure some invest­ig­a­tion will allow you to con­nect with the works which will make your year a very sat­is­fy­ing one musically.

Best wishes to you

Ralph Hult­gren
Head, Open Con­ser­vat­orium
Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity
P.O. Box 3428 South Bank Queens­land 4101, Aus­tralia
140 Grey Street, South Bris­bane Queens­land 4101, Aus­tralia
Phone: (61 7) 3735 6253 Fax: (61 7) 3735 6366

Rep­er­toire for Band 2011

Rep­er­toire for Full Orches­tra 2011

Repertoire Resources

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Search­ing for appro­pri­ate rep­er­toire is one of the most import­ant jobs a con­ductor has. Your rep­er­toire IS your cur­riculum. Here are some resources that may help you in your search to find music of high artistic qual­ity while match­ing the skill devel­op­ment of your players.

Brolga Music
Think of cent­ral Aus­tralian Pub­lisher, think Brolga
http://www.brolgamusic.com/

Man­hat­tan Beach
http://www.manhattanbeachmusic.com/

GIA
www.giamusic.com
Also has the com­plete list of everything in the antho­lo­gies “Teach­ing Music Through …”
www.teachingmusic.org/pdfs/TMTPComprehensivelist.pdf

Meredith Music
www.meredithmusic.com/music-teaching-books
Get the Ithaca High School Book

Band Quest
www.bandquest.org
Pub­lished by Amer­ican Com­posers Forum
Com­mis­sion­ing of works by out­stand­ing USA com­posers for middle school bands … but some are more dif­fi­cult and could suit high schools; e.g., Old Churches by Michael Col­grass. Exposes stu­dents to aleat­ory music and impro­visa­tion
http://www.bandquest.org/music/oldchurches.shtml
A+: A “Pre­cise” Pre­lude and an “Excel­lent” March – Thomas Duffy.
http://www.bandquest.org/music/aplus.shtml
Paper Cut — Alex Sha­piro.
http://www.bandquest.org/music/shapiro.shtml
Com­bines elec­tronic with acous­tic esp. paper rip­ping with vari­ous tech­niques (comes with click track), visual piece for audience.

Winde­pend­ence series
http://www.boosey.com/teaching/series/Windependence/10130
Divided into: Apprentice/Masters/Artists
Some won­der­ful music in the series

Daehn Pub­lish­ers

TRN (“That’s Really Nice”)
http://trnmusic.com/

Grand Mesa Music
http://www.grandmesamusic.com/
Try­ing to pro­duce the best music for school bands and orchestra

Commission Consortium

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The Aus­tralian Band and Orches­tra Dir­ect­ors’ Asso­ci­ation Queens­land is proud to announce the inaug­ural ABODA QLD Com­mis­sion­ing Consortium—a unique oppor­tun­ity for ABODA QLD mem­bers to have a say in the rep­er­toire of the future. It is very dif­fi­cult for schools to afford com­mis­sions on their own. A con­sor­tium pools your money with that of people from other schools and ensembles and makes it pos­sible for dir­ect­ors to share with their stu­dents the com­mis­sion­ing of a new work, as well as the joy of per­form­ing the premiere of the work in their area. ABODA QLD hopes the com­mis­sion­ing pro­ject will become a yearly activity—a tan­gible sign of the work of ABODA QLD to pro­mote our profession.

Com­poser

We are happy to announce that Brian Hogg will be the com­poser of our first con­sor­tium. Brian is well known to all Aus­tralian band dir­ect­ors and is cur­rently the Cre­at­ive Arts Dir­ector for The Sal­va­tion Army East­ern Vic­toria Divi­sion. His well-known and highly regarded com­pos­i­tions for band include Llwyn Onn, In Still­ness, The New Anzacs, The Stone Guest and Fan­fare and Pro­ces­sional.

Dif­fi­culty level

The com­mis­sioned work will be grade 3 stand­ard and 3½ minutes long, inten­ded for the major­ity of sec­ond­ary school ensembles. It will be scored for stand­ard con­cert band instru­ment­a­tion and is inten­ded to have an empha¬sis on emo­tional con­tent and artistic merit.

Cost

Total cost to be a mem­ber of the 2011 ABODA QLD Com­mis­sion­ing Con­sor­tium is $250.00. Each par­ti­cip­at­ing school will receive a full score and all parts in PDF format, allow­ing you to print as many parts as your ensemble requires.

Time frame

The com­pos­i­tion is sched­uled to be delivered to con­sor­tium mem­bers in July 2011.

Premiere per­form­ances

The world premiere will be per­formed by the Wind Sym­phony at the Mary­bor­ough Con­fer­ence Gala Con­cert in early July 2011; how­ever, each first per­form­ance by a par­ti­cip­at­ing ensemble is con­sidered a premiere. The names of all par­ti­cip­at­ing schools (or com­munity ensembles) and their dir­ect­ors will be prin­ted on the cover page of the conductor’s score. Con­sor­tium mem­bers will receive exclus­ive per­form­ance rights to the work for six months after the premiere.

What you need to do now

Please down­load the form and send it to:

ABODA QLD
Com­mis­sion­ing Con­sor­tium 2011
c/o 17 Redgum Close
Bridge­man Downs QLD 4035

An account will be for­war­ded to you.

Craig Dabel­stein
Chair of the Com­mis­sion­ing Pro­ject 2011
ABODA QLD

Big Band Reading Day

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Allans Music + Billy Hyde are present­ing a Big Band Read­ing Day on Sunday 13 Feb­ru­ary, 1.00pm to 4.00pm. This is a great opportin­ity to hear new jazz rep­er­toire, get great advice on rehears­ing your jazz ensemble, and meet up with other dir­ect­ors. A range of music for con­cert band, orches­tra and jazz band will be on dis­play. See the flyer for more information.

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Summer Conducting School, part 1

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Mel­bourne: ABODA Vic­toria – Sum­mer Con­duct­ing School

Prin­cipal teacher: Pro­fessor Craig Kirchhoff

Sunday 9/01/2010

Just star­ted in the first ses­sion and thought I should really be shar­ing some of my exper­i­ences with ABODA QLD mem­bers. So here I go with a few thought starters that Craig Kirch­hoff put out in his open­ing ses­sion … just in point form.

  • To be suc­cess­ful in mov­ing stu­dents on their jour­ney from play­ing in an ensemble to mak­ing music in ensemble we (con­duct­ors) must have a love of music, teach­ing and people.
  • Share who you are with your stu­dents and how you feel about the music.
  • Being on the podium is not about musi­cians see­ing a conductor–rather about musi­cians see­ing you!
  • Why is the three year old Jona­thon in the video below so com­pel­ling? He expressed the music … unin­hib­ited, free, inspired, fore­casts what’s to come etc.

Guides for the week:

  • If some­thing doesn’t work it’s OK. Learn­ing that involves fail­ure is very power­ful. Only thing that is not OK is not going for it
  • Live in the moment on the podium. Really listen to the ensemble and hear what they are doing. Find­ing the right ges­ture to get the right sound–it’s not how it looks, it’s how the music sounds
  • Use con­duct­ing ges­ture to rein­force talking–while talk­ing. Non-verbal com­mu­nic­a­tion is most import­ant. How you use your body effects everything. Break through your mem­brane … respond to the music rather than won­der­ing what other people are think­ing about you.
  • Don’t let your ges­tures be con­trary to the music.
  • Choose the size of your “con­duct­ing can­vas” to suit the music! Some pieces require a large por­trait can­vas oth­ers are small cameo canvas
  • Emo­tion­ally con­nect to music and students
  • What stu­dents leave with us with is how they felt in our ensembles
  • Know/feel the emo­tional land­scape of pieces you conduct
  • Musi­cians play together by breath­ing together

    • The open­ing ses­sion was fol­lowed by a basic con­duct­ing tech­niques session–then an all after­noon ses­sion (with a small break) read­ing through the rep­er­toire options for con­duct­ing par­ti­cipants (30 ran­ging from begin­ners to very advanced). Click here for the rep­er­toire list. This list was put together by Jemima Bunn (ABODA National Pres­id­ent & ABODA Vic­toria Vice-president), Joanne Heaton (ABODA Vic­toria pres­id­ent) and Michael Jongebloed (Hal Leonard Australia).

    More tomor­row!

    Rapid Reading Day 2011

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    Get the year off to a great start by attend­ing the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium of Music’s Rapid Read­ing Day.

    When: 27 Feb­ru­ary 2011
    Where: Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium, Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity, South Bank
    Cost: $5 at the door
    10:30am–Registration/Trade Dis­plays
    11:00am–Session 1 — Strings (Opera Space), Band (Basil Jones Orches­tral Hall)
    12:30pm–Lunch in Foyer/ Trade Dis­plays
    1:30pm–Session 2 — Strings (Opera Space), Band (Basil Jones Orches­tral Hall)
    4:00pm–Wine, Cheese and Trade Dis­plays
    5:00pm–Conclusion

    For fur­ther inform­a­tion con­tact:
    Jason Budge, Pro­ject Officer
    Ph. 3735 6306
    Fax 3735 6366
    Email: open-conservatorium@griffith.edu.au

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    QBOC2010Live–Concert 5: band and strings

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    Can­ter­bury Col­lege Ritor­nello
    Can­ter­bury Col­lege is a co-educational Anglican School of 1400 stu­dents from PrePrep through Year 12. The col­lege sup­ports a music pro­gram of 400 stu­dents involved in seven choirs, four string orches­tras, a sym­phony orches­tra, two stage bands, three con­cert bands and numer­ous cham­ber ensembles. The Can­ter­bury Col­lege Ritor­nello is focused on devel­op­ing the tal­ents of the most advanced string stu­dents and is led by Mrs Belinda Wil­li­ams, a former mem­ber of the Aus­tralian Cham­ber Orchestra.

    Hill­brook Wind Sym­phony
    Hill­brook is a co-educational Anglican sec­ond­ary school of approx­im­ately 600 stu­dents. It was foun­ded in 1987 by a group of teach­ers look­ing for a dif­fer­ent approach to tra­di­tional school­ing sys­tems. Hill­brook Music is an ener­getic and dynamic pro­gram with a strong con­nec­ted­ness between aca­demic and co-curricular stud­ies. The Wind Sym­phony is Hillbrook’s senior con­cert band. It is made up of stu­dents from years 8 to 12. In recent years this ensemble has had the oppor­tun­ity to work with guests includ­ing, Ralph Hult­gren, Dr Mat­thew George, John Reyn­olds and Frank Ticheli. The Wind Sym­phony has also shared the stage with some of Australia’s finest bands includ­ing Queens­land Wind Orches­tra, Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium Wind Orches­tra, Queens­land Youth Orches­tra ensembles and tour­ing ensembles.

    The Can­ter­bury Col­lege Ritor­nello opened the con­cert with the Hol­berg Suite, Op. 40 (“Suite in olden style”) by Edvard Grieg (Kalmus). Hill­brook Wind Sym­phony fol­lowed with:

    Wash­ing­ton Post March, John Philip Sousa arr. Jay Bocook (Music Works)
    Klezmer Dances, Stephen Bulla (Curnow Music)
    Fate of the Gods, Steven Reineke (Barnhouse)

    The stu­dents’ per­form­ances were a credit to their schools and their dir­ect­ors (Belinda Wil­li­ams and David Jones) and the con­cert was well-received and appre­ci­ated by the del­eg­ates, par­ents and friends.

    QBOC2010Live–Concert 4: Tim Reynish & QWO

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    Tim Reynish and the QWODay 2 of QBOC2010 fin­ished in fine style with a con­cert by the Queens­land Wind Orches­tra led by Timothy Reyn­ish. The pro­gram con­sisted of mod­ern Brit­ish wind band repertoire–repertoire of which Tim Reyn­ish has an intim­ate know­ledge. Tim con­duc­ted the major­ity of the con­cert with ABODA QLD Pres­id­ent Dr Lewes Ped­dell con­duct­ing Tails Aus Dem Vood Vien­noise by Bill Connor.

    The pro­gram:

    Masque — Ken­neth Hes­keth (Faber Music)

    Tails Aus Dem Vood Vien­noise — Bill Con­nor (Mae­cenas Music)

    Song of Lir — Fer­gal Car­roll (Mae­cenas Music)

    Yid­dish Dances — Adam Gorb (Mae­cenas Music)

    Here is a video of the first piece from the pro­gram, Ken­neth Hesketh’s Masque.

    Con­grat­u­la­tions to the two con­duct­ors and the Queens­land Wind Orches­tra for an excel­lent per­form­ance. The rep­er­toire was extremely chal­len­ging and took a high degree of musi­cian­ship to bring to life. I look for­ward to the day when more wind ensembles in Aus­tralia can per­form rep­er­toire like we heard tonight at the highest levels as exem­pli­fied by the QWO.

    Bravo!

    QBOC2010Live—Getting into improvisation

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    Dan QuigleySponsored by Jazz Worx! Music Institute

    One of Brisbane’s most sought-after jazz trum­pet play­ers, Dan Quigley has been play­ing pro­fes­sion­ally for more than ten years after study­ing with John Hoff­man and gradu­at­ing from the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium. In this time he has led his own groups and played with some of Australia’s top musi­cians includ­ing James Mor­rison, Dale Bar­low, Grace Knight, Anthony War­low, Tina Arena and more. Dan is a Course Co-ordinater for Jazzworx! Music Insti­tute.

    In his present­a­tion, ‘Get­ting into jazz impro­visa­tion’, Dan sim­pli­fied the massive sub­ject that is impro­visa­tion and provided del­eg­ates with exer­cises and advice on where to start and how to begin teach­ing impro­visa­tion to stu­dents. Dan’s know­ledge and exper­i­ence were evid­ent, and he suc­cess­fully broke down the sub­ject mat­ter and in only an hour gave the audi­ence the basic skills to tackle impro­vising, some for the very first time.

    Down­load Dan’s handout from this session.

    QBOC2010Live—Concert 3: Brisbane Contemporary Jazz Orchestra

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    Brisbane Contemporary Jazz Orchestra

    Bris­bane Con­tem­por­ary Jazz Orches­tra fea­tures sev­eral of Brisbane’s most well-respected musi­cians and per­forms a wide range of mod­ern big band music includ­ing latin, funk, swing and gos­pel. The band is a show­case for estab­lished and emer­ging local musi­cians and there is a wealth of exper­i­ence and tal­ent in the play­ing ranks. The rep­er­toire focuses on jazz music from the last twenty years, with charts from com­posers such as Jaco Pas­torius, Michel Cam­ilo and Gor­don Goodwin.

    Today’s con­cert by the BCJO featured:

    Black­bird (Len­non & McCart­ney arr. Arturo San­doval)
    Caribe (Michel Cam­ilo)
    Love for Sale (as played by the Buddy Rich Orches­tra)
    Round Mid­night (as played by Maynard Fer­guson)
    (I’m Get­ting) Sen­ti­mental Over You (as played by Maynard Fer­guson)
    Super­bone Meets the Bad­man (as played by Maynard Fer­guson)
    Hunt­ing Wab­bits (Gor­don Good­win)
    Samba Del Gringo (Gor­don Good­win)
    Alma Llanera (Paquito D’Rivera)

    Trum­pets: Dale Richard­son, Shane Pur­nell, Nathan Schilling, Richard Settle, Grant­ley Sutch
    Trom­bones: Rob Anders, Fran­cis Car­roll, Noel Steph­en­son, Sam Nolan
    Sax­o­phones: David Humphreys, Scott Grif­fiths, Dar­ren McPh­er­son, Leon Wens­ley, John Ste­fulj
    Rhythm Sec­tion: Louise Den­son (piano), Paul Hende­r­son (gui­tar), Lyle Den­man (drums), Andre Bonetti (percussion)

    A great con­cert. If only our high school jazz ensembles were this good!