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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

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.

War Music

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marching bandTo cel­eb­rate ANZAC Day I’ve put together a quick list of music writ­ten dur­ing or inspired by the world’s great battles. You could use these pieces in a themed con­cert, for ANZAC Day ser­vices and cel­eb­ra­tions, or per­haps use them for a cross-curricular activ­ity with your school’s his­tory depart­ment. Is your favour­ite war piece miss­ing? Add it in the comments.

Gen­eral
April 25th, 1915 (Ralph Hult­gren) — great cere­mo­nial music for ANZAC Day ser­vices
Mars, The Bringer of War (Gustav Holst)
The Hornet’s Nest (Ralph Hult­gren) — Inspired by the F-18 Hor­nets and ded­ic­ated to the RAAF Hor­net Squad­ron
The War Tri­logy (1971, David Holsinger)

Bib­lical Wars
In The Spring, At The Time When Kings Go Off To War (David Hol­singer)
Jericho (Mor­ton Gould)

World War I
Col­onel Bogey (1914, Ken­neth J. Alford)
The Van­ished Army (1918, Ken­neth J. Alford)
The Mad Major (1921, Ken­neth J. Alford)
Salvum fac pop­u­lum tuum op. 84 “Lord Save Thy People” (1917, Charles-Marie Widor)

World War II
The Army Of the Nile (1941, Ken­neth J. Alford)
The Dam­busters (Eric Coates) — from the 1954 film
Com­mando March (1943, Samuel Barber)
Sym­phony No. 1 In Memorium Dresden (Daniel Buk­vich)
The Great Escape March (Elmer Bern­stein)
Amer­ican Salute (1943, Mor­ton Gould)
Lonely Beach, Nor­mandy 1944 (James Barnes)

Korean War
Inchon (Robert W. Smith)

Repertoire for full orchestra

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A list of qual­ity works for full orches­tra avail­able in Australia

Revised 2009

Regard­ing the rep­er­toire available:

Part of my work at the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium is to invest­ig­ate new music in respect of its rel­ev­ance to the train­ing of con­duct­ors and as per­form­ance rep­er­toire at all levels. That inform­a­tion is also util­ised in music selec­tion lists by vari­ous fest­ivals around Aus­tralia.  The list­ing of mater­i­als that fol­lows is arranged in the grad­ing com­monly used in Aus­tralia.  For your inform­a­tion, the equi­val­ent grad­ing to the USA levels are:

Premier – Grade 4 – 5
A Grade – Grade 3 – 4
B Grade – Grade 2 – 3
C Grade – Grade 1 – 2

The list­ing here includes added works that were pub­lished over a dec­ade ago, but are unknown to many of today’s young orches­tra con­duct­ors.  They are incor­por­ated into the list because little new full orches­tra mater­ial is pro­duced each year, and a revis­it­ing of the older rep­er­toire is edi­fy­ing in respect of the selec­tion of cur­rent per­form­ance mater­i­als.  This is not an exhaust­ive list and is included to assist you in your invest­ig­a­tion of rep­er­toire avail­able around the world.  The list is a con­tinu­ally evolving one and includes mater­i­als that have become more read­ily avail­able in Aus­tralia in the last few years.  I would be pleased to dis­cuss rep­er­toire with you. I can be con­tac­ted at:

Ralph Hult­gren
Head of Pre-Tertiary Stud­ies
Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium Grif­fith Uni­ver­sity
114 Grey Street South Bank
P.O. Box 3428 South Bank QLD 4101
Tele­phone:  +61 7 3735 6253
Fax: +61 7 3735 6366
Email:  R.Hultgren@griffith.edu.au

Pub­lisher (Code)
Alfred Music (Alf)
Bel­win (Bel)
Boosey & Hawkes (B&H)
Brolga Music (BM)
Carl Fisc­her (Cfis)
Daehn Pub­lic­a­tions (Dhn)
Good­music (Gdm)
Hal Leonard (Hal)
High­land Etling Pub­lic­a­tions (H/E)
Lud­wig Music (Lud)
Mas­ters Music Pub­lic­a­tions (MMP)
Neil A. Kjos Music (Kjos)
South­ern Music (Sthn)
Wingert-Jones (W-J)
Wynn Music (Wynn)

Premier
Amer­ican Salute – Mor­ton Gould (Bel)
The Ascen­sion – Robert W. Smith (Bel)
Car­o­lina Folk Dream – Timothy Mahr (Kjos)
Casus Belli – Andrew Boysen (Kjos)
A Children’s Over­ture – Richard Cohen (Kjos)
Cuban Over­ture – George Ger­sh­win (Bel)
Eng­lish Folk­song & Suite – Ralph Vaughan Wil­li­ams (B&H)
Flour­ish, Song & Toc­cata – Claude T. Smith (W-J)
The Inferno – Robert W. Smith (Bel)
Kad­dish – W. Fran­cis McBeth (Sthn)
Lord of the Dance – Hardiman/Moor (Hal)
An Out­door Adven­ture – Aaron Cop­land (B&H)
Over­ture for a Cel­eb­ra­tion – Claude T. Smith (W-J)
Pic­tures at an Exhib­i­tion (in 4 parts) – Mus­sorgsky, or. Simpson (MMP)
Sym­phony No. 7 (3rd move­ment) – Mahler/Leidig (Kjos)
Tejas – Car­old Nunez (Kjos)
The Legend of Babylon – Elena Rous­san­ova Lucas (Bel)
Vari­ations on a Korean Folk Song – Chance/Longfield (B/H)
Vari­ants – Jack Bullock  (Bel)

A Grade
Amer­ican Folk Rhaps­ody — Clare Grundman (B/H)
An Amer­ican Rhaps­ody — Richard Meyer (Alf)
Barber of Seville — Rossini/McAlister (MMP)
By Loch & Moun­tain — Robert W. Smith (Bel)
Camp Moun­tain — Dwight Gust­afson (H/E)
Capric­cio Italiene — Tchaikovsky/Isaac (H/E)
Car­men (A Suite for Orches­tra) — Bizet/Bullock (Bel)
Car­men Suite — Bizet/Kennedy (MMP)
Cat­skill Legend — Paul W. Whear (Lud)
Cel­eb­ra­tion — Bob Cerulli (Bel)
Chant & Joy­ous Dance — Eliot del Borgo (Bel)
Chant Rituals — Eliot del Borgo (Bel)
Crown Imper­ial — Walton/Stone (Gdm)
Dance of the Appren­tices — Wagner/Leidig (H/E)
Dance of the Comedi­ans (from “The Bartered Bride”) – Smetana/Miller (MMP)
The Desert Shall Bloom as the Rose – Warner Hutchin­son (Kjos)
Evan­geline – Two Cajun Folk Songs — Michael Story (Bel)
Fantasia on Greensleeves — Vaughan Williams/Stone (Gdm)
Faran­dole — Bizet/Isaac (H/E)
Fin­landia — Sibelius/Goldsmith (Bel)
Fest­ival Pre­lude — Brian Bal­mages (Bel)
Fly­ing — Reynard Burns (Bel)
Great Gate of Kiev — Mussorgsky/Stone (Gdm)
A Hec­tic Over­ture — John Lloyd (Kjos)
Hill­point Fantasy — Jared Spears (Kjos)
Homage March (from Sig­urd Jorsal­far) — Grieg/Carter (Gdm)
Hun­garian Dance No. 6 — Brahms/Isaac (H/E)
Hun­garian Dance No. 6 — Brahms/Fritz (Wynn)
In the Bleak Mid­winter — Holst/Smith (Bel)
Into the Storm — Robert W. Smith (Bel)
Intro­duc­tion & March — Tchaikovsky/Leidig (Kjos)
Llanos — Michael Mauldin (Kjos)
March to the Scaf­fold — Berlioz/Carter (Gdm)
Mars Hill — Doris Gazda (Kjos)
Mar­riage of Figaro — Mozart/Isaac (Bel)
Menuetto — Schubert/Leidig (H/E)
Mil­len­nium — Richard Meyer (H/E)
Mourn­ing Song — M.L. Daniels (Kjos)
On the Trail — Grofé/Gold (B/W)
Over­ture to Nabucco — Verdi/Dackow (Lud)
Pir­ates Treas­ure March — Richard Cohen (Kjos)
Polka (from “The Bartered Bride”) — Smetana/Miller (MMP)
Pomp & Cir­cum­stance No. 4 — Elgar/Ryden (MMP)
Pro­ces­sion of the Nobles — Rimsky-Korsakov/Isaac (H/E)
Prophet’s Dance — Kurt N. Mosier (Kjos)
Pur­gatorio (from The Divine Com­edy) — Robert W Smith (Bel)
Quest for the Gold — Sean O’ Lough­lin (Cfis)
Romany Dances — Elliot Del Borgo (Bel)
Ros­amunde Over­ture — Schubert/Leidig (H/E)
A Short Over­ture — Joshua Missal (Kjos)
Songs of the Sea — Elliot Del Borgo (Cfis)
Sleep­ers, Wake — J.S. Bach (H/E)
Soli­lo­quy — Brendan McBrian (H/E)
Song without Words — Holst/Phillipe (Bel)
Sym­phony No. 1 (2nd Move­ment) — Beethoven/Leidig (Alf)
Sym­phony No. 5 (4th move­ment) — Dvorak/Leidig (H/E)
Vari­ations on a Theme by Han­del — Maurice C Wit­ney (Bel)
Wil­liam Tell Over­ture — Rossini/Lehmeier (H/E)

B Grade
Abori­ginal Legend — Eliot Del Borgo (Bel)
Amaz­ing Grace — Eliot Del Borgo (Bel)
As Sum­mer Was Just Begin­ning — Larry Daehn (Dhn)
Best of Bach — arr. Jerry Brubaker (Bel)
Capric­cio Espagnol — Rim­sky Korsakov/Meyer (Alf)
Chaconne & March — Art Shein­berg (H/E)
(needs piano to cover harp part)
Clash and Roar — Larry Clark (Cfis)
Clog Dance — Herold/Lanchbery (Gdm)
Corelli Con­trasts — Corelli/Bauernschmidt (Wynn)
Declar­a­tion Over­ture — Claude T. Smith (W-J)
Egmont Over­ture — Beethoven/Meyer (H/E)
Engines of Res­ist­ance — Larry Clark (Bel)
España Cani — arr. Isaac (H/E)
Faran­dole — Bizet/Meyer (Wynn)
Farewell Sym­phony (Finale) — Haydn/Shapiro (Kjos)
Glor­ioso — Robert W. Smith (Bel)
Gypsy Songs — Dvôrak/Meyer (H/E)
Heather­wood Por­trait — James Barnes (Sthn)
Her Majesty’s Ships — Ralph Hult­gren (H/E)
Hun­garian Air & Dance — Eliot Del Borgo (H/E)
Inter­mezzo (from Caval­leria Rus­tic­ana) — Mascagni/Bullock (Bel)
Irish Song — Carl Strom­men (Cfis)
Komm, Susser Tod — Bach/Kjelland (H/E)
La Rejouis­sance (from the Royal Fire­works) — Handel/Meyer (H/E)
Leroy Ander­son Favour­ites — Anderson/Custer (Bel)
March to the Scaf­fold — Berlioz/Meyer (Wynn)
Min­uet & Polon­aise — arr. Liv­ing­ston (Wynn)
Okeanos — Jack Bul­lock (Bel)
Rienzi Over­ture — Wagner/Dackow (Lud)
Rites of Tam­buro — Robert W Smith (Bel)
Ros­amunde Over­ture — Schubert/Meyer (Alf)
Rus­sian Sailor’s Dance — Gliere/Errante (H/E)
Shaker Vari­ants — Eliot Del Borgo (Bel)
Simple Gifts — Mar­sha Chus­mir Sha­piro (Kjos)
Sin­fonia in F Major — Bach/England (H/E)
Slane — Douglas Wag­ner (Bel)
Slavonic Dance No. 4 (Op. 46) — Dvôrak/Meyer (H/E)
The Sound and the Fury — Robert W. Smith (Bel)
Spirit of the Pion­eer — Susan Chris­ti­ansen (H/E)
Sym­phony No. 2 (finale) — Tchaikovsky/Dackow (Lud)
Sym­phony No. 4 (3rd move­ment) — Mendelssohn/Leidig (H/E)
The Tem­pest — Robert W. Smith (Bel)
Three Early Clas­sics — arr Owen Gold­smith (H/E)
Three Rus­sian Mini­atures — Tchaikovsky/Goldsmith (Bel)
Two Pieces for Young Orches­tra — Samuel Apple­baum (Bel)
Wed­ding March — Mendelssohn/Stone (Gdm)
With Quite Cour­age — Larry Daehn (Dhn)

C Grade
Australia’s National Songs – arr. Ralph Hult­gren (BM)
Koala Can-Can — Ralph Hult­gren (BM)
The Kooka­burra Patrol — Ralph Hult­gren (BM)
Morn­ing — Greig/Meyer (Wynn)

Coda
Many pub­lish­ers pro­duce advert­ising mater­i­als to pro­mote their pub­lic­a­tions.  Ask your music dealer to obtain sample scores and record­ings of pub­lished works. As noted, this is not an exhaust­ive list, but a com­pil­a­tion of researched mater­i­als, avail­able in Aus­tralia with music sup­plied to me by the importer. Your ensemble demands and deserves qual­ity rep­er­toire and it is up to you, the con­ductor, to spend the time in find­ing it. It is my hope that this list­ing of qual­ity orches­tra music has been of some assist­ance to you in that search. Please feel free to con­tact me at the Queens­land Con­ser­vat­orium at any time.