1/23 - The HBS will have a half-day session at the International Musicological Society Congress in Rome on July 7th. Having participated with HBS Sessions in London (1997), Leuven (2002), and Zurich (2007) we are now pleased to join the IMS for the 4th time in the "Eternal City," Rome. The HBS session "The Trumpet and the Culture of Power" looks to be a great contribution to the Congress and will include: Trevor Herbert (The Trumpeter as Power Negotiator in England in the 16th Century), John Wallace (Innovative virtuosity as a Messenger of Power in the Millennial Trumpet), Joe Kaminsky (Asante Ivory Trumpets in the Pre-Colonial Military Religious Rites of Ghana), and Thomas Perchard (Jazz Trumpet and the Semiotics of Vulnerability). The session will be chaired by Renato Meucci.

Participants who wish to stay at the New School dorms should print and fill out the PDF file linked here and mail with full payment to the New School (payable to The New School). The conference registration form should be sent separately to the HBS with registration payment (payable to Historic Brass Society).

The 2012 Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research

Call for Nominations

The International Tuba Euphonium Association established the Clifford Bevan Award for Excellence in Research to foster excellence and to encourage the highest level of research pertaining to the tuba, euphonium, and/or related instruments. Low-brass scholarship genres represent research on contemporary and historical topics related to acoustics, composition, theory, scoring, organology, and pedagogy and may include methodologies of oral history, biographical and ethnographic, historical, quantitative, statistical, and survey research.

The Bevan Award is presented at the biennial International Tuba Euphonium Conference in conjunction with the presentations of the Harvey G. Phillips Award for Composition and the Roger Bobo Award for Recording. The recipient of the Bevan Award receives a $500 stipend and an excerpt of the research is published in the ITEA Journal.

Click here for the 2012 ITEA Bevan Award Forms
For more information, send queries to
Craig Kridel, Coordinator, 2012 ITEA Bevan Research Award Committee,
ckridel@gmail.com

The Roger Bobo, Harvey G. Phillips, and Clifford Bevan Awards were established by ITEA to foster, encourage, and recognize excellence in the fields of recording, composition, and research. These awards recognize the very best artists, composers, and researchers who have produced work of the highest distinction and are indeed given to those whose work illustrates the highest level of artistry and scholarship, regardless of popularity or other factors.
 

10/17/11 - Douglas Yeo has completed a Report on “Le Serpent sans Sornettes,” a conference held in Paris, 6-7 October 2011. The program is available as well.

9/29 - An article by Joseph Berger in the Sept. 29th issue of the NY Times claims that in his corner of the Hasidic neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Meisner has achieved the status of Louis Armstrong but it's not the trumpet but as a teacher of the shofar that has made him a star. It's the busy season for Rabi Meisner as the Jewish High Holidays approach and scores of people seek him out for lessons on how to blow the shofar. The description of his teaching philosophy is reminiscent of some of the embouchure advise attributed to great trumpet teachers such as Adolf Herseth, emphasis on relaxation. Evidently, some things never change!
 

9/20 - HBS Symposium Update

You may remember the Symposium that the Historic Brass Society presented at Amherst College in 1995. It was the largest and most important gathering of early brass performers, scholars, collectors, and enthusiasts ever assembled. This coming summer, on July 12-15, 2012, in New York City, the HBS will present the 2nd International Historic Brass Symposium: Repertoire, Performance, and Culture. This event looks to be as great as, and possibly surpass, the 1995 symposium in size and scope. You will see the names of the most distinguished personalities in the brass field in the list of participants below.

Venue
The Symposium will take place at the New School Jazz and Contemporary Music Program on 55 West 13th street in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village section (Thursday, Saturday, Sunday), a full day (Friday) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (82nd Street and Fifth Avenue) and a Friday evening concert and social event will take place at the Church of Saint Luke in the Fields, a few blocks from the Museum.

Symposium Housing *UPDATED*
Participants in the upcoming HBS Symposium in New York (July 12-15, 2012) who wish to stay in the New School dorms must print, fill out and mail to the New School a PDF application together with full payment. There are a limited number of dorm rooms available so it is advised to secure your space ASAP.

Activities
The Symposium will consist of formal concerts, lectures on a wide range of topics from Antiquity through to the jazz age, round-table discussion sessions, interview sessions, informal playing sessions for all instruments, and a social event. Brass instrument makers will have displays of their instruments. An auction is planned. A special panel is planed to discuss the state of the brass community including performance practice, pedagogy, and scholarship. The Symposium will offer a rare chance to meet and interact with like-minded brass musicians.

Symposium Program Committee
Stewart Carter, Trevor Herbert, Jeff Nussbaum, Keith Polk

Registration
Registration for paid-up HBS members is $65
Non-HBS members $100
To register, please use the Symposium Registration Form (linked here). Please print the Registration Form and mail with Payment to: HBS 148 West 23rd Street #5F New York, NY 10011 USA. In addition to payment by check, the HBS, can accept payment through PayPal. www.paypal.com If you plan on staying in the New School dorm, please send that payment as well.

Call for Papers
A limited number of lectures will be considered for inclusion in the Symposium. The deadline has been extended to October 15th. Please send a talk title and short abstract to: president@historicbrass.org

Utley Student Support Award
Nominations open for student support from the Joe and Joella Utley Foundation. Self-nominations are acceptable. Please send a letter of support by November 1st to president@historicbrass.org

Participants
Ensemble Cecilia Consort; Bruce Dickey, Adam Woolf, Kathryn Cok, Wouter Verschusern
His Majesties Cornets and Sagbutts: Jeremy West, Jamie Savan, Adam Woolf, Steven Saunders, Abigail Newman
Jean Tubery and Ensemble La Fenice
Les Sacqboutiers Toulouse Jean-Pierre Canihac, Daniele Lasalle, Syvain Delvaux, Fabrice Millscher
Natural Trumpet Ensemble with Jean-François Madeuf, Joel Lahens, Graham Nicholson, Laurent Madeuf
Doreen Linda Pearse and Trombone Ensemble Sacabuche
US Army Old Guard Fife and Drums and Natural Trumpet Ensemble

Cornetti: Michael Collver, Bruce Dickey, James Miller, Jamie Savan, Kiri Tollaksen, Jean Tubéry, Jeremy West
Trumpets: Bob Civiletti, Allan Dean, Ralph Dudgeon (keyed bugle), John Foster, Friedeman Immer, Joel Lahens, Jean-François Madeuf, Graham Nicholson, Jaroslav Roucek (keyed trumpet), Crispian Steele-Perkins (slide trumpet and natural trumpet)
Horns: Paul Avril, John Boden, RJ Kelley, Pierre-Yves Madeuf, Anneke Scott, Rick Seraphinoff, Jeff Snedeker
Baroque Timpani: Ben Harms
Serpent: Craig Kridel, Douglas Yeo, Volny Hostiuo
Trombones: Wim Becu, Stew Carter, Syvain Delvaux, Daniele Lasalle, Steven Lundahl, Laurent Madeuf, Fabrice Millscher, Abigail Newman, Doreen Linda Pearse, Steven Saunders, Benny Sluchin, Adam Woolf,

Scholars:
Cliff Bevan, Stew Carter, Reine Dahlqvist, Krin Gabbard (Playing “The Clown”: Jimmy Knepper With Charles Mingus),
Tino Gagliardi, Trevor Herbert, Herbert Heyde (A Presentation of serpents and bass horns in the Metropolitan Museum Collection), Ignace De Keyser, Sabine Klaus, Ken Kreitner, Renato Meucci (New Biographical Information on Bendinelli), Dan Morgenstern (The Duke and the Tiger: 1926-1973, his long love affair with Tiger Rag”) Arnold Myers, Keith Polk, Gunther Schuller (A Conversation with Gunther Schuller by Trevor Herbert), Don Smithers ("Trajan's Trumpets"), Hannes Vereecke (The chemical composition of 16th-century Nuremberg brass for musical instruments) Howard Weiner, and others

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