Monthly Archive

Welcome to our Archives page. On this page you will find a total of 279 of our articles broken down into Months and Years.
Recordings
Bryan Proksch
4565

Le Concert Brisé: Schmelzer Sonatas

William Dongois and Le Concert Brisé. Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Sonatas. Accent (ACC 24324), 2016. Joy. Joy without limit. This sums up William Dongois’s recording of music by Johann Schmelzer. It c... read more..

Recordings
Bryan Proksch
4608

Ensemble La Fontaine, Fede e Amor

Alex Potter, Catherine Motus, Simen Van Mechelen, Carles Cristobal, and Ensemble La Fontaine, Fede e Amor (Ramée, RAM1304, 2013) www.ramee.org In his revealing “Trombone Obbligatos in Viennese Orator... read more..

News & Events
Bryan Proksch
5335

HBS Fanfares for Early Brass Instruments

The HBS has commissioned fanfares for performance at our conferences over the years. For the first time we're making the scores available in PDF form for download! Just click below. Caduceus Mixtus ... read more..

Book Reviews
Bryan Proksch
9829

Bacciagaluppi and Skamletz: "Romantic Brass. Ein Blick zurück ins 19"

Claudio Bacciagaluppi and Martin Skamletz, eds., Romantic Brass. Ein Blick zurück ins 19. Jahrhundert (Schliengen, Germany: Edition Argus, 2015), 321 pgs. ISBN 978-3-931264-84-0. Publisher's website f... read more..

Book Reviews
Bryan Proksch
8718

Brookfield: A History of the Port Royal Bands

John Brookfield. A History of the Port Royal Bands: The Men and the Music of the Bands of the Third Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteer Infantry and the 2nd Brigade, 10th Army Corps, Department of the S... read more..

News & Events
Bryan Proksch
5161

Call for Papers: 2018 Great American Brass Band Festival

The Great American Brass Band Festival (GABBF) in Danville, Kentucky announces a call for papers and presentations for the 2018 GABBF Brass Symposium. The Brass Symposium, held June 1, 2018, is an edu... read more..

Music Reviews
Editorial Staff
2365

Keyed Trumpet Editions by Jaroslav Roucek, et al

The four trumpet scores reviewed here are all part of the “Edition Immer” series and are published by Musikverlag Martin Schmid. Johann Nepomuk Hummel. Quartet in E Major (for trumpet, violin, v... read more..

News & Events
Editorial Staff
5647

2017 International Historic Brass Symposium

Conference attendees in the background of an exhibit of brass instruments at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC On July 13-16th, 2017 nearly 200 early brass enthusiasts participated in the HBS Third Int... read more..

Music Reviews
Editorial Staff
2119

Three Trumpet Solos by Paul Rougnon (1846-1934)

Paul Rougnon (1846-1934). Three Solos for Trumpet. Edited by Jean-Louis Couturier. Martin Schmid Blechblasernoten (SM50953–50955), 2017. www.spaeth-schmid.de Paul Rougnon. 1er Solo for Trompette... read more..

Utley Travel Award
Editorial Staff
5876

Utley Travel Award

The Joe R. and Joella F. Utley and Streitwieser Foundation Travel Awards The Joe R. and Joella F. Utley Student Travel Support Award was established at the 23rd Annual Early Brass Festival in Spart... read more..

Monk Award
Editorial Staff
6971

Christopher Monk Award

About the Christopher Monk Award The Christopher Monk Award was established by the HBS to recognize scholars, performers, instrument makers or teachers who have made significant and life-long contr... read more..

News & Events
Editorial Staff
4889

2017 HBS Symposium: New York, 13-16 July

Call For Papers and Performances Historic Brass SocietyInternational Historic Brass SymposiumJuly 13-16, 2017 New York UniversityMetropolitan Museum of Art, Musical Instrument Collection As at the ... read more..

News & Events
Editorial Staff
4515

2017 Indiana Sackbut Workshop

The 6th Indiana Sackbut Workshop will pay a visit to Renaissance Naples, a melting pot of Hispano-Italian culture and ideas. We will be touching upon late 15th-century alta-capella repertoire, mid-16t... read more..

Recordings
Editorial Staff
6549

Breathtaking by Hana Blazikova and Bruce Dickey (7)

Hana Blažíková and Bruce Dickey, Breathtaking: A Cornetto and a Voice Entwined (Passacaille 1020, 2016). Recorded November, 2015. This remarkable recording is a perfect exemplification of the marriag... read more..

News & Events
Editorial Staff
4343

Adolphe Sax Conference Proceedings

The publication of the proceedings of Adolphe Sax, His Influence and Legacy: A Bicentenary Conference has just been announced. The conference held at the Musical Instrument Museum in Brussels, was a c... read more..

News & Events
Editorial Staff
3194

2016 News Archive

2017 GABBF History Conference Call for Papers 8/3: The Great American Brass Band Festival (GABBF) in Danville, Kentucky announces a call for papers and presentations for the 2017 GABBF Brass Sympos... read more..

Recordings
Editorial Staff
2859

John Ericson, Rescued! Forgotten Works for Horn

John Ericson, horn and Yi-Wan Liao, piano. Rescued! Forgotten Works for the 19th Century Horn. Summit Records DCD 689, 2015. www.summitrecords.com John Ericson, professor of horn at Arizona Sta read more..

Interviews
Editorial Staff
2734

Jean-François Madeuf Interview

A Conversation with Natural Trumpeter Jean-François Madeuf with Historian Krin Gabbard by Jeffrey Nussbaum  This conversation with read more..

Recordings
Editorial Staff
3784

Chants d'Amour by Terra Nova

Terra Nova Collective, Chants d’Amour (Self-published, 2016) Joroen Billiet, historical horns, Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden, piano, Véronique Bogaerts, violin, Mark De Merlier, early valve horn, Marja... read more..

Recordings
Editorial Staff
3576

Pygmalion by Rheinmädchen

Pygmalion, Rheinmädchen (Harmonia Mundi 902239) 2015. Raphaël Pichon, director; Emmanuel Ceysson, harp; Anneke Scott, Joseph Walters, Olivier Picon, and Chris Larkin, horns; Bernarda Fink, mezzo-so... read more..

News & Events
Editorial Staff
4239

Don Johnson (1955-2016)

10/18 - Mr. Donald Ray Johnson, Jr, age 61 of Raywick, KY, passed away Friday, October 14, 2016 in Bradfordsville, KY. He was born on July 24, 1955 in Lexington, KY. Mr. Johnson was a musician and a r read more..

Book Reviews
Editorial Staff
2060

Pagliaro, The Brass Instrument Owner’s Handbook

Michael J. Pagliaro, The Brass Instrument Owner’s Handbook (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016). ISBN 9781442274013. 213 pages. Michael Pagliaro has presented a handbook of 11 chapter read more..

Book Reviews
Editorial Staff
2175

Holden, "And the Band Played On"

Robert Holden, And the Band Played On: How Music Lifted the Anzac Spirit in the Battlefields of the First World War. Melbourne & London: Hardie Grant Books, 2014, paperback, 288 pages. ISBN 978 read more..

Music Reviews
Editorial Staff
1972

Arban, Morceau de Concours, ed. Couturier

Jean-Baptiste Arban. Morceau de Concours for solo cornet/trumpet, ed. Jean-Louis Couturier (London: Resonata Music, 2016). Published 2016. www.resonatamusic.com This is the second edition of solo c... read more..

Recordings
Editorial Staff
3468

Rescued! Forgotten Works for the 19th Century Horn

John Ericson, horn and Yi-Wan Liao, piano. Rescued! Forgotten Works for the 19th Century Horn. Summit Records DCD 689, 2015. John Ericson, professor of horn at Arizona State University, is a noted ho... read more..

Recordings
Editorial Staff
3983

Cincinnati Virtuosity: The Cornet Solos of Frank Simon and Herman Bellstedt

Raquel Rodriquez (cornet) and Jan Corrothers (piano), Cincinnati Virtuosity: The Cornet Solos of Frank Simon and Herman Bellstedt. (Self-published, 2013). For purchase information see: http://www.c... read more..

Recordings
Editorial Staff
3462

Telemann: Trumpet and Horn Concertos, played by Madeuf

Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande, Telemann Trumpet and Horn Concertos (Accent 24318), 2016. Jean-François Madeuf; natural trumpet and natural horn, Pierre-Yves Madeuf; natural horn. Sigiswald ... read more..

Recordings
Editorial Staff
3895

Thomas Coates by Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band

Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band, Thomas Coates: The Father of Band Music in America (MSR Classics MS 1556), 2015. Douglas Hedwig; conductor, Christine Erlander Beard; piccolo (Rudall Carte, London... read more..

Music Reviews
Editorial Staff
2000

Ca. 1700 Sinfonia a due Trombe (arranged)

Anonymus (1700) Sinfonia a due Trombe arranged for 4 trumpets and continuo. Edition Immer, Musikverlag Martin Schmid, SM50591. 2015. www.martin-schmid-blechblaesernoten.de Friedemann Immer has pres... read more..

News & Events
Editorial Staff
5134

2017 GABBF History Conference Call for Papers

The Great American Brass Band Festival (GABBF) in Danville, Kentucky announces a call for papers and presentations for the 2017 GABBF Brass Symposium. The Brass Symposium will be June 2, 2017, an educ... read more..

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