tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48469414240551448932024-03-13T20:58:29.612+00:00June Emerson Wind MusicJune Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.comBlogger201125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-54521575447903706262020-02-27T08:00:00.000+00:002020-02-27T08:00:06.028+00:00Remeber remember...<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If I don't remember to write things down they get forgotten. This is why, many long years ago when I was teaching woodwind to a wonderful bunch of little girls, it seemed like a good idea to make notebooks for them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The books were small, and fitted into most instrument cases, so didn't get forgotten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>For each lesson they have a space for<br />Scales<br />Studies<br />Pieces<br />Special points to remember</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">They acted as a reminder to the teacher to fill them in<br />and to check the following week that the work had been done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Some of them are now out of print, but a few are still available.<br />Younger pupils particularly love them.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><b>E37a Flute Lesson Notebook<br />E37b Oboe Lesson Notebook<br />E37d Bassoon Lesson Notebook<br />E37e Saxophone Lesson Notebook<br />E37g Piano Lesson Notebook<br />E37h Violin Lesson Notebook (yes we even did violin ones!)<br />E37j Recorder Lesson Notebook</b></span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /><b>£2.50 each</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-32565968771364036282020-02-13T08:00:00.000+00:002020-02-13T08:00:12.503+00:00Uncle Ernie...<h3 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ernest Read CBE 1879 - 1965</span></h3>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">A biography of this dear man can be found on Wikipedia, for those of you too young to remember him. He was the first person who instilled in me my lifelong love of orchestras. </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For a few brief years my family scraped together enough cash to send me to Queenswood School, near Hatfield in Hertfordshire. They were extremely happy years, and I loved being at a boarding school, set within woods in peaceful countryside, larking about with a load of other girls.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The school had a strong musical tradition, and Ernest Read was our Director of Music. Being near London meant that he could bring distinguished musicians to perform for us, and give us occasional lessons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On Thursday afternoons it was ORCHESTRA. I would sit in the second violins, hating the sound I made, but loving the experience of orchestral playing under his baton. He would sometimes come down from his rostrum and lean over me, whispering 'smile!' as I always looked so serious. He showed us how to conduct 2/4 with one hand and 3/4 with the other, and of course how to conduct 5/4. He also demonstrated how to count bars in your head, and on your fingers, while discussing the latest football results with your neighbour. He was full of fun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For the school choir he arranged the entire Messiah for four-part female voices, so that we could sing it at Christmas. There were also exciting coach outings to The Central Hall, Westminster, where groups of us would attend the Ernest Read Children's Concerts. A huge London orchestra, playing short themes, and illustrating the sound of their instruments to the delight of us youngsters, before performing the complete works. There were always lots of jokes of course.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was on an Ernest Read Summer School course at our school that I first heard a bunch of bassoons playing. From that moment the violin was set aside, and my life changed for ever.</span></span></div>
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Queenswood School, and the school song he composed for us.</div>
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June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-5762375079616713982020-01-27T08:00:00.000+00:002020-01-27T08:00:06.460+00:00Huddersfield Saxophone Day<h2 style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Seventh Annual Saxophone Day<br />University of Huddersfield - 8th March 2020</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><br />Composer </span><a href="https://www.charlottehardingmusic.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Charlotte Harding</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> and saxophonist </span><a href="https://www.amygreensax.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Amy Green</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> present their lecture recital: '<strong><em>Over 100 Years of Women and the Saxophone</em></strong>’. The lecture highlights the involvement of women on the development of the saxophone and its music. This event is supported by the Centre for Music, Culture and Identity (</span><a href="https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/cmci/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">CMCI</span></a><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">It is with some considerable reluctance that we have decided to impose a modest flat rate shipping charge of £1.95 on all UK orders from 1st January 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;">We have kept the cost to you as low as we possibly can and hope that you can understand why we had to make this particular decision.</span></div>
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June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-39576564908011286612019-11-18T08:00:00.000+00:002019-11-18T08:00:15.854+00:00The ocean is a mighty harmonist... Wordsworth<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Now entering its 12th year, the next festival will celebrate Beethoven (the ‘revolutionary’) and beyond, as we enter the great composer’s 250th anniversary. Living through the French Revolution undoubtedly had a profound effect on many artists and as we explore Beethoven’s life and influences (both received and passed on), we delve into the 1848 German Revolution and Russian Revolution, the Revolution of the Great Wars - and indeed the Industrial Revolution.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The North York Moors Chamber Music Festival celebrates great music through friendship, sharing, the landscape, history and architecture - taking audiences on a journey throughout the North York Moors National Park, stirring the musical spirit within us all. Over 30 musicians, 2 weeks, 10 churches, around 40 chamber works all create a friendly and passionate environment within one of this country's most spectacular regions. As we don’t make a habit of advertising, please do join our emailing list for updates and news of extra concerts outside of the festival throughout the year.</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The festival takes you on a tour through and much of the National Park and along the spectacular Jurassic coastline. We are incredibly fortunate to have these extraordinary historic buildings, some which date back to the Anglo-Saxons. In a sense the concert begins the moment you set out to travel over the moors to your destination - the landscape is very much part of the artistic experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">When a student passes the landmark of Grade 5 we thought it would be a good time to offer them the experience being a soloist. </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">This was the thinking behind a phone call I made to Alan Ridout. He was a man who loved to write for actual performances, and spent a lot of time encouraging musical youngsters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The result of a long and riotous conversation, which puzzled the people in my office at the time, was a delicious series of Concertinos. Each piece could be played with piano, but was also scored for strings, so that the player could have a first taste of performing with a small orchestra (or string quartet.)</span></div>
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Several of these have been on exam syllabuses over the years, but not everybody is aware that there are string parts available for performance. If you have a student who would benefit from a bit of stage experience, please give them this opportunity.</div>
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June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-30200339692113752592019-09-23T08:00:00.000+01:002019-09-23T08:00:04.289+01:00We, The Chorus<h2 align="center">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Checking in at a last-minute <em>AirB&B</em> in The Hague last week I was delighted to see a litter of music stands. It transpired that my host was Andrius Arutiunian, the composer, who is published by Donemus - a publisher that we deal with. I looked him up online.</span></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">"Andrius Arutiunian (b.1991) is an Armenian-Lithuanian composer and sound artist. His practice is based on sound and hybrid forms of media, with a particular interest in identity, technology and sonic artefacts. Sonic appropriation and repurposing, as well the use of new technologies and media all form an important part of Arutiunian’s practice."</span></em></div>
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of the children worldwide, who have been striking for action on climate
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><i>Doing our bit '</i></span><u style="text-indent: 0in;"><span style="color: blue; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><a href="https://www.juneemersonwindmusic.com/doing_our_bit.html">https://www.juneemersonwindmusic.com/doing_our_bit.html</a></span></u></div>
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<br />June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-15824022896071209042019-08-26T08:00:00.000+01:002019-08-26T08:00:09.611+01:002019 Launchpad Prize Winners #2<br />
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Welsh College of Music and Drama, Blackweir Brass have gone on to enjoy
performances such as at St John Smith’s Square, St David’s Hall and the
Endelienta Series. An emerging group, its members look forward to studying at a
postgraduate level at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and the Royal Academy
of Music. Major influences on the group are Onyx Brass, the Philip Jones Brass
Ensemble, and the poetry of Sir John Betjeman, all of which are evident in
their most popular recital series, 'Music and Words'. The quintet has been
appointed as Live Music Now artists and Making Music Selected Artists, and in
2019 won the June Emerson Launchpad Prize.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Lok-yin Hui - flute</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Made up of Hong Kongese flautist Lok-yin Hui, British oboist Jessica Vinson, Korean clarinettist Michael Choi, Swedish/German horn player Robert Mehlig and Swiss bassoonist Leonardo Bizzotto, the group's name reflects the international nature of its membership.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Under the guidance of Laura Jellicoe and Stefano Canuti, the group has performed in various concerts, master-classes and competitions since its foundation in 2018. Notably the group performed in a master-class presented by the Haffner Wind Ensemble, and was recently awarded the Fewkes Woodwind Chamber Music Prize. Also Ensemble Cosmopolitan has been invited to join ChoiMan Company as their artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Ensemble Cosmopolitan is delighted and grateful to receive the generous support of June Emerson Wind Music, through their Launchpad Prize.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We were camping in Salzburg with our two children when my husband Geoffrey said 'We're not far from Budapest. Let's go and see the Oromszegis.' That's another story, but Vienna was on the way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">We hit the Vienna ring road in the rush hour. It was raining. We eventually found the exit for a campsite near a composer we knew about, Alfred Uhl. After much wandering we rang the Uhls to say we were completely lost. Alfred sent his grandson Michael to find us, and Michael, on his bicycle led us back to the Uhl's house. We were invited to camp in the garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">There followed a riotous evening, with much red wine, good food and conversation. (It was around this time that some Austrian wine was found to contain anti-freeze, but I'm not sure that we mentioned it...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Alfred's wife Frieda told us how their neighbour had recently been sunbathing in the garden with the radio on loudly while Alfred was trying to compose. The neighbour couldn't be persuaded to turn it down, so Frieda fired the garden hose over the hedge and sorted it. She was a loyal and loving wife.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">The upshot of this visit was that we published <em>Festfanfare</em> by Alfred Uhl for 9 trumpets, 6 trombones, tuba and percussion. He also allowed Geoffrey to arrange it for 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones and tuba so that it would be easier to programme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Over the following years Geoffrey kept asking him to write a wind quintet for us. Alfred liked the idea, but unfortunately died before he got round to writing it.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">Whenever anyone says 'Have you been to Vienna?' the whole evening comes back - the ring-road, the wine, the laughter and the rain pattering on the tent in the darkness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms";">PS sorry the photo is so blurred, but it is the most sympathetic picture I could find. He was such a dear man.</span></div>
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Terence Greaves, when we first met him, was Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the Royal Northern College of Music. A quiet, unassuming academic we thought. However we soon found out about his naughty side. In his earlier life he had been a lecturer at the Birmingham School of Music, where he had contact with the CBSO - in particular the wind section.<br />
It was the clarinettist John Fuest who encouraged him to write for the CBSO wind quintet, which is where Terry's mischievous side came to light. <strong>Beethoven's Fifth Bossa Nova</strong> is wicked fun to play, and audiences absolutely love it. He went on to write <strong>Rimsky's Rumba</strong> and <strong>Mozart's Turkey Rock Mambo,</strong> all of which are published by Emerson Edition. However it is the Beethoven that is the firm favourite, and inspired this jazzy cover from the cartoonist Bill Tidy.<br />
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<strong>E42 Terence Greaves - Beethoven's 5th Bossa Nova</strong></div>
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June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-30895607119289844282019-06-06T08:00:00.000+01:002019-06-06T08:00:11.613+01:00The Hunt<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The wind quintet line-up appeared just a little late for consideration by the major classical composers. It was not until Reicha and Danzi came along in the early 1800s that it began to be recognised as an ensemble. Although since that time there have been some wonderful works composed specifically for quintet, there have also been a lot of arrangements, made to fill out the earlier repertoire. String quartets, of course, have a rich supply of musically satisfying works, many of which have been converted for quintets to play - with varying degrees of success.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Mozart's 'The Hunt' however is a major achievement in this arrangement by Geoffrey Emerson. It is done by someone who knows intimately how each instrument, and instrumentalist, works. Many string quartets have passages ('scrubbing, pizzicato, string-crossing arpeggios and the like) that don't translate musically for wind instruments. These he refuses to arrange as they will never sound convincing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">'The Hunt' however is a supremely wonderful and satisfying musical experience for wind players. If you only try one - try this one!</span></div>
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E28 Mozart 'The Hunt' K458 string quartet<br />arranged by Geoffrey Emerson for wind quintet</h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">"Shall I bring my horn or my bicycle?" is the usual question when Christine Muskett comes to Yorkshire. Whenever she comes we try to organise a quintet session, or she visits our local orchestra. The bicycle option is for keeping her muscles in trim and enjoying the fantastic countryside in this part of North Yorkshire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Every summer Christine cycles for a chosen charity. This year is is for <b>Dementia UK</b>, a charity that makes a huge difference to people's lives. She will be cycling <b>C2C2C2C </b>(Close to Coast to Close to Coast) covering a distance of about 450 miles. This is as nothing to someone who did London to Paris in two days a few years ago.</span></div>
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June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-78018268992465727162019-05-02T08:00:00.000+01:002019-05-02T08:00:02.844+01:00Online Oboe Masterclasses<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In addition, Celia’s playing experience is second to none, stemming from her own education at some of the world’s top training opportunities, encompassing orchestral, commercial, solo, chamber, lecturing, curating, performance practice and experience upon a number of instruments. Celia’s own teachers and mentors have been superb players and educators to whom she pays tribute as having nurtured her unique outlook which differs from the traditional model of oboe teaching.</span></div>
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June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-92163971400894631982019-04-20T14:00:00.000+01:002019-04-20T14:00:11.410+01:00<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It was in the summer of 1965 at Queenswood School, Hertfordshire, that I first heard bassoons in any quantity. I was attending one of the Ernest Read summer schools as a helper. When my household duties were finished, I was allowed to play second violin in the Second Orchestra.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Walking across the netball courts one sunny afternoon I heard this magical pouring out through the open window of a nearby room. Three bassoons playing some joyful music. What a sound!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Straight away I tracked down the bassoon tutor, Archie Camden, and said 'I've decided I want to learn the bassoon!' He smiled and said 'You find an instrument my dear, and I will give you some lessons.'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In 1976, with joyful gratitude, Emerson Edition published it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Laurence Perkins is an active and enthusiastic ambassador for the bassoon. Not many students choose the bassoon as their instrument. The cost of an instrument can be an obstacle, and it is (let's face it) not the most extrovert and showy instrument in the orchestra. What's more it doesn't often play solos, so is seldom very visible.</span></div>
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As well as being a composer, singer and pianist, Michael Head was an examiner for the Associated Board. It was when he came to Ampleforth College to examine the music students that we first met him. We knew his lovely songs, and had recently heard <em>Siciliana</em> for oboe on the BBC. As well as offering hospitality we were definitely hoping to get our hands on this lovely piece!</div>
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I drove down to Ampleforth College to bring him up to our house. My son Daniel, aged about 9, was in the car with me.</div>
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'Now Mr. Head is quite an old man, and may be a bit deaf. When you speak to him try to speak very clearly,' I told him.</div>
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Michael got in the car, and I went back to the music department to get his suitcase. When I returned to the car he was roaring with laughter, and so was Daniel. Apparently Daniel had said, extremely distinctly 'I think you are the oldest man I have ever seen.'</div>
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Our relationship was very warm from then on (thank you Daniel!) and we not only acquired his lovely <em>Sicilana</em>, but also a very striking song <em>The World is Mad</em>, for voice, clarinet and piano, and three other works including oboe and bassoon.<br />
Geoffrey asked his advice on adjudicating, as he had his first engagement coming up. Michael said that however awful the playing, it was important <i>always </i>to say something nice - even if it was just to compliment them on the way they walked on to the stage.</div>
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That first meeting was on March 10th 1976. In April I sent him the Louis MacNeice poem that eventually became <em>The World is Mad.</em> During the following couple of months several other works arrived. On August 3rd he wrote from Bulawayo, South Africa, where he was not only examining for the AB but also singing his songs at recitals, including <em>The World is Mad - </em>ink still wet on the paper.</div>
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Michael Head: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Head_(composer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Head_(composer</a>)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Eric Hughes was an electrical engineer, who worked at GEC in Wembley during the 1950s at the time when transistors were first being developed. He was a talented jazz pianist and composer, and used to write a musical show each year for the members of the company to perform. I first met him when I was invited to play in the orchestra for one of their productions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He decided to study composition more seriously, and enrolled for classes at Hendon Technical College. We sat next to each other for the theory and harmony classes and generally caused a lot of trouble - he was such a joker. Through our friendship he started writing shows for the Ballards Lane Methodist Church in Finchley, North London, which had a thriving dramatic group. Everything was fun. I still have copies of his songs 'I've got a Toothbrush in Kensington' and 'Knitting Sandwiches for Jim' - created for some comedy sketch.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Trying out some songs for a show - please note paper snakes coming out of the recorders.<br />Left to right: June Emerson, Laurie Hetherington, Eric Hughes, Jean Gunderson,</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The composer Alan Bush came to Hendon Tech. to teach the more advanced students and Spike (everyone called Hughes ended up being called 'Spike' of course) developed his style to a much more advanced level. Several of his works have been since been published.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was at my request, and detailed information about which notes were learned first on the bassoon, that he composed <b>Six Low Solos</b>, which have been a godsend to beginner bassoonists ever since.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">He always signed himself E. S. C. O. Hughes, which stood for Eric Spike Consecutive Octaves Hughes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><i>E6 Six Low Solos - Eric Hughes Grade I/2</i></span></div>
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June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-79803732127751593302019-02-07T08:00:00.000+00:002019-02-07T08:00:07.213+00:00Gordon Jacob and his pigs...<div align="center">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Whenever we visited Gordon Jacob the first thing my children wanted to do was to sit on the big leather pig in his sitting-room. Gordon loved pigs and had an enormous collection: china, wooden, plastic - even a marzipan one that he couldn't bring himself to eat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">He was helping us to build our catalogue of pieces for young wind players, and it was the pigs that reminded him to introduce us to Alan Ridout, one of his ex-students at the Royal College of Music. Alan had written a piece for four bassoons called 'Pigs' as a gift to Gordon to add to his collection. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Alan soon became one of our favourite composers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Pigs eventually became Emerson Edition No.9. With a cover illustration by the legendary Bill Tidy it has remained a favourite since 1973</span></div>
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June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-20960602200407751422019-01-24T08:00:00.000+00:002019-01-24T08:00:04.023+00:00The Rehearsal Orchestra - London Weekend Courses<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>With a bunch of great players, under an excellent conductor<br />(with a good sense of humour), for a day of intensive work<br />with an open rehearsal at the end for your mates to come and listen?</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Rehearsal Orchestra </span><a href="http://rehearsal-orchestra.org/"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">rehearsal-orchestra.org</span></a></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Open to flute players aged 13 and under on 31 August 2019. They should play a piece, or pieces, of their own choice lasting (including breaks) not more than 5 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Open to flute players aged 14 - 18 years on 31 August 2019. They should play a piece, or pieces, of their own choice lasting (including breaks) not more than 7 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Open to higher level players aged 19 - 24 years on 31 August 2019. </span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">They should play a piece, or pieces, of their own choice lasting (including breaks) not more than 8 minutes.</span></div>
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June Emerson Wind Musichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05341755397136660189noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846941424055144893.post-24778285339271296872018-12-13T08:00:00.000+00:002018-12-13T08:00:06.353+00:00BBC Music Magazine 1<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Looking for articles and reviews about <b>music for wind instruments</b> in the BBC Music Magazine is a time-consuming business Not having much time I was delighted to find the word 'flute' on page 70 of the November issue. It was in a fascinating article about the Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho (b.Helsinki 1952). There was much superfluous stuff about her being female of course - the world of the media can't just call people composers and leave it at that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I followed the links and listened to <i>Noa Noa </i>for flute and electronics. As the article said, her music is certainly 'imaginative and spellbinding'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are four recordings on YouTube. It is possible for the flautist to both play the piece and activate the electronics. Alternatively an assistant can do the activating, leaving the player free to interpret the score. I wonder which is the most satisfying, and would love to hear opinions from performers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The performance by Jesse Tatum uses an assistant. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50T6EiornP4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50T6EiornP4</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Emma Resmini does the whole job herself, seamlessly. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5VKG8lQwB4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5VKG8lQwB4</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My next thought was 'Do we actually stock this piece?' and - yes - there it is on our website! Satisfaction all round!</span></div>
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