1/29 - The HBS 1998 newsletter is now available to view online in PDF form. You may view it here.

1/28 - We've updated the participants and posted abstracts for the presentations at the 2012 Symposium. Click here for complete information.

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
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.

Participants - Updated

Cornetto: Bruce Dickey, Jean Tubery, Jeremy West, Jean-Pierre Canihac, Michael Collver, Kiri Tollaksen, James Miller, Jamie Savan,
Natural Trumpet: Jean-François Madeuf, Crispian Steele-Perkins, Friedemann Immer, Graham Nicholson, John Foster, Bob Civiletti, Nicolas Isabelle, Bruno Fernandes
Keyed Bugle: Ralph Dudgeon, Keyed Trumpet: Jaroslav Roucek
Cornet: Allan Dean
Natural Horn: Jeff Snedeker, Richard Seraphinoff, Paul Avril, John Boden, R.J. Kelley,
Trombone: Daniel Lassalle, Sylvain Delvaux , Fabrice Millischer, Wim Becu, Adam Woolf, Abigail Newman, Steven Saunders, Benny Sluchin, Linda Pearse, Francois Godere, Sam Barbash-Riley,
Serpent: Doug Yeo, Volny Hostiou,
Keyboard: Kathryn Cok, Steven Plank, David Shuler
Baroque Bassoon: Wouter Verschuren
Timpani: Ben Harms
Lecture presenters: Don Smithers, Trevor Herbert, Keith Polk, Renato Meucci, Stew Carter, Gunther Schuller, Dan Morgenstern, Krin Gabbard, Hannes Vereecke, Murray Campbell, Ignace De Keyser, Arnold Myers, Herbert Heyde, Jeroen Billiet, Florence Belliere, Kathryn, Bridwell-Briner, Alexander Bonus, Raymond David Burkhart, Teresa Chirico, Joe Drew, Patryk, Frankowski, Fritz Heller, Joe Kaminski, Don Larry, Thierry Maniguet, Claude Maury, John Miller, Lisa Norman, John Chick, Sabine Klaus

Abstracts for Papers to be Presented

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