Arnold Myers helped organize numerous brass lectures and performances for HBS sessions at the 7^th International Scientific Meeting for Sound and Musical Instrument Studies presented by ANIMUSIC. The conference (July 4-7, 2018)

The Naturhornakademie Bad Dürkheim (International Horn Academy in Bad Dürkheim) is celebrating its fifteenth year with a number of events (concerts and seminars) this summer. Please see http://www.naturhorn.com/ for more information.

Call for Proposals: Making the Jazz Gumbo

An international conference on repertoires that Influenced and were influenced by early jazz and celebrating the 100^th Anniversary of the death of James Reese Europe, presented by the Historic Brass Society with support from the City University Of New York Graduate Center

May 9, 2019

CUNY Graduate Center, New York City

As with a great gumbo, the creation of musical genres involve the mix of many elements. Some of those elements have been downplayed in jazz history. This conference aims to address those shortcomings and will focus on musical styles that helped create and were influenced by jazz. Special focus will be placed on James Reese Europe and the Harlem Hell Fighters who created a link between ragtime and early jazz as well as what Jelly Roll Morton intriguingly called “That Spanish tinge.” Exploration of cross-influences from Latin American music will be explored, most notably, early Cuban repertoire. Brazilian choro, maxixe and other styles as well as repertoire from Puerto Rico, and Mexico will be included. Music and history of composers such as Louis Moreau Gottschalk and Ernesto Nazareth will also be represented.

The conference will end with a period-instrument concert of the music of James Reese Europe and the Harlem Hell Fighters as well as late 19^th and early 20^th century music of Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Brazil and works by Gottschalk and Nazareth and others.

Proposals for papers on those and related topics will be considered for inclusion in the conference.

Send proposals by January 1, 2019 to

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The Historic Brass Society is pleased to announce that the 2018 Christopher Monk Award has been presented to Richard Seraphinoff in recognition of his outstanding and sustained contributions to the understanding of the natural horn, its repertoire, historic performance practice, and manufacture.

Robert Barclay, Richard Seraphinoff & Michael Münkwitz will again be giving their annual week-long trumpet-making course in Linton, UK beginning on June 11. Click for more information: Long Trumpet Making with Robert Barclay and guest appearances from Richard Seraphinoff & Michael Münkwitz | Monday 11th  - Friday 15th June | £880; Cornetto Making with Sam Goble and Andrew Hallock 2nd - 6th July.