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Is Band Really Better? Four composers make a score card.

By NewMusicBox Staff on December 1, 2004No Comment
Karel Husa Karel Husa
The orchestras are more interested in still conserving Beethoven and Brahms, but the bands don’t have these composers…
Libby Larsen Libby Larsen
For me, composing for symphonic wind ensemble is quite different than composing for orchestra. At the heart of the wind ensemble is breath…
David Maslanka David Maslanka
The many thousands of young people who have had life-changing experiences in wind bands become the next generations of performers, conductors, and users of new music…
David Rakowski David Rakowski
Mostly I felt like a stranger in a strange land…

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