Annual American Composers Update

David Uber has received a 2000-01 ASCAP Award for the 41st consecutive year, and an International Bio Centre of Cambridge 20th-Century Award for Achievement. The International Trumpet Guild has commissioned a trumpet choir fanfare for the guild's conference, May 2001 in Evansville, IN. Currently, he is listed in 2000 Outstanding Scholars of the Twentieth Century, Stern's Directory 2001 (Performance Arts Professionals), and the 2000-01 millennium edition of Strathmore's Who's Who. Kendor Music has published his arrangement Bach for Brass, for brass quartet. The Spaeth/Schmid catalog, in Germany, lists 209 of his compositions. In Japan, a video features Nobuhiro Noguchi, solo trombone, playing Uber's music.

The Salem County Brass Society, Charles Musser, conductor, premiered Commemoration Overture, Apr. 30, 2000 in Carneys Point, NJ. At the Tinmouth Community Church, the Downtown Brass Company presented Tribute to Tinmouth.

Pianist Bryan English soloed in Skylines, for solo bass trombone and piano, at Texas Christian University. In Apr. 2000, Christian Dickinson led the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Trombone Choirs in Concertante Antiphonale, for double trombone choir. A program at Fresno (CA) City College featured Three Cameos, with Richard Douty, tuba, and the Fresno Saxophone Quartet, June 10, 2000. Works heard in 2000 at the College of New Jersey, in Ewing, included Sonnets, with The New Jersey Flute Ensemble, conducted by Dent Williamson, Apr. 18; and Three Scenes from Quimby's Prairie, for solo flute and piano, with flutist Linda Fennimore, Apr. 13. On Apr. 1, 2000, the Baylor University Trombone Choir, Nat Dickey, director, performed Octet in Waco, TX.

Ballade in G; violin, French horn, and piano; Trialogue; flute, oboe, and clarinet; both by Alry Music Publications. A Vermont Gathering; low brass choir; in Tuba-Euphonium Press Hymns for Many Occasions. Eternal Hymns; low brass choir; Kendor Music. Three Fantasies; clarinet and bassoon; Fanfare for Carthage; brass choir and percussion; both by T. A. P. Music Sales. Octet; B-flat trumpets; Triplo Press. Original Songs for the Beginning Trumpeter; Wehr's Music House.

Four Sketches, for French horn and piano; Kathy Krubsack, French horn; Wisconsin Class A Solos. Contours, for solo tuba and percussion; Barton Cummings; C and C Enterprises CD. Commemoration Overture, for brass and percussion choir; Salem County Brass Society CD. A Dartmouth Medley; Dartmouth Wind Symphony, Max Culpepper, conductor; Alumni Productions CD.

• 1999-2000 American Composers Update
• 1998-1999 American Composers Update
• 1997-1998 American Composers Update
• 1996-1997 American Composers Update
• SAI's Composers Bureau Online.
• SAI's Music for Young People section.