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Annual American Composers Update
Howard J. Buss
Howard J. Buss has more than 80 published works, including
instrumental and vocal solos, chamber music, and symphonic,
choral, and band compositions, performed by university
faculty artists as well as by players from organizations
such as the New York Philharmonic, Israel Philharmonic,
Boston Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Minnesota Orchestra,
Buffalo Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, Chicago Symphony
and the U.S. Air Force Band. His commissioned works
include both compositions and arrangements. In 2000,
Buss' flute-choir arrangement Three Pieces from the
Album for the Young by Robert Schumann was performed
by Flutes Unlimited, Ellen Kaner, conductor, at the
Texas Flute Fair at the University of North Texas (May);
and at the National Flute Association Convention in
Dallas (August). Buss received a 2001 ASCAP Award. He
is founder and editor of Brixton Publications (ASCAP)
and Howard J. Buss Publications (BMI) which publish
American music in the tradition of Gershwin, Copland,
and Bernstein. Catalogs of his works are available at
www.brixtonpublications.com,
or from Brixton Publications, 4311 Braemar Ave., Lakeland,
FL 33813-1608, Phone/Fax: (863) 646-0961, E-mail: buss_h_popmail.firn.edu.
Premieres
In 2001, Cliff Newton, trumpet; Art Jennings, trombone;
and Kevin Sharpe, piano, presented Contrasts in Blue
at Florida State University and at Stetson University
(September); and at the University of Florida (October).
The International Trombone Festival in Nashville included
the premiere of Illuminations, May 2001 with
Chicago Symphony member Charles Vernon, bass trombone,
and Robert Marler, piano. Sci-Fi Percussives, for 12
percussion, premiered in April 2001 at the University
of South Florida (USF) in Tampa with the USF Percussion
Ensemble conducted by Kristin E. Hecht, Brian C. Hayman,
and Match Bradford III. At the University of Central
Florida, in Orlando, Passage to Eden was played
first in March 2001, by Keith Koons, clarinet; Gene
Berger, French horn; and Gary Wolf, piano. Remembrances
was introduced in November 2000 by Stefan Harg, clarinet;
Ulrika Edström, cello; and Katarina Ström-Harg
at the Church of Sundbyberg in Stockholm, Sweden.
Performances
Narrator Joan Gadea, flutist Joseph Mira, and the Alcoya
Simphonic Orchestra Percussion presented Modern Times
in Spain, in Gandia, March 2001; Alicante and Alcoy,
February 2001; and Castella, November 2000. In March
2001, at the First Presbyterian Church of Lakeland,
Southeastern College students and faculty produced the
Howard Buss Contemporary Music Showcase, including Postcards
from Vienna and Dialogue, both for clarinet
and piano; Wave Train, Reflections, and Seaside,
all for flute and piano; and Into Each Life,
for flute, cello, piano, and percussion. In 2000, Festival,
for flute quartet, was performed in Chicago by Flutes
Fantastique at the Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit
and at the Lutheran Church of the Cross (November);
and at Saginaw State University by the ensemble Fluteé
(September). Time Capsule, for flute and clarinet,
was heard in October 2000 with the Mobius Chamber Ensemble
at the Calvary Church of the Fountains in Dallas, TX.
A Day in the City, for solo trombone, was played
in May 2001 by Danny Hutson at Alabama A&M University
Publications
Sci-Fi Percussives; Awakening; version for alto
flute, guitar, and bass viol; Illuminations;
bass trombone or tuba and piano; all by Brixton Publications.
Recordings
Incantation, for trumpet and piano; Sheryl
Linch and Don Parker; PL Productions Double Take
DT001.
Further Information
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