Annual American Composers Update

David Uber, who lives in Tinmouth, VT (Wallingford Post Office), is the founder of Rebu Music Publishing Company, Inc. The College of New Jersey Board of Trustees unanimously awarded him the title of Professor Emeritus of Music. For the 38th consecutive year, he received an ASCAP award. He has been commissioned to arrange a march by Richard Stoll Armstrong for the Princeton University Band; and to write a tuba and orchestra concerto for Roger Behrend of George Mason University, for a 1998 premiere. Rebu Music Publications has released his brass quartet arrangement of I've been Working on the Railroad.

On Apr. 26, 1997, Fairfax Overture for Concert Band, commissioned by the City of Fairfax, VA, was heard first, conducted by Robert Pouliot. Tides of Destiny for Large Brass Choir received its first performance from the Calvert Brass Consortium, conducted by the composer, June 4, 1997, in Solomons, MD. Harry Krueger led the premiere of Antiphonal for Rushmore, for three antiphonal brass choirs, at Mt. Rushmore, SD, July 1997.

At the Verso Il Millennio International Conference in Riva del Garda, Italy, Jerry Young and the conference tuba quartet played The Four Troubadours and Uber's arrangement of Deep River, July 6, 1997. The Delta Brass performed Suite Militaire, for brass quintet, in Cleveland, MS, Mar. 4, 1997. Sonata for Euphonium and Piano was heard in Boone, NC, with Sarita Faille, Feb. 23, 1997; and at Texas A & M University, in Commerce, with Rickey Lowery.

Concert Fantasy for Solo Flute and Piano; Concert Rhapsody for Solo Clarinet and Piano; Concert Sketches for Solo Saxophone and Piano; all by Encore Music Publishers. Amazing Grace; low brass quartet; 35 Elementary Etudes; tuba; Shadow-Graph For Euphonium choir; Shall We Gather at the River?; euphonium-tuba choir; all by Tuba-Euphonium Press. Tides of Destiny for Brass Choir; A Jazz Rhapsody for Solo Tuba and Piano; Declarations for Euphoinum-Tuba Choir; Puppetry for Euphonium-Tuba Choir; Rhapsody in C Minor for Trombone and Piano; Holiday Music for Flute Quartet; Contest Duos for Two Horns in F; Carols for Christmas for Brass Quintet; Ancient Hymns and Canticles for Trumpet Trio; A Fairfax Overture for Wind Symphony; Shall We Gather in the River for Concert Band; Hampshire Hills for Concert Band; Duos in Bass Clef for Two Trombones; all by Rebu Music Publications.

Skylines for Solo Bass Trombone and Brass Choir (with percussion); Douglas Yeo and the Black Dyke Mills Band, James Watson, conductor; Doyen Digital CD. Sonata for Bass Tuba; Romance for Tuba and Piano; Jae Young Heo; SEM Gramaphone CD.

For more complete information, see David Uber's entry in our Composers Bureau Online.