Selected Publications

 

Books: 

The Braunschweig Scores: Felix Weingartner and Erich Leinsdorf on Beethoven's 
First Four Symphonies (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2005), 160 pp.

 

               

A Comprehensive Biography of Composer Gustav Holst with Correspondence and Diary Excerpts                                 (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2001), 699+ pp.

Reviewed by Leon Bly in The WASBE Newsletter, XVI/4 (December, 2001), 19.

 

 

 

From Kneller Hall to Hammersmith: The Band Works of Gustav Holst

 (Tutzing, Germany: Haus    Hans Schneider, 1990), 199+ pp.

                                Reviewed by Michael Short in Music and Letters, LXXII, 311 and by Wolfgang Suppan                                     in Die Blasmusik, XL/9, 272.

 

 

Articles:

                “Holst, Stock, and The Planets,”  Journal of the Conductors Guild, XXIV  (Winter/Spring-                                               Summer/Fall, 2003, published 2004), 33-48.     

                “Early Performances at Kneller Hall of British Band Classics,” in Kongressberichte Bad                                                      Waltersdorf/Steirmark 2000/Lana/Suedtirol 2002 (Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans                                               Schneider, 2003), 405-414.

                “Imogen Holst’s ‘The Unfortunate Traveller,’” in Kongressberichte Bad Waltersdorf/Steirmark                                       2000/Lana/Suedtirol 2002 (Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans Schneider, 2003), 61-74.

                “John Philip Sousa: A Comparative Instrumentation Study of the Manuscripts and Published                                           Orchestral Scores of Selected Works,” Journal of The Conductors Guild, XXI/2                                                  (Summer/Fall, 2000--published December, 2001), 34-53.

                “The Kneller Hall Archives II: The Eckersberg and Columbo Collections,” in Wolfgang Suppan                                        (ed.), IGEB (International Gesellschaft fur Erforschung und Forderung der Blasmusik)

                                (International Society for the Promotion and Investigation of Wind Music)                                                            Kongressbericht XIII: Banska Bystrica, 1998 (Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans Schneider,

                                2000), 31-43.

                “British Military Band Tradition and the Royal Military School of Music,” solicited for Mid-Euro,                                    January, 1999.

                “The Kneller Hall Archives,” in Wolfgang  Suppan (ed.), IGEB Kongressbericht XII: Mainz, 1996

                                (Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans Schneider, 1998), 11-30.

                “Bruno Walter’s Correspondence to Adrian Boult: A Forty Year Friendship,” Journal of the                                             Conductors Guild, XVII/2 (Summer/Fall, 1996--published 1998), 77-87.

                “Score and Parts: CPE Bach’s Double Concerto in E Flat, Wq 47,” Journal of the Conductors                                         Guild, XVI/2 (Summer/Fall, 1995--published 1997), 116-118.

                “Military Music at the Festival of Empire,” WASBE Journal, III (December, 1996), 48-55.

                “Was This Holst’s First Band Work?” in Wolfgang Suppan (ed.), IGEB Kongressbericht XI:                                            Abony 1994 (Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans Schneider, 1996), 353-362.

                “JAC Somerville and the British Band in the Era of Holst and Vaughan Williams,” in Frank J.                                              Cipolla    (ed.) and Donald Hunsberger (ed.) The Wind Ensemble and Its Repertoire:                                            Essays on the Fortieth Anniversary of the Eastman Wind Ensemble (Rochester, NY:                                           University of Rochester Press, 1995), 111-120.

                “James Causley Windram’s Military Band Settings of Gustav Holst’s Choral Hymns from the Rig                                    Veda,” Journal of Band Research, XXX/1 (Fall, 1994--published 1996), 69-77.

                “Pittsburgh Composers for Band and Wind Ensemble,” in Wolfgang Suppan (ed.) IGEB                                                     Kongressbericht X: Feldkirch 1992 (Tutzing, Germany: Haus Hans Schneider, 1994),

                                88-91.

                “In Search of the Paso Doble,” Journal of the Conductors Guild, XIII/2 (Summer/Fall, 1992--                                            published 1994), 101-105.

                “Easier Classical Symphonies for High School and Community Orchestras,” Georgia Music News,                   LII/3 (Spring, 1992),17-19.

                “Fruhe Schallplatten Aufnamen der Werke fur Militarblasorchester von Gustav Holst und Ralph                                      Vaughan Williams,” IGEB Mitteilungsblatt, Jahrgang 1990/2 (August, 1990), 235-241.

                “Gustav Holst’s Duet for Trombone and Organ,” International Trombone Association Journal,

                                XVIII/1 (Winter, 1990), 22-25.

                “That Nagging Necessity of Band Tuning,” Pennsylvania Music Education Association District 1

                                Newsletter, October 1989, 13 and May, 1990, 13.

                “Neglected Junior High School Band Repertoire,” PMEA News, LIII/3 (March, 1989), 16-17.

                “Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Works for Winds,” Bandworld, IV/3 (January-February, 1989),                                          22-23.

                “The Holst Septet for Winds,” JBR, XXIV/1 (Fall, 1988), 52-58.

                “Sketches for A Moorside Suite,” JBR, XXII/2 (Spring, 1987), 1-6.

                “The Hammersmith Sketches,” College Band Directors National Association Journal, III/1                                             (Spring, 1986), 8-17.

                “Paul Robert Marcel Fauchet: Symphonie pour Musique d’Harmonie,” JBR, XXI/2 (Spring,                                               1985), 8-26.

                “The Premieres of  Hammersmith,” solicited for the premiere issue of the College Band Directors                                    National Band Association Journal, I/1 (Spring, 1984), 18-27.

                “Thematic Borrowings in the Holst Band Works,” Journal of the British Association of Symphonic                                 Bands and Wind Ensembles, IV/2 (Spring, 1984), 28-29.

                “Gustav Holst’s Three Folk Tunes: A Source for the Second Suite in F,” JBR XIX/1 (Fall, 1983),                                      1-4.

                “Gustav Holst: The Band Works in Retrospect,” JBASBWE, III (Spring, 1983), 10-18 and IV

                                (Fall, 1983), 13.

                “Early Performances of the Holst Suites for Military Band,” JBR, XVII/2 (Spring, 1982), 39-50.

                “Gustav Holst: The Other Works for Military Band,” JBR, XVI/2 (Spring, 1981), 1-12.

 

Article Contributor:

                Jeffrey Renshaw, “Seating Bands for the Music,” The Instrumentalist, LV/3 (October, 2000),

                                18-26 [contributed seating charts and commentary regarding Holst and Persichetti].

 

CD Reviews:

                “Bridge to a Millenium (Cleveland Philharmonic Winds, Dan Ragar, Conductor),” GLME1002,

                                in WASBE Newsletter, XVI/4 (December, 2001), 19.

                “Basically British (Philharmonia a Vent, John Boyd, Conductor),” ELFCD1007, in WASBE                                  Newsletter, XVI/2 (June, 2001), 22-23.

 

Book Review:

                “Kenneth Kreitner’s Discoursing Sweet Music,” solicited for the Sonneck Society Bulletin, XVII/1                                                 (Winter, 1991) 38.

 

Thesis Reviews:

                “James Allen Fuller: A Descriptive Analysis of the Eleven Big 10 Conference Marching Band                                            Programs,” in Council for Research in Music Education Bulletin, No. 136 (Spring, 1998),                   73-76.

                “James Thomas McRaney: A History of the Georgia Music Educators Association, 1922-1993,” in

                                CRME Bulletin, 134 (Fall, 1997), 61-65.

                “Mitchell James Fennell: A Study of Selected Band Music of Roy Harris,” in CRME Bulletin, 121

                                (Summer, 1994), 61-64.

                “Jeffrey Lynn Traster: Divertimenti and Parthien from the Thurn und Taxis Court at Regensburg,”                                    in CRME Bulletin, 114 (Fall, 1992), 80-83.

                “Emma Scogna Rocco: Italian Wind Bands: A Surviving Tradition in the Milltowns of Lawrence                                       and Beaver Counties of Pennsylvania,” CRME Bulletin, 101 (Summer, 1989), 61-65.

 

Concert Reviews:

                “Guarneri Quartet Marvelous,” Midland (MI) Daily News, June 14, 1982.

                “Detroit Symphony’s Concert Pleasing, Uneven,” Bay City (MI) Times, June 3, 1982.

                “Pianists Earn Local Laurels,” Bay City Times, March 15, 1982.

                “Piano recital True-ly Pleasant,” Midland Daily News, February 24, 1982.

                “Fontana Fine Chamber Ensemble,” Midland Daily News, November 17, 1981.

Edited Journal:

                World Association of Symphonic Bands and Wind Ensembles (WASBE) Journal, Vol. I (1994).

 

Edited Music:

                Gustav Holst, arr. G. E. Smith, ed. JCM: Country Song, Op. 22, No. 1 (London: Novello, 1998).

 

CD Notes:

                Cornerstones of the British Band Repertoire: Holst, Vaughan Williams, and Jacob (The Keystone                                                 Wind Ensemble, Jack Stamp and Paul Murrell, conductors), CITADEL CTD88137, 1999

                Romantic Sensibilities (Wisconsin Wind Orchestra, Lawrence Dale Harper, conductor), MARK                                       2483-MCD, 1998.