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bandstand<br />
BY JOHN McGuiGAN<br />
John McGuigan is currently the<br />
administrative secretary of the<br />
Canadian Band Association<br />
(Ontario Chapter). His main<br />
functionis the editing of the<br />
quarterly magazine "Fanfare"<br />
and to maintain records and<br />
offices for the association. He<br />
also owns and operates<br />
"COMPRINT" a publishing<br />
house for new Canadian music.<br />
He can be contacted by fax or<br />
phone at 905~826-5542<br />
NATIONAL YouTH BAND<br />
PRESENTS THE<br />
CoNCERT oF THE MoNTH<br />
CBA national executive is to be<br />
commended for the fmest band .<br />
concert of the season this past<br />
May by the National Youth Band.<br />
This organization is now<br />
presenting the opportunity of a<br />
lifetime for young musicians<br />
across the country, auditioned<br />
and chosen from · the best<br />
candidates in the country. They<br />
are lodged and boarded for ·a<br />
~eek prior to this concert and<br />
spend long rewarding hours in<br />
practice with theii talented<br />
conductors. The result is<br />
outstanding - very difficult<br />
music presented with extreme<br />
confidence and flaii before two<br />
audiences of I 500 of theii peers.<br />
This year's concert was a gem.<br />
The huge percussion section,<br />
unrestrained power from a well<br />
tuned and polished brass section,<br />
winds blessed with many sweet<br />
and musical solo sounds, and a<br />
conductor Dr. Gerald King from<br />
BC, up to,the task or'controlling<br />
this august congregation.<br />
At the reception after there was<br />
talk about the need for a wider<br />
audience of Toronto's music<br />
going patrons. It would be<br />
wonderful if this "superband"<br />
could present an open concert for<br />
the community in one of Toronto's<br />
fme professional venus.<br />
Such an event would be a great<br />
addition to our concert schedule<br />
in May when other series are<br />
winding down. It could also serve<br />
to widen the financial coffers of<br />
the NYB whose members pay<br />
their board and transportation out .<br />
of pocket. Their talent and<br />
dedication to their music<br />
deserves this kind of consideration.<br />
Can we in Toronto promote<br />
successfully such .a fme musical<br />
evening?<br />
CAVALCADE OF<br />
WINDs PosTPONED<br />
This year's Cavalcade of Winds<br />
sponsored by the CBA and<br />
scheduled for <strong>June</strong> 5th has been<br />
postponed due to technical<br />
problems. Fees paid by the<br />
various participants will be ·.<br />
returned promptly. Hopefully the<br />
event can be rescheduled for a<br />
late January date. The executive<br />
hopes to have a meeting of the<br />
conductors and executives of the<br />
various community bands <strong>June</strong><br />
20th to resolve the problems<br />
faced by the CBA in trying to<br />
plan this long standing annual<br />
event<br />
MUSICFEST TRIUMPHS AGAIN<br />
I had the pleasure of visiting the<br />
Musicfest presentations at York<br />
University in late May and am<br />
happy to report that the event is,<br />
as usual , a ringing success.<br />
The campus was alive with the<br />
thousands of competitors and<br />
rolling with their dozens of buses<br />
as bands and choirs arrived for<br />
their various competitions and<br />
workshops. Young people. of<br />
various ages arrived from<br />
locations all over this wide<br />
country full of enthusiasm and<br />
wonder and discovery. Music<br />
certainly is not quickly disappearing<br />
from our national education<br />
scene. It was a pleasure to<br />
observe this first hand. The youth<br />
of our land prove again and again<br />
that band music is alive and well<br />
and flourishing in our schools<br />
across the country. Let us not<br />
allow political posturing in our<br />
schools to hann this musical<br />
heritage that our children are<br />
benefitting from now.<br />
~AZZ<br />
.NOTES<br />
BY jiM GALLOWAY<br />
When I was a child at school, one<br />
of the things I remember is<br />
learning a very old English poem,<br />
authorship unknown, and set set<br />
to music, making it, I suppose,<br />
one of the oldest pop songs in the<br />
English language. it was called<br />
"Cuckoo Song", and began, in the<br />
. English of its day:- "Sumer is<br />
icumen in, Lhude sing cuccu !"<br />
Well, later this month, sumer is,<br />
oficially, icumin in, and lhude<br />
blow the horns.<br />
We are into the start of festival<br />
season, officially heralded by du<br />
Maurier Downtown Jazz. As the<br />
artistic director of the event; I<br />
suppose you might accuse me of<br />
having an "axe" to grind,<br />
although I rather think of it as a<br />
musical "saw''. The fact remains<br />
that there are ten days of<br />
concerts, too many for them all to<br />
be included in this piece, but you<br />
can, of course, pick up the<br />
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