Composing Wind Music for an International Constituency
Session Abstract
No WASBE Conference would be complete without a symposium for the exchange of ideas and opinions between the two principal factions in group music-making: the composers and the conductors. The former will predominate on this panel but all participants have had considerable experience of the demands of both disciplines.
The planned agenda for the debate included the following points:
- How much does the success of your music depend on publishing and distribution through professional music businesses or the music industry?
- Other than level of technical difficulty, is there a difference between wind band music that is written for school ensembles as opposed to professional ensembles?
- If you had unlimited support, what would you write for a wind band or ensemble?
- Does absolute music have a place in the wind band repertoire, which seems to be inundated with program music?
- Can and do critics review wind band compositions with the same standards that they apply to orchestral and chamber music, sacred music and opera?
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