Schubert Adagio Added to OMS

Schubert’s Adagio from the Arpeggione Sonata, D. 821, in a transcription by Steve Lewis, has been added to the IHS Online Music Sales. In the words of the arranger: "After first hearing the Adagio from Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata I knew I must arrange it for horn and piano. The breathtaking lyricism of Schubert's melodies and the Horn are a perfect match. While many of us wish Schubert had left us a Horn sonata maybe this arrangement can help fill the void."

Competition Winners Announced

The winners of the IHS's annual competitions have been announced:

Jon Hawkins Memorial Award

• 1st. place: Ana Beatriz Menezes
• 2nd place: Laszlo Gal

Judges -Ysolt Clark, Leighton Jones, Nancy Joy, Susan McCullough, and Nozomu Segawa

Premier Soloist Competition Finalists

• Hanxuan Liang
• Ryan Little
• Ana Beatriz Menezes
• Markus Osterlund
• Gillian Williams

Preliminary Judges - Andrew Bain, Nicole Cash, Shirley Hopkins, Hector McDonald and Jeffrey Snedeker

Barry Tuckwell Award

• Bethany Beck

Judges - Barry Tuckwell, Michael Hatfield, Frank Lloyd

Paul Mansur Award

• Ana Beatriz Menezes
• Allison DeMeulle 

Judges - Marilyn Bone Kloss, Peter Luff and William Scharnberg

Country Representative Vacancies

The IHS announces vacancies for country representatives of Australia, China, France, Germany, Italy and Russia.

If you are interested in serving the IHS as a representative of one of these countries, please go to Area Reps - Country  where you will find the job description and application forms.

Brass Trio Added to OMS

Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends – Fanny Hensel, arr. James Boldin has been added to the IHS Online Music Sales.

Originally scored for two sopranos and alto on a text of Heinrich Heine, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Wandl’ ich in dem Wald des Abends (I wander in the evening forest...), depicts a melancholy reminiscence brought on by an evening stroll through the woods. Its chromatic harmonies and quasi-imitative texture are well suited to the brass trio medium.

Jones: "Epilogue" in OMS

Epilogue for Horn and Piano by Roger Jones has been added to the IHS Online Music Sales.

Epilogue for Horn and Piano was composed in 2011 for James Boldin, horn professor at the University of Louisiana at Monroe. He and pianist Richard Seiler premièred the work in July of that year in that city. The work was inspired by a poem of the same name by Robert Lowell, the last poem in his last published collection (Day by Day). “But sometimes everything I write/ with the threadbare art of my eye/ seems a snapshot,/ lurid, rapid, garish, grouped,/ heightened from life,/ yet paralyzed by fact.” This excerpt seems key to the understanding of the poem and possibly his work in general. The music takes on that disquiet mindset, sometimes distant, withdrawn, other times tender or even bold, yet concluding with a fragile, unresolved passage. It is suggested that the poem be read before the performance of the work. “Epilogue for Horn and Piano” was created as a duo with both parts designed to convey the full range of emotions. Thus performance requires advanced artistry by both musicians.