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WASBE Board Election 2022 – Call for Nominations

2021-07-21T16:52:11+02:00

WASBE Board Election 2022 Call for Nominations Four members of the WASBE Board –Václav Blahunek (Czech Republic), Joop Boerstoel (The Netherlands), Joseph Cheung (China/Hong Kong) and Miguel Etchegoncelay (Argentina) – will retire from the Board at the WASBE Conference next year. Four new Board members and a President-Elect will be elected by the WASBE membership next spring. Now is the time to nominate candidates for these positions. The nomination and election process is as follows: The WASBE membership nominates candidates for the WASBE Board and President Elect. A Nominating Committee consisting of the President and two WASBE members appointed by the [...]

LAST BREATHS for Baritone and Wind Ensemble by Armando Bayolo (1973, Puerto Rico)

Markus Mauderer2021-04-11T11:10:47+02:00

#90– April 12, 2021 ARMANDO BAYOLO (1973) LAST BREATHS for Baritone and Wind Ensemble https://soundcloud.com/user-642642570-907922214/sets/wasbe-composition-of-the-2 Last Breaths, by Puerto Rican-American composer Armando Bayolo is our Composition of the Week. “Last Breaths set the last words of six young men killed by police in the last ten years. I hope it honors their memories in some small way, and it is to those memories, along with countless others’, that this work is dedicated.” Last Breaths has a duration of approximately 10 minutes, and it is composed of seven very short movements. Those last words form the text and musical inspiration for each [...]