1997
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International Events:
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Timothy McVeigh is found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and sentenced to death.
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Despite his acquittal in the criminal case, O.J. Simpson loses civil case to families of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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Hong Kong is returned to China after years of British sovereignty but maintains its status as free-market port.
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Princess Diana is killed in automobile accident with Dodi Fayed.
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Music in the United States
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Pulitzer Prize is awarded for first time to jazz work Blood on the Fields, an oratorio set in slavery times by Wynton Marsalis, director of Lincoln Center’s jazz program.
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Composer-critic Kyle Gann identifies American music of 1990s as movement in “totalism.”
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Joshua Bell introduces John Corigliano’s The Red Violin: Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra.
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Ellen Taafe Zwillich composes Piano Concerto: “Peanuts Gallery.”
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Michael Daugherty composes chamber opera, Jackie O, exploring interplay of “high” and “popular” culture.
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Gunther Schuller writes The Compleat Conductor; a landmark text on the history, philosophy and art of conducting.
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Chen Yi premieres Fiddle Suite for Huqin and String Ensemble for Harvard University.
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Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock is written completely by women about women.
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“My Heart Will Go On,” from the film Titanic and recorded by Celine Dion, wins Oscar for Best Song.
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American Wind Band Music
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Daugherty composes Niagara Falls for University of Michigan Symphonic Band, H. Robert Reynolds, conductor.
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Frank Ticheli composes Blue Shades.
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Warren Benson composes The Drums of Summer.
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Daren Hagen transcribes his Night Again for chamber orchestra for wind ensemble.
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Donald Grantham writes Fantasy Variations on Gershwin’s Prelude no. 2 for Piano.
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Dan Welcher composes Symphony no. 3. Shaker Life. And his Zion is awarded ABA/Ostwald Award.
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Michigan State composer Jere Hutcheson pens Caricatures.
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Gillingham writes Waking Angels and Concertino for Four Percussion.
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Henry Brant composes On the Nature of Things.
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Richard Miles compiles important band pedagogy series Teaching Music Through Performance in Band.
1998
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International Events
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258 people are killed when 2 American embassies are destroyed by terrorist bombings.
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Northern Ireland achieves a fragile peace with the Good Friday Accord, ending 30 years of violence.
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U.S. census reports 26 million Americans are immigrants.
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Bill Clinton’s sex scandal explodes when the president denies having sex with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton becomes second American president to undergo impeachment proceedings.
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Music in the United States
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Aaron Jay Kernis receives Pultizer Prize for String Quartet no.2, Musica Instrumentalis.
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Pulitzer Special Award goes posthumously to George Gershwin for lifetime contributions to American music.
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Libby Larsen composes opera Eric Hermannson’s Soul, characterizing struggles between love for music and religious zealotry amongst Norwegian settlers in Nebraska. Hardanger fiddle is featured.
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Ellen Taafe Zwillich composes String Quartet no.2 for Emerson String Quartet.
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Bob Dylan’s album Time Out of Mind earns Grammy Award.
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Critic and composer Kyle Gann completes electronic opera, Custer and Sitting Bull, employing Amerindian music, polytempos, and scales of up to thirty-seven pitches.
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John Williams premieres Seven for Lunch for soprano and orchestra with Cynthia Haymon and Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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American Wind Band Music
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Composer Libby Larsen receives prestigious Sonneck Society Lifetime Achievement in Music Award at first joint Sonneck Society-College Band Directors Convention in Kansas City.
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Warren Benson writes Daughter of Stars (A Reminiscence of Shenandoah).
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Donald Grantham composes Southern Harmony.
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Dan Welcher composes Circular Marches on commission from ABA/Ostwald Award.
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Adam Gorb composes Yiddish Dances.
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Daniel Pinkham composes Music for an Indian Summer.
1999
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International Events
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The Colombine High School massacre occurs in Littleton, Colorado.
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World prepares for the year 2000.
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Panama gains control of Panama Canal from U.S.
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin resigns, naming Prime Minister Vladimir Putin his successor.
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John F. Kennedy, Jr., wife Carolyn Bessette, and her sister die in plane crash off the coast of Massachusetts.
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Music in the United States
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John Adams tours Europe conducting his Naïve and Sentimental Music (1997-1998) and Charles’ Ives Fourth Symphony.
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Michael Daugherty composes Hell’s Angels for bassoon quartet and orchestra; UFO, a percussion solo with orchestra for Evelyn Glenny; and Sunset Strip for chamber orchestra.
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John Harbison premieres opera The Great Gatsby with Metropolitan Opera based on novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Duke Ellington receives special Pulitzer Prize for lifetime contributions in jazz.
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Melinda Wagner receives Pulitzer Prize for Concerto for Flute, Strings and Percussion.
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Chen Yi premieres Percussion Concerto for Evelynn Glennie and Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
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Lydia Mendoza, singer and champion of Mexican-American music, receives National Medal of Arts from President Clinton.
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Seiji Ozawa, conductor of Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1973, announces acceptance of Vienna State Opera music director position for 2002.
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American Wind Band Music
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Daren Eric Hagen completes historic first full-scale opera with wind ensemble with Bandanna, based on Shakespeare’s Othello tragedy and applied to the life of Mexican-American immigrants. This is a 3-year $300,000 consortium commission project sponsored by CBDNA.
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Donald Grantham premieres Southern Harmony and Jai ete au bal at CBDNA-University of Texas, Austin convention.
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Grantham receives the ABA/Ostwald for Fantasy Variations.
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Frank Ticheli composes Vesuvius.
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David Gillingham composes When Speaks the Signal-Trumpet Tone on World War II U.S. Army signals.
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The premiere of wind ensemble transcription from Michael Daugherty’s Red Cape Tango from Superman is performed at CBDNA-University of Texas.
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Eric Stokes composes Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking.
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Frederick Fennell receives Lifetime Honorary Award from American Bandmasters Association. He is only third conductor to be so honored; Sousa and Goldman precede him.
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Arizona State University Wind Ensemble, Gary Hill, conductor, produces historic Web casts (1999, 2001).
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Alan Flecher composes An American Song based on “America, the Beautiful” for Frank Battisti’s final New England Conservatory concert.
2000
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International Events
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Palestinian-Israeli conflicts continue.
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Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic steps down from office.
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Human Genome Project completely maps the genetic code of human chromosome, raising medical, legal and ethical questions of cloning.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton wins bid to become U.S. Senator from New York.
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President Clinton becomes first American president to visit Vietnam since Nixon in 1969.
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Republican George W. Bush is declared president-elect more than one month after Election Day. Gore wins popular vote, but Bush gains required electoral votes.
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Music in the United States
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Lewis Spratlan receives Pulitzer Prize for Life is a Dream, Opera in Three Acts: Act II, Concert Version.
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Film score composer John Williams has received 5 Academy Awards, 36 nominations and more than 30 Grammy Awards and nominations.
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Jazz musician Quincy Jones receives National Humanities Medal from President Clinton.
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The Beatles album 1 is best-selling album of 2000; Backstreet Boys’ Black and Blue is second.
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Robert X. Rodriguez composes dramatic works after Shakespeare, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2000-2001).
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John Harbison composes Four Psalms commissioned by Israeli Consulate to celebrate 50th anniversary of founding of Israel state. Chicago Symphony Orchestra premieres work.
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Chen Yi composes Chinese Folk Dance Suite on commission from Koussevitzky Foundation.
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American Wind Band Music
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Ian Krouse premieres An American Interlude with Michigan State University Wind Symphony, John Whitwell, conductor, at CBDNA-Central Michigan University.
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Don Freund premieres Beyond the Brass Gates with Indiana University Wind Ensemble, Ray Cramer, conductor, and Julian Ross, violinist at CBDNA-Central Michigan University.
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Dana Wilson premieres Vortex for piano, winds, and percussion on commission from Southeast consortium of CBDNA premiered by University of Tennessee, Gary Sousa, conductor.
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Ticheli composes American Elegy as a commemorative gift to students of Columbine.
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Eric Ewazen from Julliard writes solo concertos for bassoon, trumpet and trombone and wind ensemble (2000-2003).
2001-2003
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International Events
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Both towers of World Trade Center in New York City and Pentagon in Washington, D.C., are struck by American commercial planes flown by terrorist hijackers, killing thousands (September 11, 2001). Osama bin Laden, leader of Afghanistan-based international terrorist network Al-Qaeda, is believed to be responsible.
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President Bush declares war on terrorism.
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U.S. invades Iraq to overturn Saddam Hussein regime (2001-2002).
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Music in the United States
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John Corigliano wins Pulitzer Prize for Symphony no.2 for String Orchestra. Conductor Ozawa records work paired with Mannheim Rocket (2001, recording released 2004).
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Wynton Marsalis, trumpeter and Artistic Director of Jazz at the Lincoln Center, receives United Nations’ “Messenger of Peace” Award, (2001).
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John Adams premieres The Transmigration of Souls, a musical memorial to 9/11; with the New York Philharmonic (2001-2002); it is awarded the Pulitzer Prize (2003).
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Joan Tower composes Strike Zones for percussionist Evelyn Glenny and National Symphony (2001). Tower premieres In Memory for Tokyo String Quartet (2002).
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John Harbison premieres Requiem in Boston and New York (2002-2003). Harbison composes chorus We Do Not Live to Ourselves, and premieres opera Full Moon in March (2003).
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Ian Krouse composes Eternal Lullaby in memory of 9/11 victims for clarinet, violin and piano (2002).
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Popular composer/conductor Henry Mancini dies (2003).
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Corigliano scheduled to premiere Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. He is invited to host Children’s Concert with New York Philharmonic; Promenade Overture and Pied Piper Fantasy, featuring James Galway will be performed (2003-2004).
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Eric Ewazen’s Visions of Light is premiered at Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic by New York Philharmonic principal trombone player and Indiana University Wind Ensemble (2003).
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American Wind Band Music
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Joan Tower composes wind ensemble work Fascinating Ribbons on commission from CBDNA (2001).
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Dan Welcher writes Songs Without Words for CBDNA consortium organized by Gary Hill.
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George Walker’s work Canvas is premiered by University of North Texas, with 5 narrators and SATB chorus at CBDNA Conference.
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Since 1943, 33 or 48 Pulitzer Prize winning composers have written at least one work for wind band/ensemble.
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Ian Krouse premieres Cronica del utima ano en la vida de un Mexicano inspired by Ancient Aztec rituals on commission for St. Cloud State University Wind Ensemble.
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Fennell and Hill replicate historic concert of February 5, 1951, which led to formation of Eastman Wind Ensemble on first live Web cast from Arizona State University (2001).
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William Bolcum composes Song; Daugherty composes Rosa Parks Boulevard for Reynolds’ final concert of University of Michigan.
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Windependence music series is adopted by Boosey and Hawkes (2001).
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Grantham composes “Come Memory…” as memorial to 9/11 attack, also composes J.S. Dances.
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Lt. Col. David Dietrick installs 2002 West Point commissions.
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Judith Zaimont composes Symphony for Wind Orchestra for 100th Anniversary of University of Minnesota School of Music (2003).
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John Corigliano composes Symphony for Winds on commission from University of Texas and Jerry Junkin (2003).
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