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Vol. 2, No. 1
From the President
This is my first. opportunity to
acknowledge your confidence in electing
me to be the first president of the Inter-
national Trumpet Guild. 1 and its purposes, but many people
I feel humble when I think of the
awesome responsibilities of this office.
My enthusiasm for the Guild and its
potential gives me an energetic drive
that I hope will be equal to the task of
establishing new trends in the develop-
ment of trumpet playing, music written
for the trumpet, and improvements in
the manufacture of trumpets. I am
happy to be associated with the finest
trumpet players and teachers in the
world, and the many students who will
soon be heard from professionally.
At this point I would like to con-
gratulate all of the newly elected
officers. It is my hope and expectation
that we will grow to be a productive
group of leaders for this fine organi-
zation.
There is an exciting future for the
ITG, but it is one only YOU, the
members, can bring about.
In any organized society, there has to
be a group of officers, but the most
important function of these people is
the channeling of information, supplied
by the membership to its proper desti-
nation.
I think we are already off to a great
start. Our coordinators, Charlie Gorham
and Bob Nagel, and our Steering Com-
mittee are to be especially commended
for organizing and developing the ITG
to this point. They have been most help-
ful to me since my election, and I know
they will always be available for advice
and guidance in the months ahead.
All of you have been cooperative and
helpful in filing out the questionaire
regarding the purpose ahd goals of the
ITG, but don’t let that stop you from
supplying input to your officers. We
/ want to hear your ideas, your thoughts
concerning your organization.
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you take the time to do two small, but
vitally important jobs that will be of
great assistance, at this time, in the
development of the Guild?
GUILD
1. Encourage all your trumpet play-
ing friends to join.
among trumpet players around the world and to improve the artistic level 2. Send suggestions to me (or com-
associated with the trumpet mittee chairpeople) for new pro-
jects or ways to supplement or
March, 1976 improve present ones.
And finally, plan now to attend the
International Brass Congress, June
13-19, 1976 in Montreux, Switzerland.
It will be the greatest gathering of brass
We would like also, and this is
important, to increase our membership
players the world has ever known. . .in
fabulously beautiful Switzerland. Don’t
to the point where we have a thorough wait. Plan to attend now.
representation of professionals, teachers
and students in all areas of the world.
Many people know of our organization
don’t. It has been my experience that
everyone with whom I’ve discussed the
ITG is really excited about it, and join
at their first opportunity. Won’t you
spread the word? I don’t know of a
better value for the money.
Your officers and committees will be
greatly benefited by your suggestions.
Membership participation is what we
need to make the ITG grow and
The International Trumpet Guild
announces
the 1976 Composers’ Award Competition
Eligibility - Open to all composers.
Entry Rules - Only unpublished and unassigned compositions will be con-
sidered. Compositions may be written for unaccompanied solo trumpet or any
combination of from two to six trumpets in ensemble. Instrumentation may
include the following: Bb trumpet, cornet or Flugelhorn (either 3 or 4 valve
models), C, D or Piccolo Bb trumpet. Minimum performance time of com-
position should be four minutes. Entries must be submitted by Sept. 1, 1976.
The panel of judges will consist of two leading composers and two members
of the ITG Committee on Music and Recording Projects. The results of the
competition will be announced by Oct. 1, 1976.
The ITG award will consist of publication of the winning composition, plus
an immediate cash advance of $300 on future royalties. The ITG will promote
sales of the winning work through the medium of its Newsletter which reaches
ITG members around the world. Future plans will include a project to record
all ITG award works.
Please send all entries to: Robert Nagel, Chairman, Music and Recording
Committee, International Trumpet Guild, Broadview Drive, Brookfield, Conn.
06804
During the coming fiscal ‘year, the Music and Recording Committee is
planning to commission a trumpet work by a major composer.
ITG members are encouraged to bring this competition to the attention of
composers in their geographic areas. Let’s all spread the word about our first
Composers Award Competition.
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Lloyd Geisler, President
Clifford Lillya has been a member of
the faculty of the University of
Michigan School of Music since 1947.
He is a professor of music (trumpet) and
chairman of the Wind and Percussion
Department there. In March, 1974, he
was appointed Earl V. Moore Professor
of Music.
Mr. Lillya has long been interested in
developing performers, and former
trumpet students from Michigan are
found nationwide, among the leaders of
the profession.
As an editor and author he has con-
tributed to contemporary teaching litera-
ture and is widely known as an adjudi-
David Baldwin, Secreta?
Gordon Mathie is a professor in the
Crane School of Music at. the State
University College of New York at
Potsdam. His playing experience has
included membership in the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra, the University of
Illinois Brass Quintet, the St. Louis
Sinfonietta and the Belle Isle (Leonard
Smith) Concert Band where he was solo
cornet.
At Potsdam, where he has been since
1959, Mr. Mathie teaches trumpet and
courses in music education. He is also a
member of the Potsdam Brass Quintet
Lloyd Geisler is a professor of music
at Catholic University in Washington,
D.C., where . he teaches trumpet and
conducting. Before joining the faculty at
Catholic University he taught at Pea-
body Conservatory in Baltimore. In
1936 he joined the National Symphony
Orchestra as solo trumpet. He became
Assistant Conductor in 1957, Associate
Conductor in 1961 and Resident Con-
ductor in 1972. He retired in 1973,
after 37 years.
In 1962 Mr. Geisler was sent to
Uruguay by the U.S. State Department
as a U.S. Specialist. He trained the brass
cator and clinician. He is the conductor
and featured arranger of Two Hundred
Years of American Marches, an album
recently released by the University of
Michigan School of Music.
In June, 1975, Mr. Lillya gave a
lecture and master class at the National
Trumpet Symposium held at Norman,
Oklahoma. This January he conducted a
trumpet clinic at Northeast Missouri
State College in Kirksville, Missouri.
David Baldwin is an assistant profes-
sor at the University of Minnesota. His
duties in the Music Department include
teaching trumpet, conducting the brass
choir, coaching chamber ensembles and
coordinating the teaching activities of
part-time brass teachers.
Mr. Baldwin received his B.M. degree
from Baldwin-Wallace College and his
M.M. and M.M.A. degrees from Yale ,‘Deranged.
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for the D.M.A. degree from Yale. He has
studied trumpet with Bernard Adelstein,
William Vacchiano, Robert Nagel,
Raymond Crisara and Charles Gorham.
and an advisor to graduate students in
music.
Mr. Mathie received his B.S. and M.E.
degrees from Wayne State University
and his Ed.D. from the University of
Illinois. He has taught in the public
schools and at the National Music Camp
at Interlochen for seven years.
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section of the S.O.D.R.E. Orchestra of
Uruguay and guest conducted the
government-sponsored orchestra.
Mr. Geisler’s activities have included
playing first trumpet at the Bethlehem,
Pa. Bach Festivals and recording sound
backgrounds for government fnms. In
January 1969, he played the national
anthem unacompanied at Super Bowl III
in Miami.
A native of Pottstown, Pa., Mr.
Geisler received his musical training at
Curtis Institute of Music in Phladelphia
and he studied trumpet with Harold
Rehrig and Saul Caston.
CIifford Lillya, Vice President
In 1974 Mr. Baldwin’s composition,
Notes for Brass Quintet, ‘was performed
at the Atlanta Brass Symposium and in
1975 his piece, Time: Friend or Foe?,
for brass choir, was performed there.
Many of Mr. Baldwin’s compositions and
arrangements are published. He played
first trumpet on the Columbia recording
of the music of Charles Ives, Old Songs
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Mr. Baldwm has performed wrth the
West Point Band, the New York Brass
Quintet, the New Haven Brass Quintet,
the Minnesota Orchestra and the St.
Paul Chamber Orchestra.
Gordon Mathie, Treasurer

Passport
Information
Trumpet Guild officers would like to
remind members to obtain or renew
their passports for travel to the Brass
Congress.
In the U.S. applications can be
obtained from any U.S. District Court
Clerk. The Federal Information Center
can direct you to other places in your
area where applications are available.
To avoid difficulties we recommend
that you allow two months to complete
the application process.
When applying for your passport you
must present proof of citizenship. Two
duplicate photographs, taken within six
months of the date of application, must
accompany the passport application.
The U.S. passport fee is $13. Pass-
ports are usually valid for five years.
Before going abroad it is advisable to
contact your health insurance office to
find out what medical services, if any,
will be covered while you are outside
the country.
Help Us.
The editors of the ITG newsletter
need your help. Members are requested
to submit articles in the following
categories: new literature - books,
records, published arrangements and
compositions; an no uncements and
reviews of meetings, clinics and seminars
- local, regional, national and inter-
national; chapter news; premiers of
trumpet compositions; trumpet recital
programs; awards; new equipment; and
general news.
All articles should be sent to the
secretary. They should be typewritten
and doubled spaced. We regret that we
cannot print all material submitted.
Charter Flights
to Brass Congress
Mr. Stephen Adler of Convention
Coordinators, Inc., of New York City,
has informed us that there is still time
to make reservations on one of their
roundtrip charter flights to the Brass
Congress. Space is available on a first
come first served basis.
Flights will depart from Chicago and
New York on June 10th and 11 th and
they will return on June 20th and 21st.
Some flight plans include hotel accom-
modations. Prices for roundtrip airfare
from New York start at $339.
Applications and detailed information
can be obtained from: Convention
Coordinators, Inc., The Churchill,
Churchill Promenade, 300 East 40th St.,
New York, N.Y., 10016, (212)
682-0202.
For information about possible
charter flights from England and
Scandinavia, members should write to:
Mr. Richard F. Zellner, Institute for
Advanced Musical Studies, Box 141,
1820 Montreux, Switzerland.
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Brass Lab
in St. Louis
The St. Louis Brass Quintet will hold
its annual “Brass Lab” from June 13-19.
This seven-day experience will con-
centrate on in-depth study, practice, and
performance of brass chamber music
featuring brass quintets and other
ensembles. Any high school or college
student interested in more information
may write to: Brass Lab, 26 Rosemont,
St. Louis, MO. 62119, or phone
314-061-7758.
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Support International
Brass Organizations
The ITG would like to thank the
other brass associations for their
support. Please encourage your friends
to support them.
The International Trombone Associ-
ation (1.T.A;) dedicated to the artistic
advancement of trombone teaching, per-
formance, literature and the exchange of
ideas.
Membership dues: $10.00, Students
- $8.00. Send dues to: Thomas
Streeter, Treasurer, 18 12 Truman Drive,
Normal, Illinois 6 176 1.
Tubists Universal Brotherhood Associ-
ation (T.U.B.A.) is a world wide fra-
ternity of musicians whose purpose is to
maintain a liaison between those who
take a significant interest in the instru-
ments of the tuba family - their
development, literature, pedagogy, and
., .““,‘-‘_ ‘I’*.- ‘...
Membership dues: professional -
$10.00, Student - $5.00, Associate -
$10.00. Send dues to: Donald C. Little,
Department of Music, University of
Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa
50613.
The International Horn Society
(I.H.S.) Annual dues: $10.00. Send dues
to: Mrs. Nancy Fako, Secretary-
Treasurer, The International Horn
Society, 337 Ridge Avenue, Elmhurst,
Illinois 60126.
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Gossick
Statement
Dr. Ben R. Gossick of the University
of Kentucky Physics Department
presented a lecture, “Research in Brass
Instruments and Mutes,” at the First
Conference of the International Trumpet
Guild held in Bloomington, Ind., in
May, 1975. He has asked us to print the
following statement on mutes to clarify
his ,position on the subject.
In addition to the harmonic resonances of
unmuted brasses, muted instruments have
inharmonic resonances. The first ordinarily
falls within the low register making articu-
lation and tone quality inferior in that
register. The next extra resonance often
falls in the high register with a consequent
reduction in brilliance. The existence of
the extra resonances was shown by
measurements of mouthpiece pressure
against frequency with unmuted and
muted instruments. The effect of the extra
resonances was demonstrated by two
trumpet mutes which had been deliberately
designed to have extra resonances appear
in the middle of the range. With these
mutes the response was decidedly
abnormal over an interval of a major third
centered about the extra resonance. It was
shown how mutes may be designed so as
to shift the extra resonances outside the
playing range of .the instrument. Such
mutes have clear articulation in the low
register, and more brilliance and uniformity
of tone.
Dues due soon
Gordon Mathie, ITG Treasurer, would
like to remind all members that it is not
too early to send in membership dues
for 1976-77. The deadline for payment
of dues is June 30, 1976.
This year we anticipate an increase in
the number of ITG sponsored events,
projects and publications and your dues
are needed to support these activities.
Therefore we urge you to be prompt in
renewing your membership.
Dues, as well as new membership
fees, received after March 1, 1976, will
cover membership from June 30, 1976
through June 30, 1977. Send your dues
to Mr. Gordon Mathie, Treasurer, Inter-
national Trumpet Guild, Crane School
of Music, Potsdam, N.Y., 13676. Please
write “RENEWAL” on your check.
Fourth Annual
New York Conference
for Brass Scholarships
held in January
Sunday, Jan. 11, was Vincent Bach
Day at the Fourth Annual New York
Conference for Brass Scholarships
(NYCFBS). It was to have been a salute
to an outstanding senior member of the
trumpet profession. Vincent Bach died
the day before he was to receive this
honor.
The International Trumpet Guild
wishes to express its condolences to Mr.
Bach’s family and to remind members
that we should recognize the significant
contributions of outstanding trumpeters
while they are still living.
The NYCFBS was held at the
Roosevelt Hotel in New York City on
Jan. 9, 10, and 11. The variety of
people who participated in and attended
the conference was unique. Frequently
such conferences are attended exclu-
sively by educators and students. The
NYCFBS brought together a diverse
group of trumpeters. Educators;
students; jazz, commercial, free lance
and symphonic players provided stimu-
lating contact for all participants.
On Saturday, Jan. 10, the Ensemble
de Trombones de Paris, presented an
exciting concert. Those attending the
concert were pleased to hear such a fine
group and they were glad to have the
opportunity to meet these French
musicians.
The ITG was represented by Robert
Nagel. In a presentation to the con-
ference about the Guild, Mr. Nagel
stressed its progress and purposes. He
said the ITG should coordinate inter-
national and local activities and not act
as an isolated entity.
Mr. Nagel’s presentation was followed
by a performance of trumpet ensemble
literature by the Yale University
Trumpet Ensemble.
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The NYCFBS is a non-profit organi-
zation dedicated to making scholarships
available to all talented, dedicated brass
players. Scholarships will enable winning
students to attend the NYCFBS Sum-
mer Brass Workshops held at Boston
University School of Music, Hartt
College of Music and the University of
Vermont.
For information about scholarship
audition requirements please write to:
Mr. Charles Colin, NYCFBS Summer
Brass Workshop Auditions, 3 1.5 W. 3rd
St., New York, N.Y. 10019.
Membership directories for ITG
1 will be sent out this spring. 1
Local Chapters
Many members of ITG have informed
me that they are interested in forming
local chapters of the Guild. I have
prepared a chapter certificate and I
would be happy to accept applications
from interested members.
Groups of five or more members in
good standing with the ITG should
appoint a chairman to coordinate group
organization. The chairman should send
member names to the ITG secretary
requesting chapter status. Officers
should be elected when the chapter has
ten or more members and again, the
secretary should be informed.
Establishing a number of active local
chapters is probably the most important
responsibility we have as members of
the ITG. I would like to be informed of
the significant activities of each chapter
for possible insertion in the newsletter. I
hope to hear from you soon. David
Baldwin, Secretary, International
Trumpet Guild, 5.50 W. Sandhurst Dr.,
Apt. #216, Roseville, Minnesota 55113.

Performances,
Publications, and
Recordings
On Sept. 27, 1975, Robert Levy
joined composer John Watts in a per-
formance of Gallery Piece and Elegy to
Chimney: In Memorium at the Museum
of Modern Art in New York. Both
works were written for Levy by Watts
recently. These new works were also
performed at the University of Virginia
in Charlottesville on Oct. 31, 1975.
The New York Brass Quintet
premiered Brass Quintet, by composer
Dr. George Walker, a faculty member of
the Music Department of Rutgers Uni-
versity in Newark, N.J. This work was
commissioned by the Kindler Founda-
tion and the Jan. 5th concert was
sponsored by the Textile Museum
Foundation in Washington, D.C. The
work will be published by General Music
Publishing Corp.
The Bemidji State Trumpet Ensemble
(Bemidji State University), directed by
Charles Decker, premiered Alexander
Sidorowicz’ Sextet for Trumpets in Nov.
1975. This serial composition is available
from the composer, in care of the Music
Department at Bemidji State University,
Bemidji, Minnesota. 56601.
INTERNATIONAL TRUMPET GUILD
5.50 W. Sandhurst Dr., # 216
Roseville, MN 55113
David Baldwin, Secretary, Editor
Christine Baldwin, Editor
Elliot Borishansky - Three Mos-
quitoes for three trumpets. Available
from Elliot Borishansky, 1420 London-
dale Parkway, Apt. 201B, Newark, Ohio
43055.
Robert Nagel - Trumpet Studies in
Contemporary- Music. Published by
Edward Marks Music Corp. New York
City, 1975.
Vivaldi-Bach - Concerto for Brass
Quintet arranged by David Baldwin.
Published by Cleveland Chamber Music
Publishers (CCMP), 1975. Available from
Robert King Music Co., 112A Main St.,
North Easton, ‘Mass. 02356.
200 Years of American Marches -
performed’by the University of Michigan
School of Music Winds and Percussion,
conducted by Clifford . P. Lillya.
Contains early American music arranged
by Simon V. Anderson and Clifford P.
Lillya, and standard marches. The Uni-
versity of Michigan Records; SM 0002.
The U.S. Army Band, Washington
D.C. presents the U.S. Army Brass
Quintet; Lynden Mitchell and Scott
Shelsta, trumpets, Henry Sgrecci, horn,
Jack Tilbury, trombone, and James
Elswick, tuba. Program: Mouret -
Rondeau, Barron - Impressions of a
Parade, Schuller - Little Brass Music,
Buckley - Little Brown Jug, Calvert -
Suite from the Monteregian Hills, Glasel
- Sixteenth Century Carmina, Joplin -
The Entertainer, Frederickson - Brass
Quintet, Buckley - Return to Child-
hood: A Miniature Fantasy Suite.
Available from: Commanding Officer,
U.S. Army Band, Ft. Myer, VA 22211,
Attention: Information Officer.
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Twentieth-Century Music for
Trumpet and Orchestra - Norbert
Carnovale; Chairman, Department of
Music Education, University of Southern
Mississippi. An annotated reference
guide to 179 works for trumpet and
orchestra. For further information write
to: The Brass Press, 1598th Ave. N.,
Nashville, Tenn. 37203.
Music for Three Brasses - Richard G.
Decker; a bibliography of music for
three heterogeneous brass instruments
alone and in chamber ensembles. 86
pages; $5.00. Published by: Swift-Dorr
Publications Inc., 17 Suncrest Terrace,
Oneonta, New York, 13820.
Renaissance Band
Workshops
The New York Renaissance Band, an
active group- which specializes in the
instrumental music of the Renaissance,
will be the guest artists and teachers at
the Institute for Renaissance Instru-
mental Music, a week-long workshop to
be held at Penn State University this
summer.
Allan Dean, a member of the Renais-
sance Band, will teach cornetto and
other instruments. Mr. Dean is also a
member of the New York Brass Quintet.
The workshop will include lectures,
ensemble playing and individual lessons
on cornetto, sagbut, viols, percussion,
shawm and all other double reeds. The
workshop will be held July 31 - August
6. For more information write: The
Institute for Renaissance Instrumental
Music, Keller Center, Penn State Univer-
sity, University Park, Pa. 16801.
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