{"title":"New Issue: 2026.08  | August","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/8198\/2428\/files\/New_Issue_Monthly_Banner_2026.08.jpg?v=1772966556\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"bezanson-concertino","title":"Concertino for Oboe and String Orchestra","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEditor's Note:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhilip Bezanson (1916–1975) composed the \u003cem\u003eConcertino for Oboe and String Orchestra \u003c\/em\u003ein 1969, during his years as chairman of the music department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a position he held from 1964 to 1973 after nearly two decades at the University of Iowa. The work survives in two scored forms — for oboe and string orchestra, and for oboe and piano —and is in three continuous movements, marked Not too fast, Slow, and Fast. The manuscript is held in the Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe editor has confirmed two early performances, each using a different version of the work. The oboe-and-string-orchestra version was performed by William T. Gower, oboe, with the University of Southern Mississippi String Orchestra, Donald Munsell conducting, at USM in October 1970. Also on that program were the \u003cem\u003eSonata for Oboe and Piano \u003c\/em\u003eby William Presser and the S\u003cem\u003eonata for Clarinet and Piano \u003c\/em\u003eby Alvin Etler. The oboe-and-piano version was given as a “first performance” at a recital by Charles Lehrer, oboe, on April 4, 1971, in Bowker Auditorium at the University of Massachusetts Amherst; the pianist was likely Dwight Peltzer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBecause the oboe-and-piano version was performed publicly during the composer’s lifetime — at his own university in 1971 — it appears to be a performance version that Bezanson sanctioned, and not merely a piano reduction intended for rehearsal. Performers may therefore present the Concertino either in its string-orchestra scoring or with piano.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles-David Lehrer (born 1940) was the oboe professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst from 1967 until about 1985, when Fredric T. Cohen succeeded him. He studied with John de Lancie, Louis Rosenblatt, Alfred Genovese, and Ralph Gomberg, and held a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Michigan (1968) and later a Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (1990). He subsequently taught at California State University, Northridge, and worked as an editor and scholar for the International Double Reed Society, specializing in the history of the oboe concerto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam T. Gower was a professor of music at the University of Southern Mississippi, where he joined the faculty in 1963 and conducted the University Symphony Orchestra; the university’s annual concerto competition is named in his honor. 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In summer 2007, Philipp and I tried out some of the songs; we were both enchanted by the results and the prospect of actually performing the cycle through the saxophone and without words became serious. I had also begun to respond to the endeavor in my own compositional way, devising (in spite of myself) small responses to elements that stood out to me in each song. I further realized that, much like Schubert’s trusted singer Johann Michael Vogl (1768-1840), Stäudlin had become a \u003cem\u003eWinterreise\u003c\/em\u003e muse, and I was in the process of conceiving my Schubertian responses with the saxophone in my ear. As a longtime vocal accompanist, I found myself in both familiar and magically different territory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe resulting piece is intended to be performed either on its own or as a prelude to a saxophone (or voice) performance of the Schubert cycle. 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The music is melancholy but cathartic, full of grief but also containing notes of hope and endurance.The complete work was premiered in Manhattan in the spring of 2021 by Claudia Dumschat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movements may be performed together or as stand-alone pieces. 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