2015 OMEA Concert Band Lists Announced Saturday, June 28, 2014
Last week (June 19-20) the OMEA Concert Band Committee met to choose music for the 2015 Required Music Lists. For band directors who like to plan ahead (and those who have called to see when the list would be ready) you can now preview the 2015 Junior High and High School contest lists at stantons.com*, and in the Stanton’s Listening Library.
For High School, the lists have expanded from 12 to 18 titles. There are now 6 Standard Repertoire pieces on the list that will remain unchanged from year-to-year in addition to the dozen contemporary/new selections. The Standard Repertoire lists are as follows:
OMEA HS Class AA: Armenian Dances, Part 1 – Alfred Reed; Chester – William Schuman; Four Scottish Dances – Malcolm Arnold/arr. John Paynter; Incantation and Dance – John Barnes Chance; Lincholnshire Posy – Percy Grainger/arr. Frederick Fennell (any 4 mvts. including either mvt. 3 or 5); Suite of Old American Dances – Robert Russell Bennett (any 4 mvts.).
OMEA HS Class A: English Folk Song Suite – Ralph Vaughan Williams; Festival Prelude – Alfred Reed; First Suite in Eb – Gustav Holst/ed. Colin Matthews; Prelude, Siciliano and Rondo – Malcolm Arnold/arr. John Paynter; Satiric Dances – Norman Dello Joio; Variations on a Korean Folk Song – John Barnes Chance.
OMEA HS Class B: Cajun Folk Songs – Frank Ticheli; Chant & Jubilo – W. Francis McBeth; Emperata Overture – Claude T. Smith; Irish Rhapsody – Claire Grundman; The Light Eternal – James Swearingen; Toccata for Band – Frank Erickson
OMEA HS Class C: Canto – W. Francis McBeth; Declaration Overture – Claude T. Smith; Kentucky 1800 – Claire Grundman; Nathan Hale Trilogy – James Curnow; Overture for Winds – Charles Carter; Three Ayres from Gloucester – Hugh M. Stuart
The Junior High/Middle School lists are the usual mix of young band standards and contemporary pieces. Junior High Class A has expanded to 28 titles with Classes B & C at 30. Be sure to utilize stantons.com to preview these titles, make playlists of those you’re considering using Stanton’s Jukebox feature, and, of course, we will have all of these titles and scores available for purchase.
*OMEA HS Class B title Visionaries is only available directly through the composer’s website. We are sorry that Stanton’s is unable to provide preview material or carry this title.