Frederick Fennell

bill — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:53:39 -1000

Few conductors have had the effect upon band music that Dr. Frederick Fennel had. This month we feature 9 of his best CD’s at our shop. He did many others, but the Eastman Wind Ensemble recordings hold a special place in my heart.

Dr. Frederick Fennell was born July 2, 1914 in Cleveland, Ohio, and passed away on December 7, 2004. He studied at the Eastman School of Music on the University of Rochester campus, earning a Bachelor of Music degree in 1937 and a Master of Music degree two years later. He became a member of the Eastman conducting faculty in 1939, founded the Eastman Wind Ensemble in 1952, and received an Honorary Doctorate from Eastman in 1988.

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bill — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:51:39 -1000

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In the meantime, I’ve added a few composer pages, featuring John Philip Sousa and Karl L. King, and Henry Fillmore. They are complete with some suggested links to learn more about these gentlemen, as well as some CD’s that are particular favorites of mine. I will be adding many more composers to this section, so stay tuned. If there is a favorite band composer of yours that I have not included, please let me know, or better yet, write an article about her or him and I’ll publish it right here on this very website. We pay zero cents per word for journalistic efforts but you’ll have the admiration and respect of all your fellow band geeks.

You will also see more additions to our Community Band pages. I’m adding them in alphabetically order and it’s an arduous process making sure all these links work. I’m only up to the letter “G”. Yikes! If you would like your band’s website listed, by all means, drop me an e-mail .

If you belong to a school band, fire department, or police band with a website and would like it listed on our page, please let me know. I would like to publish a large list of school, fire, and police bands in addition to these community bands.

I still have the Frederick Fennel CD picks on our “Album” page. I have some material about him under “Conductors” also. When it came to wind ensemble recordings, he was THE MAN!

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I would like to display the links of individual musicians who have their own websites, starting with friends, colleagues and acquaintances. I don’t have a separate “button” for this information yet but let me list here the URL’s of three very talent gentlemen with whom I work quite often here in Honolulu:

Band Geeks Online - Band Geeks Rule

Frederick Fennell

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