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Programme Note

Composer Note:

Midwest Celebration (Fanfare) was composed in the summer of 1996 in Ithaca for the 50th anniversary of the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic. The late John Paynter and his colleagues devoted great amounts of time and energy in developing the annual convocation of what is probably the world’s largest gathering of music educators and young musicians.

This fanfare attempts to express hope for the future of this festival and for the young musicians who will bring music into the 21st Century. It is based on the “initials” of the convention: MI (E-flat) = Mid-West, B-flat = Band and Orchestra, C = Clinic, F = Fiftieth, A = Anniversary.

— Karel Husa