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		"I'm looking forward to five years' time when I go back again; and I'll just keep on coming as long as they want me to!" Jazz legend Dave Brubeck talks to us about his work as one of the world's most prolific composers.

		“I’ve never written anything when I’ve thought afterwards, ‘Crumbs, I wish I’d never done that’; I’ve always tried to write music that is approachable and unpretentious.” Sir Richard Rodney Bennett talks to MusicTeachers.co.uk

		At eight, he gave his first professional performances. At fourteen, he played to President Clinton, and now, at the grand old age of sixteen, pianist Taylor Eigsti is taking the jazz world by storm. MT.co.uk reports.

		Into Practice: Choir Training for Beginners: In the final part of his series, Jeffery Makinson provides practical tips on rehearsal techniques and how to approach teaching music to a fledgling choir.

		Review Article: Ian le Prévost examines two sets of recordings of the complete organ works of French organist-composer Marcel Dupré (1886-1971), released recently on Guild and Naxos.


		Continuing our series in which we talk to young musicians to find out about their work and aspirations, we talk to Dinuk Wijeratne as he prepares to begin postgraduate study at the Juilliard School of Music.

-	Edexcel Advanced Level Notes Anton Bruckner – Locus Iste
-	OCR AS Level Notes Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in c minor, Op. 67 – Movement IV: Allegro

New Recordings
-	Byrd: Keyboard Music Davitt Moroney – harpsichord, virginals, organ and clavichord (Recording of the month)
-	Wings of Wisdom: Sacred Chants of Hildegard von Bingen and Medieval Scotland Canty/Taylor
-	The Food of Love - Early Instrumental Music of the British Isles Hesperus
-	Fairest Isle: Music by Purcell, Byrd, Morley, Campion, Dowland and Jenkins Barbara Bonney et al.
-	Schelle: Sacred Music Robert King/King’s Consort/Outram, Blaze, Bowman, Gilchrist, Harvey et al.
-	JS Bach: Masterworks for Organ, Vol. 2 Franz Hauk, Ingolstadt Münster
-	Alkan: Symphony for Solo Piano, Trois Morceaux Marc-André Hamelin
-	Franz and Richard Strauss: Music for Horn and Piano Stefan Dohr/Marcus Becker
-	Bach-Busoni: Piano Transcriptions Kun-Woo Paik
-	Holst: The Planets; Matthews: Pluto Hallé Orchestra/Mark Elder
-	Stravinsky: Works, Vol. 5 Philharmonia Orchestra/Robert Craft
-	Britten: Michelangelo Sonnets and Winter Words Anthony Rolfe Johnson/Graham Johnson
-	Variations: String Quartets by George Rochberg and Elliott Schwartz Kreutzer Quartet
-	Glass: Satyagraha (DVD) Staatsoper Stuttgart/Stuttgart Kammerorchester/ Russell Davies
-	Bridgewater Hall Organ Jonathan Scott
-	In a Monastery Garden: organ music from the First Presbyterian Church, Kilgore, Texas James Culp

Books
-	Music of the Baroque David Schulenberg
-	Bach (Master Musicians series) Malcolm Boyd
-	French Opera 1730-1830: Meaning and Media David Charlton
-	Music in Words – A guide to researching and writing about music. Trevor Herbert
Music and Educational Material
-	A New Song; Bob Chilcott: Spirituals for Choirs Ronald Corp
-	Music Explorer for Infants Richard McNichol/London Symphony Orchestra