Alan Raph

Alan Raph (b. New York City, July 3, 1933) is a bass trombonist, composer, and conductor.

Life

Raph studied at New York University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education. He then studied Music Education at Teachers College Columbia University where he received a Masters of Arts degree. He has studied privately with Nadia Boulanger, John Mehegan, Simon Karasick and Gabriel Masson.

He has played the trombone (tenor and bass trombone), euphonium, tuba, and bass trumpet with the American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Leopold Stokowski, the Gerry Mulligan Concert Jazz Band, and the Chamber Brass Players. As a freelance trombonist, he has recorded albums with artists such as Quincy Jones, Don Sebesky, Philip Glass, the NBC Opera Company, Eugene Ormandy, Paul Whiteman Palais Royale Orchestra, the Ballet Bolshoi Theatre, Diana Ross and many others.

He was professor at the Teachers College of Columbia University in New York City, as well as instructor and associate professor at Queens College of the City University of New York.

He has composed for the Joffrey Ballet Company and the Danbury Brass Band. He also arranged several songs for the Broadway musical Rockabye Hamlet (1976). Raph is a member of ASCAP.He is currently the conductor of the Danbury (CT) Brass Band.^[1]

Compositions

Works for wind band

Variations on a Theme by Handel, for trombone and band

Ballets

Trinity, premiered in 1970 by the Joffrey Ballet Company
Sacred Grove on Mt. Tamalpais, premiered in 1971 by the Joffrey Ballet Company

Chamber Music

Burlesque, for trombone ensemble

Pedagogical Works

26 Etudes for Bass Trombone
Classic Vintage Studies for Trombone
Diversified Trombone Etudes
Introductory Melodious Etudes, for two trombones and piano
Melodious Etudes for Performance
Recital Pieces for Unaccompanied Trombone
The Double Valve Bass Trombone
Trombonisms

Media

Publications

Dance Band Reading and Interpretation, Warner Brothers Publication, 2002. 44 p., ISBN 978-0-757-92625-9
with Bucky Milam: "Le" Trombone, AR Publishing Co., 1983. ISBN 978-0-9705815-0-1

Bibliography

Michael Cuscuna, Michel Ruppli: The Blue Note label : a discography, Revised and expanded edition, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2001, 913 p.
Wolfgang Suppan, Armin Suppan: Das Neue Lexikon des Blasmusikwesens, 4. Auflage, Freiburg-Tiengen, Blasmusikverlag Schulz GmbH, 1994, ISBN 3-923058-07-1
Michel Ruppli, Ed Novitsky: The Mercury labels : a discography, Vol. V: record and artist indexes, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1993, 882 p.
E. Ruth Anderson: Contemporary American composers - A biographical dictionary, Second edition, Boston: G. K. Hall, 1982, 578 p., ISBN 978-0-816-18223-7
Jaques Cattell Press: ASCAP biographical dictionary of composers, authors and publishers, Fourth edition, New York: R. R. Bowker, 1980, 589 p., ISBN 0-835212-83-1

References

↑ "Danbury Brass Band parties the night away". NewsTimes. Retrieved 2016-05-02.

External links

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