Reber Clark's Music Site

Arkansas Composers Forum

April 1-2, 2008 - I've recently returned from an amazing time at Arkansas Tech University with the Arkansas Composers' Forum. Five composers with Arkansas ties were given two days with the fine Arkansas Tech University Symphonic Band, to each rehearse, discuss, and perform a work.

Attendance by Arkansas' Composer Laureate, Dr. Wm. Francis McBeth, made this occasion an especially wonderful one for me. He has been a constant presence in my student and professional life. It was Dr. McBeth who blazed most of the trails that I follow in band writing and it was he who was invited to Warren "Bud" Dunhauer's band room when I was in Junior High
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This website updated:

April 14, 2008

New Website look!

Commack High School, Commack, New York's commission Toast Worshippers, a theatre piece for concert band, will premiere near the end of May.

Fortress of the Rose is released on CD.

Ark. Bar Association Gridiron Show is August 10-16

A performance of Hymn of St. James to be at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall

Premiere - BENEATH NIGHT'S SHADOW

Commissioned by Concordia University Chicago and Elmhurst College. This work premiered at Concordia University Chicago under the direction of Dr. Richard R. Fischer.
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Premiere - SUNSET AT QUANTICO

Premiered at Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria Virginia. I was fortunate enough to be invited by the director, Dr. Randall Eyles, to give a day or so of workshops and to rehearse the
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Premiere - THE MAYPOLE OF MERRYMOUNT

Even though Howard Hanson has already set Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story in operatic form, I was asked by the Mount Saint Charles Academy (Woonsocket, Rhode Island) Music and English
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Commission - ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF LIGHT

Clayton, Missouri High School has commissioned me to compose a work for their 100th anniversary.

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