Raoul F. Camus

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Raoul François Camus (born December 5, 1930 in Buffalo , New York ) is an American musicologist , music director , military musician and music professor emeritus.

Life

Camus initially worked as a horn player and managed a major music publisher. As Kapellmeister he conducted the military band of the 42nd Infantry Division, also known as the "Rainbow Division", for a long time. His teaching license in connection with the title Ph.D. he received from New York University . After that, he first taught at secondary schools Instrumental Music and was a professor of music at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York . There he led the symphonic wind orchestra, the so-called "Queens Symphonic Band".

He was President of the Sonneck Society (now: Society for American Music - SAM) and is active in national and international brass music societies , including the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), the Association of Concert Bands (ACB), the International Military Music Society (IMMS), the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) and the International Society for the Research and Promotion of Brass Music (IGEB). As a musicologist, he is a member of the American Musicological Society (AMS) and specializes in American music.

Raoul Camus is married to the music teacher and cellist Amy Camus. His daughter Renée is mainly known as a writer, his son Henry tours with his Swiss partner Gaby Schmutz as the comedy duo " Full House ".

Publications

Camus has written over 40 contributions, including the articles " Wind Band " and " Military Music ", for the four-volume New Grove Dictionary of American Music , published in 1986, and 14 contributions on North American bands and composers for the 2001 2nd Edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians . His anthology of wind and percussion music of the band appeared as the twelfth GK Hall & Co. series Three Centuries of American Music .

Other important works:

  • 1976: Military Music of the American Revolution , Chapel Hill (Reprinted in Westerville, 1993)
  • 1969: Military Music in the United States Army Before 1834 , Ann Arbor
  • Early American Wind and Percussion Music 1636-1836 (microfiche index; published 1989)

honors and awards

  • 2002: AWAPA Award, National Band Association (NBA)
  • 2003: Honorary membership of the International Society for Research and Promotion of Brass Music (IGEB)
  • Honorary membership of the American Bandmasters Association (ABA)
  • Honorary membership of the Company of Fifers and Drummers
  • Honorary membership of the Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts
  • 2006: Herbert L. & Jean Schultz Mentor Ideal Award, Association of Concert Band (ACB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Camus, Raoul F. , Notendatenbank.net.
  2. ↑ see personal website (weblink)
  3. ↑ AWAPA Recipients ( Memento March 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), National Band Association.
personal data
SURNAME Camus, Raoul F.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camus, Raoul François (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American musicologist, music director, military musician, and music professor emeritus
DATE OF BIRTH 5th December 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Buffalo , New York