Professor James Barnes, Chair of the Division of Theory-Composition at the University of Kansas, teaches orchestration, arranging and composition courses, and wind band history and repertoire courses. At KU, he served as an Assistant, and later, as Associate Director of Bands for 27 years. His numerous publications for concert band and orchestra are extensively performed in the United States, Europe and the Pacific Basin. His works have been p. Boston Symphony Hall, Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center in Washington, Dc formed at Tanglewood, Barnes has twice received the coveted American Bandmasters Association Ostwald Award for outstanding contemporary wind band music. He has been the recipient of numerous ASCAP Awards for composers of serious music, the Kappa Kappa Psi Distinguished Service to Music Medal, the Bohumil Makovsky Award for Outstanding College Band Conductors, along with numerous other honors and grants, He has recorded three commercial compact dises of his music with the world famous Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra, He has also been commissioned to compose works for all five of the major military bands in Washington, DC. Mr. Barnes has traveled extensively as a guest composer, conductor, and lecturer throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, Japan and Taiwan, He is a member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), the American Bandmasters Association and several other professional org: and societies. Since 1984, his music has been published by Southern Music Company of San Antonio, Texas. ionsCommissioned by the United States Air Force Band 1 To Commemorate their 50th Anniversary: SYMPHONIC OVERTURE Ast Bb Clarinet JAMES BARNES, Op. 80 S-647 Allegro vivo (d = 132-136) a] 3 3 2nd Clar. Adagio Maestoso (#=72) 4 © Copyright 1992 by Southern Music Company, San Antonio, Texas 76292 International copyright secured. Printed in U.S.A. All rights reserved,2 Ist Bb Clarinet BusClainet = 2 > ~.s.-e Ooo >1-— crese. Sf dim. fIst Bb Clarinet =_—— —_ 2 72 a3 —_ — mf cresc. f ‘Adagio maestoso (d = 72) > 3—, =4 Ist Bb Clarinet, cantabile stringendo rest f allargando > a > Ancora Allegro Vivo a tempo (d = 132-136) ¢Ist Bb Clarinet, 5 7 & oneonapaty. 2a} tut nf bf6 Ist Bb Clarinet 28] ——— nf crese ——a Ae tea? a Ct sub. mp cresc. 8-647 :Ist Bb Clarinet 7 A Tempo Primo =—. 2 > 33] Om re pen = ZN ES. > s-f ~ ra raltentando Vivace (d = 144) > Za, las = iis aS. —— ta bt. eles Div. oes 2 $ < rallentando tif S-647