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Jonathan Elkus
Biography
Jonathan Elkus (b. 8 August 1931, San Francisco, Calif.) is an American composer, arranger, editor, author, conductor, and teacher.
Elkus attended UC Berkeley and Stanford. He taught largely at Lehigh University and—from 1992 to 2002—served as lecturer and director of bands at UC Davis. His visiting appointments include the North Carolina School of the Arts and the Yale School of Music.
He was arranger for the Goldman Band and frequent guest conductor at their summer concerts in Central Park. In 1984 Elkus established Overland Music Distributors, a publishing group, and now serves as consultant to Subito Music Corporation, its successor.
He is an editor of the Charles Ives Society’s critical editions of the complete works and has transcribed works of Ives for the U.S. Marine Band. In 2002 Elkus was presented with the Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation of the American Bandmasters Association in recognition of his contribution to bands and band music in America.
Elkus's serious interest in Ives' music began in the early 1960s when he scored one of Ives's Yale marches, "A Son of a Gambolier," for the first European tour of the Yale Concert Band. This was followed by the publication of his monograph Charles Ives and the American Band Tradition and his Ives Society critical edition of the symphonic movement Thanksgiving and Forefathers' Day.
Works for Winds
- Camino Real
- Finale from "Symphony No. 2" (as transcriber) (1907/1974)
- Lento Maestoso and Finale from "Symphony No. 2" (as transcriber) (1907/1974/2001)
- March 6: Here's to Good Ol' Yale (as transcriber) (1897/2003)
- Memories, Very Pleasant and and Rather Sad (as arranger) (1922/2011?)
- Prelude and Processional (as arranger) (1883/1957)
- The Ragtime Dance (as arranger) (1974)
- Triptych
- William Tell Overture (as arranger) (1900)
Resources
- Jonathan Elkus, Wikipedia Accessed 26 January 2018
- Musical sleuth: Jonathan Elkus' labor of love brings an Ives symphony back to life. (2000). Retrieved June 15, 2016.
- UC Davis Arts. (n.d.). Retrieved June 15, 2016, from http://arts.ucdavis.edu/faculty-profile/jonathan-elkus