The Dallas Wind Symphony fanfare competition winners.(Items of Interest)(Brief Article)

The Dallas Wind Symphony (DWS) has selected seven fanfares as winners in its 2003-2004 fanfare competition. This is the second year DWS has invited composers from throughout the world to submit fanfares, brief and loud flourishes for brass instruments. Prior to each concert performance, a small ensemble of DWS brass musicians-trumpets, horns, trombones, euphoniums and tubas--performs one brief fanfare in the lobby of the Meyerson Symphony Center.

The composers whose fanfares were chosen range from twenty-one-year-olds to veteran college deans. Of the seven, three currently are deans or music directors at universities, and two are public school band directors or music instructors. All are active, often ...