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I am doing Frank Lynn Payne's Sonata on a recital next month and need his birth date. I have found his bio and other info including where he was born, but have not found when he was born.

Please post it here if you happen to know.

Thanks!

Mark

The Sonata, I believe, is going to be reprinted by BVD Press sometime in the near future. I gave one of my copies to Dennis AsKew who passed it on to Bryan Doughty for this purpose.

I am a big believer in this piece and would love to see it performed more often. If you want to perform it soon, I'll lend you a copy. Simply email me and I'll dig it out and get it to you.

Mark

Did he not also compose a good tuba quartet? Kind of a semi-minimalist or (I dunno, looking for a term) semi-primitive kind of thing?

Doc wrote:If he is a mimimalist, but a miminal one, is that like a subliminalist?

Something like that ...

Mark N. wrote:The Sonata, I believe, is going to be reprinted by BVD Press sometime in the near future. I gave one of my copies to Dennis AsKew who passed it on to Bryan Doughty for this purpose.

I am a big believer in this piece and would love to see it performed more often. If you want to perform it soon, I'll lend you a copy. Simply email me and I'll dig it out and get it to you.

Mark

Both his Quartet and Sonata will be available in the near future from Cimarron Music Press. I am shooting for the Army Tuba Conference in January. I huge thank you goes out to Mark, Dennis and Tim Olt for their help with the Payne pieces and several others that I had trouble locating the originals to use as reference material.

One interesting bit of trivia about Payne, from a friend who knew Payne in college days (then-NTSU, I think).

Apparently, Payne was of the notion that the first composer who really had a clue as to good composition, all-time, was Stravinsky. That shows a bit in the Sonata, several blips of what makes me think of Le Sacre.

Very good piece. Thanks for re-introducing it, Bryan!