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Monday, March 12, 2001
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| The big brass is in town |
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The German Brass
The School of Music at the University of Georgia is sponsoring an International Brass Festival from March 14 through March 18. One highlight of the festival is a free public concert by the German Brass at 8 p.m. on March 17 in Hodgson Hall of the Performing Arts Center.
According to Fred Mills, brass professor in the School of Music, the German Brass, under the direction of Enrique Crespo, are currently considered the best brass ensemble in the world.
This is the second biennial brass competition at UGA; in alternate years, the competition is held in Narbonne, France.
In addition to the actual competition among brass ensembles, participants can attend daily brass quintet workshops and there will be a “Festival of Brass” every evening in Hodgson Hall. The competition is open to advanced quintets of any age or level from North, Central and South America.
For the concert on the opening day of the festival, March 14, at 7 p.m., the performers will be the Georgia Brass, the Bulldog Brass Society, the Odyssey Brass and several guest artists. The following evening the St. Louis Brass Quintet will perform (see below). On March 16 at 7 p.m. the performers will be the Art of Brass, Vienna. On March 17, in addition to the German Brass concert, there will be a “Rhythm ’n’ Brass” concert at 6:15 p.m. To wrap up the festival, at noon on March 18, the True North Brass (Canada) will play, and at 1:30 p.m. there will be a “Brass Blowout” concert.
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St. Louis Brass Quintet
The next Franklin College Chamber Music Concert brings the St. Louis Brass Quintet to Hodgson Hall in the Performing Arts Center at 8 p.m. March 15. As with all Franklin College Chamber Music Concerts, the performance is free.
The St. Louis Brass Quintet was formed in 1964 by members of the St. Louis Symphony, and since that time the SLBQ has given over 2,500 concerts around the country. The quintet now tours the world.
The members of SLBQ are Allan Dean (trumpet), professor of music at the Yale University School of Music; Ray Sasaki (trumpet), professor of music at the University of Illinois; Thomas Bacon (horn), who has held principal horn positions with the Houston, Detroit and Berlin Radio Symphonies; Melvyn Jernigan (trombone), a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music and a founding member of SLBQ; and Daniel Perantoni (tuba), a professor of music at Indiana University.
The quintet performs the entire spectrum of music for brass, from the works of today’s composers to baroque and Renaissance music transcribed for modern instruments. The ensemble also offers lighter fare, such as popular music and jazz arrangements of standards by Duke Ellington, George Gershwin and Cole Porter. SLBQ is known for the sense of humor the musicians bring to the performances.
The program for this concert includes Volta by Michael Praetorius, dances from the Pariser Tanzbuch by Pierre Attaignant, “Aesop’s Fables” and Four Sketches for Brass Quintet by Anthony Plog, Arias by James DeMars, a tango by Astor Piazzolla and the Dixieland Medley by Joey Sellers.
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