7:30 pm,
Sunday,
June 13, 2004
Sauder Concert Hall
Boston Brass in Concert
Performing over 120 concerts annually, the members of Boston Brass have dazzled audiences at concerts and jazz festivals in such cities as New York, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Detroit, Dallas, San Antonio, Minneapolis, Juneau, Sacramento, and Los Angeles. Committed to education as they are performance, they have conducted master classes at colleges and universities around the country including The Eastman School Of Music, University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, University of North Carolina, University of North Texas, Boston University, Yale, Notre Dame and U.C.L.A. Along with their instrument sponsor, C.G. Conn, Boston Brass has also conducted clinics and concerts at regional and national music educational conferences including New York, Massachusetts, Oregon, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Colorado, and Texas. In cooperation with C.G. Conn, Boston Brass has helped to raise over $100,000 for VH1s Save the Music program, bringing much needed musical instruments to schools in need.
Boston Brass has been featured on The CBS "Morning Show", National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and has recorded several ground breaking, extraordinary, delightful albums. The ensembles latest release on the Loft Recordings label entitled "Out of This World", features heroic music for brass and organ. Along with Seattle's St. Mark's Cathedral organist J. Melvin Butler, the band explores symphonic textures from all eras of music and even includes a commission from Hollywood composer Bruce Edward Miller entitled Pluto: The Last Planet. The summer of 2000 proved to be an exciting time as Boston Brass teamed up with the legendary jazz recording genius Rudy van Gelder to produce "Ya Gotta Try" on Summit Records. This collaboration, which features music from Horace Silver, Chick Corea, Dizzy Gillespie and many others, further explores the innovative jazz styles that have propelled Boston Brass to the forefront of popular chamber music. Summer of 2003 saw the return of Boston Brass to the studio for a new recording of classical pieces, "Within Earshot", featuring works by Shostakovich, Ginastera, Dvorak, Liszt and others. In the fall of 2003, Boston Brass collaborated with the Syracuse University Wind Ensemble and Dr. John Laverty for a new recording of Holiday classics.
Admission: $12 all tickets
Contact: JoAnn Preheim, phone (574) 535-7566, email joannp@goshen.edu
See also: Boston Brass