Program A: Music in Motion – Atlantic Brass Quintet & kerPlunk! dance
NOTE: This program may be performed with or without the dance collaboration (5 dancers).

Song and dance have long ensnared the senses of their participants and audience.  Taking cues from observations, articles, and personal interpretations, kerPlunk dance and the Atlantic Brass Quintet meld these fragments into a musically and physically charged evening.  The program follows two tracks, in which spirited music is matched by the dancers’ mapping of a contoured world, brought to life through invigorating partnering, cascading ensemble work, and intimate stillness  First, an homage to the Baroque, drawing music from a dance suite by Giovanni Bassano, one of the most important early Baroque instrumental composers; the towering figure, J.S. Bach; and Igor Stravinksy’s Pulcinella, a modern homage to Bach’s contemporary, Giovanni Pergolesi.  The second track focuses on Eastern Europe, bringing together Kodály’s adaptations of beloved Hungarian folk dances in his Dances of Galánta, and the Atlantic Brass Quintet’s adaptations of the great traditional brass music from the Balkans, a fascinating, dizzyingly virtuosic, and passionate music bound in Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths.

1. J.S. Bach: Selections from Well-Tempered Clavier (arr. Hanzlik)
2. Giovanni Bassano: Dance Suite: Pavans & Galliards (ed. Hanzlik)
3. Zoltan Kodály: Dances of Galánta (arr. Luke)
    —Intermission—
4. Igor Stravinsky: Pulcinella Suite (arr. Luke)
5. Traditional Spotlight: The Balkans! (arr. Albright/Hanzlik)


Program B: ABQ Mix

This is a quintessential Atlantic Brass Quintet program – Bach; an adaptation for brass of a modern work; contemporary works for brass, including ABQ commissions, in a kaleidoscopic range of styles, and a Traditional Spotlight.  The Atlantic Brass has long advocated the creation, performance, and recording of new works for brass quintet.  The 2012-2013 season continues that tradition with the premiere of two new works from Samuel Headrick, a Boston-based composer and long-time collaborator with the ABQ, in the form of a fanfare written to celebrate the Quintet’s silver anniversary last year, as well as a new quintet.  The program will also include a new work from the internationally known jazz trombonist, composer, and bandleader, Alan Ferber, composed ABQ, as well as two other recent works, from Leonard Bernstein and Thom Ritter George.  ABQ continues to explore the second book of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier.  Turning to south of border, ABQ spotlights Latin America with adaptations for brass of two solo piano works of Ginastera, and a set of popular Mexican pieces for its trademark “Traditional Spotlight” feature.

1. Alberto Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas, Op. 2 (1937, arr. Luke)
2. J.S. Bach:  Preludes & Fugues from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 (1742, arr. Hanzlik)
3. Thom Ritter George: Brass Quintet No. 2 (1971-72)
    —Intermission—
4. Samuel Headrick: Silver Anniversary Fanfare (2010)
5. Samuel Headrick: Brass Quintet No. 2 (2011)
6. Alan Ferber: Kopi Luwak (2010)
7. Leonard Bernstein: Dance Suite (1989)
8. Traditional Spotlight: Mexico! (arr. ABQ)