Atlantic Brass Quintet
2008-2009 Program Plans


NOTES:
1. All programs, including those here, must be approved through BesenArts before being considered confirmed.
2. Programs as of June 25, 2007, subject to change.

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For the 2008-2009 season, the Atlantic Brass Quintet will continue to expand the limits of brass chamber music with programs featuring original works for brass quintet, artistic adaptations of early music and modern orchestral works, and ear-catching selections from their growing Brass Band Music from Around the World library.
    
Brass Band Music from Around the World Spotlight—New Orleans and the Balkans!
The Atlantic Brass will put a spotlight on New Orleans and the Balkans.  Brass players from New Orleans, as a result of the influence of African and European musical traditions, developed a style of brass band playing that combined the militaristic style of civil war bands with modern funk and jazz of nightclubs.  This is celebratory music usually associated with Mardi Gras, but if you walk around the streets of New Orleans, you’ll hear it most anytime.   

The Balkan nations also have a great brass music tradition, which is less well-known here.  The product of a convergence of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions, Balkan brass band musicians perform dizzyingly virtuosic and uniquely passionate music for life’s greatest celebrations.

Artistic Transcriptions and Early Music for Brass
The 2008-2009 season will feature music from one of J.S. Bach’s most admired accomplishments, the Preludes and Fugues of the Well-Tempered Clavier, as well as the young Henry Purcell’s harmonically visionary Viol Fantasias of 1680.  This season’s orchestral adaptations will feature works influenced by folk music of Mexico and Hungary — Ocho por Radio of Mexico’s Silvestre Revueltas and Dances of Galánta of Zoltan Kodály.

Original Music for Brass
The Atlantic Brass has long advocated the creation, performance, and recording of new works for brass quintet.  In addition to re-visiting recent commissions and standards of the brass quintet repertoire including Bernard Rand’s Fanfare (commissioned by Harvard University), and Music for Brass Instruments by Ingolf Dahl, the quintet will premiere a newly commissioned piece of Samuel Headrick.

Sample Program 1
Featuring Artistic Transcriptions and Original Music for Brass
Bernard Rands: Fanfare
J.S. Bach (arr. Hanzlik): Preludes and Fugues (from The Well-Tempered Clavier)
Zoltan Kodaly (arr. Luke): Dances of Galánta
—Intermission—
Samuel Headrick: Brass Quintet (new commission in progress)
Carlo Gesualdo (ed. Hanzlik): Three Madrigals (from Madrigals Book Four)
Traditional (arr. Hanzlik/Luke): Brass Band Music from Around the World—New Orleans and the Balkans!

Sample Program 2
Featuring Artistic Transcriptions and Early Music for Brass
Giovanni Gabrieli (ed. Hanzlik): Canzonas
J.S. Bach (arr. Hanzlik): Preludes and Fugues (from The Well-Tempered Clavier)
Zoltan Kodaly (arr. Luke): Dances of Galánta
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Henry Purcell (arr. Hanzlik): Fantasias (from Viol Fantasias, 1680)
Silvestre Revueltas (arr. Luke): Ocho por Radio
Augustine Bassano (ed. Hanzlik): Dance Suite — Pavans and Galliards
Traditional (arr. Hanzlik/Luke): Encores: Brass Band Music from Around the World— New Orleans and the Balkans!