[Trombone-l] Brass Arts Quintet in Recital, 7:30 PM Tuesday, September 30, 2008

[Joshua Hauser]

Brass Arts Quintet 
Department of Music and Art € Box 5045 € Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN 38505 € (931) 372-6086 € e-mail: jhauser at tntech.edu

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Date: September 22, 2008
Contact: Joshua Hauser, Professor of Trombone
(931) 372-6086, e-mail: jhauser at tntech.edu

Heroes: Brass Arts Quintet in Concert
Cookeville, TN ‹
 
The Brass Arts Quintet at Tennessee Tech University will present a free
concert at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, September 30, 2008 in Wattenbarger Auditorium
of the Bryan Fine Arts Building, located on the Tennessee Tech campus at
1150 N. Dixie Avenue. The program will feature members of the group in works
by Handel, Farnaby, Saint-Saëns, Tovey, Clarke, Henderson, and Sondheim.

The evening¹s concert will feature members of the group both in ensemble and
as soloists performing works associated with some of our brass Œheroes.¹
³The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon is a work originally
composed for oboes and strings that I was first exposed to in a
transcription for 10 brass written for the famous Philip Jones Brass
Ensemble,² says Trombonist Joshua Hauser.  ³This piece is often played at
celebratory occasions, including weddings, and I did this setting for brass
quintet as a wedding gift for a friend several years ago.²  The Farnaby is
another work associated with the PJBE, having been arranged for them by
British Trumpeter Elgar Howarth.

Moving from England to France, we will present Greg Danner as horn soloist
in the Morceau de Concert by Camille Saint-Saëns.  This technical and
lyrical tour de force, originally for horn and orchestra, was composed for
the valve horn studio at the Paris Conservatory, one of the prototypes of
the modern music school throughout the world.
 
Also featured as soloists will be Joshua Hauser on Trombone and Charles
Decker on Trumpet in Herbert L. Clarke¹s Cousins.  This was originally
composed as a feature for Clarke on Cornet and Leo Zimmerman on Trombone to
perform with the John Philip Sousa band.  This was part of the tradition of
soloists from the turn of the century who wrote solos and ensembles to
feature their particular strengths as players.
 
The Santa Barbara Sonata and Pete Meets the Beat are both works associated
with the Canadian Brass, one of the most popular chamber groups of all time.
Pete Meets the Beat is of special significance on this particular concert
because it is Luther Henderson¹s jazz setting of the 3rd movement to
Tchaikovsky¹s Symphony No. 6 ³Pathetique² which we will be performing at TTU
in October with the Bryan Symphony Orchestra.
 
We will close the evening with a lovely ballad by Steven Sondheim, Send in
the Clowns, arranged by Gail Robertson.

³This should be a fun and varied performance that everyone will enjoy. We
look forward to seeing you here.²
 
Members of the quintet are: Charles Decker and Chris McCormick, trumpets;
Greg Danner, horn; Joshua Hauser, trombone; and Winston Morris, tuba.
Pictures available at:
 
http://www.tntech.edu/brass/baq/bacq1-8x10-BW.jpg
http://www.tntech.edu/brass/baq/bacq1-8x10.jpg


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Joshua Hauser, Associate Professor of Trombone
Box 5045
Department of Music and Art
Tennessee Technological University
Cookeville, TN 38505
931/372-6086
jhauser at tntech.edu 
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