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Hosted by ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET 1971-1993
20 September 2021
Hosted by ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET 1971-1993
20 September 2021
Welcome to Brass Quintet Forum.com, a website designed to foster brass chamber music. What you will find here is content focused mostly on the repertoire for brass quintet, especially music composed for chamber settings, and specifically works performed by or with the Annapolis Brass Quintet, which was founded in 1971 as America's first full-time performing brass ensemble.
Our quintet's founding was inspired by the New York Brass Quintet (founded in 1954), and the American Brass Quintet, (founded in 1960). These two extraordinary ensembles played critical roles in establishing the brass quintet as a respected chamber music medium. While New York collectively retired in 1984, the American Brass Quintet in 2021 marks its 61st Anniversary as the 'high priests of brass'.
The Annapolis Brass Quintet performed its final concert on April 25, 1993. Over its twenty-two years the ABQ performed thousands of concerts on four continents and in all fifty states, recorded sixteen commercial albums, unearthed and performed a large body of early brass music, and premiered some seventy-five new works for brass quintet. The ABQ's final concert included the world premiere of a work commissioned especially for the occasion -- an emphatic statement that our farewell performance was not an end, but rather just part of a collective continuum in the advancement of brass chamber music.
It then took us 15 years to find a perfect home where the ABQ's music library would be easily accessible to benefit present and future generations of brass players and scholars. [ Read More - ABQ Library @ Oberlin Conservatory of Music ]
In the past three years we have come upon an ever-growing number of recordings of our ensemble's live concert and broadcast performances from as far back as 1973. Since March 12, 2020 we have been posting web pages with recordings of music for brass quintet alone, collaborative chamber works, and entire concert performances.
An extraordinary number of additional reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, and broadcast recordings of historic ABQ performances are being digitalized and will be shared with you through August 2021 via this website. Subsequently, all of these recordings will become an archival performance component of the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection at Oberlin.
Posting of ABQ Digital Recordings will continue to be posted on this site through August 2021. To access any or all past, present posted recording web pages go to the ABQ Audio Page #3, ABQ Audio Page #2, ABQ Audio Page #1.
Our quintet's founding was inspired by the New York Brass Quintet (founded in 1954), and the American Brass Quintet, (founded in 1960). These two extraordinary ensembles played critical roles in establishing the brass quintet as a respected chamber music medium. While New York collectively retired in 1984, the American Brass Quintet in 2021 marks its 61st Anniversary as the 'high priests of brass'.
The Annapolis Brass Quintet performed its final concert on April 25, 1993. Over its twenty-two years the ABQ performed thousands of concerts on four continents and in all fifty states, recorded sixteen commercial albums, unearthed and performed a large body of early brass music, and premiered some seventy-five new works for brass quintet. The ABQ's final concert included the world premiere of a work commissioned especially for the occasion -- an emphatic statement that our farewell performance was not an end, but rather just part of a collective continuum in the advancement of brass chamber music.
It then took us 15 years to find a perfect home where the ABQ's music library would be easily accessible to benefit present and future generations of brass players and scholars. [ Read More - ABQ Library @ Oberlin Conservatory of Music ]
In the past three years we have come upon an ever-growing number of recordings of our ensemble's live concert and broadcast performances from as far back as 1973. Since March 12, 2020 we have been posting web pages with recordings of music for brass quintet alone, collaborative chamber works, and entire concert performances.
An extraordinary number of additional reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, and broadcast recordings of historic ABQ performances are being digitalized and will be shared with you through August 2021 via this website. Subsequently, all of these recordings will become an archival performance component of the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection at Oberlin.
Posting of ABQ Digital Recordings will continue to be posted on this site through August 2021. To access any or all past, present posted recording web pages go to the ABQ Audio Page #3, ABQ Audio Page #2, ABQ Audio Page #1.
Friday 17 September 2021 Post
OIL OF DOG by WALTER ROSS
for brass quintet & narrator
ABQ & John McDonough
Text: Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce
To listen tap Here
16 September 2021
Robert Stewart's Brass Quintet No. 3
American Premiere Performance
To listen tap Here
13 September 2021
Music by two contemporary American Composers:
1. James Stapleton's Divertimento for Brass Quintet
To listen tap Here
2. Warren Shaffer's Six Meditations on Divinity,
To listen tap Here
Thursday, 09 September 2021
JERZY SAPIEYEVSKI'S AESOP SUITE
for brass quintet & narrator
Annapolis Brass Quintet & Patrick Hayes, narrator
To Listen Tap Here
Monday, 06 September 2021
ABQ MUSIC FOR LABOR DAY
Today we join all in honoring fellow American workers . . .
with special gratitude to our frontline caregivers!
To Listen Tap Here
05 August 2021 Post
ROGER TRÉFOUSSE
GEOGRAPHY OF YEARNING
2ND MOVEMENT
Written for the ABQ
To Listen Tap Here
02 August 2021 Post
Memorial Commemoration in Tribute to:
DOUGLAS ALLANBROOK, Composer and
LEON FLEISHER, Pianist/Conductor:
THE WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF
Allanbrook's Symphony No. 5
Annapolis Brass Quintet
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra,
Leon Fleisher, conducting.
To Listen Tap Here
26 July Post
BRUCE CLAUSEN"S
CONCERTO
for Brass Quintet and Orchestra
1981 World Premiere Performance
Annapolis Brass Quintet and the
Wichita Symphony Orchestra,
Michael Palmer, Conductor
TO LISTEN TAP HERE
22 July Post
BRUCE CLAUSEN'S
QUINDECILOGUES
For Three Brass Quintets
WORLD PREMIER PERFORMANCE
To Listen Tap
19 July Post
LEONARDO BALADA'S
SONATA FOR TEN WINDS
Performed by the
Renaissance City Woodwind Quintet &
Annapolis Brass Quintet
To Listen Tap Here
15 July Posts:
YOUNG RIDDLE
BRASS QUINTET
To listen Tap Here
&
ERROL SCHLABACH
MEDLEY FOR SUNSHINE
and Other Things of Life and Lasting
To listen Tap Here
12 July Post
Elam Sprenkle's Birches
for chorus, piano and brass quintet
Text: Robert Frost's poem Birches
To listen tap here
OIL OF DOG by WALTER ROSS
for brass quintet & narrator
ABQ & John McDonough
Text: Oil of Dog by Ambrose Bierce
To listen tap Here
16 September 2021
Robert Stewart's Brass Quintet No. 3
American Premiere Performance
To listen tap Here
13 September 2021
Music by two contemporary American Composers:
1. James Stapleton's Divertimento for Brass Quintet
To listen tap Here
2. Warren Shaffer's Six Meditations on Divinity,
To listen tap Here
Thursday, 09 September 2021
JERZY SAPIEYEVSKI'S AESOP SUITE
for brass quintet & narrator
Annapolis Brass Quintet & Patrick Hayes, narrator
To Listen Tap Here
Monday, 06 September 2021
ABQ MUSIC FOR LABOR DAY
Today we join all in honoring fellow American workers . . .
with special gratitude to our frontline caregivers!
To Listen Tap Here
05 August 2021 Post
ROGER TRÉFOUSSE
GEOGRAPHY OF YEARNING
2ND MOVEMENT
Written for the ABQ
To Listen Tap Here
02 August 2021 Post
Memorial Commemoration in Tribute to:
DOUGLAS ALLANBROOK, Composer and
LEON FLEISHER, Pianist/Conductor:
THE WORLD PREMIERE PERFORMANCE OF
Allanbrook's Symphony No. 5
Annapolis Brass Quintet
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra,
Leon Fleisher, conducting.
To Listen Tap Here
26 July Post
BRUCE CLAUSEN"S
CONCERTO
for Brass Quintet and Orchestra
1981 World Premiere Performance
Annapolis Brass Quintet and the
Wichita Symphony Orchestra,
Michael Palmer, Conductor
TO LISTEN TAP HERE
22 July Post
BRUCE CLAUSEN'S
QUINDECILOGUES
For Three Brass Quintets
WORLD PREMIER PERFORMANCE
To Listen Tap
19 July Post
LEONARDO BALADA'S
SONATA FOR TEN WINDS
Performed by the
Renaissance City Woodwind Quintet &
Annapolis Brass Quintet
To Listen Tap Here
15 July Posts:
YOUNG RIDDLE
BRASS QUINTET
To listen Tap Here
&
ERROL SCHLABACH
MEDLEY FOR SUNSHINE
and Other Things of Life and Lasting
To listen Tap Here
12 July Post
Elam Sprenkle's Birches
for chorus, piano and brass quintet
Text: Robert Frost's poem Birches
To listen tap here
Thank you for your interest in brass chamber music.
Former members of the Annapolis Brass Quintet (1971 - 1993)
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Library Special Collections
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
Available for Performance & Research
READ ALL ABOUT IT
Former members of the Annapolis Brass Quintet (1971 - 1993)
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Library Special Collections
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
Available for Performance & Research
READ ALL ABOUT IT
For direct access to the Annapolis Brass Quintet Special Collection at Oberlin Conservatory
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FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC
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Robert Posten Memorial Tribute Page
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ROBERT "RIP" POSTEN
Bass Trombonist & Tubist
January 24, 1945 - June 10, 2020
Founding Member of the Annapolis Brass Quintet
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ROBERT "RIP" POSTEN
Bass Trombonist & Tubist
January 24, 1945 - June 10, 2020
Founding Member of the Annapolis Brass Quintet