WELCOME TO BRASS QUINTET FORUM
27 October 2020
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 2020 is celebrating its 60th 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 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 two 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. From 12 March through 28 June 2020 we posted some 39 web pages with recordings of works for brass quintet alone, collaborative chamber works, and entire concert performances. If you wish to revisit any of these digital recording pages, please open this site's ABQ AUDIO PAGE #1.
Over this summer an extraordinary number of additional reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, and broadcast recordings of historic ABQ performances have been found, digitalized and will be shared with you over the coming months via this website. Subsequently all of these recordings will become an archival performance component of the Annapolis Brass Quintet Collection at Oberlin.
We are pleased to resume posting new digital recordings of live and broadcast performances by the ABQ alone and in various expanded instrumental and vocal combinations. Our first week will feature original 20th century brass chamber works by two highly regarded California composers:
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 2020 is celebrating its 60th 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 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 two 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. From 12 March through 28 June 2020 we posted some 39 web pages with recordings of works for brass quintet alone, collaborative chamber works, and entire concert performances. If you wish to revisit any of these digital recording pages, please open this site's ABQ AUDIO PAGE #1.
Over this summer an extraordinary number of additional reel-to-reel, cassette tapes, and broadcast recordings of historic ABQ performances have been found, digitalized and will be shared with you over the coming months via this website. Subsequently all of these recordings will become an archival performance component of the Annapolis Brass Quintet Collection at Oberlin.
We are pleased to resume posting new digital recordings of live and broadcast performances by the ABQ alone and in various expanded instrumental and vocal combinations. Our first week will feature original 20th century brass chamber works by two highly regarded California composers:
Ingolf Dahl (1912 - 1970) and William Schmidt (1926 - 2009)
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Posting of Digital Recording: Tuesday, October 27
1984 Annapolis Brass Quintet Munich performance recorded for Bavarian Radio Orchestra
To Listen to Ingolf Dahl's
MUSIC FOR BRASS INSTRUMENTS
27 Oct. 9 a.m. ET - Tap here
2nd Posting of Digital Recording:
Thursday, October 29
William Schmidt's
CONCERTINO
Composed in 1969 for piano and brass quintet, this 1990 Brass Chamber Music Society of Annapolis performance with pianist Ernest Ragogini and the Annapolis Brass Quintet was recorded by WBJC FM.
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Thank you for your interest in brass chamber music
Former members of the Annapolis Brass Quintet (1971 - 1993)
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Posting of Digital Recording: Tuesday, October 27
1984 Annapolis Brass Quintet Munich performance recorded for Bavarian Radio Orchestra
To Listen to Ingolf Dahl's
MUSIC FOR BRASS INSTRUMENTS
27 Oct. 9 a.m. ET - Tap here
2nd Posting of Digital Recording:
Thursday, October 29
William Schmidt's
CONCERTINO
Composed in 1969 for piano and brass quintet, this 1990 Brass Chamber Music Society of Annapolis performance with pianist Ernest Ragogini and the Annapolis Brass Quintet was recorded by WBJC FM.
__________
Thank you for your interest in brass chamber music
Former members of the Annapolis Brass Quintet (1971 - 1993)
Founding Member of the Annapolis Brass Quintet
ROBERT "RIP" POSTEN
Bass Trombonist & Tubist
January 24, 1945 - June 10, 2020
Robert Posten Memorial Tribute Page
Click Here
ROBERT "RIP" POSTEN
Bass Trombonist & Tubist
January 24, 1945 - June 10, 2020
Robert Posten Memorial Tribute Page
Click Here
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Library Special Collections
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
Available for Performance & Research
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FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC
Library Special Collections
Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library
Available for Performance & Research
READ ALL ABOUT IT
FOSTERING BRASS CHAMBER MUSIC