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Over the years, the Annapolis Brass Quintet has always elected to make their holiday concerts in a certain sense eclectic. The musical styles range from genuine Renaissance and Baroque renditions to traditional, non-traditional, and contemporary settings. One day this may change, but for the time this potpourri format seems to harmonize more agreeably with the season than any other sort of program.
Maybe this seems true because we don't all come from a common tradition. In fact, perhaps our greatest shared traditions have roots so knotted and tangled as to be almost untraceable. The ancients believed they could fend off winter demons and attendant seasonal miseries with charms of holly, pine, laurel, and mistletoe during mid-winter festivals and celebrations. The Greek and Roman sun worshippers tried to save the fading winter heat and light by placing candles on evergreen boughs. The early Jewish and Christian celebrations, though they evolved from specific religious beliefs, retained many of their earlier pagan customs and gathered ethnic, regional, local, and even family traditions along the way. Today, we find ourselves with a patchwork of seasonal customs and festivities that have been woven together into what we simply term the holiday season.
We hope tonight's program not only reflects the diversity of traditions and music associated with the holiday season, but that it imparts the good will, hope, and joy of this season as well.
----The Annapolis Brass Quintet
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Maybe this seems true because we don't all come from a common tradition. In fact, perhaps our greatest shared traditions have roots so knotted and tangled as to be almost untraceable. The ancients believed they could fend off winter demons and attendant seasonal miseries with charms of holly, pine, laurel, and mistletoe during mid-winter festivals and celebrations. The Greek and Roman sun worshippers tried to save the fading winter heat and light by placing candles on evergreen boughs. The early Jewish and Christian celebrations, though they evolved from specific religious beliefs, retained many of their earlier pagan customs and gathered ethnic, regional, local, and even family traditions along the way. Today, we find ourselves with a patchwork of seasonal customs and festivities that have been woven together into what we simply term the holiday season.
We hope tonight's program not only reflects the diversity of traditions and music associated with the holiday season, but that it imparts the good will, hope, and joy of this season as well.
----The Annapolis Brass Quintet
< To Return to the Program TAP HERE