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BRASS MARYLAND
presents
GREAT MUSIC IN GREAT SPACES
Annapolis Brass Quintet
Tower Brass Quintet
Philadelphia Brass
Selected works from
BRASS UNDER GLASS
April 5, 1992
Annapolis Brass Quintet
Tower Brass Quintet
Philadelphia Brass
Selected works from
BRASS UNDER GLASS
April 5, 1992
Brass Under Glass opened with Fanfare for the Anasazi written in 1981 by Michael Mauldin in tribute to this vanished civilization of the Southwest. Mauldin moved to New Mexico in 1971 for the “space, light and timelessness” and wrote music, raised a family, directed the Albuquerque Boy Choir and taught piano, voice and composition. Read More
1. FANFARE for the ANASAZI (1981)
MICHAEL MAULDIN (b. 1947)
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MICHAEL MAULDIN (b. 1947)
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2. QUINDECILOGUES (1984)
BRUCE CLAUSEN (b. 1948)
BRUCE CLAUSEN (b. 1948)
Quindecilogues is a major work in three movements written for three brass quintets by California composer Bruce Clausen. This work was commissioned by the Brass Chamber Music Society of Annapolis in 1984 for a series of concerts by the Annapolis Brass Quintet, Tower Brass Quintet and Brass Menagerie.
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Annapolis Brass Quintet, Philadelphia Brass, and Tower Brass Quintet
performed as
BRASS UNDER GLASS
This concert took place in the magnificent all-glass atrium in the Corporate Headquarters of USF&G as part of Brass Maryland's Great Music in Great Spaces Concert Series.
April 5, 1992
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Bruce Clausen's Quindecilogues
for three brass quintets
1. Introduction
2. Thoughts and Echoes
3. Scherzo and Finale
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Annapolis Brass Quintet, Philadelphia Brass, and Tower Brass Quintet
performed as
BRASS UNDER GLASS
This concert took place in the magnificent all-glass atrium in the Corporate Headquarters of USF&G as part of Brass Maryland's Great Music in Great Spaces Concert Series.
April 5, 1992
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Bruce Clausen's Quindecilogues
for three brass quintets
1. Introduction
2. Thoughts and Echoes
3. Scherzo and Finale
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To Listen TAP > AUDIO BAR BELOW
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This live performance was recorded by WBJC-FM.
Bruce Clausen's comments about his work:
Quindecilogues (Dialogues with 15) has offered many challenges unique to the ensemble involved. Writing for a virtuoso ensemble is always a pleasure because one’s imagination is never limited by mere technical considerations; indeed the imagination comes alive with a plethora of possibilities. More than any other work I have written Quindecilogues is a biographical work, but biographical in a special way in that it is a metaphor in tones for the manner in which I compose.
1. Introduction begins with an inchoate, chaotic mass of sound that pricks one’s interest, and when it is heard closely certain figures begin to assert themselves. Out of this mass of possibilities the on-stage brass quintet imposes itself and brings order to the composition by selecting a figure from the sound mass and turning it into a spirited fugue subject that appears in its entrances from high to low.
2. Thoughts and Echoes is an attempt to depict that twilight period right before sleep, when the communication between the subconscious and conscious minds is most easily discerned.
3. Scherzo and Finale is a jocular scherzo and uses as a counter-subject to its main theme the head-motive of the first movement’s fugue, with the important exception of a metrical readjustment that allows the figure to be played at a very rapid tempo.
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Bruce Clausen, professional hornist, composer, and music historian . . . READ MORE
Quindecilogues (Dialogues with 15) has offered many challenges unique to the ensemble involved. Writing for a virtuoso ensemble is always a pleasure because one’s imagination is never limited by mere technical considerations; indeed the imagination comes alive with a plethora of possibilities. More than any other work I have written Quindecilogues is a biographical work, but biographical in a special way in that it is a metaphor in tones for the manner in which I compose.
1. Introduction begins with an inchoate, chaotic mass of sound that pricks one’s interest, and when it is heard closely certain figures begin to assert themselves. Out of this mass of possibilities the on-stage brass quintet imposes itself and brings order to the composition by selecting a figure from the sound mass and turning it into a spirited fugue subject that appears in its entrances from high to low.
2. Thoughts and Echoes is an attempt to depict that twilight period right before sleep, when the communication between the subconscious and conscious minds is most easily discerned.
3. Scherzo and Finale is a jocular scherzo and uses as a counter-subject to its main theme the head-motive of the first movement’s fugue, with the important exception of a metrical readjustment that allows the figure to be played at a very rapid tempo.
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Bruce Clausen, professional hornist, composer, and music historian . . . READ MORE
3. NIMROD -- Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
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Edward Elgar's Nimrod is the ninth of his Enigma Variations. Each variation in the set is inspired by an important person from Elgar’s life. The subject of “Nimrod” is Augustus Jaeger, a music editor and close friend of Elgar who encouraged him to continue composing at a particularly low point in his early career. The name “Nimrod” comes from a heroic biblical hunter, and hunter is Jäger in German.
4. GERMAN ANTIPHONAL MUSIC
Nuptiae Factae Sunt (I591) - Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)
Gesang der Drei Männer (1652) - Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
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Nuptiae Factae Sunt (I591) - Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612)
Gesang der Drei Männer (1652) - Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
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TOWER BRASS QUINTET
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1992
Brian Bushong, trumpet; Timothy McFadden, trumpet;
Bernice Schwartz, horn;
Jeff Ballast, trombone; David Saygers, tuba
PHILADELPHIA BRASS
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1992
Brian Kuszyk, trumpet; Lawrence Wright, trumpet;
Martin Webster, horn;
Timothy Soberick, trombone; Grant W. Moore, II, tuba
ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET
1992
Robert Suggs, trumpet; David Cran, trumpet;
Sharon Tiebert, horn;
Wayne Wells, trombone; Robert Posten, bass trombone
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1992
Brian Bushong, trumpet; Timothy McFadden, trumpet;
Bernice Schwartz, horn;
Jeff Ballast, trombone; David Saygers, tuba
PHILADELPHIA BRASS
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1992
Brian Kuszyk, trumpet; Lawrence Wright, trumpet;
Martin Webster, horn;
Timothy Soberick, trombone; Grant W. Moore, II, tuba
ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET
1992
Robert Suggs, trumpet; David Cran, trumpet;
Sharon Tiebert, horn;
Wayne Wells, trombone; Robert Posten, bass trombone
The scores and parts for all music performed on this April 5, 1992 concert as well as the entire Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library are available for performance and study through the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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