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DAVID W. MAVES:
Brass Quintet
DAVID MAVES - American Composer - Charleston, SC
Brass Quintet by David Maves was written in 1974 in response to an announcement by the Annapolis Brass Quintet. This work was awarded first prize and subsequently performed by the ABQ for audiences throughout the U.S. and Europe.
In the words of the composer, "The three movements -- I Presto, II Presto, III Adagio-Presto Subito -- are explorations of brass articulations and expressiveness. The musical notation expands the usual brass vocabulary while punctuated by more rational fanfare figures. Both free notation and improvisatory sections are notated with approximations that suggest the scope and kind of music desired."
In the words of the composer, "The three movements -- I Presto, II Presto, III Adagio-Presto Subito -- are explorations of brass articulations and expressiveness. The musical notation expands the usual brass vocabulary while punctuated by more rational fanfare figures. Both free notation and improvisatory sections are notated with approximations that suggest the scope and kind of music desired."
The following Annapolis Brass Quintet performance of David Maves's Brass Quintet was recorded in 1975 for the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) in Vienna. Read More: ORF
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The following performance of David Maves's Brass Quintet was also done in 1975 as part of a live televised Annapolis Brass Quintet program produced by Norwegian Broadcasting in Oslo.
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Annapolis Brass Quintet was founded in 1971 as America's first full-time performing brass ensemble. Dedicated to expanding brass chamber music repertoire, the ABQ announced its first composition contest in 1974 to encourage composers to write music for brass quintet. All works submitted were to be studied, rehearsed and evaluated by the ABQ, and one work would be selected to receive a cash award and to be performed throughout the United States and Europe by the Annapolis Brass Quintet. The composition selected to receive this award was Brass Quintet by David Maves.
1975 Photo of Annapolis Brass Quintet
L to R--Seated / Standing David Cran, trumpet; Calvin Smith, horn; Tim Beck, trombone; Robert Suggs, trumpet; Robert Posten, bass trombone |
David W. Maves was born in Salem, Oregon, and studied with Homer Keller at the University of Oregon (B.M. 1961) and then with Ross Lee Finney at the University of Michigan (D.M.A. 1971). In 1964 he was appointed Ford Foundation Composer-in-Residence for Raleigh, North Carolina, for two years and since has received various other honors including ASCAP awards and two Sigma Alpha Iota Inter-American Awards. His four piano sonatas have been recorded by pianist Max Lifchitz, and two more commercial recordings are available, both as CDs and as individual tracks from the iTunes Store.
Active as Composer-in-Residence at the College of Charleston, South Carolina for over thirty years, David W. Maves is now Professor Emeritus. He has composed over 100 works of which half have been published. A list of his compositions includes symphonies, concertos, works for symphonic band, works for chorus, an opera, (Bodas de Sangre [Blood Wedding], text in Spanish by Federico García Lorca), much chamber music, Gebrauchsmusik, as well as teaching pieces for young and beginning musicians, and works for organ, guitar, harpsichord, and early music instruments (recorders and viols). In recent years Maves has returned to his first “job” as a composer and is working on both new projects and updated versions of some older works that have gone out of print. Many of Maves’s works are available free as online downloads. For Information about the published works by David Maves Tap Here |
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The score and parts to David Maves's Brass Quintet as well as the entire Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library, are available for study and performance through the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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The score and parts to David Maves's Brass Quintet as well as the entire Annapolis Brass Quintet Music Library, are available for study and performance through the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
FOR DIRECT ACCESS TO THE
ANNAPOLIS BRASS QUINTET SPECIAL COLLECTION @ OBERLIN
TAP HERE: