“Choosing a home for the library was one of the most difficult decisions the quintet had to make when it closed down,” says founding member Robert Posten, a bass trombonist and tubist. Posten says making the library easily accessible to the greatest population of brass players and scholars, and selecting an institution that would manage and care for the collection for the benefit of future generations, were the considerations that guided the ensemble’s search for a permanent home for the collection.
“Dean Stull has been at the center of all the plans to house the library at Oberlin; he has been the very soul of creativity and enthusiasm,” says Posten. “The final decision, however, hinged on our belief that there was a real commonality of purpose between the institutional goals of Oberlin and our vision of a home for the Annapolis Brass Quintet library.”
“Dean Stull has been at the center of all the plans to house the library at Oberlin; he has been the very soul of creativity and enthusiasm,” says Posten. “The final decision, however, hinged on our belief that there was a real commonality of purpose between the institutional goals of Oberlin and our vision of a home for the Annapolis Brass Quintet library.”