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Robert Washburn

Five Miniatures for Five Brasses
Commissioned by the Brass Chamber Music Society of Annapolis in 1979


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Robert Brooks Washburn (1928 - 2013) was Dean and Professor Emeritus and Senior Fellow in Music at the Crane School of Music of the State University of New York at Potsdam. After completing his undergraduate studies at Potsdam he was awarded a Danforth Foundation Fellowship to complete a Ph.D. in composition at the Eastman School of Music, where he worked with Howard Hanson, Bernard Rogers and Alan Hovhaness. Later studies included a summer at the Aspen Music School, where he studied with Darius Milhaud, and a season in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. He also participated in seminars at the Sorbonne in Paris and at the University of Oxford in England.
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Robert Washburn's
Five Miniatures for Five Brasses (1979)
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This work was commissioned for the Annapolis Brass Quintet in 1979. Each of the five movements explores a single musical idea or techniques and idioms associated with brass music. In the composer's words,  "this work makes no attempt at complexity or profundity and is intended to entertain."

Annapolis Brass Quintet
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1983 Munich Performance
Recorded for broadcast by
Bavarian Radio


 David Cran, trumpet;  Robert Suggs, trumpet;  Marc Guy, horn;
Wayne Wells, trombone;  Robert Posten, bass trombone

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Five Miniatures for Five Brasses
1. March  2. Chorale  3. Scherzo
​4. Blues  5. Burlesk

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The score and parts for Robert Washburn's Brass Quintet and for his Five Miniatures for Five Brasses, 
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