12.30 lunchtime, Thursday 9th June 2016
The Story of Brass with quintet Mardi Brass Fraser Tannock & Edward Maxwell, trumpets Jonathan Hassan, horn Adam Woolf, trombone Jeff Miller, tuba & bass trombone from animal horn and hollow stick to the valve trumpet Venue: Leatherhead Methodist Church |
Sponsor: 2016 Season Sponsor: Patricia Morgan Optician Supported by: Leatherhead Concert & Arts Society |
Programme
The Story of Brass
from animal horn and hollow stick to the modern valve trumpet with live examples played by members of the quintet on trumpet, cornet, horn, trombone, tuba, euphonium, and quite a few other things one can blow through You will find recordings of the works Mardi Brass played today lower down this webpage. |
We are grateful to Julie West Solicitor of Leatherhead, for sponsoring the LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity Project, bringing the sounds of professional performance to pupils at the School. |
Mardi Brass opened with The Bare Necessities, from Disney's The Jungle Book (the only Terry Gilkyson song to make it to the film version) |
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Let's not fall out over whether Henry VIII really wrote this. Let's just enjoy Greensleeves |
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16th century Italian composer Adriano Banchieri was a new name to me. This is his Canzona Sesta |
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After exploring the idea of a horn WITHOUT valves, (they used the hand in the bell to shorten the tube and make extra notes between the harmonics)
we listened to the Rondo from Mozart's 4th Horn Concerto |
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Not a brass arrangement this time, but the original, Thelonius Monk, with his Blue Monk |
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Today has been about bringing music to schoolchildren. When you see and hear this 9 year old in action you'll realise she could teach a lot of us a thing or two ! |
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After a vote (referendum?) on our preference, the audience chose to hear an arrangement of the Pie Jesu, from Fauré's Requiem |
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Runner-up in the voting, and a very welcome encore item, was a work by early 17th century composer Samuel Scheidt It might have been this Canzona Bergamasca |
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A late correction from Jonathan Hassan: we actually heard Die Bänkelsängerlieder, sometimes attributed to 17th century Daniel Speer, but these days Anon is thought the more likely composer |
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We are grateful to Julie West Solicitor of Leatherhead, for sponsoring the LCAS/Leatherhead Trinity Project, bringing the sounds of professional performance to pupils at the School. |
Directions to
Leatherhead Methodist Church |
Roma Tic, violin
Victoria Bernath, viola 2nd June 2016 |
John Eagles
organ 15th June 2016 |
Wednesdays at Christ Church
Organ Diary |
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