Award-winning Triton Brass Quintet

Triton Brass Quintet

Concord, Mass., February 7, 2012—The Concord Band is thrilled to welcome five outstanding young professional musicians from the Boston area to share the stage at their Winter Concert. The award-winning Triton Brass Quintet will be guest soloists for an exciting and dynamic program, led by Music Director James O'Dell, which will take place at 8 pm on March 3, 2012 at the Performing Arts Center at 51 Walden in Concord.

The quintet will perform Five Concord Diversions for Brass Quintet and Bandby James Curnow, commissioned by the Concord Band and premiered in 1987, and the Concertino for Brass Quintet and Band by John Cheetham. In addition, the quintet's Andrew Sorg will be featured on flugelhorn in an arrangement of the Adagio movement from Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez, arranged by Concord Band Music Director Emeritus William G. McManus.

Review: Fall Concert "Centennials"

Last Saturday night (Oct. 22) the Concord Band performed the first concert of its 2011/2012 season. The band has now developed a strong following, especially for their winter pops concerts and their very popular summer concerts at the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard. For those who haven’t heard the band in concert at the 51 Walden Street Performing Arts Center, I would strongly encourage you to check out their calendar and pick up some tickets. Concert band performances are very enjoyable by listeners of all ages and musical interests. Even the more serious pieces of contemporary band music tend to be accessible to the casual listener. Band works tend to be shorter than orchestral music, and generally very rhythmic and exciting. Saturday night’s performance was no exception.

The concert opened with “American Overture for Band” by Joseph Jenkins under the baton of James O’Dell. This stirring piece opened with a solid and dramatic fanfare very well played by the French horns. The piece continued with a pleasing melodic interchange punctuated with staccato elements cleanly articulated, especially in the brass sections. Louanne MacKenzie’s oboe “folk tune” solo was especially nice.

2011 Fall Concert

Centennials

Saturday, October 22, 2011

The Concord Band

James O’Dell, Music Director

Steven Barbas, Assistant Conductor

Keith Brion, Guest Conductor

Program
James O’Dell conducting
American Overture for Band	Joseph Willcox Jenkins (b. 1928)
Hymn to Yerevan	Alan Hovhaness (1911-2000)
Second Suite for Military Band in F	Major Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
March Song Without Words “I’ll Love My Love” Song of the Blacksmith Fantasia on the “Dargason”
Continuum	Robert Buckley (b. 1946)
Intermission
Keith Brion conducting
Dwellers of the Western World	John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
The Red Man The White Man The Black Man
The Boy Scouts of America	John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)
James O’Dell conducting
The Guide	Noah D. Taylor (b.1982)
Keith Brion conducting
The National Game	John Philip Sousa (1854-1932)

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