212 PRESIDENTIAL CONCERT SERIES SHOWCASES BOSTON BRASS JAN. 22

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Jan. 9, 2007
CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493



(MURFREESBORO)—The Boston Brass will perform concert No. 3 of the four-concert series known as the Presidential Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 22 in Hinton Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
The concert, sponsored in part by the office of President Sidney McPhee at MTSU, will be free and open to the public.
"We're very pleased to have such consummate performers as the Boston Brass as a part of our Presidential Concert Series," said George Riordan, director of the McLean School of Music at MTSU.
"They have developed a well-deserved international reputation (that is) due in no small measure to the electricity they generate with their entertaining and suave style of playing," Riordan continued. "Laymen and connoisseurs alike will be delighted with the range of literature that they will play, as well as with the way they communicate with their audiences."
The Boston Brass—which features Jose Sibaja and Jeff Conner on trumpet, J.D. Shaw on French horn, Lance LaDuke on trombone and Andrew Hitz on tuba— transcends the traditional mores of brass ensemble literature with a host of original arrangements, Riordan added.
The first half of the Jan. 22 concert will feature original arrangements from the classical repertoire while the second half of the show will feature a several original jazz arrangements. In the first set the group will perform Shostakovich's Moscow Cheryomushki Galop, Ginastera's Danza Final, a Sibaja arrangement of Latino America Suite, Dvorák's Largo from New World Symphony, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 and Sebesky's Brass Roots.
In the second set, the group will perform Garland's In the Mood, Wyche's Alright, OK, You Win, Raksin's Laura, Pee Wee Ellis' The Chicken, Dizzy Gillespie’s Manteca, Benny Golson’s I Remember Clifford and Duke Ellington's Caravan.
The five-member Boston Brass performs at more than 100 concerts and jazz festivals annually in such cities as Tokyo, Singapore, Taipei, Macau, New York, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Detroit, Dallas, San Antonio, Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Salt Lake City, Sacramento and Los Angeles, among many more locales.
The final concert of the series will feature the Blair String Quartet at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 10 in the Hinton Hall of the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
For more information on the Boston Brass or the Presidential Concert Series please visit mtsumusic.com or call 615-898-2493.

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