[381] FREE MARCH 30 CONCERT FEATURES ORGAN, BASS, PERCUSSION

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 23, 2009
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493, or tmusselm@mtsu.edu

FREE MARCH 30 CONCERT FEATURES ORGAN, BASS, PERCUSSION
Public Invited and Encouraged to Attend Free Concerts March 21-25

(MURFREESBORO)—"Pistons and Pipes," a free concert featuring the MTSU Faculty Brass Quintet, the MTSU Symphonic Brass Ensemble and First United Methodist Church organist and MTSU faculty member Sandra Arndt. will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 30, at the First United Church at 265 W. Thompson Lane in Murfreesboro.
Festival music selections include J. S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor, multiple brass choir works of Giovanni Gabrieli, David Sampson’s Fanfare for Canterbury Cathedral, Ingolf Dahl’s Music for Brass, and Craig Phillips energetic and lyric Suite for Organ, Brass, and Percussion. The concert will conclude with Ottorino Respighi’s brilliant Ancient Aires and Dances.
The MTSU Faculty Brass Quintet features professors Michael Arndt (trumpet), Angela DeBoer (horn) and David Loucky (trombone/euphonium), along with Nashville Symphony members and MTSU faculty Jeff Bailey (trumpet) and Gilbert Long (tuba).
"This ensemble has presented many concerts in Middle Tennessee featuring some of the most exciting and difficult music for brass quintet," Michael Arndt said.
Church organist Sandra Arndt, she has a diverse career as a piano performer, teacher and accompanist. In fall 2002, she joined the MTSU School of Music as an adjunct professor of music and piano. She frequently collaborates with school of music faculty, other performing artists and students around the country for recitals, competitions and other performances.
In 1999, she won a position with the Milwaukee Ballet as Company Pianist and performed as pianist for master classes and recitals for the 2005 International Trumpet Guild Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, among other honors.
The March 30 concert is free and open to the public.
"Please come and share this joyous music with us," (Michael) Arndt added.
For more information on this concert, please access www.mtsumusic.com or call 615-898-2493. For directions to First United Methodist Murfreesboro please visit www.fumcm.org/directions.html.

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