This brass quintet is composed of experienced players from the northern suburbs of the Twin Cities. They play an ecclectic mix of classical transcriptions, rags, jazz, Dixieland, popular ballads - in short, just about anything. Below are some selections from our repertoire.
Dixieland Revival Meeting
Trad./arr. Paul Nagle
A collection of old favorites, including “When the Saints Go Marching In”
Colonel Bogey March
Kenneth Alford/arr. Frackenpohl
Made famous in the movie, “The Bridge on the River Kwai”
Tenting, Tramping, and Battle-Crying for Freedom
Trad./arr. Chamberlain
Medley of Civil War songs, including “The Battle Hymn of the Republic”
Fourth Symphony, 3rd Movement
Johannes Brahms/arr. McCullough
A short portion of one of Brahms’ most moving and familiar works
Lincolnshire Posy – 1st, 2nd, and 6th movements
Percy Grainger
A quintet arrangement of Grainger’s famous suite of English folk songs
Simple Gifts
Trad./ Court
One of the most recognizable of traditional American songs
Intrade (from Three Pieces from Funff-stimmigte blasende Music)
Pezel/arr. King
Beautiful 17th century fanfare
Sonata (from Die Bankelsangerlieder)
Anonymous/arr. King
Another 17th century song
Rhosymedre
Vaughn Williams/transcr. Baldwin
Also known as “Lovely,” this transcription is of Vaughn Williams’ organ version of a well-known Welsh hymn
Rondeau
Mouret/arr. King
Famous as the theme of “Masterpiece Theatre”
This Old Man March
Trad./arr. Nagel
Fun with a well-known kids’ favorite
Liberty Bell March
Sousa
The Sousa march known as the theme song for Monty Python
Junk Man Rag
Roberts
A rag by one of the best known ragtime composers
Lassus Trombone
Fillmore/arr. Butler
The famous trombone feature
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Waller/arr. Norris
Probably Fats Waller’s most famous composition
Here, There, and Everywhere
Lennon and McCartney/arr. Kremers
Beautiful Beatles ballad
Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
Stills/arr. McCullough
The folk-rock hit made popular by Crosby, Stills, and Nash
I am very pleased to announce that the score and parts for my Voyageur Suite for brass quintet are now available from Art of Sound Music.
The Voyageur Suite is based on three melodies sung by the voyageurs, French-Canadian men who guided and paddled the canoes of explorers and fur traders from Quebec and Montreal to the regions bordering the Great Lakes and on to the Mackenzie and Columbia Rivers during the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries. While they paddled hour after hour in their cramped canoes, the voyageurs sang of their canoes, their country, their life and their loves. The Suite was premiered Feb. 15, 2007, by the Alaska Brass.
