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Sixth Maryland Early Brass Festival

2004


Program
 

9:00 - 12:00
Informal playing sessions for all instruments.  Players in the festival ensembles will decide on works to be performed at the concert.  Haebler Memorial Chapel.
12:00 - 1:00
Lunch
1:00 - 5:00
Final rehearsals for pre-formed groups and for festival ensembles.   Haebler Memorial Chapel.
2:00 - 4:00
Workshop: The Federal City Brass Band will conduct an afternoon workshop on civil war era instruments, music, and performance style. Performing participants must be pre-registered and approved, and will perfom on civil war period instruments with the FCBB.  All others are welcome to audit the workshop.  Haebler Memorial Chapel.
4:00 - 5:00
Lecture/Performance: Dr Douglas Hedwig: 'Wireless' Communication for the Ages - The Coach Horn & Post Horn: Signals, Music, History, and Traditions.  Click here for a flyer.
Dr Hedwig is presently Professor of Trumpet at Brooklyn College (CUNY) and previously served on the faculty of The Juilliard School.  For more than 27 years, he performed with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra.  Van Meter Hall B10.
5:00 - 6:30
Dinner
7:00 - 9:00
Concert - Haebler Memorial Chapel:

Maryland Early Brass Consort with Randy Mullin, organ
Anonymous (Portuguese) - Sonata Nr 1 from Charamela real
Anonymous (Kromeriz) - Sonata IV-208

Vicki Willman & Frank Owens
Philidor - March for Two Sets of Tympani

Festival Natural Trumpet Ensembles
Thomas Harper - Fanfare
Cesare Bendinelli - Sonata 336

Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, Michael Holmes, dir.
Music from the Time of Henry VIII
Henry VIII - En Vray Amour 
Thomas Simpson - Canzon 
Jean Richefort - De Mon Triste 
Henry VIII - Gentile Prince 
                    Pastyme with Good Company
                    Consort XII 
                    Taunder naken

Intermission

Federal City Brass Band (Ensemble-in-Residence), Jari Villanueva, dir.
Henry Yaeger - 3rd US Infantry Quickstep (1867) 
Arthur T. Kennedy - Commencement Waltz (1851)
Charles Denstedt - Maryland Guard Galop (1861) 
Joseph Kuffner* - Polonaise for Keyed Bugle (1823) - Jeff Stockham, Keyed Bugle
Gaetano G. Daga+ - Quickstep a la Pike (c. 1861)
Claudio S. Grafulla - Manual of Arms Polka (1862) - Jari Villanueva, Bugle
Albert Holland - Sun Quick Step (1857)
Brinley Richards - Come, Dearest, the Daylight is Gone (1853)
Gioacchino Rossini - March for the Sultan Abdul Medjid
Louis Antoine Jullien* - American Quadrille

Festival Natural Trumpet Ensemble
D. Speer - Two 'Freshly Baked Morsels'