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Il Brasso Magnifico
Il Brasso Magnifico
Holiday Brass
Sunday, December 6, 2009
3PM
FREE
Founded in 2008 by Mark Williamson and Steven Sherrill, Il Brasso Magnifico promotes the cause of brass chamber music in the Southeast and elsewhere. The group’s performing members are leading brass musicians in the Southeast, including full-time and part-time members of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, current and former members of other leading regional and national orchestras, and leading free-lance players in Atlanta and elsewhere. The ensemble’s repertoire is focused on original compositions and arrangements written by Sherrill, Williamson, and other contributors, and on works which employ combinations of brass instruments different from the traditional brass quintet of two trumpets, horn in F, trombone, and tuba. In keeping with British and European brass-instrument tradition, the group uses the E-flat “alto horn” to the virtual exclusion of F horns.
Il Brasso Magnifico is dedicated to recordings and performances that are free to the general public. Its new album, Molto Groovissimo, can be downloaded free from www.ilbrassomagnifico.org, where additional information about the group is also available.

Program

BERLIOZ Hungarian March from The Damnation of Faust; Mark WILLIAMSON Trio, Fugue in C minor, Chorale Prelude on J.S. Bach's Christus der ist mein Leben, Eight Candles: a holiday love song in contrasting styles; Steve WILLIAMS Penny Day; BELLINI "A te, o cara amor talora" (Once I Sought Thee in Doubt and Danger) from I puritani; SHERRILL Just for Fun (Neo-Calypson), Sunrise on Notre Dame, Bring Froth Christmas; Eric ALEXANDER Fanfare: Dix;NESTICO Selections from Christmas: The Joy and the Spirit
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