Be Modern. Be Brassy. Enjoy Sliders from Hennessy's Irish Pub. Open Bar? Hear Gaudete Brass Quintet at The Block Concert Hall, Downtown Muskegon, 11.15, Doors 6:30, Music 7:30

The Chicago-based Gaudete Brass Quintet is an outstanding young group bringing fresh ideas to brass chamber music. Gaudete is expanding the brass quintet repertoire by commissioning new works from modern composers as well as performing historically informed Renaissance music.

We will be serving sliders from Hennessy's.


PROGRAM:
Copperwave (2006) - Joan Tower (b.1938)
Christ Lag in Todesbanden (1607) - Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Trumpet Sextet in Eb minor Op. 30 (1907) - Oskar Bohme (1870-1938)
1. Adagio ma non tanto - Allegro molto
2. Scherzo
3. Andante cantabile
4. Allegro con spirito
featuring Pam Smitter, trumpet

Intermission

Still (2013) - David Sampson (b. 1951)
Songs of War and Loss - Anthony Plog (b. 1947), text by
Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
1. Beat! Beat! Drums!
2. An Army Corps on the March
3. How Solemn as One by One
4. Cavalry Crossing a Ford
5. By the Bivouac's Fitful Flame
6. Reconciliation
7. A Sight in Camp in the Daybreak Gray and Dim
featuring baritone Reuben Lillienicolemc

Doors and bar open at 6:30 pm.
Concert starts at 7:30 pm.

Tickets start at $28.