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Potsdam Brass Quintet to perform at Sara M. Snell Music Theater Wednesday

Posted 4/3/16

POTSDAM -- The Potsdam Brass Quintet is set for perform Wednesday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater. The program will include three significant works from the brass quintet …

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Potsdam Brass Quintet to perform at Sara M. Snell Music Theater Wednesday

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POTSDAM -- The Potsdam Brass Quintet is set for perform Wednesday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater.

The program will include three significant works from the brass quintet repertoire -- the Thomas Fredrickson "Quintet," Anthony Plog's "Four Sketches" and Bruce Broughton's "Three American Portraits." The Broughton suite celebrates the noted American figures Napoleon Hill, Calvin Coolidge and William Tecumseh Sherman.

A new work by Crane composer David Heuser, titled "'16," was written for the inauguration of Dr. Kristin Esterberg as the sixteenth president of SUNY Potsdam last year, and will also be featured at this performance. Transcriptions of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Little Fugue in G-Minor" and Percy Grainger's "Colonial Song" will round out the program.

The event is free, and the public is invited to attend.

Now in its 48th year, the Potsdam Brass Quintet is the brass quintet-in-residence at The Crane School of Music. The group consists of John Ellis and James Madeja, trumpet; Lauren Becker, horn; Mark Hartman, trombone, and Charles Guy, tuba.

In January 2016, the quintet was a featured ensemble both at a brass festival held at the University of Florida and at a conference of the Erie County (NY) Music Educators Association.

The concert will be broadcast live at www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/streaming.