Exclusive to The Mountain Mail and Chaffee County Times
by Don Bauder, Salida Aspen Concerts board member and columnist.
7:30 P.M., TUES., JULY 30
AMERICAN BRASS QUINTET TO PERFORM
MUSIC FROM THE RENAISSANCE
Those attending the American Brass Quintet concert on Saturday, July
30, will be treated to glorious brass music by Andrea Gabrielli and his
nephew, Giovanni Gabrieli, who were both born in the 1500s.
Their music is revered to this day. Ditto for other Renaissance
composers whose work will be performed.
The concert is at 7:30 p.m. at Salida High School Auditorium,
26th Jones Avenue. It will be the fourth performance of the Salida
Aspen Concerts’ 40th season. The players will be interviewed on stage
at 6:45 p.m.
Each year, the Aspen Music Festival and School sends worldtouring classical music stars to Chaffee County for six concerts.
This year, the American Brass Quintet will be joined by Anima
Brass, another brass quintet. That means at certain points in the
concert, there will be ten brass players on the stage at once.
The American Brass Quintet has been lauded by Newsweek
magazine as “the high priests of brass.” Three years ago, the group
received chamber music’s highest honor, the Richard J. Bogomolny
National Service Award for significant and lasting contribution to the
field.
The quintet has played in Salida for most of the 40 years of the
concert series’ existence, and has always been an audience favorite.
The Anima Brass has its roots in the State University of New
York Stony Brook University’s Department of Music. Anima won the
2016 Brass Quintet Fellowship at Aspen.
Andrea Gabrieli, born in 1520, was the organist at Venice’s
historic St. Mark’s. He published anthologies of madrigals, as well as
producing his own books of motets, madrigals, and lighter fare.
His nephew Giovanni Gabrieli, studied under his uncle, and
ultimately produced more complex, more devotional style music. He
became better known than his uncle, and budding composers – some
who achieved greatness – studied under Giovanni Gabrieli.
One of Uncle Andrea’s works will be performed in a grouping of
three Venetian canzoni, and two of Nephew Giovanni’s works will be
performed in a section of Venetian Renaissance works.
Three Fantasies in Church Modes by Thomas Stoltzer will be
performed by Anima Brass. Stoltzer, born in 1480, was one of the first
and greatest composers of the Lutheran Reformation.
The concert is underwritten by High Country Bank.
Tickets can be purchased at the door or online,
www.SalidaAspenConcerts.org. Price is $15, and $3 for students.
Information is available online and through Jean Hanfelt,
administrator, 719-539-6467.
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