Arrivals and Resolutions: A Musical Journey

Solid Brass takes you on a musical adventure through growth and change, to the end of the journey and what comes after.

Among the pieces presented are two written in the last 5 years. Konrad Waßmann's A Brass Overture is a driving and exciting fanfare showing off the power of the brass choir. Likewise, Symphony for Brass by Kevin Sippel is itself a four-movement journey. I Can Go The Distance comes from Disney's Hercules, as he struggles to find a place where he belongs. George Frideric Handel's classic Arrival of the Queen of Sheba depicts the preparations for the arrival of a caravan from the southern end of the Red Sea up to Judah, led by the titular Queen of Sheba. At the end of the adventure, Karl King's Hometown Boy March celebrates a hero's return, while, on the other end of the spectrum, I Can't Make You Love Me, as sung by Bonnie Raitt, marks the end of a relationship. Finally, Edvard Grieg's Funeral March in memory of local trumpeter and teacher, Fred Sautter.