Press Release: Equestrian Brass
April 11, 2010; 4:00 PM; Calvary Baptist Church
The Lexington Brass Band salutes the horse, Central Kentucky’s horse industry, and the upcoming World Equestrian Games in their concert EQUESTRIAN BRASS on Sunday, April 11 at 4:00 p.m., Calvary Baptist Church, 150 East High Street, Lexington. Tickets are $5.00, General admission and are available at the door. For further information contact: 859-858-3877 or 859-858-3511 Ext. 2246; email: ronald.holz@asbury.edu.
Composers have immortalized the horse in the widest range of marches, overtures, and selections — a repertoire Lexington Brass Band will fully exploit throughout this brilliant program. Joining the band will be an elite Honors Brass Choir selected from the very finest Middle School players within Fayette Country. Ronald Waiksnoris, conductor of the famous New York Staff Band of The Salvation Army, returns to Lexington to share the podium with our music director, Ronald Holz, in this scripted, one-hour concert.
Among the exciting featured marches will be John Philip Sousa’s salute to the U.S. Cavalry, Sabre and Spurs, Karl King’s The Huntress, and William Rimmer’s majestic The Cossack. One piece, A Buffalo Bill Bonanza, evokes an entire era of the horse in the American West, with reference to Gilmore’s Triumphal March (Brooke) and Wyoming Days–Intermezzo (King).
Perhaps the quintessential music for the horse in full stride will come in the famous “Galop” from Rossini’s opera William Tell and the most popular of 19th-century concert overtures, Light Cavalry (von Suppé). The Middle School Brass Choir will join the Lexington Brass Band on two fine folk song settings: All the Pretty Horses, and Sourwood Mountain. The program rounds out with a spectacular original brass band composition by William Himes that fits the day perfectly: Cause for Celebration.
The director of the Lexington Brass Band, Dr. Ronald Holz, professor of music at Asbury University, designs the band’s exciting, one-hour concerts. He is recognized as an international authority on the worldwide music and culture of brass bands in the British tradition.
