PRESS RELEASE: MARCH MADNESS REDUX
February 15, 2009; 4:00 PM; Calvary Baptist Church
By popular demand from our enthusiastic audiences, the Lexington Brass Band presents March Madness Redux, a celebration of the march in many different forms and styles, at 4:00 p.m., Calvary Baptist Church, 150 East High Street, Lexington. Tickets are $5.00, General admission. Tickets available at the door. For further information contact: 859-858-3877 or 859-858-3511 Ext. 2246; email: ronald.holz@asbury.edu.
Bands excel in playing marches. Marches get toes tapping and heads nodding. Our audience surveys over the past few years have continually contained many requests for the band to offer this favorite type of program. This one-hour concert will contain a wide array of marches, ranging from traditional favorites by John Philip Sousa, Edwin Franko Goldman, and Henry Fillmore to jazz-style works, like W. C. Handy’s St. Louis Blues, which is, after all, a march!
Majestic processionals will be heard, like Henry Purcell’s Trumpet Tune, and the climactic work of the evening, the great finale from Respighi’s Pines of Rome: Pines of the Appian Way. On this spectacular transcription the band will literally lift the roof, with the great organ (Kevin Raybuck) at Calvary Baptist adding the final sonic burst.
Other contrasts to the traditional military march come via a modern work by the British symphonist, Edward Gregson, Dalarö (named after a school in Sweden), and an elegant setting of Sir Hubert Parry’s great hymn tune Repton (”Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”).
This is a program marked by energy, excitement, and brilliant brass playing. Don’t miss it!
