PRESS RELEASE: Romantic Brass
February 17, 2008; 4:00 PM; Calvary Baptist Church
The Lexington Brass Band presents ROMANTIC BRASS, a dazzling array of red-blooded, emotion-filled Romantic music–Romantic with a capital R–on Sunday, February 17, at 4:00 PM, 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.
The band will tackle such dramatic and contrasting works from the Romantic repertoire as the awe-inspiring Dies Irae–Rex Tremendae from Verdi’s Requiem to the majestic finale from Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony (Symphony #5).
Lexington Brass Band’s principal trombonist, David Henderson, will perform a recent work for trombone and band that has quite the Neo-Romantic flavor, while also marked with jazz inflections, Gordon Langford’s warm-hearted Rhapsody for Trombone and Brass Band. David also serves as the principal trombone of the Lexington Philharmonic, and ranks as one of the areas finest musicians.
The program also includes two classics from Romantic opera: 1) the famous grand march from Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser; 2) Evening Prayer from the fairy tale opera, Hansel und Gretel (Humperdinck).
The director of the Lexington Brass Band, Dr. Ronald Holz, professor of music at Asbury College, 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.