PRESS RELEASE: Silver Screen Brass
November 4, 2007; 4:00 PM; Calvary Baptist Church
The Lexington Brass Band presents Silver Screen Brass, a scintillating feast of outstanding film music, ranging from 1930s to the present, on Sunday, November 4, 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.
Audiences will delight in recent film music by the following composers:
John Williams: Star Wars cycle, Superman, 1941, and others
Ennio Morricone: Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission (featuring Cornetist John Higgins)
Randy Edelman: Reunion and Finale from Gettysburg
Trevor Jones: The Gael from The Last of the Mohicans
From the first great era of film scores the band will feature Erich Korngold’s music from The Adventures of Robin Hood, and the classic The Wizard of Oz, with Hornist Susan Henthorn presenting a new setting of that signature Harold Arlen tune, Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Additionally, the band will play the well-known Fanfares from 20th Century Fox and Warner Brothers studios.
The 1950s are represented in Miklos Rosza’s dramatic music for Ben Hur, and Malcolm Arnold’s adaptation of a famous British military march in academy award winning Bridge Over the River Kwai.
Dr. Louis Bourgois, bass trombonist of the band and professor at Kentucky State University, has made several of the arrangements specifically for this concert, including the studio fanfares and the exciting Korngold score.
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.