PRESS RELEASE: The Music of Bruce Broughton
November 5, 2006; 4:00 PM; Centenary Church
One of world’s finest composers of film music, Bruce Broughton, will guest conduct the Lexington Brass Band in their season opener, The Music of Bruce Broughton, Sunday, November 5th, at 4:00 PM, Centenary Church, 2800 Tates Creek Rd, Lexington. $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.
Bruce Broughton recently received an unprecedented 10th Emmy Award for his score to the HBO film Warm Springs, and he has received multiple academy award nominations for such great films as Silverado, Tombstone, Miracle on 34th Street, Young Sherlock Holmes, to named a few. Broughton’s roots are in the brass band scene, and he has composed spectacular music for this medium. A great sample of his brass music will be heard in this short, dynamic program. His wife, Belinda, outstanding professional violinist in her own right (she has played on many great film scores, including the first Star Wars), will be joining him on the concert, with Bruce as accompanist.
The band will perform works that range from the theme music to the TV show JAG to symphonic overtures for brass. Broughton has a specific gift in painting ‘soundscapes’ of decidedly American flavor. The band will offer a representative sample of that kind of music, including effective arrangements of ‘Erie Canal, and ‘Jimmy Crack Corn’ from Songs of the States, the challenging Frontier Overture, and whimsical Harlequin for Brass. Bruce and Belinda Broughton will team up on Gold Rush Songs, while Dr. Beatrice Holz (Asbury College) will sing Broughton’s Songs of Stephen Crane cycle, with Broughton on piano. As Broughton’s earliest compositions were written for Salvation Army brass bands, several of these marvelous works will be presented, including a blues-inflected setting of Amazing Grace, called A Prayer Meeting.
While Broughton’s music is highly accessible, two of his works will stretch the audience and band. One will be his Concert Piece for Eight B Flat Trumpets, all 8 parts originally written for Lew Soloff of Blood, Sweat, and Tears, and the other his Concert Overture: Covenant, a symphonic treatment of a 19th-century hymn by Lowell Mason. The entire concert will be marked by Broughton’s exciting, rhythmically charged style of music that has made his name famous in the American entertainment industry.
For further information on Bruce Broughton, visit www.Brucebroughton.com