PRESS RELEASE: Tis the Season 2007
December 2, 2007; 4:00 PM; Calvary Baptist Church
The Lexington Brass Band presents ‘Tis the Season 2007, their annual feast of holiday music on Sunday, December 2, at 4:00 PM, Calvary Baptist Church, 150 East High Street, Lexington. Joining them on this dynamic concert will be the excellent Asbury College Concert Choir. 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.
Great brass music resounds in a special way at the holiday season, and the Lexington Brass Band has been supplying this in the Greater Lexington area for the past 16 years. Their repertoire for ‘Tis the Season 2007 ranges from symphonic-scale settings of traditional carols to big-band style settings of popular songs like “Have Yourself a Merry, Merry Christmas.” This year several items will be of the Broadway overture style medley, including White House Orchestra arranger Stephen Bulla’s “The Proclamation of Christmas.” Brilliant fanfares, mellow song settings, and scintillating carol collections round out the band’s offerings.
The Asbury College Concert Choir will offer Morten Lauridsen’s deeply moving “O Magnum Mysterium,” and will join the Lexington Brass in presenting two other recent works, John Rutter’s ‘What Sweeter Music” and the majestic “The Dream Isaiah Saw” by Glenn Rudolph.
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.