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Manhattan Brass 2007-08 season!
Season 2007-08 includes performances and masterclasses across the USA. In the fall, MB will be performing in NYC at the 92nd St Y, performing live accompanyment to new choreography by David Capps, head of the dance department at Hunter College and set to the music of David Dzubay. Also in the fall, MB performs recitals in NYC, CT, NH, and MA. Spring brings more touring to the south and midwest and the release of MB's David Dzubay CD on Bridge Records in late June. 2008 concerts feature MB's new program "American Voices: The Music of Duke Ellington & Gil Evans". The sound of these maverick composer/arrangers are from two unique periods in American music, yet share distinct qualities that encompass groundbreaking ideals and musical communication. While Ellington's popular work is well known, MB will explore lesser-known works; gems of Duke's career, not often performed live. The collaborations and inspirations for Gil Evans' music run the gamut and include Miles Davis, classical Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo, George Gewshwin, and rock icon Jimi Hendrix. The MB brings a special interepretation of this music with Lew & Dave's first-hand experience in Gil and Duke's bands while both were still alive -- knowledge of this music from the source. Come check it out!
Friday February 1st at 8pm -- Molten Cupidity -- The Manhattan School of Music presents a program featuring Dave Taylor and friends in new and improvised works by Dave Taylor, Daniel Schnyder, Gil Evans, Duke Ellington, Seymour Barab, John Clarke, Franz Hackl, and B.I.G. Music
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Season 2006-07 included performances and masterclasses in Europe and across the USA. In Europe MB performed with Daniel Schnyder and friends at the Stuttgart Conservatory, and in Zurich -- premiering and recording a brand new sextet written by Schnyder for all six of us (Daniel performing). The programs featured Daniel's music, old and new and coincide with MB's first release of newly recorded material on ENJA Records, titled "BRASS" and featuring Manhattan Brass as well as the NDR Radio Philharmonic, Absolute Ensemble, and featuring David Taylor and trumpeter Reinhold Friedrich performing Schnyder concertos. This recording is now available and can be purchased online by clicking here . Stay tuned for more CD releases on Bridge and ENJA Records in 2007 and into 2008, featuring the music of David Dzubay, Wynton Marsalis, Paquito D' Rivera, Leonard Bernstein and Daniel Schnyder! One of the recordings is a sequel to our CD "The Manhattan Project", featuring the music of New York composers, the other is the music of one of our favorites; David Dzubay! These two recordings will be available in season 2007-08. In the meantime, also check out MB's first CD, The Manhattan Project. The recording features music by Manhattan composers past and present-including pieces written for us by Kitty Brazelton and Semour Barab. The others: Vincent Persichetti, George Gershwin, William Schuman, and Aaron Jay Kernis. We are excited about all of these recordings, and continue to perform many of the works on our tours and concerts.
Click on the CD covers to read more and to order the CDs on-line -- or use the sounds page to order instantly!
MB performs a variety of works - some old some new - in recital in this intimate space designed by the Art Nouveau master "Tiffany". MB will rock the Roccoco out of this great church -- in which Manhattan Brass has performed over many holiday seasons -- and their familial, warm and eclectic crowd. All are welome...let the service begin!! Works include Wynton Marsalis's new "Jig", JS Bach, David Dzubay, and more from our Australian program described below. Check out our calendar page for more info.
Manhattan Brass's exciting new season opened Halloween night, Monday October 31st, 2005 with a program entitled 'The Australians' and featuring music of Australian composers and performers. The diverse program explores relations and influences between Australia, England, and the U.S. and will be held at NYC's popular venue, Symphony Space, followed in early winter by the first of three concerts this season as Artists-in-Residence at the New School's Lang College. Concerts and lectures at Lang College will cover a range of composers and topics. Deep winter sees touring with a special visit to St. Louis, Missouri. Spring and summer include local performances in NYC and at the prestigious Caramoor Festival, just north of NYC -- Stay tuned to this website for more info!
Manhattan Brass presents the first of a series of recitals as artists-in-residence at the New School University in Manhattan. The concert starts at 7:30pm on Monday December 5th at the New School campus and features selections from MB's recent Australian composers program juxtaposed against American composer David Dzubay's ensemble and solo brass works. The hybrid program, Australia vs America, covers a huge swath of musical styles, periods and backgrounds. Admission is free.
Three works from MB's upcoming CD recording of David Dzubay's music will be featured; Quintet No. 1, Acrostic Variations, and Solus for unaccompanied horn.
Representing Australia are national icon Peter Sculthorpe, film composer Christopher Gordon, and the music of 'Men at Work' amongst a suite of others. The diverse program features works including solos, duos, trios, and quintets -- works by Peter Sculthorpe, Christopher Gordon, and William Motzing were written expressly for Manhattan Brass and just premiered in October 2005 -- Other composers featured include Larry Sitsky, Mark Clement Pollard, James Hullick, George Dreyfus, and Peter Graham.
Manhattan Brass and The New School's Lang College present: Australia vs America -- 7:30pm, Monday December 5th, at Wollman Hall, The New School, 65 West 12th St. (near 6th Ave.) NYC -- Wollman Hall is on the 5th floor of the Lang College building --enter through 65 W 12th Street.
Monday October 31st at 8pm -- The Manhattan Brass presents a program featuring the music of Australian composers and performers -- including and featuring guest pianist Lisa Moore, founder of New York�s acclaimed Bang on a Can All Stars and native Australian.
The show is at Symphony Space's, Thalia Theater -- 95th St. & Broadway, NYC -- tickets $15/$12 info/box office: 212-864-5400 or www.symphonyspace.org
The Manhattan Brass presents a program featuring the music of Australian composers and performers - including and featuring guest pianist Lisa Moore. Works range wildly in style and origin and explore the depth of Australian and American historical commonalities, including the plight and rights of native people, women, and the legacy of colonialism. Collaborations of all varieties are featured in works ranging from Aboriginal influences to living composers, including a surprise from Australia's most POPular composers.
The diverse program features works including solos, duos, trios, quintets, and sextets -- featuring World and NY Premieres of works written by Percy Grainger, Peter Sculthorpe, Christopher Gordon, and William Motzig -- Other composers featured include William Lovelock, Larry Sitsky, Elena Kats-Chernin, Katia Tiutiunnik, Paul Sarcich, Mark Clement Pollard, James Hullick, George Dreyfus, and Peter Graham.
Come hear a concert that has nothing to do w/Halloween before heading off to all those spooky parties!
Summer events keep the heat on here in the city. Check out the MB at the garden...not Madison Square, the New York Botanical Gardens in Bronx, NY. The July 21 program highlights the MB's recent and upcoming recital and recording projects. The program starts at 7pm and features a major work by David Dzubay, J.S.Bach, a tease of our fall program featuring music of Australian composers, and selections from MB's jazz book. Come cool off in the garden ...OR... see us at FONT - New York's Festival of New Trumpet, August 22nd at the Yamaha Artist Center in midtown. Hailed as a Critic's Pick in Time Out New York Magazine, the MB opens the finale week of the month-long festival.
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Welcome Lew!The Manhattan Brass welcomes world-renowned trumpeter Lew Soloff to the ensemble. From 'Blood Sweat & Tears' to Gil Evans to the Kronos Quartet, the venerable Soloff has recorded and performed with some of the biggest names in music and brings a unique experience to the Manhattan Brass. |
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Taylor MadeDave Taylor - bass trombonist extrordinare, joined the Manhattan Brass in winter/spring 2005. Dave is known world-over as a versatile soloist, chamber musician, recording artist, and improviser amongst many other performing merits...an innovater on an instrument not commonly known as a featured one. |
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Napoleon lives!Not Bonaparte...Napoleon Murphy Brock -- the multi-styled, multi-instrumentalist (multi-reeds)/vocalist and general man-of-intrigue -- best known for his many years performing and recording with legendary rocker/composer Frank Zappa -- will perform in concerts with the Manhattan Brass in California's Bay Area on Feb. 13 & 15, 2005. |
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