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St. Olaf Band to team with Copper Street Brass

By David Gonnerman '90
September 23, 2009
Two Copper Street members, trumpeter Allison Hall '04 (in front) and hornist Timothy Bradley '04 (back row, middle), were once soloists with the St. Olaf Band.

The St. Olaf Band, conducted by Timothy Mahr '78, will present its annual Homecoming Concert on Saturday, Sept. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in Skoglund Center Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public and will be streamed live and archived online. Special guests The Copper Street Brass Quintet will perform with the band.

The program will open with "An American Fanfare," a new work by Rick Kirby, and the classic "Chorale and Shaker Dance" by native Minnesotan John Zdechlik. The CSBQ will then join the band for two movements from James Curnow's "Five Concord Diversions for Brass Quintet and Band" and a new work from Steven Bryant, "Radiant Joy." The CSBQ will return to the stage for "Suite from Mass," a new resetting of some of the great moments of Leonard Bernstein's "Mass," featuring brass with band. The quintet will then offer an encore featuring its own compositions and innovative arrangements of new music.

The concert will close with a performance marking the centennial of a cornerstone of the wind band repertory, Gustav Holst's "First Suite in E Flat."

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.