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Under conductor Thomas G. Everett, the Concert Band launched into Giovanni Gabrieli's brief Canzon septimi toni No. 2 (1597) for brass ensemble. Gabrieli designed the work as open-air music for Venice's Piazzi San Marco. The canzon is a work which really has a vocal-fugal style but is played instrumentally. From this standpoint the concert band evoked the antiphonal character of the piece effectively, with strong modulations and an acute sense of tone color...
...Emblem March of E.G. Bagley. As through most of the other parts of the concert, particularly the Persichetti and Milhaud, the Concert Band rose to the full demands of tonal color and concerted playing. The trombones highlighted the instrumentation, and the piece was conveyed rather enjoyably--like the Gabrieli Canzon--with an obvious glee not always suitable in other parts of the concert...
Robert D. King will lead the Brass Choir in the balance of the program which includes the Chorale "Allein Gott in der Hoh sei Ehr" by Bach, Six Pieces by Pezel, a "Canzon" and "Canzona" by Gabrieli, and "Two Pieces for Brass Instruments" by Willson Osbourne. Sponsored by the Department of Music, the concert is free and open to the public...
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