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November 3, 2019

Brass Ensemble Concert Fall 2019

Schroeder Hall in the Green Music Center
2:00 pm

Admission Fees:
$8.00 includes parking

Tickets:
Green Music Center Ticket office

The SSU Brass Ensemble celebrates its 13th season with music for brass and organ at 2 p.m. on November 3 in Schroeder Hall. Guest organist David Parsons will be featured in works by Schütz, Franck, Peeters and Pinkham, as well as solo pieces. Brian S. Wilson conducts. 

PROGRAM

Capriccio sopra la Battaglia;Giovanni Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
brass and percussion
 
Psalm 111; Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)
organ and brass
 
Ciacona in Cm, BuxWV 159; Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
brass ensemble
 
Sonata No. 5 in C major, BWV 529 (mvt. I)(c. 1727); J.S.Bach (1685-1750)
David Parsons, organ
 
Fugue in G Minor (Little Fugue); J.S. Bach
Brass ensemble
 
Sonata No. 4 in B-flat major, Op. 65 (mvt. III)(1845);Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
David Parsons, organ                                              
 
Offertoire in Gm; César Franck (1822-1890)
Organ, brass and percussion
 
Scherzo, from Symphony No 4; Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
brass ensemble
 
Organ Book (1957), V. Flutes; Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
David Parsons, organ
 
Aria; Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
Organ and brass
                                  
Morning Music (I, II, IV, V); Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)
Organ and brass
 
Phantom of the Opera; Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948), arr. Brian S. Wilson
Organ, brass and percussion
 

GUEST ORGANIST

David Parsons 

David Parsons, a native of Pennsylvania, is a graduate of Princeton, Northwestern and Cambridge Universities. His organ teachers have included Carl Weinrich and Richard Enright. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies at St. Catharine’s College in the University of Cambridge, he taught organ at the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire. David served as Organist and Choirmaster of The Round Church, Cambridge (The Church of the Holy Sepulchre), established in AD 1116. From 1987 to 2004 he was Organist at the First United Methodist Church of Palo Alto, California, and from 1988 to 2005 he worked in San Jose at Adobe Systems Incorporated, where he was a member of the renowned type department, producing digital typefaces (fonts). He is a Deputy Organist at Stanford University’s Memorial Church, and Curator of Organs at Sonoma State University.

 

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