Upcoming Events

Brass Band Northwest is excited to perform for a new audience at St. Peter's! We will offer a concert of light classics and pops with music drawn from our summer repertoire and our upcoming concert at BelPres.

Brass Band Northwest opens our season with a bang featuring one of the very few works originally written for brass band that received such notoriety that it was transcribed for more common ensembles: The Year of the Dragon by Philip Sparke. We have previously performed Serenade and Diversions by Derek Bourgeois and  and looking forward to exploring more of his music; on this program that is Metrognome. Program Lovett-Cooper: Home of Legends (4:00) Arnold: Little Suite (7:30) Karl Jenkins: Palladio…

Join us for our annual concert of light classics and Christmas pops! Program DiLorenzo: Hark the Herald Angels Sing (3:00) Colmer: Coventry Carol  (2:30) Weinstein: Fantasia on Hark the Herald Angels Sing  (5:00) Mozart: Toy Symphony (9:00) Joy to the World — Sing-a-long (3:00) Gordon: Merry Gentlemen (4:00) Intermission DiLorenzo: Christmas Toons (5:00) Jingle Bells (4:00) Silent Night - sing-a-long (3:00) Livingston/Evans: Silver Bells (3:00) Hark the Hearald Angels Sing - Sing-a-long (3:00) Gordon: Glory of Christmas (4:00)

Images in Brass features musical pictures.   Arthur Butterworth wrote Three Impressions about scenes from 19th century Northumberland and include Wylam Colliery, Deserted Farm, and the Royal Border Bridge, Berwick Upon Tweed 1859. Regarding Luminosity, Nancy Galraithe writes, "The title (a pun on "luminous city") alludes to the bright, shimmering character of the music created through rich, lively brass textures, and the colorful interplay of piano and mallet instruments (vibraphone, xylophone, marimba, glockenspiel, crotales)." Program Gregson: Prelude for an Occasion…