October 2019
Concert at St. Peter’s United Methodists Church, Bellevue
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.
Find out more »Year of the Dragon
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. Sparke wrote Year of the Dragon as a tribute to Wales, which features a dragon on its national flag. Our program mixes Welsh composers and music about dragons. Program Glyn, Garret: Fanfare (2:00) Sparke: Year of the Dragon (15:00)…
Find out more »BelPres services
Brass Band Northwest accompanies the choir for hymns and performs prelude, offertory and postlude for the 9:00am and 11:00am services in the Sanctuary. http://w3w.co/cure.loved.given (Brass Band Northwest uses what3words to identify performance venues; try it, it’s fun!)
Find out more »December 2019
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.
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)
Find out more »February 2020
BelPres services
Brass Band Northwest accompanies the choir for hymns and performs prelude, offertory and postlude for the 9:00am and 11:00am services in the Sanctuary. http://w3w.co/cure.loved.given (Brass Band Northwest uses what3words to identify performance venues; try it, it's fun!)
Find out more »March 2020
BelPres Services
Brass Band Northwest accompanies the choir for hymns and performs prelude, offertory and postlude for the 9:00am and 11:00am services in the Sanctuary. http://w3w.co/cure.loved.given (Brass Band Northwest uses what3words to identify performance venues; try it, it's fun!)
Find out more »Images in Brass
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)." Debussy is noted for his ability to depict…
Find out more »April 2020
BelPres Services
Brass Band Northwest accompanies the choir for hymns and performs prelude, offertory and postlude for the 9:00am and 11:00am services in the Sanctuary. http://w3w.co/cure.loved.given (Brass Band Northwest uses what3words to identify performance venues; try it, it's fun!)
Find out more »May 2020
Within Blue Empires
Our final concert of our BelPres season is inspired by the beauty of nature and encourages us all to protect the natural world. Program Lovatt-Cooper: When Thunder Calls (4:00) Gjeilo: Northern Lights (4:00) Lovatt-Cooper: Within Blue Empires (21:30) Intermission Enya: Orinoco Flow (4:00) Curnow: Prelude on a Hymn of Praise (3:30) Aagaard-Nilsen, Torstein: Circius (8:30) Butterworth: Banks of Green Willow (6:30) Cole, Ron: Infinite Scuba (4:00) Taylor: Rainier (5:00)
Find out more »July 2020
Hops and Pops
Join Brass Band Northwest for our first fundraiser at Lagunitas Seattle. We will provide pizza and perform a hour hour selection of our summer pops repertoire. Lagunitas will donate all of the beer sales to Brass Band Northwest. Come out for a good time and support your favorite brass band!
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