Koger Center Presents
Boston Brass & the Brass All-Stars Big Band: Christmas Bells are Swingin’!
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Boston Brass & the Brass All-Stars Big Band: Christmas Bells are Swingin’!Sunday, December 1, 20244:00 PM
About This Show
The Boston Brass quintet teams up with the Brass All-Star Big Band featuring players from the USC School of Music and around the globe to produce an unparalleled sound that will get you in the mood for the holiday season. The ensemble – trumpets, French horns, trombones, and tubas, with a jazz rhythm section – will present big band arrangements of classics like Frosty the Snowman, Joy to the World, Greensleeves, The Grinch, and more. Bring the whole family!
Seeing Boston Brass live is a one-of-a-kind experience. The ensemble’s lively repartee, touched with humor and personality, attempts to bridge the ocean of classical formality to delight audiences with great music and boisterous fun.
About Boston Brass
Since 1986 Boston Brass has set out to establish a one-of-a-kind musical experience featuring colorful classical arrangements, burning jazz standards, and the best of original brass repertoire. Boston Brass treats audiences to a unique brand of musical entertainment that bridges the ocean of classical formality, delighting regular concertgoers and newcomers alike with great music and boisterous fun in performances across all 50 U.S. states and over 30 countries to date.
Music education is at the core of Boston Brass’s identity, and the quintet continues to conduct sessions around the world, including masterclasses and residencies, everywhere from your local high school to major music conservatories around the world, including in recent seasons a tour of major Chinese music schools in Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou, the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, Tokyo’s Musashino Academia Musicae, Singapore’s Yong Siew Tow, and Mahidol University in Bangkok.
The quintet’s newest album Blues for Sam (2022) features a mix of classical and jazz arrangements alongside old favorites and is dedicated to the late Sam Pilafian who can also be heard on Simple Gifts (2018), Reminiscing (2016), and Rewired (2015). Other ongoing Boston Brass projects include performances of Gordon Goodwin’s new composition Perplexing Times, which was commissioned alongside a consortium of wind ensembles and premiered September 13, 2022 at North Dakota State University’s Challey School of Music.
Boston Brass is a Yamaha Performing Group and performs exclusively on Yamaha instruments.
Boston Brass plays mouthpieces by Pickett Brass.
