Music BEDFORD -- Empire Brass, performing brass quintet music ranging from Renaissance to Duke Ellington.
MONTCLAIR UNIVERSITY'S MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM The Canadian Brass, performing music of Handel, Bach, Peter Schickele and more.
BEDFORD -- Empire Brass, performing brass quintet music ranging from Renaissance to Duke Ellington.
At 3 p.m. on Sunday the Philharmonic Brass perform a free indoor concert at the College of Staten Island, 2800 Victory Boulevard, at Route 440, Willowbrook; 8 p.m. Monday, Great Lawn, Central Park, midpark, from 79th to 85th Street, and Tuesday, Van Cortlandt Park, 1 Bronx River Parkway, Bronx, (212) 875-5709, nyphil.org/parks; free.
Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass performed some of the songs with Mike Redway singing the lyrics to the title song as the end credits rolled (a version of the song was also sung by Peter Sellers).
The tradition will continue Aug. 18 at 8 p.m. when Canadian Brass performs on the grounds of Morgan High School (off exit 63 of I-95).
At times the arrangement evoked the sound of an earnest brass band performing Schubert in a town square.
The only thing I have seen to even vaguely compare is Jeremy Deller's Acid Brass shows, where the Williams Fairey brass band performed popular dance music hits to frankly bewildered audiences.
Among his best-known works is Acid Brass (1997), in which a Stockport brass band performed acid house and Detroit techno tracks.
On closer investigation, there is a tendency for the performance of putaminal SBRs with BRASS to perform slightly better than the assessment of full striatal SBRs with the same software, which in turn performs slightly better than the Southampton method of quantification.
Acid Brass, a 1997 work in which, at Deller's instigation, a traditional brass band performed arrangements of acid house music, is regarded by Rugoff as "a turning point".
