Bored with my quintet music

[vintage7512]

I am bored by the quintet music we have and want to invest in some new stuff. We are best thought of as better amateurs and play some decently difficult stuff like the Washburn Brass Quintet, one of the Ewald pieces, a couple of the Canadian Brass Dixie charts. Anyone have something very playable that I should pick up. Our tastes run the gamut from Gabrieli to Luther Henderson and most stuff in between. You know how some composers just understand quintet and write for the instrumentation well? Think Bill Holcombe or Frackenpohl whose music just feels right on the horn. Looking for some new title ideas.

[Roger Lewis]

My quintet has been moving toward some interesting western and spannish stuff. Check out kerry Turner's "Ricochet". Fun piece but be ready to work on it. Another that I have personally come to really enjoy is "Vuelta del Fuego" by Kevin McKee. It's Zorro movie music and the middle movement is just gorgeous. Go here to listen to a great recording of it by the Continuum Brass Quintet:

http://www.balquhiddermusic.com/BQ-96.htm" target="_blank

My group has done an arrangement of "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" by the Offspring that's a hoot. A lot of the Jack Gale stuff is fun. His West Side Story is a classic.

Just my $0.02.
Roger

[hbcrandy]

We enjoy playing Arthur Frackenpohl's "Brass Quintet #1". The third Ewald quintet is also good. Another piece we also like is Timothy Keleher's "Three Pieces for Brass Quintet". It is published by Hornseth Music and, the last time I looked, it is available through Robert King Music Company. A brief sampling of the Keleher is on the Brass Quintet Concert page, under the Repertoire page of http://www.homewoodbrass.com.

[vintage7512]

We have the West Side piece, but I had forgotten about Jack Gale. Great charts! I listened to the Spanish piece and it is very cool, concert stuff. I have to get a serious buy-in from the trumpets, though. What is it about quintets that the limiting factor is the trumpets range and ability, but the tuba parts are always playable. Thanks for the ideas. I really want to hear some of these before I plunk down the money. We have Amparita Roca, Carmen Fantasia, and El Gato Montes - maybe we should add this last chart and do an all Spanish show.

[ken k]

Suite from the Monteregian Hills by Morley Calvert, very artistic and yet rather accessible for an amatuer group. one of my favorites. Scherzo John Cheetham and Dance by ? can't think of it now.... someone help me out here.

if you are looking for some poppier stuff I have a number of charts i have done for my quintet, PM for more info.

ken k

[swillafew]

What is it about quintets that the limiting factor is the trumpets range and ability, but the tuba parts are always playable.

I couldn't agree more.

[Mark]

We have the West Side piece, but I had forgotten about Jack Gale. Great charts! I listened to the Spanish piece and it is very cool, concert stuff. I have to get a serious buy-in from the trumpets, though. What is it about quintets that the limiting factor is the trumpets range and ability, but the tuba parts are always playable. Thanks for the ideas. I really want to hear some of these before I plunk down the money. We have Amparita Roca, Carmen Fantasia, and El Gato Montes - maybe we should add this last chart and do an all Spanish show.

Try Jack Gale's arrangement of Porgy and Bess or Street Songs by Tilson Thomas. Both are very nice pieces and the tuba really has to work.

[tubbba]

May not be your cup o' tea, but the Dallas Brass has a book of about a dozen arrangements that are pretty good.

http://www.dallasbrass.com" target="_blank

[mdc2d]

Suite from the Monteregian Hills by Morley Calvert, very artistic and yet rather accessible for an amatuer group. one of my favorites. Scherzo John Cheetham and Dance by ? can't think of it now.... someone help me out here.

if you are looking for some poppier stuff I have a number of charts i have done for my quintet, PM for more info.

ken k

Renwicke!

[Chriss2760]

"Dance" is by Wilke Renwick. Its a signature piece for us, (Icicle Brass.)

[vintage7512]

Yea!! It is a fun piece, but the group I saw playing it was more people, septet maybe. This is a piece like Instant Concert, or the Lone Arranger, which the public loves. Thanks for all the ideas.