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U.S. Army band to join forces with UWG
April 1, 2003
CARROLLTON, GA - The U.S. Army Ground Forces Band will join with the University of West Georgia Department of Music to bring big brass to the Carrollton community April 10-12 — big brass music, that is.
The
two will sponsor the third annual Southeast Tuba Euphonium Conference,
which will feature workshops, solo performances and concerts, all at the
Carrollton Cultural Arts Center. While all of the events, which are free
and open to the public, will draw brass players from around the region
to play and to listen, three of the band concerts in particular promise
to have wide public appeal as well.
The
Georgia Brass Band and the Atlanta Tuba Patrol, which will be in concert
on Thursday evening and Saturday afternoon, are crowd-pleasing bands that
perform for audiences in Atlanta and throughout the region, and the highlight
of the weekend’s events will be a Saturday evening performance by
the U.S. Army Ground Forces Band, which was recognized in 1990 and 1996
with the Colonel George S. Howard Citation of Musical Excellence in Military
Concert Bands.
Interspersed with these and smaller concerts and solo recitals, master
classes and clinics will be offered for students, teachers and performers
of all levels by professional performers and teachers of national acclaim.
Topics will include the development of individual and ensemble playing
skills, knowledge of instruments and the literature, and pedagogical skills
and practice techniques.
The weekend’s entertainment will begin on Thursday, April 10, with the sounds of British brass bands played by the Georgia Brass Band at 8 p.m. The only ensemble of its type in the Atlanta area, the Georgia Brass Band has performed throughout Georgia since its creation in 1999. Its musical selections consist of original works, marches, hymn arrangements, jazz and pop tunes, movie themes and classical transcriptions. Conductor Joe Johnson has performed with the Boston Civic Symphony, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and the Boston Bach Society Orchestra.
Music ranging from Bach and Bernstein to “beer barrel” selections will be performed by the Atlanta Tuba Patrol at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 12. The ensemble consists of members Brian Meixner, Tom Gibson, Eric Bradshaw and Jerry McEver, who describe themselves as a fun-loving foursome with an “insanely diverse repertoire that’s sure to put a smile on your face and a tune in your heart.”
The
conference’s concert finale will be performed later that evening
by the U.S. Army Ground Forces Band, whose repertoire includes a wide
variety of music ranging from symphonic standards to big band jazz and
show music. The band, which plays regularly for local, national and international
audiences, will be conducted in its 7:30 p.m. performance on Saturday,
April 12, by Captain Dwayne Milburn.
The concert’s featured soloists will be Joseph Dollard and Fritz Kaenzig. Dollard is a euphonium instrumentalist with the U.S. Navy Band in Washington, D.C., as well as the director of the Brass Quartet and a member of the Tuba-Euphonium Quartet. Kaenzig is a tubist at the University of Michigan and has served as principal of the Florida Symphony Orchestra and as additional or substitute tubist with Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and the symphony orchestras of Detroit, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles and St. Louis.
Other weekend performances will include solo recitals by Dollard, Kaenzig, Martin Cochran of Michigan State University, Adam Frey of the University of West Georgia and Michael Dunn of the University of Alabama, as well as concerts by smaller ensembles from the U.S. Army Ground Forces Band and bands from universities participating in the conference.
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