Potsdam Brass Quintet Presents Fall Concert at Crane School of Music

SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music Presents Potsdam Brass Quintet Performance on Nov. 11

POTSDAM, NY (11/03/2015)(readMedia)-- The Potsdam Brass Quintet will perform in concert at SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music on Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m. in the Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall.

The performance will feature works by Tomaso Albinoni, Thom Ritter George, Anthony DiLorenzo and others. Also included on the program are George Gershwin's "An American in Paris," and a selection from "Porgy and Bess."

The concert will close with the whimsical work, "Mouse, Pl. Mice," by Raymond Dempsey, in which the composer presents musical vignettes of five decidedly different species of mice, all with unique musical characteristics -- from the harvest mouse (micromus minutus) escaping its hawkish predator, to the sleepy house mouse (mus musculus) curled up in its nest, to the wood mouse (apodemus sylvaticus) whose discovery of some fermented wheat has left him somewhat inebriated.

This event is free, and the public is invited to attend.

About the performers:

Now in its 48th year, the Potsdam Brass Quintet is the brass quintet-in-residence at The Crane School of Music. The group consists of John Ellis and James Madeja, trumpet; Lauren Becker, horn; Mark Hartman, trombone, and Charles Guy, tuba. The Potsdam Brass Quintet recently returned from a concert tour of Western New York. In January 2016, the quintet will be a featured ensemble both at a brass festival held at the University of Florida and at a conference of the Erie County (NY) Music Educators Association.

This concert will be broadcast live on the SUNY Potsdam website at the performance time. To view the program and see other upcoming streaming performances, visit www.potsdam.edu/academics/Crane/streaming.

For more information about SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music, please visit www.potsdam.edu/crane.

Founded in 1886, SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music has a long legacy of excellence in music education and performance. Life at Crane includes an incredible array of more than 300 recitals, lectures and concerts presented by faculty, students and guests each year. The Crane School of Music is the State University of New York's only All-Steinway institution.

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