Potsdam Brass Quintet Presents Spring Concert at The Crane School of Music

SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music Hosts Spring Concert Featuring the Potsdam Brass Quintet on April 6

POTSDAM, NY (03/31/2016)(readMedia)-- SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music invites the public to enjoy a performance by the Potsdam Brass Quintet on Wednesday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Sara M. Snell Music Theater.

The program will include three significant works from the brass quintet repertoire -- the Thomas Fredrickson "Quintet," Anthony Plog's "Four Sketches" and Bruce Broughton's "Three American Portraits." The Broughton suite celebrates the noted American figures Napoleon Hill, Calvin Coolidge and William Tecumseh Sherman.

A new work by Crane composer David Heuser, titled "'16," was written for the inauguration of Dr. Kristin Esterberg as the sixteenth president of SUNY Potsdam last year, and will also be featured at this performance. Transcriptions of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Little Fugue in G-Minor" and Percy Grainger's "Colonial Song" will round out the program.

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. In January 2016, the quintet was 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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