Holiday music and brass go together like Christmas and snow: you don't need one to have the other, but the two combined are just so much better. Fortunately for me, Trinity Church hosted New Jersey's Solid Brass this afternoon (part of its ongoing free Concerts at One series), in a program that included arrangements of French, German and English carols, along with selections from Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and a jazzy version of "Jolly Old St. Nick," both arranged by trumpeter Jeff Holmes. With Trinity's soaring stone interior providing plenty of shiny reverb, it was like unwrapping an early present. (More pics below.)
I was not really familiar with the link between Brass and Christmas/Holiday music and your post is timely as I went to the Metropolitan Museum on Thursday night to see Burning River Brass. They were great, and the performance was just the right length, not too long not too short, but the real novelty was attending a concert in the Medieval Sculpture room. They performed interesting takes on traditional carols and some stuff I’d never heard before such as “”A prelude & Fugure for Christmas” by Simon Wills and a trio of “Carols for the Queen” consisting of “I Saw Three Ships”, “A Sussex Mummer’s Christmas Carol” and “Past 3 O’Clock.”
I was not really familiar with the link between Brass and Christmas/Holiday music and your post is timely as I went to the Metropolitan Museum on Thursday night to see Burning River Brass. They were great, and the performance was just the right length, not too long not too short, but the real novelty was attending a concert in the Medieval Sculpture room. They performed interesting takes on traditional carols and some stuff I’d never heard before such as “”A prelude & Fugure for Christmas” by Simon Wills and a trio of “Carols for the Queen” consisting of “I Saw Three Ships”, “A Sussex Mummer’s Christmas Carol” and “Past 3 O’Clock.”
I was not really familiar with the link between Brass and Christmas/Holiday music and your post is timely as I went to the Metropolitan Museum on Thursday night to see Burning River Brass. They were great, and the performance was just the right length, not too long not too short, but the real novelty was attending a concert in the Medieval Sculpture room. They performed interesting takes on traditional carols and some stuff I’d never heard before such as “”A prelude & Fugure for Christmas” by Simon Wills and a trio of “Carols for the Queen” consisting of “I Saw Three Ships”, “A Sussex Mummer’s Christmas Carol” and “Past 3 O’Clock.”
I was not really familiar with the link between Brass and Christmas/Holiday music and your post is timely as I went to the Metropolitan Museum on Thursday night to see Burning River Brass. They were great, and the performance was just the right length, not too long not too short, but the real novelty was attending a concert in the Medieval Sculpture room. They performed interesting takes on traditional carols and some stuff I’d never heard before such as “”A prelude & Fugure for Christmas” by Simon Wills and a trio of “Carols for the Queen” consisting of “I Saw Three Ships”, “A Sussex Mummer’s Christmas Carol” and “Past 3 O’Clock.”
I was not really familiar with the link between Brass and Christmas/Holiday music and your post is timely as I went to the Metropolitan Museum on Thursday night to see Burning River Brass. They were great, and the performance was just the right length, not too long not too short, but the real novelty was attending a concert in the Medieval Sculpture room. They performed interesting takes on traditional carols and some stuff I’d never heard before such as “”A prelude & Fugure for Christmas” by Simon Wills and a trio of “Carols for the Queen” consisting of “I Saw Three Ships”, “A Sussex Mummer’s Christmas Carol” and “Past 3 O’Clock.”
I was not really familiar with the link between Brass and Christmas/Holiday music and your post is timely as I went to the Metropolitan Museum on Thursday night to see Burning River Brass. They were great, and the performance was just the right length, not too long not too short, but the real novelty was attending a concert in the Medieval Sculpture room. They performed interesting takes on traditional carols and some stuff I’d never heard before such as “”A prelude & Fugure for Christmas” by Simon Wills and a trio of “Carols for the Queen” consisting of “I Saw Three Ships”, “A Sussex Mummer’s Christmas Carol” and “Past 3 O’Clock.”