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The Eastern Virginia Brass is dedicated to performing the best of the brass
repertoire for audiences. Formal recitals, informal family concerts comprise a mainstay
of this ensemble's mission. Just as important are the educational concerts performed
to the rave reviews of thousands of school age youngsters from Williamsburg to North
Carolina.
The members of the Eastern Virginia Brass are professional musicians and award-winning
music educators who perform and communicate the best of the brass repertoire.
The Eastern Virginia Brass is pleased to announce that it has for a third season been
awarded a tour grant from the Virginia Commission for the Arts. This grant allows the
ensemble to reach new audiences and new venues beyond Hampton Roads. It encourages
qualified, new presenters by subsidizing the ensemble up to 50% of the cost—and new
presenters can be concert halls, historic sites, colleges, schools, parks, church
concert series. This season, with the help of the tour grant, the Eastern Virginia
Brass will perform in three Mecklenburg County Public Schools, five Spotsylvania
Schools and also at Paul D. Camp Community College. For more information, either
contact the EVB directly or go to the
VCA tour directory.
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It is with great pleasure, and honor, the Eastern Virginia Brass announces that
internationally renowned composer, Adolphus Hailstork, has written a brass trio for
the EVB. This work, titled Ghosts in Grey and Blue, commemorates the
Civil War in a most dramatic and poignant manner. A profound opus, the work for
brass trio is in eight movements beginning with Cauldron of Dispute
and concluding with Epilogue of Peace.
Adding to this pleasure and honor has also come a surprise, a work for brass trio
and chorus, set to a poem by Walt Whitman and titled When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloomed. This one movement work displays the same emotionalism as
Ghosts, which is only enhanced by the use of voices.
Presentation of these works awaits the selection of the very best venue and chorus.
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EASTERN VIRGINIA BRASS
Robert Ford, trombone; Blake Helander, tuba;
Marlene Ford, horn; Wendell Banyay, trumpet;
Lawrence Clemens, trumpet
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Performances and recitals are available for colleges and universities, arts and
recreation centers, churches and temples. The Quintet's repertoire includes a vast
collection of music from the early Renaissance through the Classical to compositions
of the present day including many entertaining "pops" selections.
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EDUCATION CONCERTS THIS SPRING INCLUDED A PROGRAM
OF AMERICAN MUSIC FOR 1,200 PORTSMOUTH SECOND GRADERS.
THEY WERE GREAT LITTLE MUSIC LOVERS!
The EASTERN VIRGINIA BRASS TRIO has just completed it series of spring education concerts with
five programs in the Spotsylania County Public Schools and five for Young Audiences of Virginia in
the Norfolk Public Schools. The programs in the Spotsylvania Schools was funded by the individual
schools, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.
The French horns at Blair Middle School try out a performing idea of the EVB Trio at a
Young Audiences workshop.
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Portsmouth Community Concert Series, Young Audiences of Virginia, the Portsmouth Public Schools
and the Eastern Virginia Brass all collaborate for a program that entertained and educated 1,200
Portsmouth second graders at Willett Hall.
Blair Middle School band students get ready to play for the Eastern
Virginia Brass at a recent Young Audiences workshop in Norfolk.
Conductor Marleen Mallory is out of sight, but on the podium.
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Trombonist, Robert Ford in the audience with Portsmouth
Public School second graders.
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