QUALITY MUSIC FOR BRASS

Bernstein Tribute

  A tribute to the life and music of Leonard Bernstein

     Fancy Free
1. Variation I. Galop - [1:34]
2. Variation II. Waltz - [3:05]
3. Variation III. Danzon - [2:59]
     Mostly Influential
4. I. Ante Up - [2:21]
5. II. 3am Blues - [3:33]
6. III. Ace's High - [2:30]
     West Side Story
7. I. Prologue/Jet Song - [3:52]
8. II. Somewhere - [2:38]
9. III. Tonight - [4:27]
10. IV. Maria - [2:52]
11. V. Mambo - [3:29]
      Mass
12. I. Gloria Tibi - [1:38]
13. II. Simple Song - [4:40]
14. III. Alleluia - [1:27]
15. IV. Sanctus - [5:06]
16. V. Fraction - [2:24]
17. Vi. In Nomine/De Profundis - [4:03]
     Divertimento for Orchestra
18. I. Sennets & Tuckets - [1:24]
19. II. Waltz - [1:59]
20. III. March, The BSO Forever - [2:44]
     Suite from the West Side
21. I. Introduction - [0:50]
22. II. Fantasy - [1:12]
23.III. I Have a Love - [3:07]
24. Wrong Note Rag - [2:13]

PROTEUS 7

ANTHONY DILORENZO - Trumpet
GEOFFREY HARDCASTLE - Trumpet
CHARLES PILLOW - Woodwinds
HANS BOHN - Trombone
SCOTT HARTMAN - Trombone
MATTHEW GAUNT - Tuba
FEZA ZWEIFEL - Percussionist

     The syncopated crackle of a trumpet is a defining characteristic of jazz, which makes it a defining charactersistic of American music. It's the sound of Louis Armstrong; it's also in Leonard Bernstein's music. You hear it in the first few bars of "West Side Story;" it's in the symphonies, the Mass - it's a signature, and it typifies the extraodinary musical voice Bernstein achieved by assaulting the European classical-music tradition with his synthesis of Amreican jazz.
     His music; whether on the concert or Broadway stage (or in that halfway place he placed his Mass) is lyrical, punchy - and difficult to play. That's why the combination of Bernstein's music and Proteus 7 is so electric.