By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/b><\/p>\n
Saint Louis Brass quintet, delivering top notch performances all over the country since 1964, will be at Fort Hays State University at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, in the Beach\/Schmidt Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n
Trumpet players are Allan Dean, Yale University, Miki Sasaki, New York City, and a recent Indiana University graduate, Victoria Knudtson. Daniel Perantoni, Indiana University, is the tubist, and Melvyn Jernigan, formerly with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, is on trombone.<\/p>\n
They will play many musical selections from their newest CD, \u201cPops Music of the Americas.\u201d The concert will also include movements from three of their commissions over the years.<\/p>\n
New additions for the tour include Anthony Plog\u2019s \u201cAnimal Ditties\u201d with music behind the Ogden Nash poem, a new jazz medley, \u201cTribute to Pops\u201d and \u201cSt. Louis Blues\u201d with hits from Louis Armstrong, and the hard driving tango \u201cLibertango\u201d by the Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla.<\/p>\n
The quintet brings with them many ancestors of the brass family of instruments, including the animal\u2019s horn and the conch shell, as well as a short trumpet that was found in King Tut\u2019s tomb. The group also has a straight trombone from the 14th century, a time before man knew how to bend metal.<\/p>\n
Saint Louis Brass will also offer free master classes earlier, at 1:30 p.m. in Malloy Hall, open to the public.<\/p>\n