Rose City Brass Quintet’s Fifth Anniversary Rectial
Featuring
Logan Thane Brown, trumpet
Lars Campbell, Trombone
JáTtik Clark, Tuba
Joseph Klause, Trumpet
Daniel Partridge, Horn
Sarah Beaty, MEzzo Soprano
Tonight’s Program
Ascension
Marcus S. Grant (B. 1992)
A Garden Story
Sara Jacovino (B. 1983)
A Late Winter Hymn
Enter the Deer
The Pollinators
Everything goes to sleep
He Spoke To Me
Theresa Koon (B. 1955)
Featuring: Sarah BEaty
Quintet for Brass instruments
alvin Etler (1913–1973)
four untitled movements (i. ii. iii. iv.)
— INTERMISSION —
saoko
tania león (B. 1943)
Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5
Heitor Villa-lobos (1887–1959)
arr. lars campbell (b. 1978)
Featuring: Sarah BEaty
Four Pieces for Brass Quintet
Paquito D’rivera (B. 1948)
Wapango
Danzón
El cura
sofia
Text from “He Spoke To Me”
He spoke to me
I heard him
He spoke to me like living rain.
I long to be inside his skin,
To feel him breathe.
He
He knows
He knows me,
Knows me like fire,
Like perfect pain.
He is my form.
I am his blessed feeling.
He is my storm, I am
I am his teeth,
His lips, my sweet
My wildest flight,
My longest shining spark of night.
My art
My heart
My home.
Text from “Bachianas Brasileiras no. 5: Aria”
Portuguese:
Tarde uma nuvem rósea lenta e transparente.
Sobre o espaço, sonhadora e bela!
Surge no infinito a lua docemente,
Enfeitando a tarde, qual meiga donzela
Que se apresta e a linda sonhadoramente,
Em anseios d’alma para ficar bela
Grita ao céu e a terra toda a Natureza!
Cala a passarada aos seus tristes queixumes
E reflete o mar toda a Sua riqueza…
Suave a luz da lua desperta agora
A cruel saudade que ri e chora!
Tarde uma nuvem rósea lenta e transparente
Sobre o espaço, sonhadora e bela!
English translation:
Evening, a rosy, translucent cloud, slowly crosses the drowsy, beautiful firmament!
The moon gently rises into infinity, adorning the evening, like a sweet maiden dreamily getting ready, making herself beautiful, desiring her soul to be beautiful.
She calls to the heavens, the earth, to all of Nature.
She silences the birds’ melancholy laments, and the sea reflects all her treasures…
Softly the moon awakens, a cruel yearning which laughs and weeps!
Evening, a rosy, translucent cloud, slowly crosses the drowsy, beautiful firmament!
About the Artists
Artistry through diversity: the Rose City Brass Quintet strives to present innovative, compelling, and immersive concert programming with an intentional focus on the music of women, people of color, and other historically underrepresented composers. They are avid proponents of locally composed music, and strive to collaborate with local artists of the Pacific Northwest.
Founded in 2018, RCBQ features Joseph Klause and Logan Thane Brown on trumpet, Dan Partridge on horn, Lars Campbell on trombone, and JáTtik Clark on tuba. The musicians of RCBQ play in Oregon's top orchestras, and teach at many of the area’s colleges and universities; despite their differing backgrounds and professions, they are united in their love of high-quality original brass quintet literature, and the desire to share that under-performed repertoire with an ever-widening audience.
Mezzo-soprano Sarah Beaty has been hailed as “the model of bel canto clarity and brilliance” (Cleveland Classical). Her versatile voice showcases a wide range of repertoire, with a specialty in contemporary opera. Sarah is “mesmerizing” and “sings with a purity of sound that filled the room with an array of colors” (Cleveland Classical). Her “warm musicality” and “vitality” (The New Yorker) captivates audiences across the country in her adventurous performances. She blends exemplary classical technique with cutting edge music, and is sought after for her fearlessness in experimental new music performances. She has worked with legendary conductors Gustavo Dudamel, James Conlon, Zubin Mehta, Esa-Pekka Salonen, John Adams, Nicholas McGegan, and Bramwell Tovey on stages including Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall (now David Geffen Hall), the Hollywood Bowl, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Symphony Space NYC, and The National Opera Center. Sarah is a graduate of the prestigious Manhattan School of Music and teaches at Reed College in Portland, OR, as well as maintains a private voice studio.
About RCBQ’s Recordings
disQuiet is Rose City Brass Quintet’s first album. It was a project conceived during the global pandemic of 2020. While much of the world was shut down due to the spread of the novel coronavirus SARS-COV2, a cultural upwelling was simultaneously occurring throughout the United States around racial unity and justice. Living in an epicenter of this alchemical moment, RCBQ used this challenging environment to incubate: finding our voice as an ensemble and developing new art to help us understand the world we found ourselves now inhabiting.
Four of the pieces on disQuiet were written during this period: some focusing on the isolation of the pandemic, others around the racial inequities that permeate our society. Pairing these new works with existing brass quintet literature that speaks to the themes of oppression and isolation via the tragedies of the Greensboro Massacre and tyrannical Communism in Czechoslovakia, we aim to grapple, imperfectly, with this shared moment of disquiet. We humbly present this experience for chamber music listeners to remember 2020: an era unique to our generation; a year that challenged us to engage and struggle with our intellectual, cultural and philosophical ideals, a year filled with moments of desolation and strife, of shared humanity and love, of anger, frustration, and of hope.
RCBQ started its Live EP Series with a relatively unknown gem by Danish composer, Axel Jorgenson. If you like romantic era chamber music, then give this piece a listen; we think you'll agree that we've found a new standard for brass quintet! This four movement work has an operatic slow movement, a lively minuet, and two outer movements that really show off the romantic era capacity of the brass.
Joining forces with the PNW’s trumpet goddess Sarah Viens, RCBQ continued its Live EP Series by recording Oskar Böhme’s Trompeten-Sextett. Recorded in just one morning in Eugene, Oregon’s Beall Hall, this four movement tour de force showcases the beauty of the late romantic era’s technical and lyrical brass writing.
Physical copies of Disquiet, the Joregensen EP, and Böhme EP are for sale tonight!
You can purchase a physical or digital copy of our recordings and published music any time on our online store.
What’s up next for RCBQ?
On June 6th at Clackamas Community College, we are excited to be premiering a new Brass Quintet by Ron Jones (composer of music for Family Guy, American Dad, and Star Trek: The Next Generation) alongside JáTtik Clark’s performance of Jones’s Concerto for Tuba and Wind Ensemble. Get your tickets HERE!
Later this Fall, RCBQ will be recording our second album, Music of the Americas, featuring iconic music from North, Central, and South America!
We are finalizing our plans for next season! We have a few exciting puzzle pieces that we are moving around the board, so bookmark our website's performances page to keep up-to-date with all of the Rose City Brass Quintet’s performances!
Thank You
If you love what we do and are interested in helping us to continue to find innovative programming, and present concerts that inspire and engage our community, we can always use financial assistance. Please donate to our project through Venmo @RoseCityBrass or through PayPal at paypal.me/RoseCityBrass.