January 28, 2010
The 30-piece Fountain City Brass Band will present, “Hymn of the Highlands,” on Saturday, February 13, 2010, at 7:30 p.m. at MidAmerica Nazarene University’s Bell Cultural Arts Center, located at 2030 E. College Way, in Olathe, KS. Tickets are: $20 for adults; $15 for seniors; $10 for MNU Faculty/Staff and $5 for students. Tickets may be purchased by calling (913) 971-3636, by email at bellboxoffice@mnu.edu, or online at www.fcbb.net. Unsold tickets will be available for purchase at the Bell Center box office one hour before the program begins. This past November the Fountain City Brass Band, six-time consecutive national champion brass band based in Kansas City, became the first American band ever, and the first non-UK band in over fifty years, to win a major brass band competition on UK soil, the home of the genre. This competition was the 2009 Scottish Open Brass Band Championships, and to honor this accomplishment the Fountain City Brass Band will present a concert of works inspired by Scottish traditions or its stunning landscape. “Hymn of the Highlands” was commissioned by David King and the Yorkshire Building Society Band and premiered at the 2002 European Brass Band Championships Gala Concert in Brussels. The suite of seven movements, all named after places in the Scottish Highlands, features many of the band’s fine soloists and will comprise the entire first half of the concert. The second half features numerous smaller works centered around Malcolm Arnold’s “Four Scottish Dances.” Concert Poster for web viewing (72dpi) Concert Poster for web viewing (300dpi) |
‘Hymn of the Highlands’
