SUNDAY, APRIL 6 | 7 PM
WELCOME
Thank you for joining us for tonight’s Saint Michael Presents concert! We are so pleased to welcome Canadian Brass to our worship space. With an international reputation as one of the most popular brass ensembles today, Canadian Brass has truly earned the distinction of “the world’s most famous brass group.” We know that you are in for a treat!
At Saint Michael and All Angels, we are proud to present this concert series as a gift to you, our neighbors. Saint Michael is a thriving parish with extraordinary outreach and beautiful worship. This evening’s concert represents the vitality and importance of music ministry at Saint Michael.
Our growing chorister program offers an exceptional opportunity for children from pre-K to high school based in our rich Anglican cathedral heritage. If you are looking for a church home, we encourage you to join us for worship on Sundays or get involved in our music program as we celebrate God’s goodness. We are especially grateful to the patrons whose generosity makes it possible for Saint Michael to present these concerts at no cost to you. We hope that this gift to our community will entertain, enlighten, and inspire you, and we hope you will be back very soon.
Saint Michael Presents is one of the few concert series of its kind in North Texas that offers such worldclass performances as this evening at no cost for admission. It’s funded exclusively by the generosity of our donors. Please consider joining our donors in making such wonderful occasions as tonight possible. Please see the back of this program for information about joining us.
Please visit us at www.saintmichael.org to see more of what we offer for music lovers. I hope you enjoy tonight’s performance, and I look forward to seeing you back at Saint Michael very soon!
The Rev. Dr. Christopher D. Girata, Rector
PROGRAM ORDER
Program to be announced from the stage, and selections may include:
Overture to the Magic Flute, K.620
Concerto in D Major BWV 972
W.A. Mozart, arr. Watkins
J.S. Bach — A . Vivaldi, arr. Burgstaller
Brahms on Brass J. Brahms
Well Tampered Bach
BeBop Bach
Cool Bach
Dixie Bach
Beatles Songbook
All You Need is Love
Eleanor Rigby
Tuba Tiger Rag
Viva la Vida
Adagio
J.S. Bach, arr. Luther Henderson
L ennon/McCartney, arr. Christopher Dedrick
Interval
Harry de Costa, arr. Luther Henderson
Coldplay, arr. Brandon Ridenour
S.L. Barber, arr. Stephen McNeff
Scheherazade N. Rimsky-Korsakov, arr. Brandon Ridenour
Très Tangos Nuevos A . Piazzolla, arr. Joe Burgstaller
Contrabejeando Oblivion Libertango
ABOUT CANADIAN BRASS
Friends Chuck Daellenbach and Gene Watts first came together in 1970 to form a brass quintet — a chamber music setting not entirely new, but never before having garnered the success and storied career Canadian Brass would achieve over the next 40 years. Initially, Gene took on the role of developing new repertoire while Chuck was the moving force in marketing, publishing, and managing the business. Three empty chairs were quickly filled and together, the group’s imagination and consummate musicianship elevated the art of the brass quintet to what it is today. Here was not only an opportunity to explore the possibilities of an all-brass chamber group but a challenge to bring the sound and the excitement of brass music to new audiences.
Masters of concert presentations, Canadian Brass has developed a uniquely engaging stage presence and rapport with audiences. Each of their concerts will show the full range from trademark Baroque and Dixieland tunes to new compositions and arrangements created especially for them – from formal classical presentation to music served up with lively dialogue and theatrical effects. The hallmark of any Canadian Brass performance is entertainment, spontaneity, virtuosity and, most of all, fun – but never at the expense of the music.
Whatever the style, the music is central and performed with utmost dedication, skill, and excellence.
With a discography of over 130 albums and an extensive world-wide touring schedule, Canadian Brass is an important pioneer in bringing brass music to mass audiences everywhere. They have sold well over 2 million albums worldwide, with 1.2 million sold in the Nielsen Soundscan era alone (since 1991). They continue to score Billboard chart positions — like with their rousing recording of patriotic songs and marches, Stars & Stripes: Canadian Brass Salute America, which spent 8 weeks in the Top 25 on the Billboard Classical Chart, peaking at #2! Touring legends with an enthusiastic fan base, the Canadian Brass play to packed houses everywhere throughout the USA, Canada, Japan and Europe.
They have also toured Australia, the Middle East, the Soviet Union, and South America. They were the first brass ensemble from the West to perform in the People’s Republic of China (where they returned for a 5-city tour to great acclaim in the spring of 2010 and several visits after this, including an appearance on Hunan TV
for Chinese New Year) as well as the first brass group to take the main stage at the venerable Carnegie Hall. On numerous occasions Canadian Brass has been invited by the Canadian Government to play for visiting heads of states, becoming one of Canada’s greatest resources and musical ambassadors.
Millions of television viewers have had Canadian Brass in their homes with appearances on The Tonight Show, Today and Entertainment Tonight and recently to more than 1/2 a billion viewers for Chinese New Year on China’s most popular station. They have appeared as guest artists on Evening at Pops with John Williams and the Boston Pops, Beverly Sills’ Music Around the World, numerous PBS specials, including a celebrated appearance on Sesame Street, and are frequent guests of many major symphony orchestras. Canadian Brass were the featured artists on the soundtrack to the 1988 film The Couch Trip, starring Dan Aykroyd and Walter Matthau. Consummate artists, the quintet has also created unique and interactive videos that have gained an international audience including a series of DVDs featuring the brass in concert and teaching. They are on the cutting edge of technology offering their fans multimedia airplay, downloads, YouTube videos and streaming opportunities. You can find them on Facebook and Instagram with their fanbase growing daily!
The varied Canadian Brass repertoire features brass standards as well as a wide-ranging library of original arrangements. These include the works of Renaissance and Baroque masters, Classical works, marches, holiday favorites, ragtime, Dixieland, Latin, jazz, big band, Broadway, and Christian music as well as popular songs and standards. Having started with a very limited base, Canadian Brass has created their own musical world by transcribing, arranging, and commissioning more than 600 works, including critically acclaimed compositions from Michael Kamen, Luther Henderson, Bramwell Tovey, Don Gillis, and more. They have transformed a previously neglected group of instruments with a limited repertoire into a versatile and vital ensemble that can play everything from Gabrieli to Gershwin! Canadian Brass is especially noted for their famous Holiday Concerts at Christmas time and was at the forefront of re-establishing Scott Joplin with today’s audiences through their research, arrangements and recordings of his “rags” and other works.
Education plays a key role in the story of Canadian Brass and each member is uniquely attuned to training the next generation of players. On their travels around the world, they often pause for masterclasses and are more than happy to work with students and young audiences. Canadian Brass was Chamber Quintet-in-Residence for many years at the Music Academy of the West in Santa Barbara, California, and has created an innovative brass summer course at the Eastman School of Music. Their support of education is also clearly viewed in their outreach and interaction with El Sistema, the acclaimed global music education program in Venezuela.
In conjunction with the Hal Leonard Corporation, the Canadian Brass have made available their extensive library of brass music for performers of all levels as well as learning tools. Since 1998 Canadian Brass has been a recording artist at Opening Day Entertainment Group (ODEG) (distributed by IDLA) releasing over 25 CDs on the imprint to date. Opening Day is owned and run by Chuck's wife MB Daellenbach. Canadian Brass sheet music and recordings are available in their online store.
With four decades under their belts, Canadian Brass continues to thrill audiences around the world – and they don’t look like they are letting up anytime soon!
JOE BURGSTALLER, TRUMPET
Called “a superstar of the trumpet” by conductor JoAnn Falletta, Joe Burgstaller is a long-time trumpeter and arranger with Canadian Brass. Now Professor of Trumpet at Arizona State University, Joe also spent years as an international soloist and a clinician, including his Change Your Mind, Change Your Playing® seminars. Prior to ASU, he was for 11 years at The Peabody Institute, having been named in 2008 a Distinguished Visiting Artist. His formidable online presence includes the world’s most viewed version of La Virgen de la Macarena (4.6 million Youtube views) and his popular Trumpet Warmup Show, livestreamed weekly on Facebook with upwards of 25,000 viewers in 30+ countries. Joe first joined the Brass at the age of 30. Prior to the Brass, he was a fulltime soloist performing 60 solo concerts every season with his Rafael Méndez Project and was a member of the acclaimed Meridian Arts Ensemble.
MIKIO SASAKI, TRUMPET
Mikio Sasaki is a GRAMMY Award-winning, Juilliard and Yale-trained trumpeter. Prior to joining Canadian Brass he was a member of the St. Louis Brass Quintet and the Atlantic Brass Quintet. Raised in a family of classical, jazz, and bluegrass musicians, Sasaki is a flexible performer with the ability to switch seamlessly between classical, jazz, and other styles of music. Concurrent with his position with the Brass, he is an Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the University of Oregon. Mikio hails from a “Royal Family of Trumpet” of sorts, as his father is legendary trumpet performer and pedagogue Ray Sasaki, formerly Professor of Trumpet at the University of Texas in Austin.
JEFF NELSEN, HORN
The instrument formerly known as French Horn stands at the center of a brass quintet. There is not a concert performed by Canadian Brass anywhere in the world where Jeff Nelsen is not surrounded by professional Horn colleagues and former students. There is no better-informed Hornist than Jeff: he was recently President of the International Horn Society, he has played in just about all of the major symphonies in North America, performed in the music of computer games, toured with John Legend, and played in the Broadway pits in New York.
KEITH DYRDA, TROMBONE
Dubbed the "Wayne Gretzky of the Trombone" Keith Dyrda recently returned to the Brass after originally joining the group in 2010 as a replacement for co-founder Gene Watts while obtaining his Bachelor of Music degree from McGill University. He also holds a Master of Music from Northwestern University’s Bienen School of Music. Dyrda contributed to the Canadian Brass' 2011 award-winning recording Brahms On Brass. In addition to a performance career with several leading orchestras, he also spent 5 years as a member of the All-Star Brass, a quintet that performed and recorded extensively at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. A true Canadian, he was born and raised in Winnipeg, MB and is a member of the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra.
DR. CONRAD CHARLES (CHUCK) DAELLENBACH, TUBA
O.C., DMA (HON.), DOCTOR LITTERARIUM (HON.), DOCTOR OF MUSIC (HON.), PHD (PAID IN FULL)
Every social organization needs a bookkeeper, manager, spokesperson, humorist, and critic, so while Canadian Brass has been looking for these people through the years, founder Chuck Daellenbach has been filling in. Growing up in a musical family tradition Chuck had to sing in choirs, play cello (only one year unfortunately), and take up the tuba to help his dad fill all the positions in his band. Since these musical activities had taken up all his time there was little left for higher math and physics – off to music school! It was at the Eastman where he learned the art of taking every opportunity that knocks, the tiger’s roar on tuba and, after forgetting to leave upon graduation, went on to earn a doctorate at age 25. It was then off to Toronto to head up the brass department (two of us) and meet Eugene Watts, forming one of the most impressive entertainment teams since the Marx Brothers.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Saint Michael Presents gratefully acknowledges and thanks our generous donors!
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2024-25 SAINT MICHAEL PRESENTS COMMITTEE
Mary Louise Hopson, Chair
Robert August
David Hopson
Dawn Morrill
Chuck Stewart
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ADULT CHOIRS
The Saint Michael Choir is the church's adult choir. They rehearse on Wednesday evenings from 7–9 p.m. and sing for the 9 a.m. Sunday service, plus special services such as Choral Evensong, Veterans Day, Holy Week services, and Advent and Christmas Lessons & Carols. Singers called to this ministry should have basic music literacy skills. Adult volunteers are supported by a group of professional staff singers in each section that enable the ensemble to sing a wide variety of music from many choral styles and traditions.
CHORISTERS
Saint Michael Choristers is an engaging, comprehensive music education program for children and youth in 3rd grade through high school. Choristers receive training in singing skills, music theory, and music history. They sing both as a separate treble ensemble and are regularly integrated with the Saint Michael Choir (adults) so that they can fully take part in helping lead music during worship services. Scan the QR code to sign up!
CHERUB CHOIR
The Saint Michael Cherub Choir is a fun music exploration time for younger children. Kids are taught the basics of healthy singing, music literacy, and liturgical formation through songs, Bible stories, and crafts. Cherub Choir is for children who are pre-K through 2nd grade. Two sessions are offered each week. The first session is particularly designed for pre-K and kindergarteners and the second session is primarily for kindergarteners through 2nd graders, but your child is welcome at whichever session is most convenient for your family’s schedule. Children who participate in Cherub Choir quickly develop a love for singing and the skills needed to be successful in Saint Michael Choristers and beyond. Scan the QR code to sign up!
Summer is a great time to join the Saint Michael Choir. There is no rehearsal during the week, just show up any Sunday at 8 a.m. to sing for the 9 a.m. Traditional Service. For more information, contact Catherine Seveney at cseveney@saintmichael.org.
MAY 18 8AM
Join the adult choir in the choir loft at 8 a.m., and then be part of the 9 a.m. Traditional Service in the church. No robe required—just come as you are! After the service, we'll gather in the Coke Room for a fun and welcoming reception where you can mingle and connect with choir members.
