Comments on: Tanglewood Highlights 3: Humoresque and Homages http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/08/tanglewood-highlights-3-humoresque-and-homages/ The Contemporary Classical Music Community Wed, 22 May 2013 02:29:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Garrett Schumann http://www.sequenza21.com/2011/08/tanglewood-highlights-3-humoresque-and-homages/comment-page-1/#comment-26150 Garrett Schumann Fri, 19 Aug 2011 21:25:20 +0000 http://www.sequenza21.com/?p=6136#comment-26150 I didn’t know about the tradition of having brass quintet fanfare open every concert at Tanglewood, and I find it interesting because they do something similar here at the Aspen Music Festival.

The big differences are:

1. the quintet plays before the second half of a large orchestra concert only (so, during intermission)
2. they play whatever they want, a liberal policy which yielded a performance of “The Final Countdown” a couple evenings ago

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