Join the Vintage Brass Band at Hamilton’s in Jacksonville, IL on Saturday, February 27th!
Proceeds of this fundraiser will benefit two local projects, the restoration of the Grierson Monument and the General Grierson Days re-enactment. Tickets are $30 per person or $255 for a table of 8.
From 6:00 – 7:00, a quartet will perform danceable music in conjunction with the Central Illinois Civil War Dance Society. Starting at 8:00, the Vintage Brass Band will perform an entire concert of music from General Grierson’s own collection, dating from the 1840’s until the start of the Civil War. Hope to see you there!
Download the official event flyer here.
Schedule:
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Cocktail Hour
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Complimentary Journal-Courier Front Page featuring your photograph
5:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Silent Antique Auction and Bidding in the Blue Room
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Performance by the Central Illinois Civil War Dance Society
7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. Delicious Dinner featuring Pit Ham with Bourbon and Peach Glaze and Grilled Chicken Breast with Hunter Sauce
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Grierson Concert Music and Dancing
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Springfield, IL; October 24, 2009 – The Vintage Brass Band of Springfield, IL presents A Vintage Brass Christmas on Saturday at 8:00 p.m. December 12, at First Presbyterian Church, 321 South 7th St., Springfield, IL. Tickets are $10 and will be available at the door.
The Vintage Brass Band will perform 17th Century antiphonal music by Giovanni Gabrielli, 19th Century American band music with a local connection, and traditional holiday carols. Additionally, featured vocal soloist, soprano Mona Kreitner from Memphis, TN, will perform coloratura European Masterworks with historical significance to the American Band movement.
About Mona Kreitner
Soprano Mona Kreitner specializes in the virtuoso vocal music of seventeenth-century Italy and the repertoire of the coloratura sopranos from America’s “Gilded Age.” She has appeared as a soloist with the Memphis Symphony, Germantown Symphony, the Memphis Chamber Choir, and the Kamran Ince Ensemble. Since 2002 Mona has been the soprano soloist for The Great Western Rocky Mountain Brass Band. She is active as a musicologist, presenting papers at regional and national meetings of the American Musicological Society and the Society for American Music. She is also a contributor to the forthcoming revised edition of the Grove Dictionary of American Music.
Mona earned an MM and Performer’s Certificate in voice from The Eastman School of Music, and holds the PhD in historical musicology from the University of Memphis. Her dissertation, “A Splendid Group of American Girls”: The Women Who Sang with the Sousa Band, won the University music graduate document award in 2008. Mona is on the music faculties at the University of Memphis and Rhodes College, where she teaches applied voice, Women in Music, and music history
About the Vintage Brass Band
The Vintage Brass Band of Springfield, Illinois, formed in March of 2009, is the Capital City’s only up-and-coming professional brass ensemble. The band includes a talented mix of professional musicians and accomplished local amateurs under the baton of R. Todd Cranson.
Founded in 2009, the VBB specializes in performing American brass music with great historical and cultural significance, much of which has not been performed for 100 or more years! Artistic Director Todd Cranson’s research and collaboration with leading scholars in the field of early American band music provides the Vintage Brass Band with a diverse and interesting repertoire which includes vintage concert, popular, and dance music from the 1840’s through the turn of the 20th Century, military and patriotic music of the Civil War era, and art music from all periods of American history.
The VBB is particularly proud to perform repertoire from three special collections with historic significance to our local community: the Benjamin Grierson Collection (Jacksonville, IL, 1840’s- 1860’s), music of the Humboldt Brass Band (Humboldt, KS, 1865-1880’s), and the X.X.O.B. Band Collection (Williamsville, IL, 1900-1930’s). Selections from the Grierson Collection are featured on A Vintage Brass Christmas.
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CHANGE OF DATE! Due to rainy weather, the bandshell construction is behind schedule – Join us instead on the morning of September 12, 2009.
Historic Courthouse
On September 12 at 11:00am, the VBB will perform an hour long concert for the dedication of a newly constructed band shell – an exact replica of the band shell that stood on the town square almost a century ago! Stay tuned for more details.
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Friday, August 7, 2009 – evening
The Vintage Brass Band will perform two one-hour concerts on the Decatur Celebration main stage featuring brass band music from the 1840’s – 1880’s. Learn about the evolution of music spanning this influential time period that contained the Industrial Revolution, the Civil War, Reconstruction and the Westward Expansion.
Enjoy rare operatic arrangements and popular tunes performed from the Benjamin Grierson collection, the earliest set of band music in the United States, circa 1840. A decade or two later, patriotism was all the rage on both sides of the Mason-Dixon following the secession of the South. The VBB will present brass music from both sides of the conflict. Finally, it was former Civil War musicians who brought the band tradition to the western states. Thanks to the generosity of Scott Schwartz, Director of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, VBB Artistic Director Todd Cranson will present music of the Humboldt Brass Band of Humboldt Kansas after a century-long slumber. Formed by Richard R. Redfield in 1866, the Humboldt Band was on the frontier of musical development. The Humboldt Band’s unique arrangements, including the “Bass Ball Quickstep” exude the pride and confidence of a forward-looking nation. The band continued to charm audiences into the 1880’s.
We hope you enjoy our performances at the 2009 Decatur Celebration!
Friday, July 3, 2009 – evening
The Vintage Brass Band will perform in cooperation with the 10th Illinois Volunteer Cavalry Regiment from approximately 5:30 – 6:15 on the Old State Capital lawn in Springfield, IL.
Our special Independence Day concert will feature patriotic music from the the Benjamin Grierson Collection, the books of the Humboldt Brass Band, and music of numerous Civil War era military bands.
The Grierson collection, housed in the Illinois State Archives and at Ft. Davis, TX, is the earliest collection of band music in the United States, circa 1840. The Grierson band performed in Springfield, IL during Abraham Lincoln’s tenure in the Capital City. Special thanks to Lavern Wagner, Musicologist from Quincy College in Quincy, Illinois for his assistance and dedicated research into this collection.
The Humboldt Brass Band was the pride of Central Kansas when ex-Civil War musician, Richard R. Redfield returned from the war and started up a band in the tiny town of Humboldt. At the Capital City Celebration, you will hear the very same patriotic tunes that the band performed on July 4th, 1876 on the Humboldt town square. The band books of the Humboldt Brass Band are part of the Carl Bush Collection at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music in Champaign, IL. Special thanks to the Sousa Archives for their work to preserve this American treasure.
We hope you enjoy our performance at the 2009 Capital City Celebration! Please check this page frequently. We are still firming up details for a possible second performance the following evening, July 4th on the Old State Capital lawn.
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Friday, June 19, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in Jacksonville, Illinois’ Community Park the VBB will perform a one hour concert, Vintage 1840-1865: Music of General Benjamin Grierson. Grierson’s collection of music, researched and arranged by Dr. Lavern Wagner, represents the oldest collection of American band music of its size. Join the VBB as it celebrates the man and his music, and kicks off the Fourteenth Annual General Grierson Liberty Days!
For more information about the Grierson Days celebration, visit this link: http://www.griersonsociety.com/. Also, be sure to check back here for sounds, pictures, and more information about this special collection of American band music.
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Saturday, April 18, 2009 – 11:00am – 3:00pm
Join us on April 18th, 2009 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois for the premiere performance of the Vintage Brass Band. By invitation of Scott Schwartz, Director of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the band will recreate a July 4, 1876 Centennial celebration concert performed by the Humboldt, Kansas Brass Band. The band will perform original arrangements from the Humboldt Books using the Archive’s restored set of brass instruments from the nineteenth century. Both the music and instruments are part of the Carl Busch Papers and Music Instrument Collection housed at the Archives.
Boneyard Arts Festival
Part of the Boneyard Arts Festival, the band will be performing arrangements from the Humboldt Books throughout the day from 11am – 3pm at the Archives, #236 Harding Band Building, 1103 S Sixth St, Champaign, IL. Festival visitors who arrive on the Boneyard Trolley will be treated to a tour of the Archives and a trip back in time to experience the sounds of authentic 1870’s brass music.
Related Links:
The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
7th Annual Boneyard Arts Festival
Carl Busch Papers and Music Instrument Collection, ca. 1833-1924
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Join the Vintage Brass Band at Hamilton’s in Jacksonville, IL on Saturday, February 27th!
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