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COVER: John Toole, Skating Scene (detail), c. 1835, National Gallery ofArt,

Washington, Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

The Seventy-Third Season of

The William Nelson Cromwell and F. Lammot Belin

Concerts

National Gallery ofArt

3,027th Concert

Spanish Brass

Carlos Beneto and Juanjo Serna, Trumpets

Manuel Perez, French Horn

Inda Bonet, Trombone

Sergio Finca, Tuba

December 13, 2014

Saturday, 3:30 pm

West Building, West Garden Court
Program

Arcangelo Corelli (arr. Carlos Beneto)

Concerto Grosso in G Minor, op. 6, no. 8

(“Christmas Concerto”)

Vivace-Grave

Allegro

Adagio-Allegro-Adagio

Vivace (Minuetto)

Allegro

Largo (Pastorale)

Richard Storrs Willis (arr. Michael C. Green)

Clearly Midnight

Traditional (arr. Albert Guinovart)

Fum,fum,fum

Arr. Carlos Beneto 

The Christmas Altarpiece

Joy to the World 

Hodie Christus natus est

Silent Night

Hallelujah (from Handel’s Messiah)

Traditional

Angels We Have Heard on High (arr. Albert Guinovart)

O Come, O Come Emmanuel (arr. Albert Guinovart)

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr. Ed Hirschman)

What Child Is This? (arr. Albert Guinovart)

Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming (arr. Albert Guinovart)

Mykola Leontovych

Carol ofthe Bells (arr. Ed Hirschman)

Traditional

What, Child? (arr. Michael C. Green)

Campanas de Belen (The Bells of Bethlehem) (arr. Albert Guinovart)

John Henry Hopkins Jr.

Three Free Kings (arr. Michael C. Green)

Vincent Guaraldi

Christmas Time Is Here (arr. Ed Hirschman)

The Musicians

Celebrating its twenty-fifth anniversary in 2014, Spanish Brass was 

created by five Spanish musicians as an innovative project that quickly 

gained world renown for its performances, educational activities, and

creative collaborations. After it won First Prize in the 1996 Narbonne

International Brass Quintet Competition, trumpeter and adjudicator

Bernard Soustrot said, “Of all the First Prize winners ofthe Narbonne

Competition, the Spanish Brass is the best since the competition was 

founded in 1986.”

Spanish Brass has given hundreds of concerts in many venues and

at festivals worldwide, including the Festival de Invemo de Brasilia;

Great American Brass Band Festival; Festival de Radio-France; SchleswigHolstein Musik Festival; Kalavrita Festival; International Horn Society;

Merano Brass Festival; Cheju Summer Festival; New York Brass Conference; Granada International Festival; and Lucerne Festival. The ensemble

also administers three major brass festivals in Spain: the sbalz Festival

in Alzira, Brassurround, and Brass & Wines.

Spanish Brass has been in the forefront ofinternational music

education, giving courses and master classes for the Spanish National

Youth Orchestra and the youth orchestras ofAndalucia, Catalonia, 

Madrid, and Valencia, as well as student orchestras in England, Finland,

Hong Kong, Japan, the United States, and Venezuela. Members of

the quintet currently teach at the Berklee College of Music campus in 

Valencia and at the Universidad Europea in Madrid.