{"id":6658,"date":"2014-06-10T13:21:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T13:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/?p=6658"},"modified":"2014-06-13T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T09:58:03","slug":"new-williams-work-for-brass-ensemble-to-premiere-june-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=6658","title":{"rendered":"New Williams Work for Brass Ensemble to Premiere June 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new work by John Williams for brass ensemble and percussion will be premiered on June 12 during a <a href=\"http:\/\/gmc.sonoma.edu\/event\/2170779-national-brass-ensemble-in-concert\" target=\"_blank\">special performance<\/a> in Sonoma County (California). The piece was commissioned to Williams to celebrate the birth of the National Brass Ensemble,<strong> <\/strong>a collection of musicians from across the US featuring 26 leading brass players and two percussionists from the nation&#8217;s most prestigious orchestras.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The program also includes excerpts from Giovanni Gabrieli&#8217;s <em>Sacrae symphoniae<\/em> (1597), arranged for the National Brass Ensemble by San Francisco Symphony principal trombonist Tim Higgins.<\/p>\n<p>The first edition of The National Brass Ensemble residency will culminate in the recording of a commercial CD at Skywalker Sound including Gabrieli&#8217;s piece and the recording premiere of the Williams commission. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/gmc.sonoma.edu\/event\/2170779-national-brass-ensemble-in-concert\">National Brass Ensemble in Concert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JKMSlibrary\/status\/466633575492632577\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-6661\" alt=\"MusicforBrass\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MusicforBrass.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MusicforBrass.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MusicforBrass-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MusicforBrass-560x746.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MusicforBrass-260x346.jpg 260w, https:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/MusicforBrass-160x213.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jwfan.com\/forums\/index.php?showtopic=24322\">Discuss this topic in our forums<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new work by John Williams for brass ensemble and percussion will be premiered on June 12 during a special performance in Sonoma County (California). The piece was commissioned to Williams to celebrate the birth of the National Brass Ensemble,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/?p=6658\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concert-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6658"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6693,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6658\/revisions\/6693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwfan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}