Canadian Brass

And now a closing hymn that is particularly fit for St. Francis, All Creatures of Our God and King.

The vocalists are the Elmer Iseler Singers, accompanied by the excellent Canadian Brass.

[organ music] All creatures of our God and King, lift up your voice and with us sing.

Alleluia! Alleluia![singing] O praise Him, O praise Him.

The release includes a surprise track take on White Christmas that veers into I'll Be Your Santa Claus, because apparently even speed metal needs mistletoe.

Canadian brass turned five brass instruments into an international classical pop institution, mixing serious musicianship with a sense of fun.

Their 1985 A Canadian Brass Christmas includes a bright, polished instrumental arrangement of White Crisps, Irving Berlin, with considerable more tuba.

¦ French pianist Richard Klederman became famous for lush, easy listening piano recordings and enough romantic atmosphere to fog up every window in the house.

His 1985 album, A Romantic Christmas, applies that signature style to White Christmas.

in terms of drum corps and Blast, just tell, tell me just a little bit of the history, 'cause it's really unique what happened with, uh, with Star of Indiana and, and their transition to doing a stage show.

Yeah, so 1993, the, actually before the 1993 season started, Canadian Brass came to see us perform during our, uh, I, I believe it was during our move-in before we were at a competition or it, it could've been at one of the earlier competitions.

I'm not real sure.

But they, um, approached Jim Mason and Bill Cook about, uh, the owners and, the owner and the director of the corps, uh, about performing with us the next summer.

And so contract was signed before the summer even began, really before tour even began, and we were on tour with Canadian Brass the next summer.

Um, so we did that for three years, and then we sort of became our own thing for '97, '98, I think it's, yeah, '97, '98, um, and then, uh, doing stage shows, uh, and sort of scaling it down as we went.

We spent, uh, three summers, I believe, in Branson, Missis- Bran- Branson, Missouri, sorry.

I'm your host, Denise Finnegan-Hill.

Music performed by the Canadian Brass next.

This is music of Luther Henderson called Saints Hallelujah, which combines Handel's Hallelujah Chorus with When the Saints Go Marching In.

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Music of Luther Henderson called Saints Hallelujah, performed by Canadian Brass.

Finishing off the hour with music of the infamous Antonio Salieri.

But if you wanna study orchestral trumpet, go find someone who does that really well and who teaches it really well.

If you wanna go and play in Canadian Brass, if that's your main goal in life, study with either someone who was in Canadian Brass or someone who's really good in, at playing in a brass quintet.

And kind of finding that pathway of, "This is what I wanna do.

This is who can help me get there."