Poster Copper Street Brass Cohasset
Copper Street Brass' program was titled "Tools of the Trade." They got dressed up in construction gear (complete with hot pink helmets that match the Copper Street logo) and used the metaphor of building a house to explain how music is made. Their instruments are like "tools" and rhythm, melody, and harmony and the building materials.
MPR/Derek Montgomery

Class Notes Artist Performance Chat: Copper Street Brass

Copper Street Brass Perf Chat

Allison Hall, trumpet, and Tim Bradley, French horn, of the Copper Street Brass sat down with Julie Amacher to talk about their Class Notes Artist experience.

Pieces performed in the chat:

  • Nino Rota (arr. Tim Bradley): Tarantella from The Godfather

  1. Ben Folds (arr. Tim Bradley):Fred Jones Part II.

  1. American folk song (arr. Tim Bradley):Variations on Chester and Yankee Doodle Dandy

We always program a song that the kids are gonna know the words to. This year we played the song "How Far I'll Go" from Disney's Moana which is very popular with the kiddos. And it is so powerful to hear 300 young people singing in unison. It is just this immense sound coming back at us as we're playing these pieces that they're singing along to. I remember in one school, a teacher coming up to me and she was in tears because of this powerful sound of the kids singing to this song. — Tim Bradley

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