Concertgoers also heard a medley of tunes associated with the Southwest put together by Thomas Root, an \u201cin-house\u201d composer and arranger for the group. Root, a recently retired professor of composition and band director at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, was one of the five original members of the group when it began playing brass music 51 years ago in Minnesota. At that time, all five were recent graduates of the University of Minnesota and its band program, and all were directing school bands around the state.<\/p>\n
Also included in the program was an original composition, the result of a collaboration between Root and Pagosa Springs artist Jessica Peterson, who performed \u201cNighteagle Suite,\u201d named after her mentor, Lakota storyteller David Nighteagle.<\/p>\n
The Tarnished Brass \u2013 Jim McCreary, Bob Waggoner, Larry Vogel, Larry Peterson, Barry Fox, Mike Fuller and Mark Olson \u2013 get together twice a year. They were in town in August to help celebrate the retirement of the Rev. Reverend Leigh Waggoner, priest at St Barnabas Episcopal Church and wife of Bob Waggoner, one of the members of the group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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