PORT ANGELES — The musical ensemble Dallas Brass will conduct a full day of music clinics at Port Angeles schools Monday, followed by a concert with some of the students that evening.
The concert, which will include some 200 students from Stevens Middle School and Port Angeles High School, will be at 7 p.m. at the Port Angeles High School auditorium, 304 E. Park Ave.
Tickets are $15 for the front of the hall, $10 for seats farther back.
Tickets will be available at the door or can be purchased in advance at Port Book and News, 104 E. Front St., Port Angeles, and Pacific Mist Books, 121 W. Washington St., Sequim.
Dallas Brass, based in Garland, Texas, was founded in 1983 by Michael Levine, who describes their concerts as “intended for the entire family. Our ideal audience has a range in ages from 5 to 95.
“Our goal is to entertain and enrich by playing great music, while showing our audience how much we enjoy what we do,” he added.
The group formed the nonprofit Dallas Brass Education Foundation to support their mission of bringing their “Music in the Schools” program to as many students as possible.
“Each of us in the Dallas Brass developed a love of music thanks to our involvement in school bands,” Levine said.
“Clearly, the same can be said for most performers and essentially all music educators.”
The group isn’t interested in creating the next generation of professional musicians, but rather in helping all students discover what music can bring to their lives.
They will work with the eighth-grade band and some seventh-grade band members at Stevens Middle School in the morning and the Port Angeles High School band in the afternoon, said organizer Mark Urnes.
The evening performance will feature the middle school and high school bands each performing one number with the Dallas Brass. The rest of the concert will be just the Dallas Brass.
In addition to their work with music students, the Dallas Brass has appeared with symphony orchestras nationwide, including the Cincinnati Pops, the New York Pops and the Philly Pops.
They have performed at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, toured in Europe and the Far East, and released six recordings.
They have shared the stage with the late Bob Hope and have performed for two U.S. presidents.
For more information about Dallas Brass, see www.dallas brass.com.
