FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact: Cindy Deppe, media relations, 641-269-4834

May 5, 2008

GRINNELL COLLEGE TO HOST DRAKE BRASS QUINTET

GRINNELL, IA - The Grinnell College Department of Music will host the Drake University Faculty Brass Quintet on Sun., May 11, at 2 p.m. in Sebring-Lewis Hall of the Bucksbaum Center for the Arts on the Grinnell College campus.

The Quintet, which includes members of the Drake and Grinnell music faculties, will perform a program of new music, from a brass quintet classic to a tango. Quintet members include Grinnell applied music associate Guinevere McIntyre on French horn; Michael Short, tuba; Andrew Classen and Justin Brookens, trumpet; and Grady McGrannahan, trombone. This spring, the Quintet recorded "Sentient Terra," a four-part composition by Grinnell College senior David D’Angelo, a computer science and music double major from Indian Head Park, Ill.

The Bucksbaum Center for the Arts is located at 1108 Park St. on the Grinnell College campus. For more information, call (641) 269-4567 or e-mail mcintyr3@grinnell.edu.

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