Students received a special musical education from Musica Viva’s ‘Best of Brass’ (BoB) experience at Mount Isa’s Good Shepherd Catholic College this month.
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Five brass musicians delivered an interactive performance on trumpets, trombones and a French horn, playing music written by composers from across the world.
The distinctive sound of brass was enough to get this young audience to sit up and take notice as they heard tango legends, Australian waltzes, classical masters and Kazakh folk music.
Famous for their dynamic, larger than life performances, BoB are also experts at explaining how the strange, bendy metal tubes work.
Musical talent was accompanied by engaging explanations of where the instruments come from, and how they can work together.
At one point the trumpet and trombone players used mutes to show how sound can be manipulated after it is produced in the instrument.
BoB are Jason Luostarine on bass trombone, Nathan Schilling on trumpet, flugelhorn, and piccolo trumpet, Armin Terzer on horn, Danny Dielkens on trumpet, and Warwick Tyrell on trombone.