The Pops Orchestra presents a recital-style program featuring The Stiletto Brass on Friday, September 27 at 7:30 PM in Holley Hall in the Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center (709 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota). This recital-style concert titled “Struttin with the Stiletto Brass” will feature several selections in the “struttin’” theme, including original compositions for brass quintet, such as a piece by trumpeter and composer Jens Lindemann about dodging taxi cabs in London called “When a Body Meets a Body,” “Central Park in the Morning” by David Chesky, and “Struttin’ with Some BBQ” by composer Kenneth Abeling. Other selections include a fantasy variation arrangement on George Gershwin’s “Summertime” that the Stiletto Brass first performed with Doc Severinsen, featuring recent Sarasota transplant and retired trumpet teacher at the University of Kentucky, Vincent DiMartino, and another Gershwin favorite, “Someone to Watch Over Me." Formed in 2010, the Stiletto Brass features five highly accomplished women from the U.S. with careers spanning the fields of symphony orchestra, professional and military wind bands, university faculty members, and solo artists. Its energetic and diversified 6repertoire includes new music by leading composers of our time, as well as classical and popular selections from the Baroque period to Gershwin. Stiletto Brass’s concerts are fun, serious, heart-warming, emotionally intense, and always an audience’s favorite.

Struttin’ with the Stiletto Brass, Friday, September 27, 7:30 p.m., Holley Hall, Beatrice Friedman Symphony Center, 709 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota, Tickets start at $35, Tickets are available online or by calling The Pops’ Box Office at 941-926-POPS (7677).

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