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CNN Saturday Morning News

Canadian Brass Celebrates 30th Season

Aired May 12, 2001 - 08:50   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, whether it's Bach or blues, this will get you out of bed and in gear this morning, no doubt. The Canadian Brass is here celebrating its 30th season. This world renowned brass ensemble brings its flashes of humor and masterful musicianship to brighten up our morning, sharing with us the history, art and sound of the Canadian Brass.

(BAND PLAYING)

PHILLIPS: All right, you have to explain the spark. Is this the flash of humor?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah, magical humor, sure.

PHILLIPS: All right, I want you all to introduce ourselves by name and your it seems to me. I'm going to move along so that I can get you guys all introduced.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Jeff Nelson (ph). I play French horn.

PHILLIPS: And where are you from?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Edmonton, Alberta.

PHILLIPS: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Gene Watts (ph). I play trombone. Sedalia (ph), Missouri.

PHILLIPS: OK, Missouri. You've got to say it right. Come on.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've been away a long time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Chuck Delanbach (ph), Toronto-based.

PHILLIPS: OK. Ah, he's got the Canadian accent.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Brian Anthony (ph), San Diego, California.

PHILLIPS: Oh, that's my hometown.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah?

PHILLIPS: We've got to talk. Where'd you go to high school? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Grossmont (ph) and Mount McGill.

PHILLIPS: Oh, my gosh, I went to Felix (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm Yen Side (ph)from Edmonton, Alberta, but I want to be personal friends with Vince Carter this week.

PHILLIPS: OK, I think we might be able to arrange that.

All right, I'm going to move back over here into the middle, Chuck, you're going to be spokesperson I guess.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right.

PHILLIPS: Tell us how you guys get started or got started. Give us a little history.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 1970 was actually the inception and we were all in Toronto looking for something to do. Gene had been in the Toronto Symphony and we thought a chamber music group that perhaps we could build an audience one way or another and we just started figuring out music that people would really like that we also liked and away we went.

PHILLIPS: And so now I understand along with the music you add in the humor. How did you know this concept was going to work?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, kids told us. We played for thousands and thousands of kids in the '70s and they're very quick to tell us if they like the music and if they like our personalities and we knew we needed to make some changes here and there and it's held us in good stead with adult audiences.

PHILLIPS: All right, bring us some fun. What are you going to play for us as we head out to break?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, we're going to play "A Handful of Keys," which is a piece actually, we're here with the Atlanta Symphony and this is a piece that they really wanted us to play because it features the trumpets and the two trumpets are playing. They're tiny piccolo (ph) trumpets. They've very dangerous, by the way.

PHILLIPS: Uh-oh. I'll move.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They could blow up. I mean, but that won't happen. That wouldn't happen twice in a row, would it? No, no.

PHILLIPS: I'm going to step out. You guys...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "A Handful of Keys."

PHILLIPS: OK.

(MUSIC)

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