"ONE FAMILY, FIVE PIANOS AND 50 FINGERS ADD UP TO THE BIGGEST CLASSICAL MUSIC SENSATION IN YEARS … " – NEW YORK POST
Exclusive Steinway Artists, The 5 Browns are delivering on their dream to introduce classical music to the widest audience they can find. The first family of five siblings ever accepted simultaneously to New York’s Juilliard School, the quintet enjoyed their first wave of critical attention in 2002 when People magazine dubbed them the “Fab Five” at about the same time they were featured on Oprah and 60 Minutes. The 5 Browns have released three CDs that each went to #1 on Billboard Magazine’s Classical Albums chart. They have performed in Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium, Grand National Theater in China, Suntory Hall in Japan, The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Symphony Hall in Chicago, and Alice Tully Hall in New York City, while individually and collaboratively soloing with orchestras around the world.
Friday’s program will include:
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 • Ludwig van Beethoven/Jeffrey Shumway
I. Allegro con brio
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Sonata for Two Pianos in D Major, K. 448 • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
I. Allegro con spirito
Desirae and Deondra Brown
Flight of the Bumblebee • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov/Jeffrey Shumway
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Jeux d’eau • Maurice Ravel
Melody Brown
Malaguena from Andalucia Suite • Ernesto Lecuona
Gregory and Ryan Brown
Rhapsody in Blue • George Gershwin/Jeffrey Shumway
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~ INTERMISSION ~
Star Wars: Suite for Five Pianos • John Williams/Greg Anderson
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The Factory • Ryan Brown
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Rondo Alla Turca • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart/Greg Anderson
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Nocturne in C Minor, Op. 48 No. 1 • Frederic Chopin
Gregory Brown
Clair de Lune from Suite Bergamasque • Claude Debussy/Greg Anderson
Melody, Desirae, and Deondra Brown
The Firebird (from the 1911 Version) • Igor Stravinsky/Jeffrey Shumway
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