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Albright, Charlie
Anderson, Greg
Arishima, Miyako
Benoit, David
Biegel, Jeffrey
Birnbaum, Adam
Braid, David
Brown, Deondra
Brown, Desirae
Brown, Gregory
Brown, Melody
Brown, Ryan
Caine, Uri
Chen, Sean
Chulochnikova, Tatiana
Deveau, David
Farkas, Gabor
Feinberg, Alan
Fung, David
Gagne, Chantale
Golan, Jeanne
Goodyear, Stewart
Graybil, Matthew
Gryaznov, Vyacheslav
Gugnin, Andrey
Han, Anna
Han, Yoonie
Iturrioz, Antonio
Khristenko, Stanislav
Kim, Daniel
Li, Zhenni
Lin, Jenny
Lo Bianco, Moira
Lu, Shen
Mahan, Katie
Mao, Weihui
Melemed, Mackenzie
Min, Klara
Mndoyants, Nikita
Moutouzkine, Alexandre
Mulligan, Simon
Myer, Spencer
O'Conor, John
O'Riley, Christopher
Osterkamp, Leann
Paremski, Natasha
Perez, Vanessa
Petersen, Drew
Polk, Joanne
Pompa-Baldi, Antonio
Rangell, Andrew
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Russo, Sandro
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The Little Tin Box / The 5 Browns
Release Date:
11/06/2020
Label:
Steinway & Sons
Catalog #:
30166
Composer:
Bedrich Smetana , Edvard Grieg , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Claude Debussy ...
Performer:
Deondra Brown , Desirae Brown , Melody Brown , Gregory Brown ...
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Number of Discs:
1
Length:
1 Hours 0 Mins.
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Notes and Reviews
The musical keepsakes found in The Little Tin Box represent an encounter with childhood memory, a reclaiming of its sweetness and beauty, and finding greater meaning in the light by having survived the dark.
Album Credits:
Recorded at The Dorothy Young Center for the Arts at Drew University on June 24–26, 2016.
Producer/Engineer/Mastering Engineer: Adam Abeshouse
Executive Producers: Eric Feidner, Jon Feidner
Production Assistant: Renée Oakford
Art Direction: Jackie Fugere
Design: Cover to Cover Design, Anilda Carrasquillo
Illustrations: Hilary Onyon
Photographs: August Miller, UVU Marketing & Communications
Review:
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"Thematically related but somewhat thrown-together musical programs can be a lot of fun to listen to, provided that the audience finds their overall themes congenial. The Little Tin Box is a highly personal presentation by the 5 Browns (Desirae, Deondra, Gregory, Melody and Ryan) of music remembered from childhood and, in the case of these top-quality pianists, likely performed then: each of the five started studying piano at the age of three... The music is mostly plain and simple and is played expertly and without apparent chiaroscuro. The 5 Browns are heard individually as well as in two-piano and five-piano arrangements. The works include Smetana’s Vltava (Die Moldau); Grieg’s Anitra’s Dance from Peer Gynt; Mozart’s Rondo alla Turca from the K. 331 solo sonata and Allegro con spirito from the two-piano sonata K. 448; Dr. Gradus ad Parnassum from Debussy’s Children’s Corner; Emile Waldteufel’s Skater’s Waltz; the first movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5; The Current, a work written and played by Ryan Brown; Couperin’s Les Barricades Mystérieuses from the second book of pièces de clavecin; five of the 13 Kinderszenen by Schumann; and a delightful (but, in context, somewhat odd) improvisation by Desirae’s six-year-old daughter, Poppy Luch, called I Wish I Could Turn Back into a Kid. The pleasant pastiche feeling of the recording makes specific comments on its contents somewhat irrelevant. The flowing-water material in the Smetana may not sound particularly convincing when heard on five pianos; the very slow start to Rondo alla Turca and the jazzy improvisations within it are scarcely Mozartean (although the movement from the two-piano sonata is first-rate); Beethoven’s Fifth is delivered with high drama and contrasts nicely with the comparative calm of The Current immediately afterwards... The title The Little Tin Box speaks to the concept of opening a tinkly little music box and hearing whatever melodies may emerge from it – a sweet notion, and one that fits this mishmash of a musical mixture well enough."
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1.
Má vlast: no 2, Moldau, T 111
Composer:
Bedrich Smetana
Performer:
Deondra Brown (Piano) , Desirae Brown (Piano) , Melody Brown (Piano) , Gregory Brown (Piano) , Ryan Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Romantic
Written:
1874 Czech Republic
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
11 Minutes 07 Secs.
2.
Peer Gynt, Op. 23: no 16, Anitra's Dance
Composer:
Edvard Grieg
Performer:
Deondra Brown (Piano) , Desirae Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Romantic
Written:
1875/1892 Norway
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
2 Minutes 17 Secs.
3.
Sonata for Piano no 11 in A major, K 331 (300i): 3rd movement, Rondo alla turca
Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Deondra Brown (Piano) , Desirae Brown (Piano) , Melody Brown (Piano) , Gregory Brown (Piano) , Ryan Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Classical
Written:
1781-1783 Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
3 Minutes 16 Secs.
4.
Children's Corner: no 1, Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
Composer:
Claude Debussy
Performer:
Melody Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
20th Century
Written:
1906-1908 France
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
2 Minutes 25 Secs.
5.
Les patineurs, Op. 183
Composer:
Emil Waldteufel
Performer:
Deondra Brown (Piano) , Desirae Brown (Piano) , Melody Brown (Piano) , Gregory Brown (Piano) , Ryan Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Romantic
Written:
1882 Paris, France
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
5 Minutes 23 Secs.
6.
Sonata for 2 Pianos in D major, K 448 (375a): 1st mvt, Allegro con spirito
Composer:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer:
Deondra Brown (Piano) , Desirae Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Classical
Written:
1781 Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
5 Minutes 57 Secs.
7.
Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67: 1st movement, Allegro con brio
Composer:
Ludwig van Beethoven
Performer:
Deondra Brown (Piano) , Desirae Brown (Piano) , Melody Brown (Piano) , Gregory Brown (Piano) , Ryan Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Classical
Written:
1807-1808 Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
7 Minutes 36 Secs.
8.
The Current
Composer:
Ryan Brown
Performer:
Ryan Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
4 Minutes 15 Secs.
9.
Pièces de clavecin, Book 2: Ordre 6 in B flat major - Les baricades mistérieuses
Composer:
François Couperin
Performer:
Melody Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Baroque
Written:
by 1717 Paris, France
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
2 Minutes 20 Secs.
10.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: no 1, Von fremden Ländern und Menschen
Composer:
Robert Schumann
Performer:
Gregory Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Romantic
Written:
1838 Germany
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
1 Minutes 51 Secs.
11.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: no 4, Bittendes Kind
Composer:
Robert Schumann
Performer:
Gregory Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Romantic
Written:
1838 Germany
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
0 Minutes 56 Secs.
12.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: no 12, Kind im Einschlummern
Composer:
Robert Schumann
Performer:
Gregory Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Romantic
Written:
1838 Germany
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
1 Minutes 55 Secs.
13.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: no 7, Träumerei
Composer:
Robert Schumann
Performer:
Gregory Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Romantic
Written:
1838 Germany
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
2 Minutes 42 Secs.
14.
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: no 13, Der Dichter spricht
Composer:
Robert Schumann
Performer:
Gregory Brown (Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Period:
Romantic
Written:
1838 Germany
Date of Recording:
6/24-26/2016
Venue:
Dorothy Young Center, Drew University
Length:
2 Minutes 08 Secs.
15.
I Wish I Could Turn Back Into A Kid
Composer:
Poppy Luch
Performer:
Poppy Luch (Voice/Piano)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
The 5 Browns
Length:
6 Minutes 02 Secs.
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