Gary Buttery, tubist, will perform with the Brown University Wind Symphony
Friday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m. in Grant Recital Hall. The concert will feature a mix
of contemporary and 16th century compositions.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Guest tuba player Gary Buttery will be the featured
performer at the Brown University Wind Symphony concert Friday, Nov. 19, at 8
p.m. in Grant Recital Hall.
Buttery, who was the principal tubist for the U.S. Coast Guard Band for more
than 20 years, will be performing the Sonata for Tuba and Winds by
Patrick McCarty and Richard Lieb’s Concertino Basso.
Lieb, a New York-based studio musician and composer, wrote Concertino
Basso during his stint as a member of the Tonight Show band, said
Wind Symphony conductor Matthew McGarrell.
In addition to playing in the Coast Guard, Buttery has performed as a soloist
and clinician throughout the United States. Concert tours have taken him to
England and Russia, and he has performed in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center
and Oktoberski Hall in St. Petersburg. He is a founding member of ALCHEMY (a
tuba and euphonium quartet), two folk bands (Finest Kind and The Morgans), and
the international folk dance group A Different Village. As an active composer,
Buttery is published by Cimarron Music. He also teaches and conducts bands at
the University of Rhode Island and Connecticut College.
The program will also include the Symphony No.6 for Band by Vincent
Persichetti. “This composition is Persichetti’s only symphonic work.
It’s a cornerstone of the wind band literature,” said McGarrell. The
remainder for the concert will showcase two canzoni by 16th century
Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli, as well as a canzona by Peter Mennin, a
past president of the Juilliard School of Music.
Tickets for the free concert will be available Monday, Nov. 15, at the
Department of Music, located in Orwig Music Building, from 8:30 a.m to 5 p.m.
Grant Recital Hall is located behind the Orwig Music Building on the corner of
Hope Street and Young Orchard Avenue.
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