Hello, my name is Violetta Vibrato, but you can call me Vi.

Hi!

and I'm Roger, Roger Rhythm, and now we are going to meet the members of a brass quintet on our symphonic safari adventure.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Hello.

Hello.

Hello.

I'm so excited to meet all of you.

Can you tell me your names and what instrument you're playing?

Yes, my name is Julia and I'm playing the trumpet.

My name is Leslie and I'm playing the horn.

My name is Chris and I'm playing the tuba.

My name is Dun and I'm playing the trombone.

Hello, my name is Derrick, and I'm playing the trumpet.

Wonderful.

Now, it looks like we have a nice, happy family here of brass.

Why is this a brass family?

What makes it a brass family?

Well, all of our instruments are made out of brass, and we also all buzz our lips together into a mouthpiece to make sound in our instrument.

It was like, something like that.

It's just like that, Yes, that was very good.

I had never practiced that.

So I want to know what makes you different if we talked about what makes you the same, what makes you different?

Well, with this ensemble, we have two trumpets B-flat trumpets.

We also have the French horn, which is pitched in F, and we also have the tuba, which is typically pitched in B-flat.

But we have to have tuba and we also have the trombone here.

With the trumpets, they have piston instruments and with the horn, they have a rotary valve.

Same thing with the tuba.

They have fits in with the trombone.

We have this slider, which makes us a lot different.

So that's what's composed of this brass quintet.

That is notable.

Amazing.

So you can just slide in, would you?

Could you play a piece for us?

We would love to hear it.

What are they going to play?

So the piece that we're going to play is a piece by John Philip Sousa called El Capitan.

Although it is a march, it was actually music from his first and most successful play, John Philip Sousa being the most prolific composer of all marches.

And so what you're going to hear today is a sort of a mix between sort of the brisk marching tempo that we're all used to over at parades, as well as some beautiful operatic melodies taken from some of the great Italian operas.

Here is El Capitan.

Wow, that made me just want to get up and dance.

We were doing that over in the corner.

That was wonderful.

So it was amazing to see everybody playing together.

I want to know what the difference is when you play by yourselves as soloists.

Versus playing together.

Like this in a quintet?

Well, when we're playing as soloists, oftentimes we're much more absorbed into just what our own parts have in them.

So our own dynamics and we don't tend to have to listen to as many people.

The main difference is that we're listening to each other to match each other's sounds so that we can be in tune to match each other's dynamics and so that we can play in the same style.

Those are the main differences.

So there's a lot of listening going on all the time.

Amazing.

I like it.

Tell me, how is it different playing in something like this ensemble quintet?

And played in an orchestra.

Yes, so the main difference between a quintet and the orchestra is in the orchestra.

There's usually a conductor and the conductor is usually keeping the group together, giving us time and a lot of times making musical decisions for the larger ensemble.

But with the quintet that's all up to us, we have to keep our own time and and make all this decisions for how we want the music to sound ourselves.

You do it so well really was smashing wasn't it Yes, if you need a conductor for that, I'm available.

So I find music to be terribly inspiring all the time.

How is it and what is it that inspires you all to play?

Well, I think the thing that really inspires me about music is that it really helps sort of bridge you into feeling anything so you can feel the happiest of the happy, the saddest of the sad.

Unfortunately, sometimes the angriest of the angry and sometimes the most beautiful of the most beautiful.

And so I think that for me is what keeps me coming back to music every day.

Do you all feel that too?

Because I felt all those kinds of emotions listening to the music that you feel all those things?

Oh yes, it wanted to make me just march, right?

Felt happy.

All of that.

I mean, anyone else?

It's that playing music is always an experience, not just as a performer, but for the listener as well, too.

I believe for all of us, there's an intrinsic reward that we receive for uplifting the spirits of the listener.

And this is the change, the mood, regardless of what selection will be played.

I think that's amazing.

So you can kind of feel when you've got an audience that you can feel their energy too, can't you?

Absolutely.

That is beautiful.

I'm sure that makes you very happy.

Joy, they seemed very happy.

Yes.

Thank you all so much for talking to us today on our symphonic safari adventure.

Thank you.

Thank you all.

Bye-Bye.

Bye.