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The 5 Browns, a youthful quintet of
piano-playing brothers and sisters, will perform at the Hart
Auditorium at Brigham Young University-Idaho in Rexburg
Saturday, October 15, at 7:30 p.m.
The Center Stage Performing Arts Series performance is part of
Spirit Week festivities. Tickets are $12 for the general public
and $4 for BYU-Idaho students. They may be purchased from the
BYU-Idaho ticket Office by calling 496-2230 or online at
www.byui.edu/tickets.
The Utah-bred Browns will perform on five Steinway grand pianos
in a show developed to attract the interest of young people, and
includes such crowd-pleasers such as Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight
of the Bumblebee” and selections from “West Side Story.”
The concert is reawakening a lively tradition of multi-piano
performance that reaches back to the earliest days of the modern
piano when “monster concerts” were all the rage throughout the
1800s.
Each of the Browns – Desirae, 26; Deondra, 24; Gregory, 22;
Melody, 21; and Ryan, 19 – has a distinctive and discriminating
keyboard talent, honed at New York’s Juilliard School, where for
five consecutive years they studied simultaneously. They have
chosen to cast their lot together as a unique quintet of
classical pianists, performing on five pianos, and in various
ensemble combinations.
After capturing the imagination of the public, they have
appeared on “Oprah” and “60 Minutes,” “The Tonight Show with Jay
Leno,” “Good Morning America,” and in the pages of The New York
Times, People Magazine, Los Angeles Times and Sunday London
Telegraph.
They also performed for a recent birthday celebration of LDS
Church President Gordon B. Hinckley at the Conference Center in
Salt Lake City.
Having signed a contract to record for RCA Red Seal/BMG
Classics, The 5 Browns debut album was No. 1 when released
February 8, 2005, and has remained at the top of the classical
charts since. In addition to a national concert tour, they were
invited to perform for First Lady, Laura Bush, at her annual
Ladies Luncheon held in Washington, D.C. |