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The Bill Hicks Brass, a classical brass ensemble, plays classical, baroque, overtures, patriotic music and marches, depending on the mood you want to create.

What is a brass quintet? A typical brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments. The most common instrumentation is two trumpets, one French horn, one trombone, and one tuba or bass trombone. As an ensemble, the brass quintet is very flexible, with a repertoire encompassing many musical genres.

*Click here to listen to musical demos from Bill Hicks Brass

The Bill Hicks Brass

For your next professional, business, social or civic event, consider a brass quintet of professional musicians. The Bill Hicks Brass plays classical, baroque, overtures, patriotic music and marches, depending on the mood you want to create. Led by Bill Hicks, former lead trumpeter of the Harry James Orchestra and a one-time member of the U.S. Army Band, The Bill Hicks Brass uses musicians from central Pennsylvania who perform with the Harrisburg Symphony, the Hershey Symphony, the Lancaster Symphony, area big bands, and who back up shows in the region.

As with Big Band Nostalgia's other bands, you may customize the music to heighten the pleasure of your guests or to emphasize a particular theme. Fanfares are also available for special announcements, award ceremonies or to hail the arrival of dignitaries and special guests. Two to four herald trumpeters, clad in tails and white gloves, will make your announcement something special and add a touch of class to your event. The Bill Hicks Brass can also add drummer to play rags and marches at grand openings or park concerts. The Bill Hicks Brass can also provide a solo trumpet or two trumpeters for processional music at wedding ceremonies. For garden ceremonies, The Bill Hicks Brass will employ a keyboard player for your event to create the sound of an organ. At formal weddings, The Bill Hicks Brass or trumpeters will work with your own church organist.

Below is our brass quintet's repertoire; we will make every effort to accommodate special requests.

The Bill Hicks Brass - Repertoire
Marches Ragtime Dixieland
bullet Stars And Stripes Forever
bullet Colonel Bogey
bullet Barnum And Bailey's Favorite
bullet National Emblem March
bullet Them Basses
bullet Semper Fidelis
bullet El Capitan
bullet Washington Post March
bullet The Thunderer
bullet The Liberty Bell
bullet Signal March
bullet Hail Columbia
bullet The Entertainer
bullet Junk Man Rag
bullet Maple Leaf Rag
bullet Miss Trombone
bullet Grandpa's Spells
bullet Sensation Rag
bullet Easy Winners
bullet Mississippi Rag
bullet The Chevy Chase
bullet Paragon Rag
bullet The Cascades
bullet Sunflower Slow Drag
bullet The Harlem Rag
bullet Razzazza Mazzazza
bullet Gladiolus Rag
bullet Ragtime Dance
bullet That's A Plenty
bullet South Rampart Street Parade
bullet Just A Closer Walk
bullet Amazing Grace
Show Tunes
bullet Pink Panther
bullet Star Wars Theme
bullet Rhapsody In Blue
bullet Give My Regards To Broadway
bullet Tribute To MGM
bullet Vaudeville Spectacular
bullet Somewhere Out There
bullet Tonight
bullet I Feel Pretty
bullet Maria
bullet Somewhere
Baroque Classical Overtures
bullet Canzona Per Sonare No.2 (Gabrieli)
bullet Contrapunctus III (Bach)
bullet Two Ayres For Cornetts & Sagbuts (Adson)
bullet Voluntary On Old 100th (Purcell)
bullet Fugue In G Minor (Bach)
bullet Rondeau (Mouret)*
bullet Trumpet Voluntary (Clarke)*
bullet Sonata No. 3 (Pezel)
bullet Prelude And Fugue In C Major (Bach)
bullet Canon (Pachelbel)*
bullet Air On The G String (Bach)
bullet Galliard Battaglia (Scheidt)
bullet Allegro Maestoso (Handel)*
bullet Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (Bach)
bullet The Trumpet Shall Sound (Handel)
bullet Trumpet Tune (Purcell)*
bullet Canzona Per Sonare No. 4 (Gabrieli)
bullet Concerto For Two Trumpets (Vivaldi)*
bullet Spring from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
bullet My Spirit Be Joyful (Bach)*
bullet Quintet For Brass Instruments (Zindars)
bullet Symphony For Brass (Ewald)
bullet Scherzo (Cheetham)
bullet Triumphal March from Aida (Verdi)
bullet Quintet (Arnold)
bullet Brass Quintet (Frackenpohl)
bullet Flight Of The Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakoff)
bullet Promenade (Mussorsky)
bullet Fanfare (Dukas)
bullet Coronation March (Tchaikovsky)
bullet Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven)
bullet Alleluia (Mozart)
bullet Turkish Rondo (Mozart)
bullet William Tell Overture (Rossini)
bullet Poet And Peasant Overture (von Suppe)
bullet Royal Fireworks Overture (Handel)
bullet Light Cavalry (von Suppe)
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bullet Gay Ninety's Medley
bullet Ain't Misbehavin'
bullet America The Beautiful
bullet Armed Forces Medley
bullet Alexander's Ragtime Band
bullet Shaker Song
bullet The Roaring Twenties
bullet George M. Cohan Medley
bullet Willow Echoes
bullet American Patrol
bullet Salute To Glenn Miller

Wedding Ceremony Repertoire

*Click here to listen to an audio sample of Demo* songs
Song Title Quintet Solo Trumpet Two Trumpets Demo*                                      
bullet Bridal Chorus (Here Comes The Bride)
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bullet Bridal Chorus (slow version)
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bullet Wedding March
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bullet Trumpet Voluntary
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bullet Trumpet Tune
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bullet Rondeau
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bullet Allegro Maestoso
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bullet La Re'jouissance
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bullet Ode To Joy
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bullet Canon
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bullet Ave Maria
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bullet Concerto for Two Trumpets
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bullet Voluntary In C
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bullet Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
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bullet The Wedding Song
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bullet My Spirit Be Joyful
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bullet Allegra from Heroic Music
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bullet Andante from Heroic Music
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bullet If Thou Art With Me
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bullet Prelude to Te Deum
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bullet Concerto (Manfredini)
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bullet Trumpet Voluntary in C (Greene)
 

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bullet Fireworks Overture
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