Tech Times

Category: Arts

  • Congratulations to the Class of 2020 from the Brass Arts Quintet!

    We put together this video as a tribute to you and your families. We are all so proud of you and wish you nothing but the best as you move on from TTU into the next phase of your lives.

    For generations Tech students have taken pride in the symbol of the eagle. Greg Danner composed With Wings Like Eagles as a musical representation of the beauty, strength, and dignity we associate with the eagle and our university.

    This piece was commissioned for the centennial of Tennessee Technological University in 2015 and is performed by the Brass Arts Quintet at our opening Freshman Convocation each August.

    https://youtu.be/2qc1kroAPo0

  • Brass Arts Quintet presents the music of Center Stage Guest Composer Jim Self

    Brass Arts Quintet presents the music of Center Stage Guest Composer Jim Self

    The Brass Arts Quintet at TTU is proud to present a concert of the music of Center Stage Guest Composer Jim Self on Wednesday, March 11 at 7:30pm in Wattenbarger Auditorium of the Bryan Fine Arts Building.

    For this evening’s performance, they are delighted to be featuring compositions by renowned Tubist and composer, Jim Self in addition to other works from the Renaissance through the Romantic era that were composed originally for brass.

    Self is an internationally known musician, having recorded approximately 2,000 movie and TV soundtracks as well as performing live in classical and popular music styles.  As a performer he is perhaps best known as the voice of the mother ship in “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and was also the featured tuba soloist in John Williams’ score to “Home Alone.”  He has recorded 15 albums of jazz and original music for various ensembles.  His music for this concert is selected from one of Self’s latest CD releases, “Flying Circus: Music for Brass Quintet.”