Our newest young star, Clint Needham, is already much-lauded as a composer. This example of his work, Brass Quintet No. 1, was the winner of a composition competition at the 2004 Brass Chamber Music Forum, premiered by The American Brass Quintet at that Forum, and subsequently recorded by the same group on their 2007 release Jewels (Summit Records). Five contrasting movements describe the composer's traumatic trip to a circus ' an event far from pleasant for the young Needham!

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