One last hurrah for the VCACA

The Valley City Area Concert Association will present its final concert, Metales M5, a brass quintet from Mexico, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Vangstad Auditorium on the campus of Valley City State University. The cost is $10 per person for those who are not members of the concert association.

Metales M5 features two trumpets, a French horn, trombone and tuba.

The group is led by Alexander Freund on first trumpet. He lives and teaches about 100 miles west of Mexico City. The other members live in and around Mexico City.

Their programming is balanced between classical pieces (played in costume) and lighter “pops” tunes including a .007 segment (also in costume) and finishing off with some Mexican folk tunes including a bullfight scene, with trombonist playing the part of the bull.

The costumes include European garb and big wigs for the classical tunes which include compositions by Bach, Mozart and Rimsky-Korsakov. Then the costumes change to black suits, hats and dark glasses as they perform the .007 segment, and end up with sombreros and a cape as the “bull” charges around the stage and the Mexican bullfight tunes draw whistles and shouts from the audience.

Other pieces that may be heard in the program include Barber’s Adagio, Gershwin’s “Summertime,” “Star Wars Theme,” “High Society Dixieland,” “Flight of the Bumblebee” and selections from “West Side Story.”

After a long history in Valley City, this is the final concert for the VCACA. Members are encouraged to join the Sheyenne Valley Fine Arts Association in Lisbon.

For SFAA membership information, contact P.O. Box 934, Lisbon, ND 58054 or call 701-683-4759. Membership is $40 for adults, $10 for students and free for children 10 and under.

For additional information, contact Diana Skroch at 701-845-1848.

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