Trinkle Brass Works - Portable Masterpieces Performance At Piper’s Opera House

Before the Internet, before television, there was radio, and before radio was Vaudeville. The small orchestras of the radio shows and vaudeville stage performed varied repertoire from short snappy commercials to full-length works by major composers arranged for their size. Trinkle Brass Works presents Portable Masterpieces, a salon/theater orchestra that will bring this music to life at Piper’s Opera House on Saturday, January 11, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. Light classical, ragtime and plenty of melodrama. Just like it was in the late 1800's and early 20th century.

Trinkle Brass Works, Inc. received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts under the “Arts Engagement in American Communities” program. As part of the 2013-14 season, the grant will support performances of Portable Masterpieces in vintage opera houses of the old west. Trinkle Brass Works received the grant through a special invitation from the National Endowment based upon the “exemplary variety of the approaches to engagement” that was proposed for the project and the ensemble’s history of high quality arts programming.

Trinkle Brass Works (TBW), organized in 1977, has received support from Yamaha International, USA, the Harris Foundation, and arts councils and agencies in Wyoming, Pennsylvania, Kansas, Wisconsin, North Carolina and Nevada. A non-profit charitable and educational organization under the artistic leadership of Steven Trinkle since 1985, TBW has commissioned works by Thomas Albert, Gunther Tautenhahn, Roberto Sierra and Harry Lockwood , ASCAP award-winning composers.

This program is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

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