Plog - Music for Brass Octet [score] 

Summit Brass
"Colors for Brass"
Summit Records
Released in 1990
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Anthony Plog (born November 13, 1947) is an American conductor, composer, and trumpet player. Plog was born in Glendale, California, United States. He is a fellow of the Music Academy of the West where he attended in 1968. From 2006 to 2007, he held the Roy Acuff Chair of Excellence at Austin Peay State University.
The music of Anthony Plog has been performed in over 30 countries, and he has been the recipient of numerous grants and commissions. After beginning his career writing extensively for brass, he now works in many different musical forms. He has composed three children’s operas, the first of which (How the Trumpet Got Its Toot) was premiered by the Utah Opera and Symphony. He completed a major tragic opera (Spirits) based on a Holocaust theme and recently finished a new opera about a drone operator suffering a nervous breakdown (The Sacrifice). Other new works include an oratorio about the first major environmental battle in the United States (God’s First Temples), in versions for orchestra, symphonic band, and soprano song cycle; and a cantata using the stories of women who have recovered from sex trafficking, prostitution, and drug abuse (Magdalene).
Anthony Plog lives and works in Freiburg, Germany.
Mr. Plog's Music for Brass Octet in three movements is a virtuoso vehicle brimful of rhythmic subtleties, bright sonorities, and tart dissonances which make a real adventure of the listening experience. This work is outstanding for its taut form and imaginative handling of the brass ensemble medium. It may well be, along with Riegger's Nonet and Schuller's Symphony, the most distinguished chamberwork of its kind in our time.
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