Blake - The Charleston Rag for Brass Quintet Delivery:Both Each of the Three Fantasias

Each of the Three Fantasias has contrasting fast and slow movements

In conjunction with Ring performances in Seattle

Listen to the excellent performance of this arrangement below

the Ave Verum Corpus

Blake - The Charleston Rag for Brass Quintet Delivery:Both Each of the Three FantasiasEubie Blake composed the Charleston Rag in 1899 for Piano under the title Sounds of Africa while working at Aggie Shelton's Bawdy House in Baltimore as a precocious 12 year old. Geoffrey Bergler has arranged Eubie's Ragtime classic of about 4 minutes in length for Brass Quintet of advanced performers. Trumpet parts are in B flat Free pdf Sample