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A Brass Quintet Christmas

by Suresh Singaratnam

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    Featuring a surprisingly convincing printed 3D effect to make people think this sweatshirt is a knitted sweater. Enjoy the comfort and durability of this polyester/cotton blend without the hassles of hand-washing and drying a woollen sweater. A unique design that’s sure to be a conversation starter at every ugly sweater themed event you attend for many Decembers to come. These groan-worthy puns are truly SO bad they’re great (But you don't have to take MY word for it).

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    • 70% polyester, 27% cotton, 3% elastane
    • Fabric weight: 8.85 oz/yd² (300 g/m²), weight may vary by 2%
    • Soft cotton-feel face
    • Brushed fleece fabric inside
    • Unisex fit
    • Overlock seams
    • Blank product components sourced from Poland

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  • Sweater/Hoodie + Digital Album

    Featuring a surprisingly convincing printed 3D effect to make people think this sweatshirt is a knitted sweater. Enjoy the comfort and durability of this polyester/cotton blend without the hassles of hand-washing and drying a woollen sweater. A unique design that’s sure to be a conversation starter at every ugly sweater themed event you attend for many Decembers to come. These groan-worthy jokes are truly SO bad they’re great.

    Each unique, all-over printed sweatshirt is precision-cut and hand-sewn to achieve the best possible look and bring out the intricate design. What's more, the durable fabric with a cotton-feel face and soft brushed fleece inside means that this sweatshirt is bound to become your favorite for a long time.

    • 70% polyester, 27% cotton, 3% elastane
    • Fabric weight: 8.85 oz/yd² (300 g/m²), weight may vary by 2%
    • Soft cotton-feel face
    • Brushed fleece fabric inside
    • Unisex fit
    • Overlock seams
    • Blank product components sourced from Poland

    This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Brass Quintet Christmas via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Sweater/Hoodie + Digital Album

    Featuring a surprisingly convincing printed 3D effect to make people think this sweatshirt is a knitted sweater. Enjoy the comfort and durability of this polyester/cotton blend without the hassles of hand-washing and drying a woollen sweater. A unique design that’s sure to be a conversation starter at every ugly sweater themed event you attend for many Decembers to come. These groan-worthy esoteric music jokes are truly SO bad they’re great.

    Each unique, all-over printed sweatshirt is precision-cut and hand-sewn to achieve the best possible look and bring out the intricate design. What's more, the durable fabric with a cotton-feel face and soft brushed fleece inside means that this sweatshirt is bound to become your favorite for a long time.

    • 70% polyester, 27% cotton, 3% elastane
    • Fabric weight: 8.85 oz/yd² (300 g/m²), weight may vary by 2%
    • Soft cotton-feel face
    • Brushed fleece fabric inside
    • Unisex fit
    • Overlock seams
    • Blank product components sourced from Poland

    This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!
    Size guide

    CHEST (inches) WAIST (inches) HIPS (inches)
    XS 34 ⅝ 26 ¾ 37
    S 36 ¼ 28 ⅜ 38 ⅝
    M 37 ¾ 29 ⅞ 40 ⅛
    L 41 33 ⅛ 43 ¼
    XL 44 ⅛ 36 ¼ 46 ½
    2XL 47 ¼ 39 ¼ 49 ⅝
    3XL 50 ⅜

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  • Sweater/Hoodie + Digital Album

    Featuring a surprisingly convincing printed 3D effect to make people think this sweatshirt is a knitted sweater. Enjoy the comfort and durability of this polyester/cotton blend without the hassles of hand-washing and drying a woollen sweater. A unique design that’s sure to be a conversation starter at every ugly sweater themed event you attend for many Decembers to come. These groan-worthy puns are truly SO bad they’re great.

    Each unique, all-over printed sweatshirt is precision-cut and hand-sewn to achieve the best possible look and bring out the intricate design. What's more, the durable fabric with a cotton-feel face and soft brushed fleece inside means that this sweatshirt is bound to become your favorite for a long time.

    • 70% polyester, 27% cotton, 3% elastane
    • Fabric weight: 8.85 oz/yd² (300 g/m²), weight may vary by 2%
    • Soft cotton-feel face
    • Brushed fleece fabric inside
    • Unisex fit
    • Overlock seams
    • Blank product components sourced from Poland

    This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Brass Quintet Christmas via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Sweater/Hoodie + Digital Album

    Featuring a surprisingly convincing printed 3D effect to make people think this sweatshirt is a knitted sweater. Enjoy the comfort and durability of this polyester/cotton blend without the hassles of hand-washing and drying a woollen sweater. A unique design that’s sure to be a conversation starter at every ugly sweater themed event you attend for many Decembers to come. These groan-worthy puns are truly SO bad they’re great.

    Each unique, all-over printed sweatshirt is precision-cut and hand-sewn to achieve the best possible look and bring out the intricate design. What's more, the durable fabric with a cotton-feel face and soft brushed fleece inside means that this sweatshirt is bound to become your favorite for a long time.

    • 70% polyester, 27% cotton, 3% elastane
    • Fabric weight: 8.85 oz/yd² (300 g/m²), weight may vary by 2%
    • Soft cotton-feel face
    • Brushed fleece fabric inside
    • Unisex fit
    • Overlock seams
    • Blank product components sourced from Poland

    This product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. Making products on demand instead of in bulk helps reduce overproduction, so thank you for making thoughtful purchasing decisions!

    Includes unlimited streaming of A Brass Quintet Christmas via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of A Brass Quintet Christmas, Mozart - Five Divertimenti for Wind Trio (K. 439b), Seasonal Songs for Southern Ontario, The Flight of Bumble Bee - from the Tale of Tsar Saltan - Act III, Theme & Variations on Stan Rogers' "Northwest Passage", Someone to Watch Over Me, Waiting, A Winter's Day (2019), and 6 more. , and , .

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Suresh Singaratnam - arranger, trumpet, french horn, euphonium, tuba, on site recording. Marc Koecher - Mixing & Mastering
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I wanted to make the premiere performance of “A Canadian Christmas” a special event, so I asked the McMichael Canadian Art Collection if they could host a concert. I told them I would find a way to pay all of the musicians if they would provide us with a piano and basic sound system for a singer. They finally confirmed the concert date in autumn 2017, so I got to work on writing the arrangements for the ensembles that would be performing. I knew drums and bass weren’t an option because it was a very reverberant room that we’d be performing in. But our awesome vocalist was a jazz and R&B specialist, so I had to come up with an hour of music that wasn’t just trumpet, piano, and voice. One my of friends played clarinet in a woodwind quintet, and I thought that could be an interesting combination of musical textures, especially since Stu Harrison (our pianist for the afternoon) is comfortable playing in both of those worlds. Of course this meant writing a lot of completely new arrangements for various combinations of solo voice, trumpet, piano and woodwind quintet.

Oddly enough, one of my favourite arrangements from that concert was the last one I finished. It was an arrangement of The First Noël for woodwind quintet. At the time, the McMichael gallery featured an exhibit of some of the great Denesuline artist Alex Janvier’s works. His “Spring Equinox” (2002) really captivated me the first time I saw it and I became a little obsessed with it for weeks. Especially all of those intricate, flowing lines that he’d painted by hand. I think I must’ve been trying to sneak some of that intricacy into my arrangement of “The First Noël”, because that painting had moved me so profoundly. I wrote a virtuosic duet for the flute and oboe at the end that was meant to soar over the melody (being played in unison by the French horn & clarinet). I was a little jealous that I didn’t get to play one of those duet parts at the concert, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to play either part on french horn (as I was renting a French horn and had a total of two months experience playing french horn at that time). I wrote a woodwind quintet arrangement of “Away in a Manger” that featured both versions of the melody for that song. Almost all of the rest of the arrangements were for the full ensemble, but there was also the amazing rendition of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” that Joanna Mojoko sang with piano accompaniment, and Stu’s beautiful solo piano rendition of “Silent Night”.

I was back at the gallery the following weekend, and one of the guides asked if there would be a CD of that concert’s programme. Besides the two track of EP of “A Canadian Christmas” that Joanna, Stu, and I released that year, I didn’t have the budget to pay the woodwind quintet a fair wage to record, so we never had a chance to record those arrangements…but I never forgot those arrangements that I’d spent those weeks writing.

Fast forward to March 2022. My Facebook followers (and one ESPECIALLY generous one) bought so much of my music on Bandcamp, I was able to purchase a euphonium to record my Mozart Divertimenti album instead of just renting it for the month.

Thanks to that euphonium and an extended french horn loan from another dear friend, recording all five parts of a brass quintet became a more practical goal. I needed to rent a tuba, and Long & McQuade Mississauga was kind enough to help out with that for the month. I wrote another five arrangements this year to fill out an EP, so here are the results of that work.

Seasons Greetings everyone! 🎅🎄

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released December 1, 2022

Suresh Singaratnam - arranger, trumpet, french horn, euphonium, tuba, on site recording.
Marc Koecher - Mixing & Mastering

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Suresh Singaratnam

Suresh Singaratnam is a trumpeter of uncommon breadth - unique not only for the small crowd he inhabits as a virtuoso of both classical and jazz styles but also for the continuity and clarity of his voice across both idioms. When he began to study the trumpet at age nine, it never occurred to him that he might have to choose between the two.

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