Why you should consider us 
an interview with the Baylor Brass Quintet

Typical day at the Mountain Light Music Festival:

6:00 - Early AM run (not mandatory - lodge is 9,460 feet)
7:45 - Phillips Cowboy Coffee
8:00- Breakfast in the main lodge - Migas, Phillips flapjacks, breakfast burritos, wild game sausage, everything bagels
8:45 - Group Warm Up (Rudd- trumpets, Phillips/Eshelman - trombones and tubas, Powers - horns
9:30 - Chamber Coaching/personal practice/Large Brass Ensemble rehearsal on the Cade Mountain Stage
11:00 - Master Class (resume building, overcoming adversity, technique, pedagogy, excerpt or solo work - as a group or by instruments
12:00 - Lunch (sandwiches, burgers, chicken, salad, tuna)
1:00 - Day hike to the falls
3:00 - Free time to explore, practice or rehearse
4:00 - Full Brass Choir rehearsal
6:00 - Lessons and dinner prep.
7:00 - Dinner (Steaks on the pit, potatoes, Lasagna, salad, Fish, fresh steamed veggies, corn on the cob)
8:30 - Movie night/Hot Springs/dusk mountain bike ride/late disc golf
9:30 - Fireside chat and open forum - at the main fire pit or up at the wilderness cabin fire pit - s'mores, hot chocolate and cider
10:30 - Secret ice cream and cobbler hang - talk to BP

What to bring:

• Towel for use during the week
• Hiking shoes or sturdy tennis shoes
• Flashlight or headlamp
• Music, mutes and instruments - I will have originals of all brass choir parts (Respighi trumpet parts have 2 pic parts and mutes)
• Chosen Student Groups - bring your featured concert/recital music
• Trombones - I will have a few quartets but please bring other 4tet and 5tet works you would like to read/play
• Any other personal items, games, books, no TV or internet.
• Hat
• Swimsuit for the Hot Springs - bring to the concert on Friday with change of clothes!
• Water bottle
• Bug spray - flies and mosquitos are troublesome at times. Mr. Powers and Mr. Schubert ate a few during our rehearsals
• Folding music stand! (We will have stands for our performances but we will need stands to rehearse around the lodge)
• Journal with pen and paper
• Wind clips
• You may download a printable checklist here

Climate and what to wear:

• We will be at 9,400 feet so it will be pleasant and cool in the evenings
• Bring a rain jacket or poncho for a possible day hike
• We provide day packs for day hikes
• Shorts and t-shirts during the day and jeans at night​

Concert Rep
Each of our three main concerts will feature a combination of brass choir, quintet and trombone quartet music. Chosen student groups will be performing a featured set on one of the concerts and Baylor Brass will perform a featured set to send off the festival.

There will be a short run-out/teaser concert on the San Juan river in downtown Pagosa with the Baylor Brass, the chosen student groups, and the Mountain Light Brass Choir each playing one short work. This will help us promote the Friday night concert.

Part of our mission/vision involves outreach to the community of Pagosa Springs. There will be a quintet from the Pagosa Springs Instrumental Music Society joining us on one large brass choir piece and perform a short pre-concert show.

Concert Dress:

• Indoor Concerts: White shirt and khaki or dress slacks, dress shoes.
• Outdoor Concerts: Mountain Light T-shirt if you have it from last year - if not I have limited sizes left) and nice jeans and athletic shoes​

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Part Assignments

• Part Assignments will be made to distribute as much of the harder material amongst everyone to avoid any burn out
  
• Open the spreadsheet and click on the part - the link will open your part. I will have copies but bring your practiced parts.
  

• Trumpets! - Professors Rudd and Schubert may decide to make changes but please practice what you have.

• Parts will become available later at the link below. 
• Our primary form of communication will be via email leading up to the festival, so please check in often.
  

Brass Choir Part Assignments click here
Brass Choir Part Assingments Sheets file (mobile)

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Directions to the Lodge
Directions to the lodge are on this link: http://www.voiceofwilderness.org/assets/fpagosastovovlodge.pdf

Mountain Light Lodge:  970-264-2961 
Brent Phillips: 254 644 7605
Jacob Small: 832 216 0440

When to arrive
Directions to the lodge are interesting - Jacob Small and I will plan on escorting folks up to the lodge in three waves. We will meet you at the Subway sandwich shop in Pagosa on Sunday at 3, 4:30 and 6:00 PM. The lodge is a 20 minute drive from the Subway deli downtown at the corner of Main Street and North 5th. The gate combination code is 3030

Before the first day of the festival - you will need to register with Voice of Wilderness programing - liability and insurance purposes - Thanks!

Registration