Since forming in 1995, the Polished Brass quintet has played for college and university commencement services, numerous wedding ceremonies, benefit concerts, indoor and outdoor parties, religious services, memorials, convocations, and conventions. The repertoire has grown to include many arrangements from all musical styles and periods, including the renaissance, romantic, bigband, dixieland, and modern broadway musicals and movie themes. Each person is an experienced musician with numerous performances to their credit.
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The tune that is often used for the lyrics started with a hymn written by the German composer, Conrad Kocher, in 1836. The melody was modified by William Chatterton Dix in 1859, for a hymn titled "As With Gladness Men Of Old", hence the tune is often identified in hymnals as "DIX". Though there are several other hymn tunes that can be used with the text, this arrangement also uses a modern setting by Donnalynn Grunewald (2013) in triple meter. The words to For the Beauty of the Earth were written in 1864 by Folliott S. Pierpoint, an English teacher and poet.
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