While the Omaha Chamber Music Society is presenting today’s “Music as Medicine” concert at noon — make no mistake — the sound emanating from the Durham Outpatient Center’s West Atrium will not be typical chamber music.
For starters, a quartet of trombones will replace the string arrangements typically associated with chamber music.
Then there’s the music. While today’s show will feature classical pieces from such composers as Franz Joseph Haydn — the standard chamber music also will be accompanied by tunes from more modern composers such as John Phillip Sousa, Leonard Bernstein and jazz great Thelonius Monk.
The concert will feature Nick Adams of the U.S. Air Force Heartland of America Band, Scott Anderson, Ph.D., a University of Nebraska trombone professor, and Jason Stromquist of the Omaha Symphony all on tenor trombones; and Matthew Erickson of the Heartland of America Band on bass trombone.
“With professional horn players and such a range of music — from Haydn to Sousa to Monk — this concert ought to please a diverse crowd,” said John Benson, M.D., professor of internal medicine. “It certainly won’t be as quiet and reflective perhaps as the usual chamber strings.”
The UNMC College of Medicine is sponsoring the concert. All are invited to bring a lunch to the atrium and take in the sounds of this brass quartet, Dr. Benson said.
“Anyone familiar with trombone music knows this concert will literally be a blast,” Dr. Benson said.