Get Sassy For Free! - Sassy Brass Quintet Explores Love In Free Concert Friday

SARATOGA SPRINGS— Members of the Skidmore-based Sassy Brass Quintet are ready to welcome the public to their concert on Friday, February 28 at 8 p.m. at Skidmore’s Filene Recital Hall. Members are (L to R) Betsy and Sarah Baker from Queensbury High School; Ben Cope, Roslyn Wertheimer and Schuyler Borden from Skidmore College. The concert’s theme is “Exploring Love”; admission is free and a reception will follow the performance. The event marks the debut performance for the program, which features a series of transcriptions about love in all its variations (familial, fraternal, parental, romantic, unrequited, love of place and love of nature) built around Jack Gale’s eight-movement adaptation of Leonard Bernstein’s music from West Side Story. The program also includes several tunes made famous by Sergio Mendez’s Brazil ’66 such as “Girl from Ipanema” and “Mas Que Nada.”