University of Florida Performing Arts

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Performance program (subject to change)

Rondo alla Turca
Wolgang Amadeus Mozart/Greg Anderson
The 5 Browns

3 Nocturnes for Orchestra
Claude Debussy/Maurice Ravel
II. Fetes
Gregory and Melody Brown

Prelude in G Minor, Op. 23, No. 5
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Ryan Brown

My Favorite Things (from The Sound of Music) 
Richard Rodgers/Stephen Hough
Melody Brown

Suite No. 2, Op. 17  
Sergei Rachmaninoff
II.  Valse: Presto
Desirae and Deondra Brown

The Planets 
Gustav Holst/Greg Anderson
Mars, The Bringer of War
Neptune, The Mystic
Jupiter, The Bringer of Jollity
The 5 Browns

Star Wars: Suite for Five Pianos  
John Williams/Greg Anderson
The 5 Browns

Scaramouche, Suite for two pianos, Op. 165b  
Darius Milhaud
III. Braziliera (Mouvement de samba)
Desirae and Deondra Brown

Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque
Claude Debussy/Greg Anderson
Desirae, Deondra, and Melody Brown

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-Sharp Minor   
Franz Liszt
Gregory Brown

Danse Macabre for Five Pianos  
Camille Saint-Saens/Greg Anderson
The 5 Browns

Did you know…

• The 5 Browns – Ryan, Melody, Gregory, Deondra and Desirae – are the sons and daughters of Keith and Lisa Brown from Utah who wanted their Mormon children to have music in their lives. The goal was to raise “five good people.” Not only did they achieve their goal, but they also managed to raise five great pianists.
• Around the age of 3, each child showed a clear talent and interest in piano lessons, and while the children were introduced to other instruments, their passion was the piano. Playing came as naturally to them as eating or sleeping and as early as age 9 they had each made their debut with a major symphony orchestra.
• The quintet enjoyed their first wave of critical attention in February 2002 when People magazine dubbed them the “Fab Five” and they were featured on Oprah and 60 Minutes.
• In 2005 The released their debut album – titled The 5 Browns – on RCA Red Seal. The album spent 8 weeks at  #1 on the Billboard Classical chart.
• The Browns had younger members of their audiences dancing in the aisles on a recent tour while the roar of 2,500 screaming grade school and high school kids in a packed concert hall in Arizona nearly swept the group off the stage.