The Star-Spangled Banner
O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight
O’er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming?
And the rocket’s red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there,
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Alma Mater
To our noble Alma Mater’s name,
We, her children, sing a joyful lay,
And to her a new allegiance pledge,
That lives beyond a day.
Refrain:
Sing, O sing, our Alma Mater’s praise,
Hail, O hail, her colors’ gleaming hue!
Give to her our homage and our love,
And to her name be true.
Graduation Brass Ensemble
The Graduation Brass Ensemble includes members of the brass faculty and the Legacy Brass Quintet , the brass quintet for honors students. This ensemble is open to any IUP music major in the brass area, with membership determined by performance audition. Funding for this ensemble was made possible through a gift from Jim and Jamie Self. A 1965 IUP graduate, Jim Self was a first-call tuba player in Los Angeles for more than 30 years. He is known for playing the “Voice of the Mother Ship” in the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind . He has performed for more than a thousand movie and television soundtracks in his career and has served as principal tuba in many of the top professional orchestras in and around Los Angeles. The Legacy Brass Quintet performs advanced quintet repertoire and receives specialized coaching from the IUP brass faculty.
Horn: Dennis Emert‡, Emily Marshall
Trombone: Jeremiah Umholtz*§, Connor Antonio
Tuba: Zach Collins§, Jessie Reed
† Professor emeritus
‡ administrator
§ faculty member
