Brass quintet samples music from five centuries

The Guest Artist Series presents the Chestnut Brass Company at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 6, in Mills Hall. The ensemble will perform March, Op. 99, by Prokofiev; music from the 16th and 17th centuries by Daniel Speer, Matthew Locke and King Henry VIII, performed on reproductions of Renaissance cornetti and sackbuts; “Spring” from The Four Seasons, by Vivaldi, arranged by Arthur Frackenpohl; and early American brass band music from the 1830s and 1860s, using original keyed bugles and saxhorns. Admission is free.