The Five Browns are all about bringing in a younger audience, but their approach might be familiar to the older listeners Wednesday night at E.J. Thomas Hall, when the pianists perform in the Tuesday Musical series.
The Juilliard-trained siblings have been a hit since releasing their first five-piano CD, titled The 5 Browns, in 2005. That release and two subsequent CDs spent time in the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Classical chart. International touring ensued.
The key to success for the Five Browns has been keeping things lighter, the way soloists and symphony orchestras programmed their concerts a couple of generations ago. Anyone longing for a concert of recognizable music would be at home with this program, which includes excerpts from Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, one of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies, selections from The Planets and so on.
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