Deseret News | Sibling harmony: The 5 Browns add modern dash to classical repertoire

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Sibling harmony: The 5 Browns add modern dash to classical repertoire

rbsamara | 1:31 a.m. Aug. 31, 2008

Keith and Lisa are extraordinary parents! The 5 siblings are a great example of patience, cooperation, diligence and pursuing your dreams. What a great family! Having associated with them for years, they are a great example of a loving, hard working family. They truly let their lights shine. All the best to each and every one of you in the Brown family. It is an honor to know you!

Cool family | 3:54 a.m. Aug. 31, 2008

Cool family, but really, does the Des News plan to write one story per child, over and again about this fam? How many times you seem to have covered the Browns. Again, cool family, not anything bad to say about them, but is this topic written on a slip of paper in a hat full of story ideas that keeps getting drawn and accidentally put back in?

Chris J. | 5:05 a.m. Aug. 31, 2008

What a wonderful inspiring article. I hope to hear them perform live sometime in the future.

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Mom of 5 | 8:55 a.m. Aug. 31, 2008

Yes, this does seem like the hundredth time Des News has rehashed this story.

MAYHEM MIKE | 9:32 a.m. Aug. 31, 2008

This story needed to be told. . . It's not just about 5 talented pianists, but about parents who love their children enough to invest time and money in their future, about balancing professional life with personal life, about maintaining family love and harmony despite having individual lives and goals. It's also about the triumph of parents instilling love for culture in their children despite the influence of degrading media and music which attract so many of our young people.

Brenda | 9:45 a.m. Aug. 31, 2008

To Cool Family. Sounds like sour grapes to me.

It's ridiculous to always say | 12:01 p.m. Aug. 31, 2008

That classical music is stodgy. I am against those that try to make classical music hip and cool.

Gramme | 12:39 p.m. Aug. 31, 2008

I had the opportunity of attending a "5 Browns" concert in Charlottesville, Virginia and was completely surprised and very entertained. Each one has a unique personally and a love for each other that shows as well as a respect for each other's talents. I truly enjoyed every moment and hated to see it end. Good luck to an amazing family and thank you to their parents for being an example to all of us as to how to raise loyal, respectful, just plain nice children who have talents that most would envy and still be as grounded as they seem to be.

Anonymous | 4:03 p.m. Aug. 31, 2008

I am inspired by the Browns everytime I hear about them. Talented siblings, who ENJOY performing together - what could be better? I would love to attend their concert someday.

Classics lover | 5:09 p.m. Aug. 31, 2008

I prefer Daniel Barenboim and Peter Serkins over the five Browns.

Brown's music lover in Ohio | 6:01 p.m. Aug. 31, 2008

I attended their concert at Miami Univ., Ohio, and enjoyed every minute of it. I bought their CD and have enjoyed listening to it many times over. I enjoy listening to classical music all day, and I think their music is well worth the time to listen to. It sounds flawless to me. I really enjoyed the way they talk to the audience and it's neat to see how much they enjoy being together on stage and off. What great examples they are to my children, and the many kids that went to that concert. Go Browns!

To much coverage | 7:53 p.m. Aug. 31, 2008

First, they are great at what they do but others deserve coverage where they get favored.

Also, a DASH of modernism isn't needed within classical music and anyone who would say so is uneducated and doesn't know music that well. I know the article doesn't claim this but to comment in the title about it is to get more interested BECAUSE they are unique. People should give classical the time because it gives back knowledge and understanding of greatness and good things found within music which cannot be found in other forms of music if we will call them such. So a DASH of modernism being the 5's main thing would mean that they aren't that great.

Now I think they are, I just intend on saying that the title of this article is inappropriate.

Vegas Ed | 10:08 p.m. Aug. 31, 2008

I was at one of the firesides they had here, and it was enjoyed by the youth. That's why their music works. It's enjoyable. They are talented, and give a good show. Are they the most talented in the world? Probably not, but that's not what their niche is. Would I go to a concert? Of course. And I've bought one CD so far, and will buy others. They are unique, and talented.

Sharing The Joy | 10:29 p.m. Aug. 31, 2008

My grandmother taught piano for probably 50 years, almost until the day she passed away, in Arizona. Her daughter, my mother, has been a piano teacher for almost 50 years and is still teaching in Bountiful.

From her, my six other brothers and sisters and I learned to appreciate good music. She taught us all to sing and encouraged us all to learn to play an instrument, which everyone did.

I consider music one of the GREATEST joys of my life! It's pure and unfettered from the cares of the world and can lift me up spiritually and emotionally when other things will not. I'm exceptionally grateful to God for that. It was very common to watch re-runs of the old musicals (Guys and Dolls, Oklahoma, Singin' in the Rain, The Music Man, etc) on TV late at night as a family or to sing together as a family.

If one mother can do that just think of all the hundreds of thousands of people that 5 Browns can do touring and performing together.

God bless you, guys!

there's a reason | 1:17 p.m. Sept. 1, 2008

The Deseret News keeps rehashing stories about the Browns because they hope they can be a sensation like the Osmonds were and thus help the News sell copy. The Deseret News is moribund and grasps for any possible hype with the avidity of a geriatric grasping for new pills in the hopes to avoid the inevitable.

Anonymous | 7:10 p.m. Sept. 1, 2008

they aren't native utahns, they are texans. they were in our ward. i knew both sets of parents and their siblings.

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The 5 Browns, native Utahns, are a famous group of piano-virtuoso siblings. They've appeared on "Oprah," "The View," "Good Morning America," "CBS Morning Show" and have been profiled twice on "60 Minutes."

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