Under the leadership of Dr. James Klages, who happened to be sporting a broken leg during the time, brass players from the University of Central Oklahoma traveled from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Frederick, Maryland. The tour included two music professors, eight University of Central Oklahoma brass students, and sixteen-year-old Cory Johnson, January 2009 ITG Young Artist Award winner.

Maestro Francisco de Araujo had invited this brass ensemble to come and perform with him and his choir for two Christmas programs, featuring a half-hour of brass pieces and then joining the choir, organist, percussionist and flautists for two evening performances of the Robert Shaw / Robert Russell Bennett "The Many Moods of Christmas".

The program started with the four horn players playing a Sinfonia for horns by Telemann from the balcony in the back of the hall. Next, the low brass players played a transcription of J.S. Bach's organ work In Dolce Jubilo from the front and center of the hall. The third piece on the program was a fanfare in for three trumpets based on Reiche's Abblasen. This immediately transitioned into a rendition of Joy to the World. The three trumpets then played a setting of the carol O Come Little Children in four verses, each verse a variation featuring a different player with the other two accompanying.

Next on the program was music for the entire group of brass players. The first piece was a transcription of Bach's Fugue in A minor. Following the fugue came a medley of three settings of the German Christmas carol Von Himmel Hoch with two settings by Bach and a version by Pachelbel in the middle. This was followed by a transcription of a Prelude and fugue in D minor also by Bach.The second to last piece was the Christmas carol Infant Lowly, Infant Holy in four verses, each featuring different sections of the brass choir. The third verse was in the minor mode and started with the solo tuba and bass trombone. The last first sounded almost Baroque, featuring counterpoint among the trumpets, horns, trombones, and tuba. The program concluded with an antiphonal setting of "O Magnum Mysterium" by Giovanni Gabrieli, set for two choirs: cylindrical (trumpets and trombones) and the second conical (three horns, and tuba).

In addition to rehearsals, the evening performances, and a day of sightseeing, in Washington DC, the brass ensemble played for two morning worship services. Cory Johnson performed a transcription for trumpet with piano of an Aria from Cantata #1 of J.S. Bach. He received the opportunity to perform the Star Spangled Banner at the place where the American National Anthem was born, so the group also made a quick journey to Fort McHenry.

Later in the tour, Maestro Francisco announced his intention to take this same group of musicians and singers with him to Israel next year for six performances during the Christmas Season.