Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2006/11

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert on November 4 in Staunton, Virginia
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:06:10 -0500

November 2, 2006
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas in Concert on November 4 in Staunton, Virginia

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will be in concert on
Saturday, November 4, 2006 – 7:30 PM, at Robert E. Lee High School, 1200
North Coalter Street in Staunton, Virginia.

The concert program, sponsored by the The Staunton Community Concert
Association, will include Overture to "Candide" by Leonard Bernstein,
Summer Music by Samuel Barber, Two Colombian Dances - Picaflor by Jose
Barros and Te Sorprende? by Jorge Olaya Munoz, Quintette en forme de
Choros by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Miniatures by William Grant Still,
Arkansas Reel by James Cohn, "Summertime" from Porgy and Bess by George
Gershwin, Carolina Shout by James P. Johnson, The Soul by Louis W.
Ballard, Yardbird Suite by Charlie Parker and Tournament Galop by Louis
Moreau Gottschalk.

The Quintet will perform on their collection of South American and
native American instruments featuring a rainstick from the Amazon, a
conch shell, deer hoof rattles, a Sioux ceremonial drum, the Sioux
courtship flute, pitos, whistles and cane flutes, as well traditional
wind instruments.

Tickets for this concert are $20, with discounts for students and
seniors. The Staunton Community Concert Association sponsors a series of
music, dance and theater artists. For more information about this
concert or their series, call 540-885-3165, 540-885-4460 or 540-886-2825.

The Quintet of the Americas, consisting of flutist Sato Moughalian,
oboist Matt Sullivan, clarinetist Edward Gilmore, hornist Barbara Oldham
and bassoonist Laura Koepke, was formed in Bogota, Colombia in 1976 by
U.S. citizens who were principal wind players in the Colombian National
Orchestra. The group relocated to New York City in 1979 and has since
enjoyed an international career that has taken them to concert halls
throughout the Americas, the Caribbean Asia, including annual
performances at Manhattan's Americas Society since 1982. Two time
recipients of ASCAP-Chamber Music America Awards for Adventuresome
Programming, the Quintet's repertoire represents works from composers
with a wide-range of aesthetic viewpoints. They have recorded for CRI,
Newport Classics, MMC and XLNT. Their latest CDs are Karel Husa:
Recollections on New World and Dancing in Colombia on the MSR label. The
Quintet has been a past recipient of the CMA Commissioning Award in for
a commission by David Chaitkin and a three-year Residency Award for work
in Chicago. They are in residence in The Department of Music and
Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University. Visit
their website at http://www.quintet.org.

For more information about the Quintet of the Americas, contact Jeffrey
James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.

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Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
45 Grant Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA
Tel: 516-586-3433
E-mail: jamesarts@-----.net
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com

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