Klarinet Archive - Posting 000032.txt from 2007/06

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Palisades Virtuosi Presents The Jazz Age Program on June 9,
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:19:24 -0400

June 4, 2007
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Palisades Virtuosi Presents The Jazz Age Program on June 9, Featuring
World Premiere of New Work by Dick Hyman

Ridgewood, NJ - The critically-acclaimed Palisades Virtuosi will present
“The Jazz Age”, a program of chamber music premieres and masterworks on
Saturday, June 9 - 8:00 p.m. at the Unitarian Society of Ridgewood, 113
Cottage Place in Ridgewood, New Jersey.

This final concert of the 2006-07 season will feature the World Premiere
of another Virtuosi commissioned work – Dick Hyman’s Parable. Mr. Hyman
will also perform at the concert. The Virtuosi will also present Six
Souvenirs for Two Flutes and One Piano by Robert Russell Bennett, Les
Treteaux for flute, alto saxophone & piano by Max Dubois, Concert Piece
#2 for clarinet & alto saxophone [originally for basset horn] by
Mendelssohn, Prelude No. 1 by Gershwin, Anderson St. Rag by the
Virtuosi’s own Ron Levy, Eine Kleine Abendmusik by Fred Messner (a 2006
Virtuosi commission) and other works by Copland and Scott Joplin. For
program notes and composer information, please visit
http://www.palisadesvirtuosi.org/programnotes.html. Every concert by the
Palisades Virtuosi includes a work commissioned by the ensemble.

Special guests for this concert will be Lou Caimano, Alto Saxophone and
Janet Somers, flute.

Tickets for the June 9 concert are $20 and $15 for students and seniors.
For reservations or other information, please call 201-488-1149.

In a growing catalogue of chamber music compositions, Dick Hyman’s most
recent pieces are Dances and Diversions for the Kinor String Quartet,
and Parable, for the Palisades Virtuosi. Earlier compositions include a
violin/piano sonata, a quintet for piano and strings, and a sextet for
clarinet, piano and strings. His concert compositions for orchestra
include his Piano Concerto, Ragtime Fantasy, The Longest Blues in the
World, and From Chama to Cumbres by Steam, a work for orchestra, jazz
combo, and prerecorded railroad sounds. A cantata based on the
autobiography of Mark Twain was premiered with the choral group, Gloria
Musicae, in Sarasota. Mr. Hyman has often been heard in duo-piano
performances with Derek Smith, in Three-Piano Crossover with Marian
McPartland and the late Ruth Laredo, and in various pops concerts under
the direction of Doc Severinsen. Visit him online at
http://www.dickhyman.com/.

The Palisades Virtuosi, consisting of flutist Margaret Swinchoski,
clarinetist Donald Mokrynski and pianist Ron Levy, is a 501 (c)(3)
organization that was established to promote and enrich the repertoire
for flute, clarinet and piano and present concerts that include existing
and newly-commissioned repertoire for this configuration, supplemented
by solos, duos and larger works featuring guest artists. Volume One of
their New American Masters CD series has been released by Albany
Records. They are currently recording Volume Two. Read their latest From
the Palisades newsletter at
http://www.jamesarts.com/releases/may07/PV_nws_050207.htm and their
recent article in Chamber Music magazine at
http://www.palisadesvirtuosi.org/pvnews.html. Visit them online at
http://www.palisadesvirtuosi.org/.

Funding for this concert has been made possible in part by the New
Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, through grant
funds administered by the Bergen County Department of Parks, Division of
Cultural and Historic Affairs.

For more information about the Palisades Virtuosi, 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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