Klarinet Archive - Posting 000059.txt from 2008/02

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas to Present African Impact Concert at Langston
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:21:16 -0500

February 6, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas to Present African Impact Concert at Langston
Hughes Library on February 8

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will present a special
“African Impact,” concert on Friday, February 8, 2008 at 9:00 p.m. at
Langston Hughes Library, 100-01 Northern Boulevard in Corona, Queens,
New York. This is part of a two-day celebration of author Langston Hughes.

Works to be performed will include a Woodwind Quintet by the eminent
Nigerian composer Akin Euba, who is on the composition faculty of the
University of Pittsburgh. some Zulu-South African music including "Nansi
Imali" by Joseph Shabalala Ladysmith Black Mambazo, music by
African-Americans Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, William Grant Still, and
Charlie Parker.

This concert is free and open to the public. For more information,
please contact the Langston Hughes Library at 718- 651-1100 or visit
their website at http://www.queenslibrary.org.

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.

This concert is made possible with public funds from the New York State
Council on the Arts, a state agency, the New York City Department of
Cultural Affairs and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and
Historic Preservation. Additional funding comes from The Carnegie
Corporation of New York, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, The Meet the
Composer / JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Ensembles, The Jarvis and
Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Shigeru Kaneshiro, and the Music
Performance Trust Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. Special thanks to NYS
Senator the Hon. Frank Padavan, the Hon. Helen Marshall, Borough
President of Queens, and the Queens Delegation to the New York City Council.

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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