Klarinet Archive - Posting 000017.txt from 2008/06

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert at Salvation Army Center of Jackson
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:32:57 -0400

June 2, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas in Concert at Salvation Army Center of Jackson
Heights on June 5- With Special Guest Composer Eric Ewazen

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will give a special Music for
Spring concert on Thursday, June 5 at 6:45 PM at the Salvation Army
Center of Jackson Heights, 86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights, Queens.
The concert is presented by Latin American Cultural Center of Queens and
the Salvation Army Center of Jackson Heights.

The program will feature Roaring Fork, a woodwind quintet by the New
York composer Eric Ewazen. This work was inspired by the Rocky Mountains
near Aspen, Colorado. Photographs of the mountains will be projected
during the piece and Mr. Ewazen will be present to speak about his work
and meet the audience. The Quintet will also perform dances from
Colombia, the country where the group was founded. Also on the program
is Fiesta Latina, a five-movement work by Douglaston composer, James
Cohn, based on Latin themes such as sambas and other dances. Rounding
out the program will be "Goin' Home" from by Anton Dvorak's New World
Symphony, an American folk song, Frog Went a Courtin' by William Grant
Still and a South African pennywhistle tune.

The June 5 concert is free and open to the public. For more information,
call (718) 335-3693.

Eric Ewazen has won numerous awards and his works have been performed
and recorded by such artists as the American Brass Quintet, the
Juilliard Wind Ensemble, the Ahn Trio and Joe Alessi and Philip Smith of
the New York Philharmonic. His new clarinet concerto will be premiered
by the Cleveland Orchestra in August. Visit him at
http://www.ericewazen.com/new/index.php.

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. The programs of the LACCQ are supported with public funds
provided by Queens Borough President Hon. Helen M. Marshall, NYS
Senators Hon. Serphin Maltese and Hon. John D. Sabini, NYS Assembly
Member Ivan C. Lafayette, Deputy Speaker, the Queens Delegation to the
NYS Assembly and the Puerto Rican/ Hispanic Task Force and Council
Member Hon. Helen Sears, through the NYC Department of Cultural affairs.
Corporate supporters include Verizon, Citizens for NYC, the Queens
Council on the Arts, the NYC Parks and Recreation the Queens
Commissioner of Parks Hon. Dorothy Lewandowski, the NY Foundation for
the Arts and the Latino Lawyers Association of Queens County. Special
thanks to Captain Rosaemilia and his staff.

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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