Klarinet Archive - Posting 000013.txt from 2008/11

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert on November 8 Doctorow Center for
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:51:04 -0500

November 4, 2008
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas in Concert on November 8 Doctorow Center for the
Arts in Hunter, New York

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will present a concert on
Saturday, November 8 at 8:00 PM at the Doctorow Center for the Arts,
Rte. 23A in the village of Hunter, New York. Presented in cooperation
with the Catskill Mountain Foundation, this event is funded in part by
the Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation.

Repertoire for this performance, part of the Fall Colors of Music
Series, will include Bernstein’s Overture to Candide, Barber’s Summer
Music, José Barros’ El Picaflor, Jorge Olaya Muñoz’ Te sorprende?,
Villa-Lobos’s Quinteto em Forma de Choros, Matt Sullivan’s Amazing
Gracefully, Dr. Louis W. Ballard’s The Soul from Ritmo Indio and Louis
Moreau Gottschalk’s Tournament Galop. The program will also include
questions and answers with the Quintet.

Tickets for the November 8 concert are $18 and can be reserved by
calling 518-263-2063. For more information, visit
http://www.catskillmtn.org/events/classical-music/index.html.

Members of Quintet of the Americas are Sato Moughalian, flute; Matt
Sullivan, oboe; Edward Gilmore, clarinet; Barbara Oldham, horn; and
Laura Koepke, bassoon. Founded in Bogota, Colombia in 1976, the Quintet
has specialized in bringing music form Latin America to audiences in the
United States since its arrival in New York in 1979. The group has
enjoyed an international career that has taken them to concert halls
throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. 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. Their latest CDs are Karel
Husa: Recollections on New World, Dancing in Colombia and Sounds of
Brazil on the MSR label. The Quintet is a 2008-09 recipient of a CMA
Residency Partnership Program Grant. They are also currently 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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