Klarinet Archive - Posting 000225.txt from 2009/01

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] =?windows-1252?Q?The_American_Chamber_Ensemble_Presents_?=
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:59:36 -0500

January 13, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
(516) 586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

The American Chamber Ensemble Presents Elie Siegmeister at 100 – A
Master of American Music Concert on January 15 at Massapequa Public Library

The American Chamber Ensemble's Elie Siegmeister Birthday Celebration -
Elie at 100 – A Master of American Music concert will take place on
Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. at Massapequa Public Library, 40
Harbor Lane in Massapequa Park, New York

This concert, presented in cooperation with the Elie Siegmeister
Society, will be a celebration and survey of Great Neck-resident Elie
Siegmeister’s career, including selections from his chamber works, solo
piano compositions, songs and movements from concertos (in versions for
soloist and piano). The evening will feature the first public
performances of Siegmeister’s Trio for Flute, Clarinet & Bassoon,
composed in 1928, and his Jewish Scherzo for Clarinet & Bassoon,
composed in 1932 and revised in 1944.

Performers for this concert will include ACE Director, clarinetist Naomi
Drucker, who will be joined by ACE members pianist Marilyn Sherman
Lehman, flutist Denise Lozano Healey, oboist Lynne Cohen and bassoonist
Braden Toan.

Special guests will be Helene Williams, soprano and Leonard Lehrman, piano.

Several of the performers will speak about their friendship with this
great American composer.

This concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call
Massapequa Public Library at (516) 799-0770 or visit
http://www.jamesarts.com/ace/schedule.html.

The American Chamber Ensemble explores the great chamber music
literature for clarinet and piano in combination with strings, woodwinds
and voice and presents performances featuring world-class artists. ACE
consists of the finest freelance musicians in the New York area and has
been cited by critics for their superb presentations of chamber
masterworks. Their latest CDs on Elysium are American Clarinet
Treasures, featuring core members of ACE performing works by George
Kleinsinger, Virgil Thomson, Daniel Gregory Mason, Elliott Carter,
Douglas Moore and Gary Schocker, with Guest Artist Stanley Drucker and
The American Chamber Ensemble Plays Peter Schickele, which features five
of this modern master’s most important chamber works.

ACE concerts are supported by the Hofstra Music Department, and assisted
with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state
agency, and private contributions.

For the latest American Chamber Ensemble concert listings, updates and
information, logon to http://www.jamesarts.com/ace/home.html.

For press inquiries or more information about the American Chamber
Ensemble, please call Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or
email them at 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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