Klarinet Archive - Posting 000143.txt from 2009/04
From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert at Queens Botanical Garden on April
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:42:21 -0400
April 23, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net
Quintet of the Americas in Concert at Queens Botanical Garden on April
26 – Presented in Cooperation with Latin American Cultural Center of Queens
New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will give a special concert
of music about Spring and nature on Sunday, April 26 at 4:00 PM at the
Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main Street in Flushing, New York. The
event is presented in cooperation with the Latin American Cultural
Center of Queens as part of Gardening Day 2009.
The program will feature Garden at Night, by Nicholas Scarim, with guest
narrator Ellen Cava-Haag, director of music at the United Nations
International School, Queens campus. Other works will include a new
piece with a nature theme commissioned for the event from young composer
Mark Dancigers, Beth Anderson’s August Swale, Samuel Barber's Summer
Music, Duke Ellington’s Azalea, Gershwin's Summertime from Porgy and
Bess and dances from Colombia, Brazil and other South American
countries, many performed on instruments made of natural objects.
The Scarim work, for woodwind quintet and narrator, tells a story in
verse about a child who sneaks outside in the middle of the night and
finds that quite a few flowers and plants (like tiger-lilies and
snapdragons) have come to life in the moonlight. More about the composer
and the composition at http://www.quintet.org/news-scarim.html.
The April 26 concert is free and open to the public. For more event
information, call Queens Botanical Garden at 718-886-3800 or visit them
at http://www.queensbotanical.org/.
For Quintet of the Americas press inquires or photos, contact Jeffrey
James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.
Quintet of the Americas, resident ensemble in Queens, is a world
renowned group. Members are Sato Moughalian, flute; Matt Sullivan, oboe;
Edward Gilmore, clarinet; Barbara Oldham, horn; and Laura Koepke,
bassoon. Their various backgrounds include experience in orchestras such
as the New York Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra and the
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, teaching appointments at New York University,
Manhattan School of Music and Princeton University, among others.
Collectively as the Quintet of the Americas they have performed in over
three hundred cities in the U.S., Canada, Venezuela, Colombia, Georgia,
Ukraine and Caribbean nations, are Artists in Residence in The
Department of Music and Performing Arts of The Steinhardt School at New
York University, and have given performances in major sites such as
Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, including many international
festivals. They have commissioned over thirty compositions via grants
awarded by the National Endowment of the Arts among others, and have to
date recorded eight CDs of American music. In short, "Their virtuosity,
balances, articulation and intonation mark them as one of the world's
top wind quintets," as one concert reviewer put it. Visit their website
at http://www.quintet.org.
The Quintet is performing over 30 concerts and workshops this season in
Queens through the support of the CMA Residency Partnership grant. The
Quintet's partners are the Salvation Army Center, The NY Hall of
Science, the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens and the United
Nations International School, Queens campus.
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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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