Klarinet Archive - Posting 000051.txt from 2009/05

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert at Salvation Army Center of Jackson
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 18:51:15 -0400

May 18, 2009
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, Queens on May 21

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will give a special concert
celebrating Spring and nature on Thursday, May 21 at 7:30 PM at the
Salvation Army Center of Jackson Heights, 86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson
Heights, Queens. The concert is presented by the Salvation Army Center
of Jackson Heights as part of the Quintet's Chamber Music America Queens
Residency.

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 Quiet
Tide, a new piece with a nature theme commissioned from young composer
Mark Dancigers, Simple Gifts from Copland’s Appalachian Spring, Beth
Anderson’s August Swale, Duke Ellington’s Azalea, Strutting Butterflies
by Douglaston composer James Cohn, Gershwin’s Summertime from Porgy and
Bess, and dances from Colombia and tangos from Argentina.

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 May 21 concert is free and open to the public. For more event
information, call (718) 335-3693. For Quintet of the Americas press
inquires or photos, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.

Performing will be Sato Moughalian on flute, Matt Sullivan on oboe,
Nicholas Gallas on clarinet, Barbara Oldham on horn, and Monica Ellis on
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. They have recorded for CRI,
Newport Classics, MMC and XLNT. Their latest CDs are Karel Husa:
Recollections on New World and Dancing in Colombia and Sounds of Brazil
on the MSR label. The Quintet has been a past recipient of Chamber Music
America Commissioning Awards for commissions by David Chaitkin and
Judith Sainte Croix, a three-year CMA Residency Award for work in
Chicago and 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.

This concert is one of a series of events hosted by the Salvation Army
Center through the Chamber Music America Residency Partners Program.
Funding has been provided by the JPMorgan Chase Residency Grant Program,
a program of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and the Chamber Music America
Residency Endowment Fund. 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 Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family
Foundation. 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. Special thanks to Captain
Rosaemilia and his staff.

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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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