Klarinet Archive - Posting 000139.txt from 2009/09

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Concert at York College CUNY in Jamaica,
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:33:07 -0400

September 29, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas in Concert at York College CUNY in Jamaica,
Queens on October 2

New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will give a concert of music
of the Americas on Friday, October 2 at 8:00 PM at the Performing Arts
Center of the Little Theater, on the campus of York College CUNY, 94-20
Guy R. Brewer Blvd. in Jamaica, New York.

Concert repertoire will include The Soul, a special work by
Native-American composer Louis Ballard, whose compositions combine
Native-American melodic and rhythmic material (and occasionally
Native-American instruments) with mainstream western compositional
techniques. Other works on the program include Leonard Bernstein's
Overture to Candide, Summer Music by Samuel Barber; Summertime by George
Gershwin; music by African-American and Cuban-American composers James
P. Johnson, William Grant Still, Carl MaultsBy and Paquito D'Rivera,
covering early jazz to gospel and salsa styles. Forest Hills composer
Gaudencio Thiago de Mello will be represented with a lovely lullaby
about sleeping in a hammock! In recognition of the Quintet's origins in
South America, the concert will include music from Colombia, Cuba, Peru
and Brazil.

The October 2 concert is free and open to the public, however there is a
suggested donation of $10.00. For more event information, call
718-262-3750 or visit
http://www.york.cuny.edu/centers-institutes/performing-arts.

For press inquires or photos, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----. All Quintet of the Americas
concerts are ADA accessible.

Members of Quintet of the Americas are Sato Moughalian, flute; Matt
Sullivan, oboe; Nicholas Gallas, clarinet; Barbara Oldham, horn; and
Maureen Strenge, bassoon. Founded in Bogota, Colombia in 1976, the
Quintet has specialized in bringing music from 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.

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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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