Klarinet Archive - Posting 000230.txt from 2009/10
From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Hofstra University Museum Presents The American Chamber Ensemble on
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:52:58 -0400
October 20, 2009
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
(516) 586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net
Hofstra University Museum Presents The American Chamber Ensemble on
October 25 at Hofstra Library in Hempstead, New York
Hofstra University Museum presents Feel the Beat, Voices Sweet, Watch
Their Feet!, featuring The American Chamber Ensemble on Sunday, October
25 at 3 PM at Rochelle and Irwin A. Lowenfeld Conference and Exhibition
Hall on the 10th Floor of Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library on the South
Campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York.
The program is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition
America’s Irreplaceable Dance Treasures: The First 100, and features
selections from American composers, such as Aaron Copland and Leonard
Bernstein and includes a musical composition written specifically for
this occasion by Hofstra Professor Emeritus of Music Herbert Deutsch.
Performers include members of the American Chamber Ensemble and guest
clarinetist, Stanley Drucker. This program is co-directed by Associate
Professor of Music David Fryling, Adjunct Associate Professor of Music
and ACE member Marilyn Sherman Lehman, and the Dance Program Faculty.
Tickets for this event are $5 general public; $ 3 senior citizen and
PEIR members (with HofstraCard); Hofstra students, faculty, staff with
current HofstraCard, or Hofstra University Museum members admitted free.
For reservations or more information, call Hofstra Museum at 516-463-5672.
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 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, photos 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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45 Grant Avenue
Farmingdale, NY 11735 USA
Tel: 516-586-3433
E-mail: jamesarts@-----.net
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com
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