Klarinet Archive - Posting 000055.txt from 2011/05

From: Jeffrey James <jamesarts@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Quintet of the Americas in Performance at Princeton Public
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 15:39:37 -0400

May 11, 2011
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.net

Quintet of the Americas in Performance at Princeton Public Library in =

New Jersey on May 15

New York, NY =96 Quintet of the Americas woodwind ensemble will be in =

concert on Sunday, May 15 =96 3:00 PM in the Community Room of the =

Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon Street in Princeton, New Jersey.

The program on literature and music will feature Judah Adashi=92s Songs =

and Dances of Macondo. The fictional town of Macondo is the setting of =

Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez=92 novel One Hundred Years of =

Solitude, on which the composer=92s suite for woodwind quintet (here =

imagined as a band of street musicians) is based.

Other works on the program are the Maya Angelou movement of Freeing the =

Caged Bird by Barbara Harbach, Jiminez Suite by Charles B. Griffin =

inspired by poetry of Juan Ramon Jiminez and Colombian dances. Judah =

Adashi will give a pre-concert lecture about the work. Read a Princeton =

Library magazine story about this at =

http://princetonlibrary.org/connections/index.html.

The May 15 event is free and open to the public and is ADA accessible. =

For more information, please call 609-924-9529 or visit =

http://princetonlibrary.org/.

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 new music from the Western =

hemisphere 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 and Eastern Europe. =

They are 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 and become their friend at =

http://www.facebook.com.

This program is made possible with public funds from the New York State =

Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative =

communities in New York State's 62 counties. This program is supported, =

in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural =

Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Additional funding comes =

from The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation and the Aaron =

Copland Fund for Music. This performance of Songs and Dances of Macondo =

is also sponsored by the American Composers Forum through its Encore =

Program, supporting repeat performances of new works. Mr. Adashi appears =

through support from Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections =

program.

Photos of Quintet of the Americas are at http://quintet.org/press.html. =

For press inquires, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at =

516-586-3433 or jamesarts@-----.

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