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Saturday, February 4th, 2012 at 4:00PM |
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Music of Now Marathon
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The Quintet will perform during the 7-9:15 session. The Quintet will perform Neil Rolnick's "Ambos mundos" for quintet and computer, Xinyan Li's "Mo Suo's Burial Ceremony", Yao Chen's "Sfumato" and a premiere by In the Leonard Nimoy Thalia theatre, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, New York, NY Information 212-864-5400
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Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 2:00PM |
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Flushing Library
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41-17 Main Street, Flushing, Queens, NY |
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These programs are 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 sponsored by the American Composers Forum through its Encore Program, supporting repeat performances of new works.
For Quintet of the Americas press inquires, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 3:00PM |
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Pleasantville Chamber Music Society
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Admission is free Pleasantville Presbyterian Church, 400 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY Program |
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Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 2:00PM |
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Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center,
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100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens, NY "Freedom - Expanding Horizons"- a program of music and readings FREE ADMISSION Music including a premiere by Carl MaultsBy based on a text by Kumbaya Marcus, Valerie Coleman's Afro-Cuban Concerto for Wind Quintet, Barbara Harbach's Freeing the Caged Bird (2006) with readings by Maya Angelou and Paul Dunbar, Charles B. Griffin's Jimenez Suite (1993) with readings of the poems by Jimenez and Judah Adashi's Songs and Dances of Macondo based on Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude. |
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Nov. 1, Nov. 8, and Nov. 15 from 11-12AM, Nov. 17 at 7:30PM |
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THE HISTORY OF TANGO
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Workshops on Tuesday mornings Concert Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7:30PM all events with Daniel Bineli, bandoneonand Polly Ferman, piano at the Salvation Army Temple Daniel Binelli www.danielbinelli.com Polly Ferman www.pollyferman.net
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OCTOBER 9, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM |
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CELEBRATE NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH ! LATIN AMERICA: Contributions to Science and its Culture. |
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FAMILY DAY at the New York Hall of Science 47-01 111th Street Corona in Flushing Meadow Park in Queens, NY (#7 train to 111 Street Station) Admission is free for all before 11 AM This special event includes an iconographic display of the Colombian Botanical Expedition, videos, interactive games, face painting, dance, music from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Dominican Republic and much more. This collaboration between NYSCI, NY Hall of Science, and the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens will feature a performance by Quintet of the Americas at 1PM The program will include Songs and Dances of Macondo by Judah E. Adashi, based on the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Márquez. The Quintet will also perform dance music from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Dominican Republic, including Danza de mediodía by Mexico's Arturo Márquez. |
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June 21, 22 and 24, 2011 |
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Three Summer Solstice Concerts in Queens
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FREE CONCERT Presented in Cooperation with Latin American Cultural Center of Queens New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will perform three Summer Solstice concerts in Queens on Tuesday, June 21 at 11 AM at the Salvation Army Temple, 86-07 35th Avenue in Jackson Heights, on Wednesday, June 22 at 12:15 PM at Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace Harding Boulevard, in Bayside, and Friday, June 24 at 1:00 PM at Community Mediation Services, 89-64 163rd Street in Jamaica These events are presented in cooperation with the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens, Nayibe Berger, Director. The programs will feature music from the Quintet’s Sounds of Brazil CD and will also include two premieres, Little Polka by Douglaston-resident composer James Cohn and Water Run from Kukulkan III by David Dzubay. Also on the program - Shout Chorusby Kenji Bunch, Sfumato by Yao Chen, and Azaleaby Duke Ellington. All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM |
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Queens Botanical Garden
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FREE CONCERT 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11355 Presented in collaboration with the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens
Special Guest Artist Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, organic percussion The program will feature music from the Quintet’s Sounds of Brazil CD. Special guest will be organic percussionist and composer Thiago de Mello, who will join the quintet in a number of works that reflect his fusion of Brazilian rhythms and jazz influence. The concert will also include two premieres, Little Polka by Douglaston-resident composer James Cohn and Water Run from Kukulkan III by David Dzubay. Also on the program - Shout Chorusby Kenji Bunch, Sfumato by Yao Chen, and Azaleaby Duke Ellington. For directions to the garden go to http://www.queensbotanical.org/ All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 3:00 PM |
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Princeton Public Library
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Admission FREE See the Princeton Library magazine article pre-concert talk with Judah Adashi Judah Adashi: Songs and Dances of Macondo based on Gabriel Garcia Marques' One Hundred Years of Solitude Community Room, 1st floor, 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton, NJ 08542 Phone: 609.924.9529 All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Saturday, May 14th, 2011 |
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Wall to Wall Sonidos in the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre Admission Free Symphony Space's annual gift to New York, explores the breadth and depth of Latino cultures and features a stellar roster of artists and a number of commissioned works debuting their world premiere performances. At 1:15pm At 3:30PM
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Wednesday, May 11th at 7:30PM |
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Leonard Nimoy Thalia at
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Presents Thalia Book Club: A Literary Celebration! Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude
The fictional town of Macondo is the setting of Gabriel García Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude. This suite for woodwind quintet (here imagined as a band of street musicians) was conceived as a songbook, inspired by musical elements and episodes in the novel. A part of http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6413-thalia-book-club-a-literary-celebration-gabriel-garcia-marquezs-one-hundred-years-of-solitude All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 2 PM |
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Flushing Library
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41-17 Main St, Flushing, Queens, NY In Celebration of the Mayor's Immigrant Heritage Week Join us in celebrating Immigrant Heritage with a concert of wind quintet music by composers from China, Cuba, and Colombia Guest composer Yao Chen Admission is FREE. for more information call (718) 661-1200 http://www.queenslibrary.org All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Our website improvements have been made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with support made possible through the JPMorgan Chase Arts and Culture Regrants Program.
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Writers, including Oscar Hijuelos (Pulitzer Prize winner of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love) and Esmeralda Santiago (When I was Puerto Rican) discuss Gabriel García Márquez' masterpiece-the gorgeous, moving, passionate story about the history of a family and a mythical Latin American country-which won the author the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Tickets $25; Member $21; 30 & Under $15