Quintet of the Americas

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February 22, 2015 2:00PM
The Memory Project: Crystal Winter Concert

	at El Paraiso, 102-11 43rd Avenue, Corona, Queens, NY CRYSTAL WINTER With projected images of crystals, snowflakes, winter scenes, and Van Gogh's painting "Starry Night" The program will feature the opportunity for the audience to join the Quintet playing bells, water glasses, keys Adam Schoenberg's Winter Music Sammy Cahn's Let it Snow Quintet of the Americas' improvisation Starry Night Edgar Cólon-Hernández's Procesión jíbara ProProkofiev's "Troika" from Lietenant Kije Silver Bells and more! 86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights Admission is free

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March 1, 2015 at 2PM
The Memory Project at Flushing Library

	Flushing Library, 41-17 Main Street, Flushing, NY Our program March 1 at the Flushing Library features works by Harold Gutierrez, including his piano wind sextet plus 2 premieres: a new work for Quintet based on the memories of Latino seniors in Queens, and a new work for the Quintet to perform with the Corona Youth Orchestra. The Quintet is working with the students this month. The Corona Youth Orchestra is based on El Sistema, an orchestra model originally started in Venezuela. Similar programs exist now in the United States, supported by the New England Conservatory. Current NYC-Metro area El Sistema projects include UpBeat in the Bronx, Harmony Program in Manhattan, the WHIN Music Project in Washington Heights and Inwood, and the Youth Orchestra of St. Luke's. All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible

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SPRING, 2015
In Pursuit of Freedom

	At MAY 10 at 3:30PM at St. Marks Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 E. 10th St., NY, NY And at Langston Hughes Library, 100-01 Northern Blvd., Corona Queens St. Philips Episcopal Church, 204 W. 134th Street, NY, NY Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, NY Featuring Carl MaultsBy's "The Journey" and Kum-Ba-Ya Marcus and other works by Valerie Coleman, William Grant Still, and Barbara Harbach; and poetry by Maya Angelou and Paul Laurence Dunbar. All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible

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SPRING, 2015
The Melting Pot concerts

	June 14, 2015 at 2:30 at the Queens Botanical Garden, 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY And DATES TBA the Salvation Army, 86-07 35th Ave, Jackson Heights, Queens Elm-Cor Senior Center, 98-19 Astoria Blvd, East Elmhurst, Queens Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace Harding Expy, Bayside Queens Featuring a new work by Flushing composer Daniel Ott as well as works by Valerie Coleman, Xinyan Li, Stuart Balcomb, Mohammed Fairouz, Ljova, Gunther Schuller, and Carlos Franzetti All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible

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APRIL and MAY, 2015
From the Heart

	Community Mediation Services, 89-64 163rd Street, Jamaica, NY Rockaway Artists Alliance, Ft. Tilden, Far Rockaway, Queens featuring works by Ljova, Lembit Beecher, Xinyan Li, Neil Rolnick, Matt Sullivan, Roberto Sierra, and an animated film by Kate Neil. All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible

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These programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council. Additional funding comes from Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, the Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Special thanks to the Hon. Helen Marshall, Borough President of Queens, and the Queens Delegation to the New York City Council.

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The Memory Project: Crystal Winter Concert