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Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 7:30 PM
A FREE concert at the
Salvation Army Center in Jackson Heights, Queens

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86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights, NY

Join us for the last family concert of the Quintet's Chamber Music America Residency!

Program:

Serenata by Carlos Franzetti

Freeing the Caged Bird by Barbara Harbach

Baion de Bayo by Michael Colina

Wapango by Paquito D'Rivera

Pra dormir na rede by Gaudencio Thiago de Mello

Dance of Praise by James Cohn

Dances from Colombian and Cuba and tangos from Argentina

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Friday, June 26, 2009 at 7:30 PM

New York University

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at Loewe Auditorium, 35 West 4th Street, New York University

This concert takes place during Quintet's New York University Summer Institute for Woodwind Quintets for high school and college students.

Admission is free.

Program will include:

Julia Wolfe: On Seven-Star Shoes

Tania Leon: De Memorias

Samuel Barber: Summer Music

Nicholas Scarim: Garden At Night

and Dances from Latin America

This is sponsored by The Steinhardt School of Education, Department of Music and Performing Arts of New York University. You can find more about the Woodwind Institute at http://education.nyu.edu/music/summer.html

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Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 7:30 PM
A FREE concert celebrating spring at the Salvation Army Center in Jackson Heights, Queens

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86-07 35th Avenue,Jackson Heights, NY

As part of the Quintet's Chamber Music America Residency
Presented by Residency Partners

The Salvation Army of Jackson Heights and the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens

Program will include:

Garden at Night by Nicholas Scarim with Chris Vasquez, narrator

Quiet Tide - premiere of new commission by Mark Dancigers

Summertime from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin

August Swale by Beth Anderson

Azalea by Duke Ellington

Music from Colombian, Ecuador and tangos from Argentina

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Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 4:00 PM

Queens Botanical Garden - FREE CONCERT

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43-50 Main Street,Flushing, NY 11355

Presented by

the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens

As part of Gardening Day 2009 and funded by
the Quintet's Chamber Music America Residency Program grant

Program will include:

Garden at Night by Nicholas Scarim with Ellen Cava-Haag, narrator

Quiet Tide - premiere of new commission by Mark Dancigers

Summertime from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin

Summer Music by Samuel Barber

August Swale by Beth Anderson

Azalea by Duke Ellington

Colombian Dances from the Quintet's collection of traditional South American dances

For directions to the garden go to http://www.queensbotanical.org/

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Thursday, March 19, 2009 at 7:30 PM

Salvation Army Center

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86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights in Jackson Heights, Queens

A FREE concert - Program will include:

Overture to Candide by Leonard Bernstein
Summer Music by Samuel Barber
Arkansas Reel by James Cohn
"Summertime" from Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin
Amazing Gracefully by Matt Sullivan
Tournament Galop by Louis Moreau Gottschalk arr. R. W. Tucker
The Soul from Ritmo Indio by Dr. Louis W. Ballard

Thiago de Mello

Colombian and Brazilian Dances with guest Thiago de Mello on organic percussion

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March 24-26, 2009

The Quintet goes on tour to Arizona!

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Gila Valley Arts Council presents the Quintet at

Eastern Arizona State College
Tuesday, March 24th and Wednesday March 25th, 2009

Residency school performances and master classes

Concert at 7:30PM on Wednesday March 25 in the

Lee Little Theatre
For ticket information: gilavalley_artscouncil@yahoo.co (Adult tickets, $15; Students, $5)

Gold Canyon Arts Council presents the Quintet

March 26-March 27, 2009 in school concerts and master classes

and in concert at 7:30PM at the

Gold Canyon United Methodist Church, Gold Canyon, Arizona

for ticket information contact GCA@goldcanyonarts.org

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