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Upcoming concerts
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Salvation Army Queens Temple

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MEMORY PROJECT

The program will feature the premieres of three multi-media works inspired by interviews with seniors in Jackson Heights, Corona and Bayside, Queens

Carl MaultsBy's Abuelas, Nanas and Grandmamas Unsung

Lembit Beecher's Music for Bayside

Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin's Dancing Lullaby

Also works by Louis Armstrong, John Williams and Colombian dances

86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights

Admission is free

All Quintet concerts are ADA accessibleADA

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 12:15PM
Catholic Charities Bayside Senior Center

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MEMORY PROJECT

The program will feature the premieres of three multi-media works inspired by interviews with seniors in Jackson Heights, Corona and Bayside, Queens

Carl MaultsBy's Abuelas, Nanas and Grandmamas Unsung

Lembit Beecher's Music for Bayside

Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin's Dancing Lullaby

Also works by Louis Armstrong, John Williams and Colombian dances

221-15 Horace Harding Blvd, Bayside (just off the L.I.E. at Springfield Blvd. exit - north)

Admission is free

All Quintet concerts are ADA accessibleADA

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Friday, June 14, 2013 at 4:30PM
Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center

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MEMORY PROJECT

The program will feature the premieres of three multi-media works inspired by interviews with seniors in Jackson Heights, Corona and Bayside, Queens

Carl MaultsBy's Abuelas, Nanas and Grandmamas Unsung

Lembit Beecher's Music for Bayside

Lev "Ljova" Zhurbin's Dancing Lullaby

featuring a performance by local students
performing hand made instruments with the Quintet!

Also works by Louis Armstrong, John Williams and Colombian dances

Location: 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens, NY

Admission is free

All Quintet concerts are ADA accessibleADA

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Sunday, June 16, 2013 at 2:00 PM - Celebrate Father's Day!
Queens Botanical Garden

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The Quintet returns to the Queens Botanical Garden
for another chance to Celebrate Composers from Queens!

Presented in collaboration with the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens

Free Concert included with Garden admission.

The program will include

The Stuff of Comets commissioned by Quintet of the Americas by Dylan Glatthorn (Astoria)

Wind Quintet (2004) by Beata Moon (Forest Hills)

Quintet No. 2 for Winds by James Cohn (Douglaston)

Sincerita by Christopher Caliendo (grew up in Jackson Heights)

Music from the "Harry Potter" film by John Williams (born in Flushing)

And a Salute to our Historical Composers with
music by Louis Armstrong, Scott Joplin, Soong Fu-Yuan, and Morton Gould

43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11355
For directions to the garden go to http://www.queensbotanical.org/

All Quintet concerts are ADA accessibleADA

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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.

For Quintet of the Americas press inquires, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.


Past concerts
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Tuesday, April 9, 2013 at 1:00PM
Center for Mediation Services

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Celebration of Queens Composers

The program will include

The Stuff of Comets commissioned by Quintet of the Americas by Dylan Glatthorn (Astoria)

Wind Quintet (2004) by Beata Moon (Forest Hills)

Quintet No. 2 for Winds by James Cohn (Douglaston)

Sincerita by Christopher Caliendo (grew up in Jackson Heights)

Music from the "Harry Potter" film by John Williams (born in Flushing)

And a Salute to our Historical Composers with
music by Louis Armstrong, Scott Joplin, Soong Fu-Yuan, and Morton Gould

Located at the Center for Mediation Services, 89-64 163rd Street in Jamaica

Admission is free

All Quintet concerts are ADA accessibleADA

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Tuesday, April 16, 2013 at 7:30 PM

at The Players Theatre Main Stage

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Women's Work Presents Quintet of the Americas

The program will include

Julia Wolfe's On Seven-Star Shoes

Beata Moon's Wind Quintet (2004)

Kate Neal's cartoon Paper, Scissors, Dog

Barbara Harbach's Freeing the Caged Bird

And More TBA

115 Macdougal Street, New York, NY 10012
Between West 3rd and Bleecker streets

Tickets $20/ $10 for students and seniors

Tickets available at the door or
purchase in advance at https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/pe/9756426

(This location not handicapped accessible.)

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Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 at 8PM

Loewe Auditorium, NYU

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The Quintet performs Julia Wolfe's On Seven-Star Shoes

NYU

Julia Wolfe is well-known for her work as co-founder of New York's Bang On A Can Festival. She is on the faculty of New York University.

35 W. 4th Street, NYC

Admission is free

All Quintet concerts are ADA accessibleADA

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 11:00 AM
Salvation Army Queens Temple

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Bird

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
David Dzubay's "Water Run" from Kukulkan III

Silver Bells and more!

86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights

Admission is free

All Quintet concerts are ADA accessibleADA

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Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 1:30PM
Elm-Cor Senior Center

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Bird

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
David Dzubay's "Water Run" from Kukulkan III

Silver Bells and more!

98-19 Astoria Blvd., East Elmhurst

Admission is free

All Quintet concerts are ADA accessibleADA

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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 12:15PM
Catholic Charities Bayside Senior Center

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Bird

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
David Dzubay's "Water Run" from Kukulkan III

Silver Bells and more!

221-15 Horace Harding Blvd, Bayside (just off the L.I.E. at Springfield Blvd. exit - north)

Admission is free

All Quintet concerts are ADA accessibleADA

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See 2012 for past concerts!

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