A gala concert of Latin American Music as part of a three-month festival of visual and performing arts from Latin America and Spain sponsored by the Historic Flushing Town Hall and The Latin American Cultural Center of Queens.

Flushing Town Hall
137-35 Northern Boulevard Flushing, NY 11354

$22 Regular, $15 FCCA Members
For information telephone: (718) 463-7700

Americas Vocal Ensemble, Nelly Vuksic, Director

The Bridge Trio: Mirian Conti, piano

• Circulos - Joaquin Turina
• El Choclo - Villoldo
• A Media Luz - Donato
• A Fuego Lento - Salgan

James Grassek, violin Robert Kogan, cello Mirian Conti, piano

Quintet of the Americas

• El Pica Flor - Jose Barros (Colombia)
  
• La cumparsita - Gerardo Matos Radriguez (Uruguay)
• Bunde Tolimense - Alberto Castilla (Colombia)
• Strutting Butterflies - James Cohn (USA)
• La comparsa - Ernesto Lecuona (Cuba)
• Wapango - Paquito D'Rivera (Cuba)
• Pastores a Belen - Puerto Rican carol

Community Church of Douglaston 4:00pm

For information telephone: (718) 229-4529

with guests Chris Vasquez, narrator and composers James Cohn and Jack Gottlieb

Arkansas Reel (1994) James Cohn (b. 1928)

Folk Suite No. 4 (1962) William Grant Still (1895-1978)

• El Monigote (Venezuela) Arr. Adam Lesnick
• Anda Buscando De Rosa En Rosa (Mexico)
• Tayeras (Brazil)

Appalachian Spring Aaron Copland arr. Quintet of the Americas

The Soul from Ritmo Indio (1969) Dr. Louis W. Ballard (b.1931) Matt Sullivan, Lakota courtship flute (WIIKIZHO)

Still Rockin in Jerusalem (1993) Carl MaultsBy

Quintet for Winds, Op. 36b (1981) James Cohn

Meet the Composer discussion with Mr. Cohn, Mr. Gottlieb and Mr. Vasquez

Twilight Crane (Yuzuru) (2001 version) Jack Gottlieb Chris Vasquez, narrator

Picaflor (Colombia) Jose Barros

Goin Home Traditional - Dvorak Arr. Matt Sullivan

El Diablo Suelto (Venezuela) Horaclio Fernandez

ÒFrom the Folk,Ó a program of wind chamber music inspired by folk traditions, fables and dances from Eastern Europe to South America to Appalachia to Japan. Douglaston composer James Cohn and New York composer Jack Gottlieb will present a symposium immediately following intermission giving the audience a chance to find out what folk traditions have been influential in their music.

The concert will feature Mr. CohnÕs Arkansas Reel which is a creative interweaving of two famous American songs: Arkansas Traveler and Virginia Mountain Boys which was composed in dedication to President Clinton. Mr. Cohn will provide tantalizing clues as to how to find Scottish and Jewish influences in his Quintet.

Mr. GottliebÕs work Twilight Crane is a musical version of a famous Japanese fable which includes a woodcutter who saves a crane, magical weaving, and the perils of greed. Christopher Vasquez will narrate this engaging tale.

Other works on the program will include works by Aaron Copland and Anton Dvorak who drew upon American folk music in Appalachian Spring and the New World Symphony. William Grant StillÕs Folk Suite will include music from Venezuela, Mexico and Brazil. Also on the program will be folk dances from Colombia, a work by native American composer Dr. Louis W. Ballard played on a Sioux wooden courtship flute, and a gospel song set to a salsa beat by New York composer Carl MaultsBy.

This concert is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Additional funding from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Meet the Composer / JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Ensembles.

Funding from Meet the Composer, Inc. is provided with the support of NY State Council on the Arts, NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, ASCAP, Virgil Thomson Foundation, Jerome Foundation, JP Morgan Chase, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, The Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust, and National Endowment for the Arts.

Merkin Concert Hall
Abraham Goodman House, 129 W. 67th St., New York, NY

Tickets at Merkin Concert Hall Box Office
For information telephone: (212) 501-3330
$20/$10seniors/students;TDF

• Five Poems for woodwind quintet
  

• Deux Preludes for woodwind trio Recollections for quintet and piano with guest pianist DAVID OEI
  
  
• Serenade for solo quintet, strings, xylophone and harp

  conducted by Karel Husa with members of Perspective Ensemble

Special Meet the Composer Question and Answer Session.

Click here for more information on Karel Husa.

This concert made possible with public funds from New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

43-50 Main Street Flushing, Queens

For information telephone: (718) 886-3800 ext. 230
Bring a chair - Bring a blanket- Bring a friend!

Come hear a musical picture of hummingbirds, goldfinches, doves and nightingales, and the Japanese legend of the Twilight Crane. Featuring the Colombian composer Jose Barros, Brazilian Villa-Lobos, New Yorkers Jack Gottlieb, Charlie Parker, and Douglaston resident James Cohn.

This program is sponsored with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and DCA Cultural Challenge, the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation. Additional funds provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Music Performance Trust Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. With special thanks to NYS Senators the Hon. Frank Padavan and the Hon. Serphin R. Maltese, the Hon. Claire Shulman, Borough President of Queens, Councilman Archie Spigner and the Queens Delegation to the New York City Council. In addition the Queens Botanical Garden receives support from the Voelker-Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and DCA Cultural Challenge.

Bar Harbor Congregational Church,
29 Mount Desert St., Bar Harbor, Maine.

For information telephone (212) 222-1026 / (207) 288-5744 fax (207) 288-3678

José Barros - El Picaflor (The Hummingbird)

Karel Husa - Five Poems (1984)

Jack Gottlieb - Twilight Crane (Yuzuru) (1962) (A Japanese legend of greed)

James Cohn - The Goldfinch Variations (1984)
Flute, Oboe, Clarinet

Peteris Vasks - Music for Fleeting Birds (1977)

Elliott Schwartz - Bird Bath (for quintet and boom boxes) PREMIER

Amy Rubin - from "Trifocals: Snapshots of a Tropical Island" (1996)

Before the Rain - Birds before a Storm

Trois Oiseaux

Charlie Parker ("Bird") - Yard Bird Suite arr. Edmund Cionek

Heitor Villa-Lobos - From la Guia Pratica (1935)

Os pombinhos (The Little Doves)

A Pombinha voou (The Little Dove Flew Away)

Admission FREE (718) 298-8578

John Philip Sousa — Marches including Stars and Stripes Forever William Mayer - Yankee Doodle Fanfare

Aaron Copland - Appalachian Spring

Morton Gould (Queens composer) - Pavanne

James Cohn - Arkansas Reel, Shenandoah

More music by other famous Americans including Leonard Bernstein, Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, Paquito D’Rivera and famous American songs like Meet Me in Saint Louis, Charleston, Chattanooga Choo Choo, New York, New York, Singin’ In the Rain, Over the Rainbow, You Stepped Out of A Dream, You’re A Grand Old Flag, and Give My Regards to Broadway

The events in New York are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. Free concerts in Queens are also funded with support from New York State Senator Frank Padavan with funding through the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and with support from the Honorable Claire Shulman, Borough President of Queens and the members of the Queens Delegation to the City Council including Councilman Archie Spigner with funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Matching funds provided by the Music Performance Trust Fund of the Recording Industry with co-operation of Local 802, A.F. of M. Funds also provided by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

A Benefit Concert to Support the Quintet's Colombian CD Project.

Preview bundes, pasillos, porros, paseos, bambucos, and waltzes Jorge Olaya Muñoz and others, from the new CD

Guest artist Argentine pianist, Mirian Conti

Gala reception

Contact the quintet at quintet@rcn.com for ticket information

Admission — FREE For information (718) 651-1100

A concert celebrating Still’s genius and inspiration in using music from the African, Jazz, Latino, and Western Classical Traditions.

William Grant Still - Panama Dances, Folk Suite No. 4, Miniatures, and featuring Rising Tide - the theme song from the 1939 World’s Fair

Ragtime music by James P. Johnson, Scott Joplin, Edward "Kid" Ory

Jazz music by Louis Armstrong and Paquito D’Rivera

Music by Queens composer James Cohn

Music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk - American 19^th century multi-culturalist

Music by Cuban composers Lecuona, Cervantes and Samuell

Obangiji by African composer Fela Sowande

Still Rock’n in Jerusalem - a spiritual with a salsa beat by Carl MaultsBy:

African influenced music from the Colombian coast by Jorge Olaya Muñoz

Yard Bird after Charlie Parker (Premiere) by Ed Cionek

William Grant Still (b. May 11, 1895-1978) was known as "The Dean of Afro-American composers". He was born in Woodville, Mississippi and grew up in Arkansas. Early in his musical career he played and arranged for W.C. Handy and attended the Oberlin Conservatory. Following World War I he studied composition with Edgar Varese and then attended the New England Conservatory where he was a student of George Chadwick. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship and was awarded honorary doctorates from Howard University, Oberlin College, and Bates College. W. G. Still broke many barriers during his career, including being the first African-American composer to write orchestral works and have them performed by major symphony orchestras, as well as being the first conductor of color to lead a major American symphony. His musical style incorporates a variety of African-American styles, from spirituals to blues and jazz, in addition to European, Latin American, and other folk music genres.

Kosciuszko Foundation, 15 E. 65^th Street, New York, NY

Tickets $25/ members $20 telephone 212-734-2130

James Cohn - Quintet No. 1

Maciej Malecki - Suite for Wind Quintet

Carol Rathaus - Gallant Serenade

Felix Borowski - Madrigal to the Moon

Carol Rathaus - Sonata for Clarinet

Carl Nielsen - Quintet

Witold Lutoslawski (1913) - Trio, 1945 (flute, clarinet and bassoon)