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September 13+14, 2003

Concerts in Ohio - two concerts :

Delaware’s Asbury Arts Series

on September 13

and Chamber Music Yellow Springs

on September 14

Featuring Meet the Composer events with Judith Sainte Croix Asbury Arts Series - Delaware - Saturday, September 13, 2003
Pre-concert Meet the Composer, Concert at 7:30 PMAsbury United Methodist Church
55 Lincoln Avenue, corner of N. Franklin St. and W. Lincoln Ave. in Delaware, Ohio.
The September 13 concert is free and open to the public, but an offering in support of the series will be taken.
For more information, please contact Asbury United Methodist at 740-363-3611.
Chamber Music Yellow Springs - Sunday, September 14, 2003
Family workshop Saturday afternoon. Pre-concert Meet the Composer, Concert at 7:30pmFirst Prebyterian Church, 314 Xenia Avenue (Rt. 68), Yellow Springs, OhioTickets are $12 and $5 for students. Although tickets may be purchased at the door, reservations are advised.
Call Chamber Music Yellow Springs at 937- 374-8800 for tickets and information.
Visit them on the web at http://www.yellowsprings.com/cmys/.

 

Program
Vision III (2002) Judith Sainte Croix
Prologue: Original Nature
I. Ancient Hustle Bustle
II. El Dorado
III. The Secrets Drop into Hiding
IV. Dream Song
V. Soaring Above the Festival

 

Toccata from Suite for Wind Quintet (1983) Maciej Maiecki (b. 1940)
Summer Music (1956) Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
“Dancing in Colombia”
El Picaflor (porro) José Barros (b.1915) arr. F. Zumaque G.
Te sorprende? (pasillo) Jorge Olaya Muñoz (1916-1995)
Quinteto em forma de chôros (1928 rev. 1953) Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Yardbird Suite (1946) Charlie Parker (1920-1955) arr. Edmund Cionek

Vision III is dedicated to the survival of the Native People of the Americas. This piece begins in a time before time was known and ends somewhere in the future which one day will be the present.
Funds for this commission have been provided by Chamber Music America’s Commissioning Program, supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, The Helen F. Whitaker Fund, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund. Quintet of the Americas is the recipient of the 2002 NEA/CMA Special Commissioning Award, made possible by a generous gift from an anonymous donor with matching funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. 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 Charitable Trust, The Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust, The Greenwall Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Vision III combines the classical Western instruments with the instruments of indigenous people from North and South America. Approximately 30 minutes in length, the work is scored for five players playing the instruments of the quintet - flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, and instruments from the Quintet’s collection of guiros from Peru and Mexico, conch shells and animal horns, Amazonian rainsticks, Colombian bamboo finger shakers, cana and gaita flutes,, drums, pottery pitos (whistles and ocarinas) and deer hoof rattles.
Scenes from Vision II

Saturday, June 28, 2003 2:00 P.M.

QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
Celebrates AMERICA’S Birthday

featuring folk, jazz, ragtime, marches, Broadway, spirituals

THE FLUSHING LIBRARY

41-17 Main Street - Admission Free

Program

Yankee Doodle Fanfare......William Mayer

Summer Music............Samuel Barber

Arkansas Reel.................James Cohn

"Simple Gifts" from Appalachian Spring...Aaron Copland

Carolina Shout.....................James P. Johnson

Apartment House "1776"...............John Cage

"The Soul" from Ritmo Indio....Dr. Louis W. Ballard

Maple Leaf Rag................................ Scott Joplin

Graceful Maze...........................Matt Sullivan

Jesus is a Rock in A Weary Land....William Grant Still

Still Rocking in Jerusalem............... Carl MaultsBy

Yardbird Suite ...............Charlie Parker

"Summertime" from Porgy and Bess...... George Gershwin

"America" from West Side Story.......Leonard Bernstein

Stars and Stripes Forever..................John Philip Sousa

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 the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation. Additional funds provided by Meet the Composer / JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Ensembles. and the Music Performance Trust Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. With special thanks to NYS Senator the Hon. Frank Padavan, the Hon. Helen Marshall, Borough President of Queens, and the Queens Delegation to the New York City Council.

Quintet of the Americas is in residence in Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University. Visit the Quintet’s website at www.quintet.org

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 the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation. Additional funds provided by Meet the Composer / JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Ensembles. and the Music Performance Trust Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. With special thanks to NYS Senator the Hon. Frank Padavan, the Hon. Helen Marshall, Borough President of Queens, and the Queens Delegation to the New York City Council.

 

Tuesday, June 24, 2003 7:00 P.M.

THE LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL
CENTER OF QUEENS, INC.
presents
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
and Guest Composers Edmund Cionek and James Cohn


In a FREE concert to Celebrate SUMMER

at

THE SALVATION ARMY CENTER

86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights

Program

Three Colombian Dances

Te sorprende? by Jorge Olaya Muñoz (pasillo)

Bunde Tolimense by Alberto Castilla

A la costa by Jorge Olaya Muñoz (porro)

Quintet for Winds (1985) by Robert Muczynski (b. 1929)

Two Latin Favorites

La comparsa (Cuba) Ernesto Lecuona

arr Jose Raul Bernardo

La cumparsita (1917, Uruguay) H. Matos Rodriguez (1897-1948) arr. M. Coid

 

Dances from the USA

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

The Carolina Shout James P. Johnson (1894-1955) arr. J. Cohn

Rag Time Dance................................ Scott Joplin

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

El Monigote (Venezuela)

Anda Buscando de Rosa en Rosa (Mexico)

Tayêras (Brazil)

Two Favorites from Colombia and the U.S.A.

Mis flores negras by Julio Flórez arr. Edmund Cionek 3:32

Yardbird Suite by Charlie Parker (1920-1955) arr. Edmund Cionek

Quintet of the Americas is in residence in Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University. Visit the Quintet’s website at www.quintet.org

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 the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation. Additional funds provided by Meet the Composer / JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Ensembles. and the Music Performance Trust Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. With special thanks to NYS Senator the Hon. Frank Padavan, the Hon. Helen Marshall, Borough President of Queens, and the Queens Delegation to the New York City Council.

 

Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 4pm

Chôro and Beyond

A Program of Brazilian Music
New Work by Marcelo Zarvos Featured
Tickets for the March 23 concert are $10, with discounts for students/seniors.
For reservations or ticket information call St. Peter’s Church at (212) 929-2390.

Quintet of the Americas will present “Chôro and Beyond” a special program of Brazilian music on Sunday, March 23, 4 PM at St. Peter’s Church, 346 W. 20th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues in Manhattan’s historic Chelsea district. This concert is part of the "Music in Chelsea" series, with all profits going to benefit the restoration fund of St. Peter's Church.
This all-Brazilian program will feature the Premiere of "Changes", a new work for woodwind quintet and piano by Brazilian composer Marcelo Zarvos, commissioned by the Quintet with a grant from the New York State
Council in the Arts, with the composer as guest pianist. Zarvos says about his new work," the material draws heavily from Brazilian folk music, particularly the choro and maracatu styles, as well as minimalism and jazz."
Other works on the program include the 20th century masterpiece for wind quintet, “Quinteto em forma de chôro” by Heitor Villa-Lobos and music by Ernesto Nazareth and Pixinguinha. The brilliant Brazilian percussionist Thiago de Mello will also appear as a guest artist.

Brazilian pianist and composer Marcelo Zarvos began his career at age thirteen playing at nightclubs in his native city of São Paulo, Brazil. He is well-known for his film scores, including the recent "Kissing Jessica Stein" and his ballet and theater compositions. His area concert appearances include the Knitting Factory, Americas Society, Guggenheim Museum, New Jersey Center for Performing Arts, Merkin Hall and New York Texaco Jazz Festival. International performances include conducting appearances with the Tokyo Symphony Chamber Orchestra in Japan, live broadcasts on the CBC, NHK and NPR, as well as collaboration as
arranger and performer with the Paul Winter Consort.

Tuesday, February 4th, 2003 at 8:00 pm

Monmouth County Arts Foundation
Chamber Music Series

Performing Arts Center, Brookdale Community College.

Tickets available at the door - $20/$5 students
Contact the quintet at quintet@rcn.com for more information

Program

El Picaflor (The Hummingbird) José Barros (b. 1915) arr. F. Zumaque G.
(Porro from the CD “Dancing in Colombia”)
Quinteto em forma de chôros (1928 rev. 1953) Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Summer Music (1956) Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
Te sorprende? (pasillo) Jorge Olaya Muñoz (1916-1995)
Apanhei-te cavaquinho (Brazil) Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934)arr. Steven Quint

-Intermission-

Wind Quintet, Op. 43 (1922) Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
I. Allegro ben moderato
II. Menuet
III. Praeludium. Adagio - Tema con variazioni
Overture to Candide Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) arr. C. Townsend

Directions from NYC:
Take NJ trpk south to Exit #11 - Garden State Pkwy. Go south on Garden State to exit #109 Lincroft - Red Bank. After exit toll, go right on Newman Springs Rd (Route #250)
Go to 4th stop light but watch for big sign for Brookdale Community College on left and turn in. You are on Campus Rd. Take 1st drive to right. Go past the new bldg on left to Lot #2. Go towards Museum and turn left in circular drive which goes in front of PAC (Performing Arts Center). Unload at front door and then park in lot.



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