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Quintet of the Americas In Concert at New York University on June 25 – Concert is Culmination of the First Annual NYU Woodwind Institute New York, NY – The Steinhardt School of Education, Department of Music and Performing Arts, presents the Quintet of the Americas in concert on Friday, June 25, 2004, 8 p.m., at the Frederick Loewe Theater of New York University, 35 West 4th Street in Manhattan.

Guest artists for this concert will Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, organic Brazilian percussionist (http://www.thiago-amazon.com), and Patti Wyss, narrator, in a diverse program presented as the culmination of the first annual Woodwind Institute offered by New York University. You can find more about the Woodwind Institute at http://www.nyu.edu/education/music/.

The concert program will include Summer Music by Samuel Barber, Villa-Lobos’ Quintette en forma de Choros, Colombian Folk Tunes by Jorge Olaya Munoz, Chorinos by Ernesto Nazareth, and Twilight Crane (Yuzuru) by Jack Gottlieb.xxxxThis concert is free and open to the public and is sponsored by The Steinhardt School of Education, Department of Music and Performing Arts of New York University. For more information about the June 25 concert, contact the NYU Department of Music at 212-998-5424.

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 funding from the Music Performance Trust Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. 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.

Funding from Meet the Composer, Inc. is provided with the support of the 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, The Greenwall Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts.

Quintet of the Americas is in residence in Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.

 

THE SALVATION ARMY
86-07 35th Avenue, Jackson Heights - Admission Free

With Special Guest Artists Gaudencio Marcelo Zarvos, piano

Brazilian pianist and composer Marcelo Zarvos will join the Quintet in a performance of his new work Changes for Quintet and piano. Zarvos says about his new work," the material draws heavily from Brazilian folk music, particularly the chôro and maracatu styles, as well as minimalism and jazz."

SPECIAL MEET THE COMPOSER
Intermission demonstration & workshop

Other works on the program include the 20th century masterpiece for wind quintet, “Quinteto em forma de chôros” by Heitor Villa-Lobos and music by Ernesto Nazareth, Pixingquinha, and Olaya Muñoz.

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 funding from the Music Performance Trust Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. 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.

Funding from Meet the Composer, Inc. is provided with the support of the 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, The Greenwall Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts.

Quintet of the Americas is in residence in Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.

LANGSTON HUGHES PUBLIC LIBRARY
100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens

FREE Admission - for more information please call (718) 651-1100

Come Meet the Composers -

Charles Griffin, C. Bryan Rulon and Elliott Schwartz
and let them show you their inspirations!

Program:
C.Bryan Rulon:Anti-Silence (preview)
Elliott Schwartz: Bird Bath (2004) (pre-view)
Charles Griffin: Jiminez Suite (1993)
William Mayer: Yankee Doodle Fanfare
Jorge Olaya Munoz: Te sorprende?
James Cohn: Arkansas Reel

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 funding from the Music Performance Trust Funds, Local 802, A.F. of M. 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.

Funding from Meet the Composer, Inc. is provided with the support of the 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, The Greenwall Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts.

Quintet of the Americas is in residence in Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.

Merkin Concert Hall, New York City

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Premieres of new works by
C. Bryan Rulon,
Neil Rolnick,
Elliott Schwartz and
Quintette em forma de choros
by Heitor Villa-Lobos

Seabury Center, 45 Church Lane, Westport, CT