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Concerts for 2005 (back to top)
Friday, June 24, 2005 at 7:30 PM

NYU SUMMER INSTITUTE for WOODWIND QUINTETS and Quintet of the Americas

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

Program:

Overture to “Candide” Leonard Bernstein (arr. C. Townsend)

Summer Music (1956) Samuel Barber (1910-1981)

Wind Quintet (2004) Robert Paterson

I. Andante

II. Suburban waltz fantasy

III. Melting clocks

IV. Klezmeshugeh

Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with Funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

Anti-Silence (2004) C. Bryan Rulon

Commissioned by Quintet of the Americas with a grant from the Mary Flagler Cary Trust

Yard Bird Suite Charlie Parker (arr. Ed Cionek)

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 the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the JP Morgan Chase / Meet the Composer 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. With additional support from the Queens Delegation to the New York State Assembly provided by NYS Assembly Member Hon. Ivan C. Lafayette, Speaker Pro-Tem. The programs of the LACCQ are supported by public funds from the Queens Borough President Office, the New York State Senator Hon. Serphin Maltese; the Queens Delegation to the NYS Assembly and the Puerto Rican Hispanic Task Force, by NYC Council Member Hon. Helen Sears, through the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and by Queens Commissioner of Parks. Corporate, foundation and community supporters include Verizon, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Latino Lawyers Association of Queens County, and the Citizens Committee for New York City. We appreciate their continuous support and generosity. Special thanks to Angela Mohan of the Jamaica Market, Mary Reda of the Greater Jamaica Development Program and Tyra Emerson from the Cultural Collaborative of Jamaica.

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

Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:15 P.M.

Latin American Cultural Center Of Queens
and
Quintet of the Americas

A FREE CONCERT of Classical, folk and jazz music of the Americas

with Award Winning Composer Robert Patterson

 The Harvest Room at the Jamaica Market
90-40 160th Street, Jamaica

Program:

South American Dances

Summer Music by Samuel Barber
a beautiful piece for woodwind quintet by one of America’s most eminent composers

Jazz and ragtime

and featuring
Wind Quintet by Robert Paterson (2004)
Hear the melting clock, TV theme songs from 1960's and Kletzmer dance music

For information please call 718-261-7664

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 the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the JP Morgan Chase / Meet the Composer 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. With additional support from the Queens Delegation to the New York State Assembly provided by NYS Assembly Member Hon. Ivan C. Lafayette, Speaker Pro-Tem. The programs of the LACCQ are supported by public funds from the Queens Borough President Office, the New York State Senator Hon. Serphin Maltese; the Queens Delegation to the NYS Assembly and the Puerto Rican Hispanic Task Force, by NYC Council Member Hon. Helen Sears, through the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and by Queens Commissioner of Parks. Corporate, foundation and community supporters include Verizon, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Latino Lawyers Association of Queens County, and the Citizens Committee for New York City. We appreciate their continuous support and generosity. Special thanks to Angela Mohan of the Jamaica Market, Mary Reda of the Greater Jamaica Development Program and Tyra Emerson from the Cultural Collaborative of Jamaica.
Quintet of the Americas is in residence in The Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.


Tuesday, April 19th, 2005

Quintet of the Americas
Merkin Concert Hall

 Merkin Concert Hall, Goodman House, 129 West 67th Street, New York City

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Program:

Jon Deak’s Bremen Town Musicians (1985)

Robert Paterson’s Wind Quintet (2004)

Laura Kaminsky’s Cadenza Variations for Woodwind Quintet (2004)

Elliott Schwartz’ RowsGarden (1993)

and

Carl MaultsBy’s Journey for woodwind quintet and African and Latin percussion (2004)

Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

Wednesday, April 13th, 8 pm, 2005

Quintet of the Americas
"Winding It"
American Works for Woodwind Quintet

Reisinger Hall at Sarah Lawrence College, 1 Mead Way, Bronxville, New York

Free to the Sarah Lawrence College community. Tickets are $10 for regular admission, $8 for senior citizens (55+) and students from other institutions with a current ID. More information online from http://www.slc.edu/index.php?pageID=1489.

Program:

Jon Deak’s Bremen Town Musicians (1985)

Robert Paterson’s Wind Quintet (2004)

Laura Kaminsky’s Cadenza Variations for Woodwind Quintet (2004)

Elliott Schwartz’ RowsGarden (1993)

Underwritten by the American Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.

Thursday, April 14th, 2005 7:30 pm , 2005

THE LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF QUEENS, INC. presents
Quintet of the Americas with guest composers
Carl MaultsBy and Robert Patterson.

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

Program:

A Colombian Dance

Te sorprende? by Jorge Olaya Muñoz (1916-1995) (pasillo)

Bremen Town Musicians (1985) by Jon Deak

a folk tale about some animals who decide to become musicians when they are no longer wanted by their masters

The Journey by Carl MaultsBy (2004)

 for Quintet and Latin and African percussion

Wind Quintet by Robert Paterson (2004)

Hear the melting clock and reminders of old TV show theme songs

Two More Favorites from Colombia

Mis flores negras by Julio Flórez (1867-1923) arr. Edmund Cionek

Bunde Tolimense by Alberto Castilla (1878-1937)

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 the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the  JP Morgan Chase / Meet the Composer 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 The Department of Music and Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University .

Concerts for 2004 (back to top)
Saturday, September 11, 2004

Quintet of the Americas invited to play during the reading of the names at the 911 Memorial Service at Ground Zero.

 

Friday, June 25, 2004 at 8:00 pm

QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
In Concert at New York University
Concert is Culmination of the First Annual NYU Woodwind Institute

Free admission

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.


Saturday, June 26 , 2004, at 2:00 pm

Flushing Library in Queens

 

Thursday, May 6, 2004 at 7:00 pm

THE LATIN AMERICAN CULTURAL CENTER OF QUEENS, INC.
and
QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS
Present
“Chôro and Beyond”
A concert of music from Brazilian Chôros to Colombian pasillos

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.


THURSDAY April 15, 2004 7:00 P.M.

The Langston Hughes Community Library
and Cultural Center in cooperation with the
Latin American Cultural Center of Queens
Cordially invite you to a concert of
”Musical Quotes”

Can you imagine computer music? music for toy birds?
music inspired by Spanish poetry?

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.


Wednesday, April 21, 2004 at 8:00 pm

Premieres of new works

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

February 7, 2004 at 8 pm

The Westport Arts Center presents

Quintet of the Americas in concert

Seabury Center, 45 Church Lane, Westport, CT

Program
Overture to Candide Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) arr. C. Townsend
Summer Music (1956) Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
“Dancing in Colombia”
El Picaflor (porro) José Barros (b.1915) arr. F. Zumaque G.
Lejano azul (Intermezzo No. 2) Luis Antonio Calvo (1884-1945) arr. Luis Becerra
Te sorprende? (pasillo) Jorge Olaya Muñoz (1916-1995)
Wind Quintet, Op. 43 (1922) Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)
Quinteto em forma de chôros (1928 rev. 1953) Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Brejeiro - Tango Ernesto Nazareth (1863-1934)arr. Steven Quint
Yardbird Suite Charlie Parker (1920-1955) arr. Edmund Cionek

Concerts for 2003 (back to top)

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.


Concerts for 2002 (back to top)

Friday, March 8, 2002 at 4 pm/7:30 pm

Meet Judith Sainte Croix, composer and hear her new piece, Vision III.

Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center in Queens

Workshop for after school program at 4 pm

Concert at 7:30 pm

Tuesday, March 12, 2002 at 7:30 pm

The 25th anniversary concert and launching of the new CD - Dancing in Colombia

The Americas Society,
680 Park Avenue, New York NY at 68th Street.

Call 1-212-249-8950 for ticket reservations

Program

  • Colombian Dances including Mis Flores Negras by Julio Flórez, Bunde Tolimense by Alberto Castilla, and featuring pasillos by Jorge Olaya Muñoz
  • Quintette en forme de choros by Heitor Villa-Lobos
  • Suite for Wind Quintet by Ruth Crawford-Seeger
  • Yardbird Suite by Charlie Parker (arr. Edmund Cionek)
  • and featuring the premiere of Vision III by Judith Sainte Croix

Read the press realease in Microsoft Word file or as a PDF file.


Sunday, January 20, 2002

 

The Chamber Music America convention

St. Luke's Lutheran Church
308 W. 46th Street, NYC on Sunday, Jan 20 at 4pm

FREE
For information visit the CMA website.

The Quintet of the Americas will be performing Judith Sainte Croix new piece Vision III.


Concerts for 2001 (back to top)

Sunday Dec. 9th, 2001 at 2 PM

El Ritmo Latino del Mundo
The Latin Way of the World

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

Sunday, November 18th, 2001

 

From the Folk

music inspired by folk traditions, fables and dances

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.

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2001 at 8 PM


The QUINTET OF THE AMERICAS Presents

KAREL HUSA
80TH BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION CONCERT

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.

FRIDAY, June 29, 2001 7:00 P.M.


The Queens Botanical Garden
in co-operation with The Latin American Cultural Center of Queens

FREE CONCERT “Birds in the Garden”

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.

Friday, July 20, 2001 at 8:15pm

Bar Harbor Music Festival
Birds

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)

 

Monday, May 28, 2001 at 2:00P.M.

Memorial Day Concert - "The Patriots"

Veteran’s Hospital, 179th St. and Linden Boulevard, Jamaica, Queens.

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.

Thursday, May 17th, 2001

a "Gala Evening"

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

Friday, May 11 at 7:00P.M., 2001

William Grant Still
Birthday Concert

Langston Hughes Public Library, 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens

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 19th 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.

 

 

Sunday, April 29 at 3:00P.M, 2001

From Poland and Beyond

Kosciuszko Foundation, 15 E. 65th 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)


Concerts for 2000 (back to top)

Saturday, may 6 at 4 pm, 2000

Northern Lights

Sato Moughalian, flute - Matt Sullivan, oboe

Edward Gilmore, clarinet - Laura Koepke, bassoon

Barbara Oldham, horn

Music with connections to the North and Baltic Seas

Meet Composers Peteris Vasks* and Fred Lerdahl

Carl Nielsen - Quintet

Fred Lerdahl - Episodes and Refrains

Andrejs Jansons - Suite of Old Lettish Dances

Peteris Vasks - Music for a Deceased Friend

Luis Pasquet - Tres Tangos Rojos Pablo Zinger, piano/Greg August, bass

*Vasks' CD named in Top Ten for 1999 by amazon.com

Donation: $15/ $12 students/ seniors - call (718)230-5189

e-mail: quintet@interport.net - Website; www.quintet.org

This program is made possible in part with public funds from The New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Additional funds are provided by the Aaron Copland Fund for Music.

Live Preview on WNYC/93.9FM May 4 at 2:00 p.m.

photo by Jyrki Manninen - design by Andy Beverly

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