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April 14-29, 2012 |
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2012 Queens Symphony Arts Festival
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1001 Voices - Discover the Immigrant Experience in Queens
The QSO joins together with 72 different arts organizations throughout the borough of Queens to bring you "1001 Voices", our first annual QSO Arts & Music Festival. Join us from April 14 – 29, 2012 as we celebrate the immigrant experience and the many cultures and languages of Queens with three FREE concerts by the Queens Symphony Orchestra and over 50 other events by arts groups all over Queens. We're bringing Queens' only professional orchestra to the Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Flushing Town Hall and the Kupferberg Center at Queens College for three FREE concerts. The final concert on April 29, 2012 at the Kupferberg Center, Queens College features Carlos Franzetti's family opera "Gauchito and the Pony" as well as the commissioned world premiere of "1001 Voices: a Symphony for Queens", with music by Frank London of the Klezmatics, words by actor and co-creator of "Crossing the BLVD" Judith Sloan and visuals by Warren Lehrer, co-creator of "Crossing the BLVD". Call the QSO office at 718-570-0909 qso@queenssymphony.org |
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Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 5:00PM |
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Random Access Music's Queens New Music Festival
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Cosmos - Nature and Spirit Nature, outer-space, the sky, the human spirit and human interaction
Adam Schoenberg's *Winter Music The program will include Yao Chen's Sfumato Queens composer Xinyan Li's Mo Suo's Burial Ceremony *Espacial by Daniel Binelli for woodwind quintet, bandoneon and piano - world premiere Neil Rolnick's *Ambos mundos, a combination of minimalism and Latin rhythms for woodwind quintet and computer Carl MaultsBy's *Kum-Ba-Ya Marcus based on the life of Marcus Garvey Sean Friar's Short Winds Matt Sullivan's MultipleOness for electronically processed oboe and quintet improvisations while cameras are focused on Ken Cro-Ken's real time painting * Works written for Quintet of the Americas Little Secret Theatre (Studio 104, 44-02 23rd Street, Long Island City, Queens). Read more on http://tunes.broadwayworld.com All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM - Celebrate Father's Day! |
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Queens Botanical Garden
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BIRDS IN THE GARDEN Presented in collaboration with the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens With projected images of birds! Special Guest Artist, organic percussion The program will feature with recorded bird songs and audience interaction Ann McMillan's Cloud Forest with recorded crane songs Come early for special family events including a bird and nature walk noon, Storyteller at 1PM and making a bird feeder at 2PM! Free Concert included with Garden admission. ADA accessible. 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11355 For directions to the garden go to http://www.queensbotanical.org/ All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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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.
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Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 2:00PM |
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Flushing Library
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"The Heavens - the Cosmos" A program of music that will be accompanied by photos from galaxies and stars taken by the Hubble space telescope The program will include Yao Chen's Sfumato Xinyan Li's Mo Suo's Burial Ceremony Dylan Glatthorn's The Stuff of Comets commissioned by Quintet of the Americas An arrangement of "Jupiter" from The Planets by Gustav Holst And music from Colombia, Mexico and Argentina! With Guest Queens composers Xinyan Li and Dylan Glatthorn 41-17 Main St, Flushing, Queens, NY Admission is FREE. for more information call (718) 661-1200 (718) 661-1200 end_of_the_skype_highlighting http://www.queenslibrary.org All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012 at 4:00PM |
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Music of Now Marathon in the Leonard Nimoy Thalia An exhilarating 8-hour marathon of 30 composers curated by Artistic Director Laura Kaminsky, and hosted by celebrated WQXR host Terrance McKnight. From 4PM to midnight! Quintet on after 8PM Composer interviews with Terrance McKnight Neil Rolnick's "Ambos mundos" for quintet and computer http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6944-the-music-of-now-marathon?source=homepage Symphony Space is located at 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, NY, NY All tickets $15 call 212-864-5400 All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible
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Saturday, January 28, 2012 at 2:00PM |
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Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center,
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"Freedom - Expanding Horizons"- a program of music and readings Featuring guest composer Carl MaultsBy and Stanley Wayne Mathis, narrator Program "Afro" from Afro-Cuban Concerto by Valerie Coleman "Maya Angelou" from Freeing the Caged Bird by Barbara Harbach Kum-Ba-Ya Marcus by Carl MaultsBy - world premiere commissioned by Quintet of the Americas Libertango by Astor Piazzolla Songs and Dances of Macondo by Judah Adashi Hambani Kakuhle Kwela by Becky Steltzner With readings from One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the poems Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar and I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou 100-01 Northern Boulevard, Corona, Queens, NY |
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Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 3:00PM |
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Pleasantville Chamber Music Society
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Admission is free Pleasantville Presbyterian Church, 400 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY Program |
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Nov. 1, Nov. 8, and Nov. 15 from 11-12AM, Nov. 17 at 7:30PM |
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THE HISTORY OF TANGO
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Workshops on Tuesday mornings Concert Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7:30PM all events with Daniel Bineli, bandoneonand Polly Ferman, piano at the Salvation Army Temple Daniel Binelli www.danielbinelli.com Polly Ferman www.pollyferman.net
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OCTOBER 9, 2011 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM |
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CELEBRATE NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH ! LATIN AMERICA: Contributions to Science and its Culture. |
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FAMILY DAY at the New York Hall of Science 47-01 111th Street Corona in Flushing Meadow Park in Queens, NY (#7 train to 111 Street Station) Admission is free for all before 11 AM This special event includes an iconographic display of the Colombian Botanical Expedition, videos, interactive games, face painting, dance, music from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Dominican Republic and much more. This collaboration between NYSCI, NY Hall of Science, and the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens will feature a performance by Quintet of the Americas at 1PM The program will include Songs and Dances of Macondo by Judah E. Adashi, based on the novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Prize-winning Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Márquez. The Quintet will also perform dance music from Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Dominican Republic, including Danza de mediodía by Mexico's Arturo Márquez. |
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June 21, 22 and 24, 2011 |
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Three Summer Solstice Concerts in Queens
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FREE CONCERT Presented in Cooperation with Latin American Cultural Center of Queens New York, NY – The Quintet of the Americas will perform three Summer Solstice concerts in Queens on Tuesday, June 21 at 11 AM at the Salvation Army Temple, 86-07 35th Avenue in Jackson Heights, on Wednesday, June 22 at 12:15 PM at Catholic Charities Neighborhood Services Bayside Senior Center, 221-15 Horace Harding Boulevard, in Bayside, and Friday, June 24 at 1:00 PM at Community Mediation Services, 89-64 163rd Street in Jamaica These events are presented in cooperation with the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens, Nayibe Berger, Director. The programs will feature music from the Quintet’s Sounds of Brazil CD and will also include two premieres, Little Polka by Douglaston-resident composer James Cohn and Water Run from Kukulkan III by David Dzubay. Also on the program - Shout Chorusby Kenji Bunch, Sfumato by Yao Chen, and Azaleaby Duke Ellington. All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 2:30 PM |
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Queens Botanical Garden
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FREE CONCERT 43-50 Main Street, Flushing, NY 11355 Presented in collaboration with the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens
Special Guest Artist Gaudencio Thiago de Mello, organic percussion The program will feature music from the Quintet’s Sounds of Brazil CD. Special guest will be organic percussionist and composer Thiago de Mello, who will join the quintet in a number of works that reflect his fusion of Brazilian rhythms and jazz influence. The concert will also include two premieres, Little Polka by Douglaston-resident composer James Cohn and Water Run from Kukulkan III by David Dzubay. Also on the program - Shout Chorusby Kenji Bunch, Sfumato by Yao Chen, and Azaleaby Duke Ellington. For directions to the garden go to http://www.queensbotanical.org/ All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Sunday, May 15, 2011 at 3:00 PM |
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Princeton Public Library
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Admission FREE See the Princeton Library magazine article pre-concert talk with Judah Adashi Judah Adashi: Songs and Dances of Macondo based on Gabriel Garcia Marques' One Hundred Years of Solitude Community Room, 1st floor, 65 Witherspoon St., Princeton, NJ 08542 Phone: 609.924.9529 All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Saturday, May 14th, 2011 |
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Wall to Wall Sonidos in the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre Admission Free Symphony Space's annual gift to New York, explores the breadth and depth of Latino cultures and features a stellar roster of artists and a number of commissioned works debuting their world premiere performances. At 1:15pm At 3:30PM
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Wednesday, May 11th at 7:30PM |
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Leonard Nimoy Thalia at
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Presents Thalia Book Club: A Literary Celebration! Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude
The fictional town of Macondo is the setting of Gabriel García Márquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude. This suite for woodwind quintet (here imagined as a band of street musicians) was conceived as a songbook, inspired by musical elements and episodes in the novel. A part of http://www.symphonyspace.org/event/6413-thalia-book-club-a-literary-celebration-gabriel-garcia-marquezs-one-hundred-years-of-solitude All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Saturday, April 16, 2011 at 2 PM |
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Flushing Library
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41-17 Main St, Flushing, Queens, NY In Celebration of the Mayor's Immigrant Heritage Week Join us in celebrating Immigrant Heritage with a concert of wind quintet music by composers from China, Cuba, and Colombia Guest composer Yao Chen Admission is FREE. for more information call (718) 661-1200 http://www.queenslibrary.org All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible |
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Our website improvements have been made possible by the Queens Council on the Arts with support made possible through the JPMorgan Chase Arts and Culture Regrants Program.
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Special thanks to our major supporters: |
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Bloomberg Philanthropies The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation |
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Writers, including Oscar Hijuelos (Pulitzer Prize winner of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love) and Esmeralda Santiago (When I was Puerto Rican) discuss Gabriel García Márquez' masterpiece-the gorgeous, moving, passionate story about the history of a family and a mythical Latin American country-which won the author the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Tickets $25; Member $21; 30 & Under $15
