Quintet of the Americas - Concerts

Quintet of the Americas

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Sunday, June 17, 2012 at 2:30 PM - Celebrate Father's Day!
Queens Botanical Garden

	BIRDS IN THE GARDEN Presented in collaboration with the Latin American Cultural Center of Queens With projected images of birds! Special Guest Artist, Thiago de Mello, organic percussion The program will feature with recorded bird songs and audience interaction Judah Adashi's Song of the Birds from Songs and Dances of Macondo Songs by Gaudencio Thiago de Mello James Cohn's Goldfinch Variations Heitor Villa-Lobos' Song of the Dove Jose Barros' El Picaflor (The Hummingbird) Amy Rubin's Trois Oiseaux (Three Birds) from Trifocals Come early for special family events including a bird and nature walk at 11AM, 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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Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 5:00PM
Random Access Music's Queens New Music Festival

	Cosmos - Nature and Spirit Nature, outer-space, the sky, the human spirit and human interaction Queens composer Dylan Glatthorn's *The Stuff of Comets performed with projections of photos taken from the Hubble telescope 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 with projections of art by Queens artist Karen Fitzgerald 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). Nearest Transit: 23 St - Ely Av (E, M) 45 Rd - Court House Sq (7, 7X) Long Island City - Court Sq (G) for tickets: (718) 433-2733 or contact http://ram-nyc.org/ Read more on http://tunes.broadwayworld.com All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible

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Saturday, March 31, 2012 at 2:00PM
Flushing Library

	"The Heavens - the Cosmos" A program of music that will be accompanied by photos from galaxies and stars taken by the Hubble space telescope Featuring the world premiere of Winter Music by Adam Schoenberg commissioned by Quintet of the Americas 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


	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 Xinyan Li's "Mo Suo's Burial Ceremony" "Gnomics", a trio by Richard Wilson, played by members of the Quintet Yao Chen's "Sfumato" premiere of Dylan Glatthorn's "The Stuff of Comets" AND The Quintet's oboist Matt Sullivan and artist Ken Cro-Ken in Intricate Simplicity 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
Langston Hughes Library and Cultural Center,

	"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 Admission is FREE - All Quintet concerts are ADA accessible

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Sunday, January 15, 2012 at 3:00PM
Pleasantville Chamber Music Society

	Admission is free Pleasantville Presbyterian Church, 400 Bedford Road, Pleasantville, NY Program Divertimento in Bb by Joseph Haydn including the famous St. Anthony Chorale Partita by Irving Fine Danza de Mediodía by Arturo Márquez Strutting Butterflies by James Cohn "Blues" from Gunther Schuller's Suite Apanhei-te cavaquinho by Ernesto Nazareth Amazing Grace - oboe solo by Matt Sullivan "The Soul" from Ritmo Indio by Dr. Louis W. Ballard "Water Run" from Kukulkan III by David Dzubay Libertango by Ástor Piazzolla

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See 2011 for past concerts!

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