Candlelight Concerts presents the Quintet of the Americas featuring
Judith Sainte Croix's Vision III on Saturday, April 5, 2003 at The Smith
Theatre on the campus of Howard Community College in Columbia, MD.
The concert also includes works by Jose Barros, Samuel Barber, William
Grant Still, James Cohn, Jorge Olaya Munoz, Louis Moreau Gottschalk and
Charlie Parker.
Tickets for this concert are: General admission: $28; Senior: $24;
Student; $9. For tickets, directions or other information please call
410-480-9950 or 301-596-6203 or visit our web site:
http://www.candlelightconcerts.org
The Candlelight Concert Society, Inc. is a nonprofit, public corporation
dedicated to the promotion of musical life in Howard County. Honored in
1988 with a Resolution by the Maryland House of Delegates, it carries
out this commitment through programs serving audiences of all ages,
including its Candlelight Concerts, Performing Arts Series for Children
and its Community Outreach Concerts.
This woodwind quintet concert is presented as part of the 25th Anniversary
celebration of the founding of Quintet of the Americas. Vision III,
written expressly for Quintet of the Americas by Judith Sainte Croix,
was commissioned through the Chamber Music America/ National Endowment
for the Arts Commissioning Program and involves the use of masks and
thirty additional indigenous instruments of the Americas. The Quintet
was the only group nationwide selected to receive the first NEA/CMA
Special Commissioning Award which supports touring and performances of
the new work.
The Quintet of the Americas, consisting of flutist Sato Moughalian,
oboist Matt Sullivan, clarinetist Edward Gilmore, hornist Barbara Oldham
and bassoonist Laura Koepke, was formed in Bogota, Colombia in 1976 by
U.S. citizens who were principal wind players in the Colombian National
Orchestra. The group relocated to New York City in 1979 and has since
enjoyed an international career that has taken them to concert halls
throughout the Americas, the Caribbean Asia, including annual performances
at Manhattan's Americas Society since 1982. Two time recipients of
ASCAP-Chamber Music America Awards for Adventuresome Programming, the
Quintet's repertoire represents works from composers with a wide-range
of aesthetic viewpoints. They have recorded for CRI, Newport Classics,
MMC and XLNT. Visit their website at http://www.quintet.org.
The composer, Judith Sainte Croix, will present a free pre-concert
workshop at 6:30 pm at Smith Theatre in which she will discuss the
creation of Vision III and the basics of playing the rhythms and instruments
used in the music. She has written the following about the piece - "Vision
III combines indigenous instruments with Western classical instruments
of the woodwind quintet. The indigenous instruments played by the quintet
will include Guatemalan ocarinas, guiros from Mexico and Peru, conch
shells, a pre-Colombian horn, rainsticks, Colombian bamboo finger shakers,
the cana and gaitas flutes, reed flutes, drums and deer hoof rattles.
The intent of the "Vision Series" (Vision I and II precede this) I have
created is to bring Indian and non-Indian people together harmoniously
in the concert hall and beyond."
Judith Sainte Croix has created opera, chamber, orchestral and electronic
music that has been performed across the United States and in Europe.
Her debut Sonic Muse CD release Visions of Light and Mystery is available
in music stores, from Amazon.com and at her website
http://www.judithsaintecroix.com.
For more information about the Quintet of the Americas or Judith Sainte
Croix, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or
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Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
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