Quintet of the Americas To Present "Myths and Fables" Family Concert At
Flushing Library on May 23 -Concert Includes Music by Queens Composer
Soong Fu-Yuan

New York, NY - The Quintet of the Americas will present a very special
concert "Myths and Fables" on Sunday, May 23, 2004 at 2:00 p.m.  at The
Flushing Library, 41-17 Main Street in Flushing New York.

The Quintet will perform Jack Gottlieb's "Yuzuru", a famous Japanese
legend of the crane, Soong Fu-Yuan's "Little Scenes from China" lovely
music by this Flushing-based composer, Jon Deak's "Bremen Town Musicians",
a story of musical animals and Edmund Cionek's "Fifteen Fake Folk Songs".
Several of the composers will be at the concert to discuss their music.

This concert is free and open to the public.  For more information,
please contact The Flushing Library at 718- 661-1200 or visit their
website at http://www.queenslibrary.org.

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.  Their latest CD is Dancing in Colombia on the MSR label.
The Quintet has been a past recipient of the CMA Commissioning Award in
for a commission by David Chaitkin and a three-year Residency Award for
work in Chicago.  They are in residence in The Department of Music and
Performing Arts in The Steinhardt School at New York University.  Visit
their website at http://www.quintet.org.  For more information about the
Quintet of the Americas, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at
516-797-9166 or [log in to unmask]

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.

Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
Tel/Fax: 516-797-9166
Website: http://www.jamesarts.com