Quintet of the Americas To Present Judith Sainte Croix's Vision III At
Langston Hughes Community Library On March 8 - Award Winning Work Is
Dedicated to the Native Peoples of the Americas

New York, NY - The Quintet of the Americas will present Judith Sainte
Croix's Vision III on Friday, March 8, 2002 at 7:30 p.m.  at The Langston
Hughes Cultural Center of the Langston Hughes Public Library, 100-01
Northern Blvd., Corona, Queens.

This concert is presented as part of the 25th Anniversary celebration of
the founding of Quintet of the Americas and the launching of their new CD
Dancing in Colombia on the MSR label.  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 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

This concert, which is free and open to the public, will also feature
a selection of Colombian Dances from the new CD. Composer Judith Sainte
Croix will offer a free workshop at 4 pm that day in which she will
discuss the creation of the music and teach the basics of playing the
rhythms and instruments used in the music.

For more information, please contact the Langston Hughes Public Library
at 718-651-1100 or visit their website at http://www.queenslibrary.org.

The composer has supplied the following statement about the work:

"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.

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.  Quintet of the Americas 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.  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]

The commission and presentation of Vision III by Judith Sainte Croix
is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts/ Chamber Music America
Special Commissioning Award and by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs
Cultural Challenge Program.  This program is made possible with public
funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; New
York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and
Queens Arts Development Fund through the NYC Department of Cultural
Affairs, sponsored by Borough President Helen Marshall and the Queens
Delegation of the City Council.  With special thanks to NYS Senator Frank
Padavan.  Additional funding from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music and
the Meet the Composer / JP Morgan Chase Fund for Small Ensembles.  Library
programs sponsored by the Queens Borough Public Library, the Library Action
committee of Corona East Elmhurst, Inc., and private donations.

Jeffrey James <[log in to unmask]>