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Quintet of the Americas Mannahatta Concert on May 16
For Immediate Release
Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
New York, NY – Quintet of the Americas woodwind ensemble will present Mannahatta, a concert and panel discussion about the environment on Sunday, May 16 - 2:00 PM as part of 40 Shades of Green, an exhibition at the Rockaway Artists Alliance T-7 Gallery of Rockaway Center for the Arts (ROCA), Fort Tilden in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York.
Repertoire for this concert includes three pieces commissioned for the Quintet’s Mannahatta series – Mannahatta Windows by Robert Deemer, Quiet Tide by Mark Dancigers, and Hudson River Quintet by Christopher Kaufman for woodwind quintet with surround-sound audio tape and video of the Hudson River and environmental paintings. Ellis Island by Stuart Balcomb will also be presented.
The art exhibition incorporates both the color green and the idea of green as in renewal, reuse, and recycle. The Quintet’s Mannahatta concerts present environmentally-themed music which, through sounds of the natural environment heard in New York when Henry Hudson sailed into the harbor such as whales, bears and birds, conjures images of the nature of our city in 1609, bring attention to the changes of the environment in the last 400 years and inspire hope for an environmentally sound future.
The Mannahatta Project is reconstructing the ecology of Manhattan when Henry Hudson first sailed by in 1609 and comparing it to what we know of the island today, discovering the environmental foundation of the city. More about it at http://themannahattaproject.org/.
The May 16 concert is free and open to the public. For reservations and more information, call 718-474-0816, or visit http://rockawayartistsalliance.org/. Directions to the Gallery at http://rockawayartistsalliance.org/contact_dir.html.
Members of Quintet of the Americas are Sato Moughalian, flute; Matt Sullivan, oboe; Nicholas Gallas, clarinet; Barbara Oldham, horn; and Maureen Strenge, bassoon. Founded in Bogota, Colombia in 1976, the Quintet has specialized in bringing music new music from the Western hemisphere to audiences in the United States since its arrival in New York in 1979. The group has enjoyed an international career that has taken them to concert halls throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. They are currently 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 and become their friend at http://www.facebook.com.
This program is sponsored with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional funds provided by The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund, The Carnegie Corporation of New York and Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program.
For press inquires or photos, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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Contact: Jeffrey James Arts Consulting
516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net
New York, NY – Quintet of the Americas woodwind ensemble will present Mannahatta, a concert and panel discussion about the environment on Sunday, May 16 - 2:00 PM as part of 40 Shades of Green, an exhibition at the Rockaway Artists Alliance T-7 Gallery of Rockaway Center for the Arts (ROCA), Fort Tilden in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York.
Repertoire for this concert includes three pieces commissioned for the Quintet’s Mannahatta series – Mannahatta Windows by Robert Deemer, Quiet Tide by Mark Dancigers, and Hudson River Quintet by Christopher Kaufman for woodwind quintet with surround-sound audio tape and video of the Hudson River and environmental paintings. Ellis Island by Stuart Balcomb will also be presented.
The art exhibition incorporates both the color green and the idea of green as in renewal, reuse, and recycle. The Quintet’s Mannahatta concerts present environmentally-themed music which, through sounds of the natural environment heard in New York when Henry Hudson sailed into the harbor such as whales, bears and birds, conjures images of the nature of our city in 1609, bring attention to the changes of the environment in the last 400 years and inspire hope for an environmentally sound future.
The Mannahatta Project is reconstructing the ecology of Manhattan when Henry Hudson first sailed by in 1609 and comparing it to what we know of the island today, discovering the environmental foundation of the city. More about it at http://themannahattaproject.org/.
The May 16 concert is free and open to the public. For reservations and more information, call 718-474-0816, or visit http://rockawayartistsalliance.org/. Directions to the Gallery at http://rockawayartistsalliance.org/contact_dir.html.
Members of Quintet of the Americas are Sato Moughalian, flute; Matt Sullivan, oboe; Nicholas Gallas, clarinet; Barbara Oldham, horn; and Maureen Strenge, bassoon. Founded in Bogota, Colombia in 1976, the Quintet has specialized in bringing music new music from the Western hemisphere to audiences in the United States since its arrival in New York in 1979. The group has enjoyed an international career that has taken them to concert halls throughout the Americas, the Caribbean, and Eastern Europe. They are currently 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 and become their friend at http://www.facebook.com.
This program is sponsored with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional funds provided by The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, Meet the Composer's Cary New Music Performance Fund, The Carnegie Corporation of New York and Meet The Composer’s MetLife Creative Connections program.
For press inquires or photos, contact Jeffrey James Arts Consulting at 516-586-3433 or jamesarts@att.net.
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