BMC Chamber music Series presents

WINDSCAPE:  WOODWIND QUINTET

Sunday, February 26, 4 pm, Centre Congregational Church, Brattleboro 

Created in 1994 by five eminent woodwind soloists, Windscape has won a unique place for itself as a vibrant, ever-evolving group of musical individualists, which has delighted audiences throughout the North America.  Windscape's innovative programs and accompanying presentations are created to take listeners on a musical and historical world tour--evoking through music and engaging commentary vivid cultural landscapes of distant times and places.

Tara Helen O’Connor, flute, Randall Ellis, oboe, Alan R. Kay, clarinet, Frank Morelli, bassoon, and David Jolley, horn, comprise the Windscape ensemble. 

As Artists-in-Residence at the Manhattan School of Music, the members of Windscape are master teachers, imparting not only the craft of instrumental virtuosity, but also presenting a distinctive concert series hailed for its creative energy and musical curiosity. The series offers the perfect setting for the ensemble to devise new, sometimes startling programs and to experiment with new arrangements and repertoire combinations.

Sunday’s repertoire is wonderfully broad, drawing upon three centuries.  Three of the four pieces on the program are settings created by members of the Quintet, with only the Ligeti originally composed for woodwind quintet.  

J. S. Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, arranged by Kay; György Ligeti’s Sechs Bagatellen Für Bläsrquintett;  Maurice Ravel’s  Ma Mère L'Oye (“Mother Goose" Suite), arranged by Morelli; and Antonín Dvořák’s Quintet in Eb op 51, arranged by Jolley will be performed in Brattleboro.       

This concert is part of the Brattleboro Music Center’s 2011-12 Chamber Music Series, which continues with: Sophie Shao & Friends on Friday, March 16, 7:30 pm; and Les Amies on Saturday, April 21, 7:30 pm.  All chamber series concerts are held at Centre Congregational Church, 193 Main Street in Brattleboro, Vermont.

Tickets ($30, $20, $10) for Windscape on Sunday, February 26, at 4 pm, are available by calling the Brattleboro Music Center,  at the door, or on-line:   WINDSCAPE TICKETS