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5/9/2006
FROM: Svjetlana Kabalin
FOR: the Sylvan Winds
RESERVATIONS / PROGRAM INFORMATION (phone/fax): 212/222-3569
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May 1, 2006
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SYLVAN WINDS CLOSE SEASON
AT WEILL RECITAL HALL
WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 2006 at 8 PM
Sylvan Wind Quintet
Svjetlana Kabalin, flute; Alexandra Knoll, oboe; Amy Zoloto, clarinet;Thomas Sefcovic, bassoon; Zohar Schondorf, horn
In its official debut of this group of artists at Weill Recital Hall, 154 W 57th Street on
Wednesday, May 18, 2006 at 8 PM for a program of Mozart, Ravel and Friends.
Program
W. A. Mozart Adagio & Allegro, K. 594 (arr. M. Rechtman)
Karel Husa Five Poems (1994)
August Klughardt Quintet, op. 79
Maurice Ravel Ma M�re L�Oye (arr. M. Popkin)
Ticket prices: $30 & 25 for adults; $15 for students and seniors.
For further program information and reservations, please call or fax 212 / 222-3569.
This program marks the New York City debut of the current personnel of the Sylvan Winds. Made up of graduates of the Curtis Institute, the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and Depaul University, the ensemble�s members reflect a more international face, with backgrounds from Zimbabwe via South Africa, Israel, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, and the former Yugoslavia. The group will perform a program covering many periods and styles from classical Mozart, both French and German faces of romanticism, and marking the 80th birthday of the Czech-American composer Karel Husa.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) The Adagio & Allegro, K. 594, was originally composed for mechanical organ and was commissioned in 1790 by a Mr. M�ller�formerly Joseph Count Deym von Stritez, who had left Vienna after fighting a duel in which he killed his opponent. After the count returned under an alias, Mozart probably met him through the sculptor Leonhard Posch, who also worked for the M�ller'schen Kunstkabinett founded by Deym. In this �multimedia� exhibition gallery wax figures of an exotic or heroic nature were displayed, while �musical clocks� or player-organs provided atmosphere. Mordechai Rechtman, former principal bassoon of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, arranged this work for wind quintet.
Karel Husa (b. 1926) Five Poems was commissioned by the Koussevitzky Foundation in 1994. In the composer�s own words, the work ��express[es] my admiration for birds, these wonderful creatures who embellish our lives so magically. They are only imaginary poems�The suggested titles give the listeners free imagination.� This performance is in celebration of the composer�s 80th birthday.
August Klughardt (1847-1902) Born in Coethen in eastern Germany in 1847, he held a succession of court posts, including one at Weimar, where he succeeded Franz Liszt, and later at Dessau, where he remained until his death. While he had success with his symphonies, concertos, and chamber works and was honored by several universities and musical societies, less than a decade after his death much of his work was lost. The woodwind quintet, op. 79, was one of his last compositions and is one of his few existing works.
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Joseph Maurice Ravel was born in Ciboure near Saint-Jean-de-Luz, Basses Pyr�n�es, France and died in Paris. He composed Ma M�re l'oye for piano four-hands in the years 1908-10 and orchestrated the sections as a ballet�adding a Prelude and "Spinning-Wheel Dance��in 1911. A pair of children, the six and seven year old siblings Mimi and Jean Godebski, premiered the original piano version, at a concert of the Soci�t� Musicale Ind�pendante in Paris in 1910; the ballet version was first performed at the Th��tre des Arts in Paris in January 1912.
As an adult Ravel could penetrate the world of the child as few composers have before or since. His empathy may have come through a passion for toys�especially the mechanical kind�or simply because Ravel, who was always sensitive about his small stature, felt more comfortable with persons still smaller than himself. This empathy for a child�s point of view is very much apparent in his charming opera L�Enfant et les sortil�ges, which deals with a naughty child whose mistreated toys come to life to teach him a lesson. It is also revealed in his response to a series of illustrations of French fairy tales, which he used as the basis of a suite of simple four-hand piano pieces called Ma M�re l�oye (Mother Goose)* designed as a gift for the children of his friends Ida and Cipa Godebski. The children were fairly accomplished pianists, and although technically fairly simple, the work is charming and clearly characterized throughout. This version was arranged for wind quintet by Mark Popkin, a member of Lincoln Center�s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra and professor of bassoon at the North Carolina School of the Arts.
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Hailed by the New York Times for �its venturesomeness of programming and stylishness of performance,� the ensemble has performed throughout the Tri-State area, and has toured both domestically and abroad. The Sylvan Winds has established a reputation as one of the city�s most versatile chamber music ensembles and has received many honors, including an invitation to perform at the Governor�s Arts Awards. Dedicated to exploring the entire body of literature for wind instruments, the ensemble has consistently earned audience and critical acclaim. Of their spring 1999 concert at Weill Recital Hall, New York Times critic Paul Griffiths wrote, �the work was beautifully executed here, with due care for its rhythmic demands. Indeed, throughout the evening the musicians showed themselves able to think, breathe and enter as one.�
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posted by Coming Events
5/09/2006 12:10:00 PM
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