Winding Around the World Letter from the Artistic Directors

Dear Friends,

Our next concert, at Nazareth’s Glazer Center for the Performing Arts, features an international variety of wind music. Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds is the heart of the program and was so successful during the composer’s lifetime that Mozart regarded it as one of his best chamber music works. This quintet enhanced and emboldened his prodigious wind writing for later use in the piano concertos that followed (and which are some of Mozart’s most significant works).

We open the performance with the lovable Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon by Francis Poulenc and close the first half with a relatively unknown, but charming work by Jean Francaix, L’Heure du Berger. Written for a Parisian café as background music, it is a light-hearted character study which the composer himself regarded as “serious music without weight”!

 We are thrilled to be presenting the world premiere of Davy Temperley’s Wind Quintet No.2, which continues our season goal of celebrating Rochester’s fantastic and diverse composers. You will also hear a charming arrangement of William Grant Still’s Folk Suite No. 4, which is a collection of folk songs from various South American countries arranged for wind quintet.

The Pre-concert chat is at 3:30 and concert begins at 4pm – we look forward to your company!

Warmly,
Erik and Juliana