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The Georgetown Quintet at Damascus United Methodist Church

Upcoming Concerts

November 10, 2018, Sunday, 7:30 pm, Private House Concert 
Where

October 14, 2018, Sunday, 3:00 pm, Buckingham's Choice 

Where
Buckingham's Choice  -  PRIVATE EVENT
Adamstown, Maryland 21710
Program
Malcolm Arnold:  Three Shanties
Maurice Ravel:  Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin
Eric Ewazen:  Roaring Fork
Derek Bermel:  Two Songs from Nandom
Jan P. Sweelinck:  Mein junges Leben hat ein End
Júlio Medaglia:  Det is die Brasilianer Luft

Cost
 Private event. 

February 11, 2018​​, Sunday, 4:30 pm, St. Anne's Episcopal Church Concert Series

Where
Program
St. Anne's Episcopal
25100 Ridge Road
Damascus, MD 20872

​Malcolm Arnold:  Three Shanties, Allegro con brio
Maurice Ravel:  Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin
Eric Ewazen:  Roaring Fork
Derek Bermel:  Two Songs from Nandom
Jan P. Sweelinck:  Mein junges Leben hat ein End
Júlio Medaglia:  Det is die Brasilianer Luft
Cost
$10 free will offering.  Pay what you can.

March 16, 2018, Friday, 7:30 pm, Westminster Canterbury Bistro Series presents TGQ

Where
300 Westminster-Canterbury Drive
Winchester, Virginia 22603

Program
Malcolm Arnold:  Three Shanties
Paul Valjean:  select movements from Dance Suite for Woodwind Quintet

Eric Ewazen:  Roaring Fork
Maurice Ravel:  Menuet from Le Tombeau de Couperin
Derek Bermel:  Two Songs from Nandom
Jan P. Sweelinck:  Mein junges Leben hat ein End
Júlio Medaglia:  Det is die Brasilianer Luft
Cost
$10 cash at the door.  

Past Performances

August 13, 2017, Sunday, 6:00 pm, The Corner Store presents TGQ

Where
The Corner Store, 900 S. Carolina Avenue, SE, Washington, DC -- TGQ returns to our most charming, darling art-filled venue, near great Capitol Hill restaurants.  Join us before dinner!
Program
Nino Rota:  Petite Offrande Musicale
Scott Pender:  Suite for Woodwind Quintet
Juriaan Andriessen: Scariada Spagnuola
​Eric Ewazen:  Roaring Fork
Cost
$20 donation suggested.  Go to www.cornerstorearts.org for advance tickets.

January 27, 2017, Friday, 8:00 pm, A Virtual Vacation with The Georgetown Quintet

Where
The Bonita Lestina Performance Series at Old Town Hall
3999 University Drive
Fairfax, VA  22030


TGQ will be presented by the City of Fairfax Commission on the Arts in this lovely colonial revival style hall  built in 1900. Parking is available at the parking garage at Old Town Plaza and at other free parking lots in the City. Click here for the City’s Parking Map. Come travel four continents without TSA!
Program
Liduino Pitombeira: Ajubete Jepê Amo Mbaê
Juriaan Andriessen: Scariada Spagnuola
Jonathan Newmark:  Serenade for Wind Quintet
Paul Valjean:  Dance Suite for Woodwind Quintet
Gustav Mahler:  Das Knaben Wunderhorn
Valerie Coleman:  ​Afro-Cuban Concerto for Wind Quintet 


​January 13, 2017, Friday, 8:00 pm,  DC Musica Viva Presents Members of TGQ 

Where
Church of the Ascension in Takoma Park
633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Takoma Park, MD  20912
Program
​W. A. Mozart: Quintet for piano, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and french horn in Eb Major, K. 452
Jean Francaix: Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano 
Petr Eben: Musica per oboe, fagotto e pianoforte
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Robert Huffman, oboe, Denis Malloy, clarinet, Nancy Switkes, bassoon, Shane Iler, French horn, Carl Banner, piano

October 21, 2016, Friday, 8:00 pm, DC Musica Viva Joins with TGQ

For additional details of a program of music for balletic kitchen utensils, Mozart's favorite work of his own, and Brahms' stirring clarinet Quintet, you may go to www.dcmusicaviva.org/events/

​April 10, 2016, Sunday, 4:00 pm,  Global Mitzvah Project  presents TGQ playing African-American and Jewish Composers

Where
Temple Emanuel (the brown building, south of Knowles Avenue)
10101 Connecticut Avenue
Kensington, MD  20895

Program
Overture to Candide, Leonard Bernstein (a comic masterpiece of Broadway)
Partita, Irving Fine (lovely, tuneful woodwind writing)
Folk Suite No. 4, William Grant Still (enjoyable South American themes from a simpler time - 1931)

Afro-Cuban Concerto for Wind Quintet, ​Valerie Coleman (soulful melodies and vibrant layers of African rhythms turn the wind players into faux-percussionists for a smashing finale)

​January 16, 2016, Saturday, 8:00 pm, Wintersteps (Disonance Dance Theatre)

Where
Joy of Motion Dance Center - The Jack Guidone Theater 
5207 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015

Map
Program
Dance Suite, by Paul Valjean, a composer and bassoonist, to be performed by The Georgetown Quintet and dancers of Disonance Dance Theatre

Established and emerging dancers of Disonance Dance Theatre will perform additional selections by both local and national choreographers.

http://www.ddtdc.org/season.html

July 25, 2015, Saturday, 7:30 pm  A Vacation Around Music

Where
The Great Hall
Penn Alps Inc.
125 Casselman Road
Grantsville, MD 21536
301-895-5985
http://www.musicatpennalps.org/

Program
Petite Offrande Musical, Nino Rota

Quintet No. 3 in F Major, Guiseppe Maria Cambini


Des Knaben Wunderhorn, Gustav Mahler
 

Dance Suite for Woodwind Quintet, Paul Valjean

Aria and Quodlibet, Arne Running   



April 26, 2015, Sunday, 3:00 pm

Where
The Inter-Faith Chapel
3680 South Leisure World Boulevard
Silver Spring, MD 20906
301-589-5312
Program
Quintet No. 3 in F Major, Guiseppe Maria Cambini

Ajubete Jepê Amo Mbaê, Liduino Pitombeira

Böhmische Suite, Kurt Mederacke

Quodlibet, Arne Running                      

January 25, 2015, Sunday, 3:00 pm - Enjoy the Fundraiser:  Mobile Med of Montgomery County presents TGQ

Where
Temple Emanuel (the brown building, south of Knowles Avenue)
10101 Connecticut Avenue
Kensington, MD  20895


Program
Nouvelette, Francis Poulenc
Oblivion,  Astor Piazolla
Böhmische Suite,  Kurt Mederacke
A Few New Tricks, John McGinn

Serenade For Wind Quintet, Ferenc Farkas

November 23, 2014 - Sunday, 6:30 pm

Where
Damascus United Methodist Church
9700 New Church Street
Damascus, MD 20872-2014
301-253-0022
Program
Humoreske, Alexander Zemlinsky
Novelette in C - Francis Poulenc
Böhmische Suite,  Kurt Mederacke
A Few New Tricks, John McGinn
Serenade For Wind Quintet, Ferenc Farkas

Oblivion,  Astor Piazolla

June 15, 2014 - Sunday, 5:00 pm

Where
The Corner Store
900 South Carolina Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003

202-544-5807

Program
Novelette in C - Francis Poulenc
Quintet for Winds No. 4 - David Maslanka
Ajubete Jepê Amo Mbaê - Liduino Pitombeira
Libertango - Astor Piazzola

May 10, 2014 - Saturday, 3:30 pm

Where
Tony's Band Kamp --  Look for the wildly-painted Volkswagen bus on the roof
5515 Randolph Road (near Nebel Street)
Rockville, MD 20852
Program
Novelette in C - Francis Poulenc
Quintet for Winds No. 4 - David Maslanka

Ajubete Jepê Amo Mbaê - Liduino Pitombeira
Libertango - Astor Piazzola

March 16, 2014 - Sunday, 2:00 pm: "From Rossini to Maslanka"

Where
VisArts
155 Gibbs Street
Rockville, MD 20850
Program
Novelette - Francis Poulenc
Quintet for Winds No. 4 - David Maslanka
The Barber of Seville or "Potpourri Fantastico" - Rossini, arr. by Briccialdi

January 13, 2013 - Sunday, 3:00 pm:  "Peter & The Wolf" to Help Mobile Med

Mobile Med presented The Georgetown Quintet's winter concert. Mobile Med provides healthcare to low-income Montgomery County residents at nine clinics.  
Where
Temple Emanuel (the brown building, south of Knowles Avenue)
10101 Connecticut Avenue

Kensington, MD  20895
Program
Peter and the Wolf, Sergei Prokofiev
Ancient Hungarian Dances, Ferrenc Farkas
Kammermusic, Paul Hindemith
Five Anniversaries, Leonard Bernstein, arranged by Ted Shapiro

July 28, 2012 - Saturday, 7:30 pm: "Recession Vacation" in Maryland's Panhandle

Where
The Great Hall
Penn Alps Inc.
125 Casselman Road
Grantsville, MD 21536
301-895-5985
http://www.musicatpennalps.org/
Program
Juriaan Andriessen, "Sciarada Spagnuola"
Maurice Ravel, "Le Tombeau de Couperin"
Paquito D'Rivera, "Aires Tropicales"

March 11, 2012 - Sunday,  7:00 pm: St. Matthew Presbyterian Church

Where
St. Matthew Presbyterian Church
4001 Bel Pre Road 
Silver Spring, MD 20906
301-598-4100
Program
Cambini, "Quintett No. 1 in B-flat"
Irving Fine, "Partita"
Jurriaan Andriessen, "Sciarada Spagnuola"  
Prokofiev, "Summer Day Suite"

October 30, 2011 - 7:00 pm: The Corner Store

Where
The Corner Store
900 South Carolina Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20003


202-544-5807
Program
"Two Premiers and a Pulitzer"
     
Mozart, "Marriage of Figaro"
Georges Onslow, "Quintet"  *

Alexander "Sasha" Bondarev,  "Quintet"  **
Paul Moravec, "Wind Quintet"  ***
Arne Running "Aria and Quodlibet"   ****

*  Onslow is the "French Beethoven."  TGQ is pleased to perform what we expect is the East Coast premier of this 1850 parlor music, largely neglected since WWI. 

**   Sasha is a Silver Spring composer, from Russia who writes children's music.  His delightful piece is inspired by Stravinsky's characters in "L'Histoire du Soldat" and is influenced by the humor of Schostakovich.

***  Paul won the Pulitzer Price in 2004 for a clarinet quartet.  His woodwind quintet in 7 short tonal movements explores lovely, sometimes modern harmonies and includes exciting rhythmic jigsaw puzzle assembly.  Recent TGQ audiences enjoyed its complexity very much.

****  You will love the 
lush Aria that precedes the Quodlibet movement http://www.georgetownquintet.com/sound.html (3rd audio clip down).  The finale leaves everyone smiling if not laughing out loud.

October 23, 2011 - 6:30 pm: Damascus United Methodist Church

Where
Damascus United Methodist Church
9700 New Church Street
Damascus, MD 20872-2014
301-253-0022

Program
"Two Premiers and a Pulitzer"  (same as above)


 Mozart, "Marriage of Figaro"
Georges Onslow, "Quintet"  

Alexander "Sasha" Bondarev,  "Quintet"  
Paul Moravec, "Wind Quintet"  
Arne Running "Aria and Quodlibet"   





June 26, 2011 - Collage of Musical Snapshots


Where
Betty Mae Kramer Gallery
Silver Spring Civic Building
One Veterans Place
Silver Spring, MD 20910
(at the corner of Fenton Street and Ellsworth Drive in downtown Silver Spring)
Program

Same as 6/18 program, below:  A specially commissioned 2010 Wind Quintet by Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec.  Other composers heard were:  Jacques Ibert, Amy Beach, Alexander Zemlinsky, Joseph Jongen and Arne Running (heard on the SOUND page, above).

June 18, 2011 - Concert at The Yurt

The yurt is a modernized version of the circular tents used by Mongolian nomads in Central Asia. The round, cedar building was shipped from Oregon. The Georgetown Quintet was the first chamber music ensemble to fill this special communal space, overlooking fields of goats, with intimate woodwind music.
Where
Sugarloaf Congregation of Unitarian Universalists
16913 Germantown Road/Route 118
Germantown, MD 20875

Program
A specially commissioned 2010 Wind Quintet by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec had its Mid-Atlantic premier.  Other composers you will hear:  Jacques Ibert, Amy Beach, Alexander Zemlinsky, Joseph Jongen and Arne Running (heard on the SOUND page, above).

October 8, 2010 - Concert at Black Rock

Where
Black Rock Center for the Arts
12901 Town Commons Drive
Germantown, MD 20874
Program
  • Selected Movements from Le Cheminée du Roi René - Darius Milhaud
  • Aires Tropicales - Paquito D'Rivera
  • Theme and Variations for Woodwind Quintet - Andrew White
  • Quintettino - Avro Part
  • Quodlibet - Arne Running

August 28, 2010 - Jazz Meets Classical

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The Georgetown Quintet performed a concert exploring pieces that combine jazz idioms and romantic classical composition. Featuring former electric bassist with Stevie Wonder and WeatherReport, Coltrane expert Andrew Nathaniel White III, this concert highlighted three of his jazz parodies for woodwind quintet and alto saxophone. They are based on Bach's "Easter Oratorio" and "Second Orchestral Suite," and Handel's "Third Violin Concerto."

Where
The Benning Neighborhood Library
3935 Benning Road, NE
Washington, DC  20019
Program
  • Theme and Variations for Woodwind Quintet - Andrew White
  • Three Jazz Parodies - Andrew White
  • Le Cheminee du Roi Rene - Darius Milhaud
  • Aires Tropicales - Paquito D'Rivera
  • Quintettino - Avro Part
  • Quodlibet - Arne Running
Related Links
Press Release:
pressrelbenning.pdf
File Size: 50 kb
File Type: pdf
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Flyer:
benning_neighbor_flyer_7.29.10.pdf
File Size: 612 kb
File Type: pdf
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Andrew White's biography

January 23, 2010 - TGQ's 2nd Arts & Humanities Grant

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Five Plus One: Georgetown Quintet Debuts New Composition by Joseph Hallman

Program
  • Janacek - Mladi
  • Hallman - Nostalgias
  • Francaix – Sixtuor
Related Links
Tuesday - Conversation with Nancy Switkes
Wednesday - Feature article in Gazette
Composer Joseph Hallman's site
Score for "Nostalgias" by Joseph Hallman

December 2, 2007 - TGQ's 1st Arts & Humanities Grant

TGQ played the first concert ever heard at VisArts in Rockville.  The dramatic room with wall-sized windows overlooking Rockville's Town Center was filled with playful music of French, German-Jewish and Danish composers.  The event was paid for by a grant from the Montgomery County Arts & Humanities Council.
Program
  • Debussy - Le Petit Négre
  • Nielsen - Kvintet, opus 43
  • Francaix - Quatuor
  • Mahler - Des Knaben Wunderhorn
  • Bizet - Jeux d'Enfants

Related Links
Press Release:
visartpr.pdf
File Size: 84 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Flyer:
visarts_flyer_071202.pdf
File Size: 18 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

2005 - 2010 Concert History

TGQ breathes life and zeal into standards such as Giorgy Ligeti’s “Sechs Bagatelles” as well as into the rarely performed gems of 300 years of woodwind quintet writing.  Splendid works such as "Serenade," by Farkas and "Humoresque" by Zemlinsky are enjoyed by the TGQ players and audiences alike.
During 2005 - 2010, TGQ has entertained the public, for no more than an optional donation at:
  • The Martin Luther King Library, Washington DC
  • The Lyceum, Alexandria, Virginia
  • VisArts, Rockville, Maryland
  • The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
  • Strathmore Mansion, Rockville, Maryland
  • St. John’s Catholic Church, Altoona, Pennsylvania
  • Brookmont Church and Community Center, Bethesda, Maryland
as well as many other venues
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