The Georgetown Quintet at Damascus United Methodist Church
Upcoming Concerts
November 10, 2018, Sunday, 7:30 pm, Private House Concert
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October 14, 2018, Sunday, 3:00 pm, Buckingham's Choice
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Buckingham's Choice - PRIVATE EVENT
Adamstown, Maryland 21710 |
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Program
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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 |
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Private event.
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February 11, 2018, Sunday, 4:30 pm, St. Anne's Episcopal Church Concert Series
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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 |
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$10 free will offering. Pay what you can.
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March 16, 2018, Friday, 7:30 pm, Westminster Canterbury Bistro Series presents TGQ
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300 Westminster-Canterbury Drive
Winchester, Virginia 22603 |
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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 |
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$10 cash at the door.
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Past Performances
August 13, 2017, Sunday, 6:00 pm, The Corner Store presents TGQ
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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!
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Nino Rota: Petite Offrande Musicale
Scott Pender: Suite for Woodwind Quintet Juriaan Andriessen: Scariada Spagnuola Eric Ewazen: Roaring Fork |
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$20 donation suggested. Go to www.cornerstorearts.org for advance tickets.
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January 27, 2017, Friday, 8:00 pm, A Virtual Vacation with The Georgetown Quintet
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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! |
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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
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Church of the Ascension in Takoma Park
633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910 Takoma Park, MD 20912 |
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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 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
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Temple Emanuel (the brown building, south of Knowles Avenue)
10101 Connecticut Avenue Kensington, MD 20895 |
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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)
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Joy of Motion Dance Center - The Jack Guidone Theater
5207 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015 Map |
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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
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The Great Hall
Penn Alps Inc. 125 Casselman Road Grantsville, MD 21536 301-895-5985 http://www.musicatpennalps.org/ |
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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
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The Inter-Faith Chapel
3680 South Leisure World Boulevard Silver Spring, MD 20906 301-589-5312 |
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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
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Temple Emanuel (the brown building, south of Knowles Avenue)
10101 Connecticut Avenue Kensington, MD 20895 |
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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
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Damascus United Methodist Church
9700 New Church Street Damascus, MD 20872-2014 301-253-0022 |
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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
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The Corner Store
900 South Carolina Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20003 202-544-5807 |
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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
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March 16, 2014 - Sunday, 2:00 pm: "From Rossini to Maslanka"
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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.
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Temple Emanuel (the brown building, south of Knowles Avenue)
10101 Connecticut Avenue Kensington, MD 20895 |
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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
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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
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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
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"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
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"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
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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) |
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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).
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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.
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Sugarloaf Congregation of Unitarian Universalists
16913 Germantown Road/Route 118 Germantown, MD 20875 |
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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).
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October 8, 2010 - Concert at Black Rock
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August 28, 2010 - Jazz Meets Classical
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."
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Related Links
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Andrew White's biography
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January 23, 2010 - TGQ's 2nd Arts & Humanities Grant
Five Plus One: Georgetown Quintet Debuts New Composition by Joseph Hallman
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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.
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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.
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During 2005 - 2010, TGQ has entertained the public, for no more than an optional donation at:
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