Please join us for the
debut performance
of the
Philadelphia Chamber Winds!
Sunday, April 20, 2008
3:00 pm
Church of the Holy Trinity
Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia
The
Philadelphia Chamber Winds gives its debut performance on Sunday, April 20 at 3 p.m. at Church of the Holy Trinity, Rittenhouse Square. A new group of professional musicians dedicated to performing wind chamber music, the Philadelphia Chamber
Winds is organized and conducted by Virginia Allen, a faculty member at The Curtis Institute of Music and Juilliard.
The premiere concert by the Philadelphia Chamber
Winds features works for ten instruments - two each of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, and horns. The program ranges from
the standard to the exotic to the whimsical and includes Charles Gounod’s Petite
Symphonie, one of the standards of the chamber wind repertoire; Suite Persane
by André Caplet, which uses oriental modes and exotic instrumental colors to create the sound of Persian
music; Andantino from Concierto No. 3, originally written for organ by
the Baroque Spanish composer Antonio Soler and arranged for antiphonal double wind quintet; the charming, whimsical Musique pour faire plaisir by Francis Poulenc; and Consort for Ten Winds, Robert Spittal’s contemporary reflection of early wind music from the court
of France’s great “Sun King,” Louis XIV.
GOUNOD Petite Symphonie
CAPLET Suite Persane
SOLER, arr. Woolfenden Andantino from Concierto No. 3
POULENC, arr. Françaix Musique pour faire plaisir
SPITTAL Consort for Ten Winds
$15 general admission, $7.50 students
Order tickets online or call or email us to order tickets or get more information:
215-575-0495 or philachamberwinds@verizon.net
