BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Music Center will present Windscape: Woodwind Quintet at Centre Congregational Church, 193 Main St., on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m.
Created in 1994 by five eminent woodwind soloists, Windscape has won a unique place for itself as a vibrant, ever-evolving group of musical individualists, which has delighted audiences throughout the North America.
Windscape's innovative programs and accompanying presentations are created to take listeners on a musical and historical world tour - evoking through music and engaging commentary vivid cultural landscapes of distant times and places.
The Windscape ensemble consists of Tara Helen O'Connor, flute; Randall Ellis, oboe; Alan R. Kay, clarinet; Frank Morelli, bassoon; and David Jolley, horn. They are also Artists-in-Residence at the Manhattan School of Music.
Sunday's repertoire is broad, drawing upon three centuries. J.S. Bach's Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542, arranged by Kay; György Ligeti's Sechs Bagatellen Für Bläsrquintett; Maurice Ravel's Ma Mère L'Oye (“Mother Goose” Suite), arranged by Morelli; and Antonín Dvorák's Quintet in Eb, opus 51, arranged by Jolley, will be performed in Brattleboro.
Three of the four pieces on the program are settings created by members of the Quintet, with only the Ligeti originally composed for woodwind quintet.
This concert is part of the Brattleboro Music Center's 2011-12 Chamber Music Series. Tickets ($30, $20, $10) are available by calling the Brattleboro Music Center at 802-257-4523, online at www.bmcvt.org, or at the door.