Imani Winds
October 1st and 2nd, 2011
- SATURDAY, SALON CONCERT, OCTOBER 1, 2011
- Mendelssohn: Scherzo from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
- Jason Moran: Cane (composed for Imani Winds)
- Nielsen: Quintet for Winds, Op. 43
- Debussy: Bruyeres
- Piazzolla: Libertango
- SUNDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2011
- Valerie Coleman: Red Clay and Mississippi Delta
- Paquito D’Rivera: Kites
- Piazzolla: Contrabajissimo
- Bill Douglas: Suite Cantabile
- Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring
- Gamal Abdel-Rahim: The East Suite
Now considered North America’s leading wind quintet, New York’s dynamic Imani Winds debuts in Tulsa this season. The ensemble has an “aggressive, powerful, and crisp sound with dead-on precise coordination,” according to the Boston Musical Intelligencer. The name Imani means “faith” in Swahili, and subtly reflects the ensemble’s African-American and Latin American ancestry. Since 1997, this Grammy nominated quintet has established presence in the classical music world with culturally poignant programming, inspirational outreaches, and genre-blurring collaborations with major artists ranging from Yo-Yo Ma to Wayne Shorter. They are frequently engaged by chamber music series in Boston, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and New York.
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