Escape the winter weather with the Pro Arte Wind Quintet Salon Concerts. This performance at the Allen Center for Arts and Culture features a variety of works by significant composers for the genre. This performance will be complemented by an additional performance at Congregation Beth El in Sudbury on Thursday, January 30, 2025.

We will fly through the light Humoresque by Alexander von Zemlinsky, and the charming La cheminée du roi René by Darius Milhaud, and will anchor ourselves with the monumental Kleine Kammermusik by Paul Hindemith.  All three of these composers were emigrés to America, having fled the Nazis, and their works are extremely important in the wind quintet canon. Local composers Arthur Berger and Gunther Schuller, both with strong ties to Boston, round out the program. Berger was a Brandeis faculty member and Schuller was the president of the New England Conservatory and the Conductor Laureate of Pro Arte!

Please join us for this extremely varied, unique and fun program that showcases the many colors of the woodwind quintet. See you there!

The Salon Series is Pro Arte’s chamber music concert series. Each performance features a select handful of musicians from Pro Arte’s cooperative along with occasional guest artists to present musical gems not featured in the full orchestral Ensemble Series. They are a perfect way get to know Pro Arte players better. If you haven’t been to one of these fun concerts, they are presented less formally and feature plenty of opportunity to interact with the musicians and to learn more about the music.

Performers

Anne Bobo, flute

Nancy Dimock, oboe

Ian Greitzer, clarinet

Ronald Haroutunian, bassoon

Robert Marlatt, horn