Community Corner
Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet Concert
The Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet under the direction of
Alan Pearlmutter will present a concert at Evangelical Baptist
Church, 23 Chapel Street, Newton,
MA on Sunday, November 10, 2013
at 2:00 p.m. The performance features Serenade for Wind Instruments by Arthur
Bird and Divertimento for Wind Dectet
by Martin Ellerby. Tickets are $15.00
Adults, $10.00 Students and Seniors, $5.00 for EBC attendees, and free for
children under 12.
Arthur Bird was a Massachusetts-based composer of the late
19th and early 20th centuries who demonstrated classical
structure and integrity, attractive melodic writing, and an interest in tone
color, light, and orchestral effects. He
has been associated with the American Luminist painters of the nineteenth
century.
Martin Ellerby is a post World War II English composer who
has written music for orchestra, chorus, band, and ballet. Divertimento
is light-hearted in character and consists of seven contrasting, short
movements. The music is highly rhythmic,
well crafted, and sometimes virtuosic, with a wide variety of imitative and fragmented
effects.