Boston Conservatory's Faculty Woodwind Quintet presents a program of music impacted by war: from compositions written directly after World War I and World War II to Ukrainian love songs arranged for the quintet by a musician currently living in Kiev. These works remind us of the emotional toll that war takes on humanity, while celebrating the resilience of the human spirit.
This event is part of Boston Conservatory at Berklee's Artistry in Action series
Program Information
Repertoire
MAXIM BEREZOVSKY (arr. Alex Talanov): Cast me not off in the time of old age
MAURICE RAVEL (arr. D. Wilson Ochoa): Trois Beaux Oiseaux du Paradis (1916)
GRAŹYNA BACEWICZ: Quintet (1932)
— Intermission —
CARL NIELSEN: Quintet, Op. 43 (1922)
TRADITIONAL arr. ALEX TALANOV: Three Ukrainian Songs (2022)
1. Ой ти дівчина (Oh you girl)
2. Я піду в далекі гори (I will go to distant mountains)
3. Ой на, ой на горі (Oh on, oh on the mountain)
Sarah Brady, flute
Rob Sheena, oboe and English horn
Jan Halloran, clarinet
Eli Epstein, French horn
Margaret Phillips, bassoon
Concert Services Staff
Senior Manager of Concert Services – Luis Herrera
Concert Production Coordinator – Matthew Carey
Concert Production Manager – Kendall Floyd
Manager of Performance Technology – Wes Fowler
Performance Technology Technicians – Sara Pagiaro, Goran Daskalov
Special Thanks
The quintet would like to thank our viola colleague from Boston by way of Ukraine, Alex Vavilov, for connecting us musically with Alex Talanov. We offer our deepest gratitude for the music and for entrusting us with it. We support Ukraine and hope for an end to this war. If you are inspired by these works and are interested in supporting Ukraine, please learn more.
Boston Conservatory thanks audience members for viewing this program information online. This paperless program saved 130 sheets of paper, 14 gallons of water, and 12 pounds of CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions.
