MUSIC

The Music Bus Tour presents Bye Bye Bye, featuring WindSync (pictured), Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 8:00 p.m. at Te House of Tea on Fairview and Woodhead.

WindSync, an innovative new chamber music group, performs engaging choreographed dramatizations, many of which, written by local composers. Their purpose is to create accessible classical music concerts that are exciting and interactive. No Strings Attached includes the popular piece by Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf, which comes alive with costumes, narration, and choreography. It is perfect for introducing children to wind instruments, but also entertaining for a more knowledgeable audience.

Also being performed on this program are works by Astor Piazzola and Paquito D’Rivera among others.

Bye Bye Bye is the first of many concerts to be performed by WindSync in a non-concert hall setting. This is part of the group’s initiative to reach audiences that would not necessarily be open to a traditional classical music concert. The performance includes works by Gaetano Donizetti, Anton Reicha, and David Maslanka, among others. Both of these performances are raising money to send WindSync on a tour this summer of schools and public spaces in order to educate people about classical music and create fun and engaging outreach performances.

They will be doing this tour with the program, The Music Bus Tour, which is a local organization that creates opportunities for professional music students to gain entrepreneurial skills. There is a $5 cover charge for Bye Bye Bye at Te’s House of Tea.

A fresh and lively ensemble, WindSync uses standard and contemporary chamber music as a vehicle to explore new audiences and venues for classical music. WindSync is committed to educational enrichment, traveling to Houston public schools and presenting outreach concerts. Compelled to expand the woodwind quintet repertoire, WindSync has commissioned Houston composer Garrett Schumann to write a musical drama of the story of Robin Hood, which the ensemble will premiere in Spring 2010.

WindSync:   Garrett Hudson, flute, Carlos Cordeiro, clarinet, Nick Wolny, horn, Tracy Jacobson, bassoon, Freddie Blood, oboe.

Performance to include: DONIZETTI, Una Furtiva Lagrima MASLANKA, Quintet No. 3 REICHA, Quintet No.