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WindSync - The Ballad of Robin Hood (Premiere)

Presented by Rice University - Shepherd School of Music and The Music Bus Tour at Rice University - Alice Pratt Brown Hall - Duncan Recital Hall

April 2, 2010

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WindSync, an innovative woodwind chamber music group, is back by popular demand at Duncan Recital Hall, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University on April 2 at 7:30 p.m. The performance features a world premiere of Garett Schumann’s The Ballad of Robin Hood.

The piece is a WindSync commission, expanding the repertoire of music for woodwind quintet that includes dramatization and choreography. It chronicles the fable of Robin Hood using innovative musical and visual techniques. The program also features works by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Franz Danzi, Jacques Ibert, and Gary Shocker.

The concert is a fundraiser to help 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 are designing this tour through the program, The Music Bus Tour, which is a local organization that creates opportunities for professional music students to gain entrepreneurial skills.

This concert is free, but there is a suggested donation of $10 per person.

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. Driven to expand the woodwind quintet repertoire, WindSync has commissioned Houston composer Garrett Schumann to write a musical drama of the story of Robin Hood.

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