[205] Category 5 Quintet Plans Free Nov. 17 Concert At MTSU

CATEGORY 5 QUINTET PLANS FREE NOV. 17 CONCERT AT MTSU
University of Southern Mississippi Performers ‘Exhilarating’

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Nov. 16, 2010
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Tim Musselman, 615-898-2493

(MURFREESBORO)—Category 5, a wind quintet from the University of Southern Mississippi, will present a free public concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, in Room 117 of the Saunders Fine Arts Building, adjacent to the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus.
“We are so excited that Category 5 is going to be here,” said Dr. Maya Stone, professor of bassoon at MTSU. “We are looking forward to an exhilarating performance,”
The group always seeks to present a diverse and exciting program, often performing specially commissioned pieces and other items of new music alongside works for the standard wind quintet.
USM faculty members comprise the group. Scheduled to perform are Heidi Lucas, horn; Kim Woolly, bassoon; Anna Pennington, oboe; Danilo Mezzadri, flute; and Jonathan Holden, clarinet.
Category 5 will perform “Three Shanties for Wind Quintet” by Malcolm Arnold, “Wind Quintet No. 2 (Homeland)” by Judith Lang Zaimont, “Partita for Wind Quintet” by Irving Fine and “Oblivion/Libertango” by Astor Piazzolla.
For more information on this free event and other concerts at the MTSU School of Music, please call 615-898-2493 or visit the “Concert Calendar” link at www.mtsumusic.com.

Founded in 1911, Middle Tennessee State University is a Tennessee Board of Regents institution located in Murfreesboro and is the state’s largest public undergraduate institution. MTSU now boasts one of the nation’s first master’s degree programs in horse science, and the Council of Graduate Schools in Washington, D.C., acclaims MTSU’s Master of Science in Professional Science degree—the only one in Tennessee—as a model program. This fall, MTSU unveiled three new doctoral degrees in the sciences.

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IN BRIEF: Category 5, a wind quintet from the University of Southern Mississippi, will present a free public concert at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 17, in Room 117 of the Saunders Fine Arts Building, adjacent to the Wright Music Building on the MTSU campus. Category 5 will perform “Three Shanties for Wind Quintet” by Malcolm Arnold, “Wind Quintet No. 2 (Homeland)” by Judith Lang Zaimont, “Partita for Wind Quintet” by Irving Fine and “Oblivion/Libertango” by Astor Piazzolla. For more information on this and other concerts at the MTSU School of Music, please call 615-898-2493 or visit the “Concert Calendar” link at www.mtsumusic.com.

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