The lively and reliable Blair Woodwind Quintet offers a wide variety of 20th century American music for its Monday night concert. Oboist Jared Hauser joined the group in 2008, but the remaining members — former Blair Associate Dean Jane Kirchner and Nashville Symphony stalwarts Leslie Norton, Cassandra Lee and Cynthia Estill — have shared the stage for almost two decades. The program features an arrangement of George Gershwin’s jazz-influenced 1926 Three Preludes, originally written for piano. Irving Fine was part of the so-called “Boston School” of mid-century composers that included Copland and Bernstein — his Partita dates from 1948. Montana-based composer David Maslanka’s ongoing study of Bach inspired him to include several Lutheran chorale tunes in his 1999 Quintet No. 3. Admission is free.
Mon., March 15, 8 p.m., 2010
