Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet at Penn Alps

Music at Penn Alps is pleased to present the Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet. The concert will be at the handicap-accessible Village Chapel in the Spruce Forest Village in Grantsville, MD, on August 3 at 7:00 PM. Tickets are available for $20 at the door, in the gift shop at Penn Alps Restaurant, or online at https://www.musicatpennalps.org/tickets. [Persons 19 and under are admitted free.]

The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet may be history’s most ambitious cover band. Four women wielding bassoons (with help from some kazoos, a melodica, and whatever else they found nearby), aim to explore the creative frontier and share smiles along the way. By blending varied musical genres and performance styles with pop culture, the quartet demonstrates that music and laughter are universal languages.

The group — consisting of Brittany Harrington-Smith, Yuki Katayama, Nellie Sommer, and Lauren Yu Ziemba — was formed in 2008 as students at the Eastman School of Music (USA). After a YouTube video of their Lady Gaga Saga went viral in 2011, they developed a global fan base. They have since performed as soloists with the Yale Concert Band, West Point Band, Southern Methodist University Wind Ensemble, and Eastman Wind Ensemble (among others), and have been invited artists of the International Double Reed Society, Beijing International Bassoon Festival, and music conferences and festivals across the United States.

Program:
Julius Fučik: Thunder and Blazes March
Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
J. S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Franz Schubert: Ave Maria
Percy Aldridge Grainger: Three Pieces
Maurice Ravel: Bolero
Isabella Leonarda: Ave Regina Coelorum
Alice Tegnér: En hymn till stjärnan
Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah
Various: Rock Medley
John Williams: Jurassic Park
Howard Shore: Fellowship of the Bassoon Quartet
Various: Star Wars
Bill Withers: Lean on Me

For additional information, please refer to https://MusicAtPennAlps.org or contact Joe McDaniel, President of Music at Penn Alps, at 443-414-3955 (call or text).