Intimate concert to benefit Weekend of Chamber Music

Brooklyn, NY — The Weekend of Chamber Music (WCM) will kick off its 2006 season with a benefit concert and dinner in a private Brooklyn home, scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on March 12.

The performance will feature music for wind quartet, including music by Mozart, Vivaldi, Françaix and Berger. Featured performers will be oboist Matt Sullivan of Quintet of the Americas; clarinetist Allen Blustine of Speculum Musicae and Columbia University; flutist Judith Pearce, Weekend’s founder, artistic director and Princeton University faculty member; and Leonard Hindell, newly retired bassoonist from the New York Philharmonic.

Food and wine will follow an hour-long concert, with a menu devised by former San Francisco restaurateur Julia Grady.

Seating is limited and reservations are required. Admission donation for the benefit is $75. The proceeds directly support ongoing projects in Sullivan County’s public schools and the development of WCM’s school chamber music coaching program.

For more information call 718/638-8962.