'Live at the Five and Dime' With the Lyrique Quintette

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Lyrique Quintette 2018

The Department of Music, in collaboration with the Walmart Museum and Downtown Bentonville Inc., initiated a new concert series this summer called "Live at the Five and Dime."

Each Wednesday from 7-9 p.m., a group connected to the music department performs outside the Walmart Museum on the Bentonville Square. The concerts are free and open to the public.

Tonight's performance will be the seventh concert in the series and will feature the University of Arkansas' resident woodwind quintet, the Lyrique Quintette. Comprised of Ronda Mains (flute), Theresa Delaplain (oboe), Nophachai Cholthitchant (clarinet), Lia Uribe (bassoon), and Tim Thompson (horn), the ensemble will perform selections from their recently released album "Arrivals and Departure: Music of the Americas." 

About the Lyrique Quintette: The Lyrique Quintette is the faculty woodwind chamber ensemble in residence at the University of Arkansas. All five are members of the music faculty at the University of Arkansas. A versatile troupe, the ensemble has been invited to perform throughout the U.S. and abroad. The members perform chamber music as chamber music should be heard-in an intimate, personal, and comfortable setting-bringing the performers and audience together as partners in the creation of an art form. The quintet's wide range of repertoire and dazzling performances make it a favorite of audiences of all ages. Repertoire spans many musical eras from the richness of the 16th-century Renaissance, to the boldness of 19th-century Romanticism, to works from some of today's most exciting international composers. The ensemble is equally at home with its numerous "pop" arrangements by composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, and Duke Ellington.

The quintet has been on the touring roster of the Arkansas Arts Council since 1992, is on the Heartland Arts Fund Roster, and tours regularly, appearing at performing arts centers, universities, schools, and other venues across the region. Performing arts organizations which have enjoyed the music of the Lyrique Quintette include the Chamber Music Society of Little Rock, the Texarkana Regional Arts and Humanites Council, the Bella Vista Village Performing Arts Series, the John Brown University Lyceum Series, the Garland County Library, the Cleburne County Arts Council, Batesville Community Concerts, the Hot Springs Village Symphony Guild, the Hannibal Concert Association, the State Theatre Arts Council (Missouri), the Goddard Center (Oklahoma), the Oklahoma City University Guest Artist Series, the Southern Arkansas University Guest Artist Series, and more.The quintet has performed at several national and international conferences, including International Double Reed Society conferences in Frankfurt, Banff, and Austin; the National Flute Association convention; and the Montana-Idaho Clarinet Festival in Missoula. In fall 2017 the quintet will perform in San Antonio at the College Music Society national convention.

The Lyrique Quintette has been touring and performing since the ensemble was formed in 1990. In 2006, they released their first CD, "Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue. Currently, the quintet is in the production process of their second CD "Arrivals and Departures: Music from the Americas" for release in late 2017, which will include two new works commissioned by the quintet by composers Robert Mueller and Miguel del Aguila.