Mark Whitecage Alto saxophone, Clarinet
Rozanne Levine Clarinet, Alto clarinet, Bamboo flute
Matt Snyder Clarinet, Bass clarinet
When: Sunday, March 2nd
Where: Witches Brew, 311 Hempstead Turnpike, West Hempstead, NY
Time: 6:00PM
Suggested Donation: $15
For further information: telephone 516-489-WITCH A
lso on the bill: Who Knows? with Perry Robinson, Mark Whitecage and Richie Nagan
The New Reed Quartet is an alliance of old friends discovering a new sound.
The group had its genesis one afternoon not long after the attack on the World Trade Center. As shell-shocked as the rest of the city, clarinetists and friends Perry Robinson and Matt Snyder tried that day to work out some of their feelings in music, and an intense improvisational jam led to the idea that they form a band together. Robinson, who had mentored Snyder for over a decade, suggested a partnership with the duo of Mark Whitecage and Rozanne Levine, bringing together long-standing working and personal relationships. Perry and Mark first met in 1967 and in the ensuing years have performed and recorded with Gunter Hampel and with each other
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