West Point Woodwind Quintet in recital

West Point — The West Point Woodwind Quintet will perform a free recital with music by American composers Samuel Barber, Dana Wilson and Lee Hoiby at 3 p.m. on Sunday, May 7, in the West Point Jewish Chapel. Barber’s “Summer Music,” one of the great works of the woodwind quintet literature, is a virtuosic piece that paints vivid pictures of the long, languid days of summer. The works by Wilson, a professor of composition at Ithaca College School of Music, have been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Detroit Chamber Winds and Strings, Buffalo Philharmonic, West Point Band, Memphis Symphony, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Syracuse Symphony, and Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra. Solo works have been written for artists such as hornist Gail Williams, clarinetist Larry Combs, trumpeter James Thompson, and oboist David Weiss. American composer Hoiby is treasured by performers as diverse as Leontyne Price and Jean Stapleton, for his numerous settings of texts by such diverse authors as Emily Dickinson and Julia Childs. In 1957, Hoiby’s one-act opera, “The Scarf,” was cited by Time Magazine and the Italian press as the hit of the first Spoleto Festival in Italy. For nformation, call 938-2617.