The Moran Woodwind Quintet’s upcoming faculty recital features a broad range of repertoire. The program opens with a woodwind quintet standard, the Quintet in g minor of Franz Danzi, a contemporary of Beethoven and one of the fathers of the woodwind quintet.
The program also includes the tuneful Pastoral of American composer Vincent Persichetti. Daniel Baldwin, a recent DMA graduate of UNL, composed his single-movement “Dreams of the White Tiger” as part of a national consortium commissioning project, and the Moran Quintet gave the Nebraska premiere in Omaha in June. The anchor of the program is California composer John Steinmetz’s inventive and entertaining Quintet, which is cast in one movement in several colorful sections.

One of the most active and visible quintets in the Midwest, the Moran Woodwind Quintet is the resident faculty woodwind quintet of the Glenn Korff School of Music. Formed in 1986 and named for the late John Moran, director of the UNL School of Music, the Quintet has toured extensively. They have also performed at conventions of the College Music Society, the International Double Reed Society and the International Horn Society. They have recorded three CD’s. The Quintet includes John Bailey on flute, Diane Barger on clarinet, Alan Mattingly on horn, Jeffrey McCray on bassoon, and William McMullen on oboe.