The Mpingo Clarinet Quartet will give a concert on Sunday,
January 17, 2010, at 2:00 PM as part of the Creative
Cauldron Guest Artist Series at ArtSpace
Falls Church. The program consists of “Early Hungarian Dances” by Ferenc Farkas, “Quartet” by Paul Harvey,
“Scherzo from A Minor Quartet” by Robert Schumann, “Capricietta” by T. Stanley
Skinner, “Divertimento” by Alfred Uhl, and “Moto Perpetuo” by Nicolo Paganini.Quartet members, Larry Bocaner, Nancy Genovese, Robert
Little, and Christopher Hite, have been playing together and giving concerts
for about five years.
In 2009 the Mpingo Clarinet Quartet has been busy with
concerts at Arlington Central Methodist Church, Dumbarton House, Sumner Museum,
the Ellipse Arts Center in Arlington,and Old Town Hall in Fairfax. Mpingo is the Swahili name for the black
wood used in making clarinets.The
quartet employs use of bass clarinet, basset horn, E flat soprano clarinet, as well as B flat and A soprano
clarinets in their varied extensive repertoire. The different timbres of these
instruments create a whole different sound in the ensemble.
The Mpingo Clarinet Quartet will give a concert on Sunday,
January 17, 2010, at 2:00 PM as part of the Creative
Cauldron Guest Artist Series at ArtSpace
Falls Church. The program consists of 
