I have a little break from the travel to Denver this week, and so I could go for a walk after my work was done today. It was a beautiful summer day (79 °F/ 26°C) and I ended up at Volunteer Park at sunset. I believe (I’m a music barbarian!) the group of musicians I found there was a wind quintet. From Wikipedia : a wind quintet, also sometimes known as a woodwind quintet, is a group of five wind players (most commonly flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon). The term also applies to a composition for such a group.
Unlike the string quartet with its homogeneous blend of color, the instruments in a wind quintet differ from each other considerably in technique, idiom, and timbre.
