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Season Calendar of Public Events
Please check back often! Beginning in September, concerts and events
will be posted as the season progresses.
All events take place within Providence unless otherwise indicated.
Listen Local
Where
these icons appear, works by local
composers (listed in bold) are featured on
the program.
Fellowship Seminars
For a complete listing of
dates, click here.
Providence String Quartet Open Rehearsals
Pull
up a chair! Our sound system broadcasts Providence String
Quartet rehearsals onto Westminster Street on most Tuesday,
Wednesday, and Friday afternoons. Occasional spring and
fall open rehearsals include sidewalk receptions.
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Community MusicWorks
Players
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New
this season, the CMW Players is a flexible ensemble composed
of members of the Providence String Quartet, participants
in our Fellowship Program, and guest artists.
The creation of
the CMW Players allows Community MusicWorks to perform more
varied repertoire, include more musicians, and provide more
concerts across Rhode Island. |
September
Saturday, September 15, 4:00-6:00 pm
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Providence
String Quartet's "Season Preview"
Ludwig
van Beethoven: String Quartet Opus 18, No. 4
Evan
Price: Variation on a Theme of Beethoven's's (commissioned
by Community MusicWorks)
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House Concert
Warren, Rhode Island
Admission: Call 401.861.5650 for more information
October
Sunday, October 14, 4:00-6:00 pm
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CMW
Players with
Amy I-Lin Cheng, piano
Chad
Burrow, clarinet
Carl Maria von Weber: Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
Garrison Hull:
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Johannes Brahms: Sonata in E-Flat for Clarinet and Piano
Carl
Fruhling: Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano
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New this season, the CMW Players
is a flexible ensemble composed of members of the Providence
String Quartet, participants in our Fellowship Program, and
guest artists. The creation of the CMW Players allows Community
MusicWorks to perform more varied repertoire, include more musicians,
and provide more concerts across Rhode Island.
The guest artists for this program are pianist
Amy I-Lin Cheng and her husband, clarinetist Chad Burrow, who
perform together as Duo Clarion. They are faculty members at
Oklahoma City University and co-direct the Brightmusic Chamber
Ensemble.
Learn more about Amy and Chad here. |
St. Michael's Church
399 Hope Street (corner
of Hope and Church Streets)
Bristol, Rhode Island
Admission: $20 general, $15 seniors, $10 students.
Call 401.254.9626 for more information.
Friday, October 19, 5:00-6:00 pm
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Musical
Workshop: Kyle Dillingham, fiddle
Several of the Musical Workshops presented by Community
MusicWorks throughout the year are public events, and we invite
you to join our students for an educational presentation by
a local or visiting performing artist or ensemble.
Learn more about Kyle by clicking here.
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The Met School, Peace Street
Campus
362 Dexter Street
Click here for directions
Admission: Free!
Thursday, October 25, 6:00-8:00 pm
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Providence
String Quartet & CMW Players
Free spaghetti
and salad dinner provided by the West End Community Center.
Followed by a free performance by the Providence String Quartet.
Bring your entire family!
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet Opus 74 ("Harp")
Mitchell Clark:
Was That the Rain Thrush Singing in the Blue Olive Tree?
for string trio
Anthony Green:
Chance for string quartet |
West End Community Center
109 Bucklin Street
Click here for directions
Admission: Free!
Friday, October 26, 8:00-10:00 pm
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Providence
String Quartet & CMW Players
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet Opus 18 No. 6
Ludwig van Beethoven: String Quartet Opus 74 ("Harp")
Mitchell Clark:
Was That the Rain Thrush Singing in the Blue Olive Tree?
for string trio
Anthony Green:
Chance for string quartet
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Bell Street Chapel
5 Bell Street
Click
here for directions
Admission: $15 general, $5 children, $5 CMW Family
Pass
November
Thursday, November 1, 4:00-6:00 pm
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Daniel
Bernard Roumain
Co-presented
by Community MusicWorks & FirstWorks
Known for fusing his classical music roots with a myriad of
soundscapes, Haitian-American artist Daniel Bernard Roumain
(DBR) has carved a reputation for himself as a passionately
innovative composer, performer, violinist, and band leader.
His exploration of musical rhythms and classically-driven
sounds is peppered by his own cultural references and vibrant
musical imagination.
Learn more about Daniel Bernard Roumain here.
Special
offer! FirstWorks is able to offer $5 tickets to
CMW friends and families for the final performance of the
2007 FirstWorksProv Festival: Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance
Company with Daniel Bernard Roumain and hardcore band Regain
the Heart Condemned. Saturday, November 3, 8pm at the VMA
Arts & Cultural Center.
To purchase your $5 tickets,
call or email Siobhan Callahan at FirstWorks: 401.421.4278
or siobhan@firstworksprov.org.
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Black Box Theater
The Met School, Public Street
Campus
325 Public Street
Click
here for directions
Admission: Free!
Saturday, November 3, 3:00-5:00 pm
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Performance
Party
Featuring
performances by Community MusicWorks students, teachers, and
invited guests.
Bring your family and a dish to pass for the potluck meal
that follows!
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The Met School, Peace Street Campus
362 Dexter Street
Click here for
directions
Admission: Free!
Sunday, November 18, 4:00-6:00
pm SOLD OUT
CMW Players with
L. Frederick Jodry, harpsichord
Timothy Macri, flute
Eliot Porter,
bass
Other guests tba
All-Bach Fest! (Freda Bromsen Bolster Memorial Concert)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G
Major, BWV 1048
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D Major, BWV 1050
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat Major, BWV 1051
Other works tba
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New this season, the CMW Players
is a flexible ensemble composed of members of the Providence
String Quartet, participants in our Fellowship Program, and
guest artists. The creation of the CMW Players allows Community
MusicWorks to perform more varied repertoire, include more musicians,
and provide more concerts across Rhode Island.
The guest artists for this program include longtime
musical collaborator Frederick Jodry, a musician who wears many
hats but is perhaps best known locally as the Director of Choral
Activities at Brown University.
Learn more about Fred here.
Learn more about Bach here. |
John Carter Brown Library
Corner of George and Brown
Streets
Click
here for directions
Admission: Free! Seating is limited and reservations
are required. SOLD OUT
December
Saturday, December
8, 3:00-5:00 pm
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Performance
Party
Featuring performances
by Community MusicWorks students, teachers, and invited guests.
Bring
your family and a dish to pass for the potluck meal that follows!
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The Met School, Peace Street Campus
362 Dexter Street
Click here for
directions
Admission: Free!
Saturday, December 15, 8:00-10:00 pm
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Providence
String Quartet, CMW Players
with Ellen
Santaniello, soprano
Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor (Fellows)
Steven Jobe: 4
Movements for string quartet and soprano (PSQ)
Dvorak: String Quartet, Opus 96 "American" (PSQ)
New this season,
the CMW Players is a flexible ensemble composed of members
of the Providence String Quartet, participants in our Fellowship
Program, and guest artists. The creation of the CMW Players
allows Community MusicWorks to perform more varied repertoire,
include more musicians, and provide more concerts across Rhode
Island. |
Music Mansion
88 Meeting Street
Admission: $15 (suggested
donation), $5 children, $5 CMW Family Pass
January
Friday, January 18, 5:00-6:00
pm
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Musical
Workshop: Mem1, experimental electronics
Several of the Musical Workshops presented by Community
MusicWorks throughout the year are public events, and we invite
you to join our students for an educational presentation by
a local or visiting performing artist or ensemble.
Learn more about Mem1 by clicking here.
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The Met School, Peace
Street Campus
362 Dexter Street
Click here for directions
Admission: Free!
Sunday, January 20, 8:00-10:00 pm
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CTRL+ALT+REPEAT presents an evening of experimental
electronics and new music, including performance by Mem1 and
the CMW Players.
Co-sponsored by Community MusicWorks
Landon Rose: Songs for Sound Bows and
Rumble Organs
Kevin Patton: That Every Mouth May Be
Stopped
Ken Ueno: Age of Aircraft
Improvisations
by Kevin Patton and Mem1
Click here
to visit the CTRL+ALT+REPEAT website.
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Firehouse 13
41 Central Street
Click
here for directions
Admission: $5-10 suggested donation at the door.
Proceeds benefit Community MusicWorks.
Friday, January 25, 7:00-9:00 pm
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Providence String Quartet
with Frank Ward, bass-baritone and
Minna Choi, violin
"Dvorak in America"
Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet, Opus 96
Antonin
Dvorak: String Quintet, Opus 97
Jessie
Montgomery: Strum
H.
T. Burleigh: songs tba
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Symphony Space
2537 Broadway (at 95th
Street)
New York, NY
Admission: $20 general, $16 members/children. To purchase,
visit Symphony Space
online or call the box office at 212.864.5400.
Saturday, January 26, 1:15-2:30 pm
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Providence String Quartet
with Frank Ward, bass-baritone and
Minna Choi, violin
"Dvorak in America"
Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet, Opus 96
Jessie
Montgomery: Strum
H.
T. Burleigh: songs tba |
Third Street Music School Settlement
235 East Eleventh Street
New York, NY
Admission: Free. Contact Third
Street at 212.777.3240 for more information.
Thursday, January 31, 7:00-9:00 pm SOLD OUT
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Providence
String Quartet: "Dvorak in America"
Presented by the Providence Athenaeum
The Czech composer
Antonin Dvorak spent the years 1892-1895 as the director of
the now forgotten National Conservatory of Music in New York
City as well as trying to forge a musical identity for the
"New World." The National Conservatory was an extremely progressive
and influential institution whose values and curriculum still
reverberate throughout American conservatories and on Westminster
Street here in Providence.
We will take a quick tour of this amazing institution as well
as visiting the town of Spillville, Iowa where Dvorak lived
during the summer of 1893 and composed the "American" string
quartet (opus 96) and string quintet (opus 97).
See Thursday, May 15 for the second event in this two-part
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Providence Athenaeum SOLD
OUT
251 Benefit Street
Click
here for directions
Admission:
$30 members, $35 non-members. To reserve, call the Athenaeum at
401.421.6970.
February
Saturday, February
2, 8:00-10:00 pm
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Providence String Quartet
with Frank Ward, bass-baritone and
Minna Choi, violin
"Dvorak in America"
Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet, Opus 96
Antonin
Dvorak: String Quintet, Opus 97
Jessie
Montgomery: Strum
H.
T. Burleigh: songs tba
*A free panel discussion on community engagement
through music will be held before the concert from 6:00-7:00
pm. Click here
to learn more. |
Granoff Music Center
Tufts University
20 Talbot Avenue
Medford, MA
Click
here for directions
Admission: $10 general, $5 students. Click here
or call the Granoff Music Center box office at 617.627.3679 for
more information.
Saturday, February 16, 3:00-5:00 pm
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Performance
Party
Featuring performances
by Community MusicWorks students, teachers, and invited guests.
Bring your family
and a dish to pass for the potluck meal that follows! |
The
Paul Cuffee School *NEW VENUE*
459
Promenade Street (at the corner of Pleasant Valley Pky, near the
Providence Place Mall)
Click
here for map
Free admission!
Friday, February 22, 5:00-7:00 pm
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Composers Forum
Moderator:
Christopher
Lydon
Please join us for a lively moderated conversation with the
participants in this season's Listen
Local project.
This event is part of the Providence Athenaeum's popular Salon
Series. It is open only to Athenaeum members and
guests of Community MusicWorks.
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Providence Athenaeum
251 Benefit Street
Click
here for directions
Free admission! Seating is limited; please call Community
MusicWorks at 401.861.5650 or the Providence Athenaeum at 401.421.6970
to reserve.
Wednesday, February 27, 4:30-6:30 pm
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Providence String Quartet
with Minna Choi, violin
"Dvorak in America"
Antonin Dvorak: String Quartet, Opus 96
Antonin
Dvorak: String Quintet, Opus 97
Jessie
Montgomery: Strum
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Connecticut College
270 Mohegan Avenue
New London, CT
Free admission! Contact Tricia Dallas at Connecticut
College at 860.439.2032 for information.
March
Saturday, March 1, 4:00-6:00 pm
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CMW Players with Amy Mendillo, oboe and
Alec K. Redfearn, accordion
New this season, the CMW Players is a flexible ensemble
composed of members of the Providence String Quartet, participants
in our Fellowship Program, and guest artists. The creation
of the CMW Players allows Community MusicWorks to perform
more varied repertoire, include more musicians, and provide
more concerts across Rhode Island.
Music by Britten (Phantasy for oboe and
strings), Ravel (Duo for violin and cello), and Alec
K. Redfearn (arrangements of original songs for
strings, accordion, and percussion).
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West End House Concert
Admission: Call 401.861.5650 for information.
Sunday, March 2, 4:00-6:00 pm
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CMW Players with Amy Mendillo, oboe and
Alec K. Redfearn, accordion
New this season, the CMW
Players is a flexible ensemble composed of members of the
Providence String Quartet, participants in our Fellowship
Program, and guest artists. The creation of the CMW Players
allows Community MusicWorks to perform more varied repertoire,
include more musicians, and provide more concerts across Rhode
Island.
Music by Britten (Phantasy for oboe and
strings), Ravel (Duo for violin and cello), and Alec
K. Redfearn (arrangements of original songs for
strings, accordion, and percussion).
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First Unitarian Church
One Benevolent Street
Admission: $15 suggested donation, $5 children,
$5 CMW Family Pass
Friday, March 14, 5:00-7:00 pm
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Providence
String Quartet
with Frank
Ward, bass-baritone
and Minna
Choi, violin
Antonin Dvorak: String Quintet, Opus
97
H. T. Burleigh: Songs and Spirituals
Free community dinner and performance
by the Providence String Quartet. Bring your entire family!
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John Hope Settlement House
7 Thomas P. Whitten Way
Admission: Free! Call 401.861.5650 for information.
Saturday, March
15, 8:00-10:00 pm
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Providence
String Quartet
with Sakiko
Mori, piano and
Frank Ward, bass-baritone
and Minna
Choi, violin
Antonin Dvorak: String Quintet, Opus
97
H. T. Burleigh:
Songs and Spirituals
Marilyn Currier:
Piano Quintet
Shostakovich: Sonata for Viola and Piano
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Music Mansion
88 Meeting Street (at Congdon Street)
Admission: $15 suggested donation, $5 children,
$5 CMW Family Pass
Friday, March
28 - Saturday, March 29
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Imagining
Art + Social Change
Inspired by the work of American philosopher
Maxine Greene, a symposium to gather artists, educators, and
organizers committed to investigating the intersection between
the arts and working for social change.
Keynote
speaker: Maxine
Greene
Other participants (to date): Shirley Brice Heath, Dennie
Palmer Wolf, Robbie McCauley, Providence
Youth Arts Collaborative, John Blake, CMW Fellows, CMW
students, and more!
Click here for information.
For info: conference (at) communitymusicworks.org
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Friday, March
28, 5:00-6:00 pm
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Musical
Workshop: John Blake, Jr., jazz violin
Several of the Musical Workshops presented by Community
MusicWorks throughout the year are public events, and we invite
you to join our students for an educational presentation by
a local or visiting performing artist or ensemble.
As well as performing with his quartet and as a soloist, John
Blake has appeared with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the
McCoy Tyner Trio, Turtle Island String Quartet, Quartet Indigo,
the Steve Turre Sextet, and the Billy Taylor Trio.
Learn more about John Blake by clicking here.
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The Met School, Peace
Street Campus
362 Dexter Street
Click here for directions
Admission: Free!
April
Friday, April 11, 7:00-9:00
pm
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Youth
Salon: Raising Climage Change Awareness
Teenage
musicians from Community MusicWorks will host a musical event
to raise awareness about global climate change.
In
this annual event, students will perform original pieces, make
presentations on the global climate crisis, and perform skits.
The event is designed to raise awareness and provide useful
planet-saving tips for everyday life while showcasing the students'
musical achievements.
Click here to download
an event poster created by Phase II students Luis Ortiz and
Joshua Rodriguez.
Read more about this event here.
Luis and Josh's promotional video here.
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Providence CityArts for Youth *NEW
VENUE*
891 Broad Street
Click
here for directions
Admission: Free,
and voluntary donations will go toward supporting water sanitation
projects in Cameroon through Youth United for Global Action and
Awareness, a program of Plan USA.
Saturday, April
26, 11:00-4:00 pm
"Celebrate the Earth"
The CMW Players will be performing on one of The RISD Museum's Free-for-All
Saturdays.
Visit The RISD Museum's website
for more information, or call (401) 454-6674.
Admission: Free, and children must be accompanied by an adult.
May
Sunday, May 4,
5:30 pm*
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Celebrating 11 seasons of Community MusicWorks!
featuring Elmar Oliveira, violin & Robert Koenig, piano
Annual
fundraising event to benefit Community MusicWorks free after-school
music education and performance programs.
Program: Works by Schubert, Debussy, Kreisler, and Corigliano
Elmar Oliveira, violin
Robert
Koenig, piano
A vegetarian buffet dinner extravaganza follows the concert.
Read about last year's event and view photos here.
Wine generously provided by Greenvale
Vineyards.
Admission: $100 for concert and dinner
$75 for concert only, call 401.861.5650 to reserve
*Please note concert start time
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Regent
Avenue School Building
101 Regent Avenue
Click
here for directions
Thursday, May 15, 7:00-9:00 pm *SOLD OUT*
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Providence
String Quartet: "Transfigured
Night"
Presented
by the Providence Athenaeum
Loved by some, hated by many, Arnold Schoenberg remains one
of the most polarizing forces in music because of his abandonment
of conventional tonality and the establishment of serialism.
In
1899, before the any of this had occurred, the young Schoenberg,
under the spell of the poet Richard Dehmel, wrote his romantic
masterpiece Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
for string sextet. We will explore this perfect partnership
of music and poetry.
See
Thursday, January 31 for the first event in this two-part
series.
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Providence Athenaeum
251 Benefit Street
Click
here for directions
Admission:
$30 members, $35 non-members. *SOLD
OUT*
Friday, May 16, 7:30
pm (doors open at 7:00 pm)
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Providence
String Quartet & CMW Players
Chamber music concert
and wine tasting in the restored Tasting Room/Stable at Greenvale
Vineyards in Portsmouth featuring Arnold Schoenberg's Romantic
masterpiece Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
for string sextet.
Franz
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Opus 42 in D Minor
Forrest
Larson: Solitary
Motion No. 1 for solo cello
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
for string sextet
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Greenvale
Vineyards
582 Wapping Road
Portsmouth, Rhode Island
Admission:
$45 in advance, $50 at the door. Call Greenvale Vineyards to reserve:
401.847.3777
Proceeds benefit Community MusicWorks' free music education and
performance programs.
Saturday,
May 17, 8:00 pm
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Providence
String Quartet & CMW Players
Featuring Arnold Schoenberg's
Romantic masterpiece Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured
Night) for string sextet.
Franz
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Opus 42 in D Minor
Forrest
Larson: Solitary
Motion No. 1 for solo cello
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
for string sextet
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Music
at Park Place
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
50 Park Place
Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Admission: $20,
$10 (students)
Sunday, May 18,
3:00 pm
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Providence
String Quartet & CMW Players
Featuring Arnold Schoenberg's
Romantic masterpiece Verklarte Nacht (Transfigured
Night) for string sextet.
Franz
Joseph Haydn: String Quartet Opus 42 in D Minor
Forrest
Larson: Solitary
Motion No. 1 for solo cello
Arnold Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht
for string sextet
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Bell Street Chapel
5 Bell Street
Click
here for directions
Admission: $15 general, $5
children, $5 CMW Family Pass. Proceeds benefit the Bell Street Chapel
Fund.
Saturday, May 31, 3:00-5:00 pm
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Final
Performance Party
Featuring performances
by Community MusicWorks students, teachers, and invited guests.
Bring your family
and a dish to pass for the potluck meal that follows! |
Calvary Baptist Church
*NEW VENUE*
747 Broad Street
Click
here for directions
Admission: Free!
June
Sunday, June 1, 2:00-4:00 pm
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Back
by popular demand, Community MusicWorks is pleased to present:
Matt Haimovitz,
cello with
Geoff Burleson,
piano
Beethoven: Cello
Sonata Op. 102 No. 1
Elliot Carter: Sonata
for Cello and Piano
Augusta Read Thomas: TBD (2008)
Beethoven: Cello
Sonata Op. 102 No. 2
In December 2008,
one of the most important figures in music, composer Elliot
Carter, will celebrate his 100th birthday. Matt Haimovitz
honors this milestone with a performance of Carter's Sonata
for Cello and Piano (1946), one of the greatest 20th
century works in the sonata genre.
Listen to Matt on NPR by clicking here.
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Music Mansion
Congdon Street at Meeting Street
Admission: $25 suggested admission; call Community
MusicWorks at (401) 861-5650 to reserve, as this event is expected
to sell out in advance.
Saturday, June
7, time tba
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Community
MusicWorks Players
Haydn: String Quartet
Opus 42 in D Minor (PSQ)
Schumann: String Quartet No. 1 in A Minor (Fellows)
Other works tba
Location and event details tba.
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Admission:
Call (401) 861-5650 for more information.
Sunday, June 8, 4:00-6:00 pm
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Providence
String Quartet
Haydn:
String Quartet Opus 42 in D Minor
Other works tba |
House concert
Bridgehampton, NY
Admission:
Call (401) 861-5650 for more information.
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