Friday, October 3, 8:00-10:00 pm

Presented by FirstWorks, a concert of Daniel Bernard Roumain's music. Featuring the Providence String Quartet and Phase III student quartet performing Roumain’s The Kompa Variations, a new work commissioned by Community MusicWorks with support from the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund.

Location: RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Street
Admission: $18 general
Ticket information available through ArtTix.

Wednesday, October 15, 8:00-10:00 pm
Orion String Quartet concert, presented by Rhode Island Chamber Music Concerts

Music by Mendelssohn, Liebermann, and Beethoven

Location: Alumnae Hall, Brown University, 194 Meeting Street
Admission: $32, $25, $22, $5 (students)
Tickets can be bought at the door after 7:15pm or at Books on the Square, 471 Angell Street.

The Eroica Piano Trio offers an afternoon educational workshop and evening concert performing American music on electric instruments

5:00-6:00PM
Educational Workshop
Location: Providence CityArts for Youth, 891 Broad Street
Admission: Free!
RSVP to Community MusicWorks at 401.861.5650

8:00-10:00PM
Concert
Location: Carriage House Stage, 7 Duncan Avenue
Admission: $20 general, $10 student/child, $50 benefactor (supports CMW and Girl Scouts)
Reservations recommended; call Community MusicWorks at 401.861.5650

Click here to visit the Eroica Piano Trio's website.

Performances by CMW students and teachers. Bring your family and a dish to pass for the potluck meal that follows.

Location: Calvary Baptist Church, 747 Broad Street
Admission: Free!

CMW Players

Sunday, November 23, 4:00-6:00 pm ** SOLD OUT **
Annual Freda Bromsen Bolster Memorial Concert
Presented by the John Carter Brown Library
Community MusicWorks Players with Fred Jodry, harpsichord

J. S. Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major (Minna Choi, soloist)
J. S. Bach: Harpsichord Concerto in F minor (Fred Jodry, soloist)
J. S. Bach: Double Violin Concerto in A Minor (Jesse Holstein, Jessie Montgomery, soloists)
Benjamin Britten: "Simple Symphony" (Ben Rous, conductor)

Location: John Carter Brown Library, corner of George and Brown Streets
Admission: Free! Seating is limited and reservations are required.
Call Community MusicWorks at 401.861.5650 to reserve.

Our series of monthly educational presentations by guest artists is open to the public and we invite you to join our students for an educational presentation by a local or visiting performing artist or ensemble. Please call the CMW office if you would like to attend.

Learn more about the Borromeo String Quartet by clicking here.

NEW Location: Alfred A. Lima Sr. Elementary School, 222 Daboll Street
Admission: Free!

Performances by CMW students and teachers. Bring your family and a dish to pass for the potluck meal that follows.

Location: Paul Cuffee School, 459 Promenade Street
Admission: Free!

Sunday, December 21, 3:00-5:00 pm
Providence String Quartet & Community MusicWorks Players
With Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores

Music by Alexander Borodin, Maurice Ravel, and Alec K. Redfearn Location: AS220, 115 Empire Street Admission: $10 general, $5 students Read more about Alec K. Redfearn and The Eyesores here. Visit AS220's website and click on the bunny rabbit to listen to this concert LIVE!

Our series of monthly educational presentations by guest artists is open to the public and we invite you to join our students for an educational presentation by a local or visiting performing artist or ensemble. Please call the CMW office if you would like to attend.

Learn more about the Bourbon Boys by clicking here.

Location: The Met School, Peace Street Campus, 362 Dexter Street
Admission: Free!

Performances by CMW students and teachers. Bring your family and a dish to pass for the potluck meal that follows.

Location: Paul Cuffee School, 459 Promenade Street
Admission: Free!

Great admirers of one another's music, Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten stand as two giants of 20th century music. Shostakovich dedicated his powerful Eighth String Quartet "In memory of victims of fascism and war." Shostakovich was in Dresden in the summer of 1960 writing the score for a film based on World War II called "Five Days, Five Nights." Overcome with emotion because of the film's subject matter and the city's bombed-out condition, he composed his pseudo-autobiographical quartet in all of three days. Britten's Second String Quartet was written in 1945 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of the great English composer, Henry Purcell. This three movement work concludes with a immense baroque chaconne as a direct tribute.

Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8
(See Thursday, May 14 for the second event in this two-part series)

Location: The Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street
Admission: $30 members, $35 non-members

Our series of monthly educational presentations by guest artists is open to the public and we invite you to join our students for an educational presentation by a local or visiting performing artist or ensemble. Please call the CMW office if you would like to attend.

Learn more about the Joseph Schwantner by clicking here. Click here for an NPR story on Joseph Schwantner’s new work, “Chasing Light...”, which the Brown University Orchestra will be playing in March. For more information about Joseph Schwantner's visit to Providence, click here.

You can also find more info about the work and Schwantner's Ford Made In America project here.

Location: The Met School, Peace Street Campus, 362 Dexter Street
Admission: Free!

Christopher Lydon
(credit: Watson Institute)

Moderated by Open Source’s Christopher Lydon, a conversation with the local composers featured in last season’s Listen Local project.

Location: Providence Public Library, 150 Empire Street
Admission: Free! Reservations for this event is required as seating is limited.
Please email lmiller [at] provlib.org (preferred) or leave a message for Lisa Miller at (401) 455-8057.

Learn more about Listen Local by clicking here.

Youth Salon Spring 2007

Saturday, April 25, 7:00-9:00 pm
Youth Salon

A youth performance night curated and created by Phase II and Phase III teenage musicians, designed to raise awareness about a local or global cause. This year's Youth Salon will focus on the the lack of arts in Providence schools and the importance of participating in arts.

Location: Providence CityArts for Youth, 891 Broad Street
Admission: Free! (Donations gratefully accepted)

Thursday, May 7
In collaboration with the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University, Community MusicWorks is pleased to present

Eric Rosenblith, violin
Heng-Jin Park, piano

Violinist Eric Rosenblith has performed as a soloist and a chamber musician throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. He is the former concertmaster of the Indianapolis and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras. Mr. Rosenblith has premiered and recorded many new works by American composers including David Stock, George Crumb, Alan Lighty, and Lucia Dlugachevsky and has released recordings on Columbia, CRI, Crest, and Parjo, including the recently released Complete Works for Violin and Piano by Johannes Brahms with pianist Heng-Jin Park. He is the editor and translator of the newly revised Art of Violin Playing by Carl Flesch, and is the founder and artistic director of the International Musical Arts Institute of Fryeburg, Maine. Mr. Rosenblith regularly gives master classes in the United States, the United Kingdom, Korea, Taiwan, and the People's Republic of China. He has served as chairman of the New England Conservatory's string department for over twenty-five years. Eric Rosenblith studied violin with Jacques Thibaud in Paris, Carl Flesch in London, and Bronislaw Huberman in New York.

1-3 pm

Eric Rosenblith will present a talk with participation from visiting musicians from Daniel Barenboim's West-Eastern Divan Orchestra.

Location: Brown University's Steinert Hall (corner of Hope and Power Streets)

8-9:30 pm

Mozart: Sonata in B-flat Major, K. 454
Stravinsky: Duo Concertant (1932)
Schubert: Fantasy in C Major, Op. Posth. 15

Location: Music Mansion (88 Meeting Street, at Congdon Street)
Admission: $15 suggested admission, $50 benefactor admission to support Community MusicWorks. Cogut Center and Brown University music students attend free of charge.

Our series of monthly educational presentations by guest artists is open to the public and we invite you to join our students for an educational presentation by a local or visiting performing artist or ensemble. Please call the CMW office if you would like to attend.

Learn more about A Far Cry, described by The Boston Globe as performers with "thrilling energy and vitality," by clicking here and here.

Location: Alfred A. Lima Sr. Elementary School, 222 Daboll Street
Admission: Free!

A Far Cry will also be performing locally Friday evening at 8:30 pm:

Mozart: Divertimento No. 2 in B-flat Major, K. 137
Britten: Simple Symphony
Holst: St. Paul's Suite, Op. 29/2
Perapascero: Turceasca, arranged by Lev Zhurbin

Location: Carriage House Stage, 7 Duncan Avenue
Admission: $10

Sunday, May 10, 3:00-4:00 pm
Community MusicWorks Players

To raise funds for CMW's new summer music education programming, the CMW Players will perform a Mother's Day concert featuring fiddle styles from around the world.

Location: Tazza Caffe
Admission: Suggested donation, $5-25 (All donations will support CMW's new summer program)

Great admirers of one another's music, Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten stand as two giants of 20th century music. Shostakovich dedicated his powerful Eighth String Quartet "In memory of victims of fascism and war." Shostakovich was in Dresden in the summer of 1960 writing the score for a film based on World War II called "Five Days, Five Nights." Overcome with emotion because of the film's subject matter and the city's bombed-out condition, he composed his pseudo-autobiographical quartet in all of three days. Britten's Second String Quartet was written in 1945 to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the death of the great English composer, Henry Purcell. This three movement work concludes with a immense baroque chaconne as a direct tribute.

Benjamin Britten’s String Quartet No. 2
(See Thursday, February 19 for the first event in this two-part series)

Location: The Providence Athenaeum, 251 Benefit Street
Admission: $30 members, $35 non-members

Friday, May 15, 5:00-7:00pm (dinner 5pm, concert 6pm)
Providence String Quartet & CMW Fellows Quartet,
with Frank Ward, narrator

Providence's John Hope Settlement House is a community-based organization that was founded in the late 1920s due to the vision of public spirited African American leaders who wanted to serve their Providence neighbors.

Location: John Hope Settlement House, 7 Thomas P. Whitten Way
Admission: Free, including spaghetti dinner!

Performances by CMW students and teachers. Bring your family and a dish to pass for the potluck meal that follows.

Location: Calvary Baptist Church, 747 Broad Street
Admission: Free!