Planning week
We've wrapped up our evaluations and planning meetings... one last group photo (including Suha and Isa Claire) before everyone splits for the summer.
June 21, 2008
June 11, 2008
Isa Claire is cute!
Sara brought her to the CMW office to attend a staff planning meeting this afternoon. Already her third visit to Community MusicWorks. Here's a recent photo.
June 10, 2008
Graduation
Several CMW students are graduating from high school and CMW this month: Itza, Erick, Jovanne, Naika, and Fatima (pictured with teachers and parents at the recent picnic). We're so proud of their accomplishments!
June 02, 2008
May 21, 2008
Isa Claire
Sara and Mike report that Isa Claire arrived on May 13 at 7 pm in a "7-pound sleepy bundle." Congratulations!
May 15, 2008
More secure, thanks to The Steelyard
We're grateful to The Steelyard for providing a bit of extra security for the CMW office. Anyone recognize the motif?
Dvorak visits the San Miguel School
A rare appearance by the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904), posing at the Community MusicWorks office with Liz before his presentation with the PSQ at The San Miguel School of Providence on April 24.
May 13, 2008
Math and Social Justice?
Turns out it's not just the string quartets of the world that are committed to social justice...
From the RadicalMath.org website: We encourage our students to
ask the question: "What are the problems that my community is facing,
and how can I use math to understand and help solve them?"
How cool is that?
May 06, 2008
Regent Avenue event photos
- Elmar Oliveira and Robert Koenig in rehearsal
- pre-concert reception in Irene Lawrence's studio
- Elmar, after his second encore
- Elmar with Tucker, Andrew, and Karl (the three local violin makers who collaborated to create and donate CMW's Tenth Year Violin)
- "Dinner on the Decks"
- Todd Carranza's kitchen by 9 pm
- Thank you Jephry Floral!
April 28, 2008
Free For All Saturday
On Saturday, Fellows Arlyn, Rachel, and Laura dazzled dozens of young'uns and old'uns alike at RISD Museum's Free For All Saturday, with a show about animals on the Museum's day celebrating...
Rachel: the planet Mars, right?
Spontaneous chorus of youth: NO, EARTH!
The performances ranged from a fiddle tune about jumping sheep that had us jumping out of our seats, to a piece about a famous "Swan" played on the cello by Laura, to a Mancini tune (think, composer of the Pink Panther tune) of the Baby Elephant Walk (see video below), to a new arrangement by Arlyn, of Alan Ridout's "Ferdinand the Bull" piece, originally composed for solo violin. In this theatrical version, Ferdinand, played by Laura, couldn't get enough of those springtime tulips.
-Sebastian Ruth, Providence String Quartet
