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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.

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?

Regent Avenue event photos

1. Elmar Oliveira and Robert Koenig in rehearsal
2. pre-concert reception in Irene Lawrence's studio
3. Elmar, after his second encore
4. Elmar with Tucker, Andrew, and Karl (the three local violin makers who collaborated to create and donate CMW's Tenth Year Violin)
5. "Dinner on the Decks"
6. Todd Carranza's kitchen by 9 pm
7. Thank you Jephry Floral!

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

College Visions

CMW has three high school seniors who are participating in College Visions this year. CV is a fantastic program created by West End neighbor Simon Moore that "provides low-income and first-generation college-bound youth in Rhode Island with the individualized advising and resources needed to enroll in college."

Now that they have put up a website, it's an opportunity to share their information with you. Keep up the great work!