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Remembering Larry Rachleff

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Conductor Larry Rachleff chats with CMW students. 

We are saddened to learn of the passing of Larry Rachleff, longtime music director of the RI Philharmonic, mentor to several of our colleagues who attended the Shepherd School of Music in Houston, and valued member of CMW’s Advisory Council.

Rachleff leads a conducting workshop with CMW students in 2004. 
Larry had a generous spirit, always willing to chat with CMW students and welcome them to RI Philharmonic concerts and rehearsals, and once offered a conducting workshop at Community MusicWorks.
Larry was a force as a musician and teacher in the music world and certainly brought about searing and special music-making in Rhode Island for more than two decades. His legacy will certainly live on, and we will miss him.


Read a remembrance by Rice University colleagues here.

 

Planning for our Future Building: Intersections of Mission and a New Set of Challenges

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Sebastian Ruth and Capital Campaign Committee Co-Chair Doris De Los Santos at the Community MusicWorks Center launch event. Photo: Erin X. Smithers.

“The way we go about building this Center has to reflect our ambition for the evolution of the organization toward ever-increasing responsiveness to, and governance by, people in the community of CMW.”

In late spring CMW launched the Community MusicWorks Center project, a milestone moment in plans to build a future home for the organization in the West End of Providence.

In this piece for the Ensemble, CMW Founder & Artistic Director Sebastian Ruth reflects on a new set of challenges in the long and iterative journey in planning this facility.

Read it on the Ensemble website.

Learn more about the Community MusicWorks Center here.