Season 20 Opening Concert
The MusicWorks Collective hopes you can join us for the first concert of Season 20! For our first performance of the season we are very excited to offer a program featuring three living composers! This program includes a reprise of 12 Moods, composed by our dear friend Jessie Montgomery and originally commissioned by CMW in 2015 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights movement. Written for 2 string quartets plus double bass, the piece takes inspiration from Langston Hughes’ Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz and as one might expect is beautifully evocative of both jazz music and a wide variety of moods. The newest iteration of our Fellows Quartet will be making their debut with Entr’act by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw, and members of the MusicWorks Collective will come together as a string orchestra to perform Christopher Theofanidis’s energetic and breathtaking Visions and Miracles. Such a program is a rare treat for performers and audiences alike. As often happens, these pieces have become dear to our hearts the more time we have spent working on them, and we are looking forward to sharing them with you. We look forward to seeing you there and beginning our 20th Season together! Community MusicWorks Season Opener Caroline Shaw Entr’act (performed by the CMW Fellows Quartet) Reception to follow Season Opener Concert Preview Please RSVP to Katie Sklar at ksklar@communitymusicworks.org if you would like to attend this Preview concert.
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