Community MusicWorks Players and Students with Haven String Quartet

In RISD Museum’s impressive Grand Gallery, join us for a Sunday afternoon concert with one of our partner organizations from across the border. Music Haven, based in New Haven, CT and founded in 2006, is a thriving organization also based around youth empowerment through string education and family mentoring. For the past four years, CMW and MH have gotten together to collaborate on a program and to present a concert in both New Haven and Providence.

This year’s concert opens by featuring two Community MusicWorks students (Andrew Oung and Malachy Hopkins) with two Music Haven students (Denasha Upchruch and Sofia Galvan) in Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins and Two Cellos in D. Following the Vivaldi is the relatively unknown Serenade for Strings by Samuel Barber, op. 1, written when Barber was only 18. This year, long time friend and pianist/violinist/composer/dancer Jeff Louie has arranged Jean Sibelius’ lovely Valse Triste specifically for this concert. Rounding out this year’s collaboration will be the sunny and warm Serenade for Strings by Antonín Dvořák. Written in just two weeks in 1875 by a joyous and newly married Dvořák, the Serenade remains one of the composer’s most popular works and can possibly serve as a reminder that at some point, this winter will end!

RISD Museum, Grand Gallery
Free museum and concert admission
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