Anastasia & CMW’s Fellowship ProgramAs we prepare to welcome two new Fellows next week, I wanted to take this opportunity to recognize someone who has been very important to CMW for many years, most notably when we were attempting to find start-up funding for the pilot year of our Fellowship Program in 2006.
As you may know, CMW was able to expand its programming in September 2006 through the addition of a Fellowship Program for young professional musicians. Previously, when it was just the Providence String Quartet, CMW could only provide programming for 65 children. Thanks to the addition of the Fellowship Program and four more resident musicians, there are now approximately 115 neighborhood children studying music at CMW every year. What you may not know is that the first year of the Fellowship Program was partially funded by a grant of $25,000 from the Rhode Island General Assembly. This grant was sponsored by Representative Anastasia Williams. Anastasia has continued to support our work ever since. We are very fortunate to have a State Legislator in our neighborhood who recognizes the special role that music can play in the lives of children, and who is determined that children in the West End will benefit from it. We are especially grateful that she chose to champion CMW at the General Assembly in 2006! -Heath Marlow, CMW staff |
