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MacArthur Award coveragePhase II overnight retreat
The Phase II retreat of 2010 was an awesome outdoor experience at Camp Aldersgate in North Scituate with our friends. My favorite part was orchestra rehearsal – I missed so much playing with everyone over the summer. The music was relaxing and sounded beautiful, but nothing was more amazing than eating s'mores and sharing "scary stories" with everyone. Another memorable moment of the retreat was going canoeing on the lake. It was very soothing and the scenery was beautiful. (And Hector and Liam fell in, which made it very exciting!) A powerful discussion was held, examining what sort of person a Phase II member should aspire to be. A large list was quickly constructed, and was later signed by the Phase II and Phase III members. The members were asked why they were in Phase II, and each person shared their reasons with the circle. -Phase II members Marays, Paola, Alondra, and Matthew Join Together: the CMW Round
Phase II at the office
For he’s a MacArthur fellow…
Which nobody can deny! Office party photos by Jori Ketten. Sebastian is a MacArthur Fellow!
Here is a link to Sebastian's essay Music and Social Justice: Musicians Effecting Change. Kareem competes for an EmmyChloe and her husband Kareem Roustom, nominated for an Emmy Award for his original musical score for the documentary film, The Mosque in Morgantown, traveled to New York City to attend the awards ceremony at Lincoln Center earlier this evening.
Unfortunately, Kareem did not win (this time), but just being one of only seven composers to be nominated this year is a pretty nice achievement in itself!
Click here to listen to the Kareem's interview on PRI's The World that aired on 300 stations across the US and Canada on Friday. You can also find samples of his music there, along with the trailer for The Mosque in Morgantown. Congratulations, Kareem, from all of your fans at CMW! Alex Ross: Listen to ThisAlex Ross has a new book coming out on September 28. Based on sixteen years of his writing for The New Yorker, it gives a "panoramic view of the musical world, from Bach to Björk and beyond." Listen to This includes the 2006 essay that Alex wrote about the crisis in music education in which he featured CMW as a "revolutionary organization in which the distinction between performing and teaching disappears." For Listen to This, Alex provides an online audio guide, arranged by chapter. There are some useful links regarding information about CMW, and you even listen to an excerpt of the final movement of the Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor that the Providence String Quartet performed with Jonathan Biss during Alex's visit to Providence in November 2004. -Heath Marlow, CMW staff Update from AdrienneI just moved to Boston, and I'm about to begin classes next week as an Abreu Fellow at the New England Conservatory, where I'll learn all about El Sistema, the inspiring music program for youth in Venezuela. As part of this new fellowship, I've been given one afternoon a week to spend working with a community-based music organization in Boston. The timing will work out perfectly for me to be able to spend my Thursday afternoons with the Boston Public Quartet, an organization modeled after CMW. I'm glad that I'll be able to keep playing chamber music, teaching and making music with students here in Boston. I'm also happy that I'll be able to continue playing and working with Jason, who also moved to Boston at the end of his two-year CMW fellowship and is now also a member of the Boston Public Quartet. I miss CMW, but I'm glad that I will be able to stay connected with the people that I got to know over the last two years, and that I'm close enough that I can visit often! -Adrienne Taylor, CMW Fellow (2008-2010) [Editor's note: Don't be surprised to see Adrienne back in Providence in November performing some solo Bach on her cello…] Concert programming projects & themesThroughout the season, the Providence String Quartet will be performing 1. October: Charles Ives's String Quartet No. 1 (From the Salvation Army) This season-long project is made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts’ American Masterpieces program. Jesse's program notes coming soon… Elsewhere, CMW’s roster of resident musicians and invited guest artists will blanket the City of Providence in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach between November 11-21. CMW's All-Bach Festival, in collaboration with Brown University's Department of Music, will include a solo works marathon on one weekend, large ensemble concerts on the next weekend, and in between, a series of impromptu/spontaneous performances in public spaces throughout the City. Later in the year, an Experimental Music Festival is planned for April 28-May 8. CMW’s roster of resident musicians, students, and invited guest artists will present new and experimental music events in varied venues across the City, drawing on Providence’s rich culture of experimental and indie artists who populate the City’s urban arts scene, with special emphasis given to electronic and improvised music. One other important theme for the year is composer Geoffrey Hudson's Quartet Project. Geoff is creating a pedagogically sound approach to making string quartet playing accessible to student and amateur musicians. In addition to having CMW students learn and perform Hudson’s music over the past two seasons, the Providence String Quartet will be performing several of Geoff's miniatures on each of their programs throughout the current season in order to promote the composer’s developing project. -Heath Marlow, CMW staff |