Community MusicWorks

Sonata Series #2
2020-12-17 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | RI
This season’s popular Sonata Series event goes virtual with YouTube premieres showcasing solo and duo performances.
December’s Sonata Event brings you the distinctive sounds of 20th-century French Romantic music. Violin Fellow Kimberly Fang shares Eugène Ysaÿe’s indomitable and soulful Sonata No. 4 for Unaccompanied Violin. Resident Musician Lisa Barksdale and guest pianist Jeff Louie present two gems by little known composer Lili Boulanger (sister of the renowned composer and teacher Nadia Boulanger) and Claude Debussy’s final work before his passing, the vibrant and mercurial Sonata for Violin and Piano in g minor.
Thursday, December 17 at 7pm
www.youtube.com/communitymusicworks

Student Performance Party
2020-12-15 18:00 - 19:00 | RI
Join us for an hour-long presentation that includes musical performances, jokes, and joy.
CMW students and teachers have been working hard despite the challenges of online learning. Tonight, students perform for family and friends in a virtual community event where you can cheer on our young musicians and enjoy the company of friends online.
Student Performance Party
Tuesday, December 15 at 6pm EST
Click here for your direct link to the party!

Bach to the Future: the All-Night Bach Marathon
2020-11-13 19:00 - 2020-11-14 07:00 | RI
Our annual Bach Marathon takes to the airwaves in a glorious 12-hour electromagnetic tribute to J.S. Bach transmitted to your radio!
WELH 88.1 FM Rhode Island Public Radio
Can’t listen local?
Click on the icons in our Bach Marathon Listening Guide
to find embedded audio of Bach-to-Bach bliss!

Bach and Friends
2020-11-08 15:00 - 16:00 | RI
Bach and Friends
Join us for a virtual performance captured at the newly renovated Providence Public Library with the MusicWorks Collective performing works by J.S. Bach, Elisabeth Jacques de la Guerre, and Missy Mazzoli.
Sunday, November 8 at 3pm
CMW YouTube Channel premiere

Sonata Series #1
2020-10-22 19:00 - 20:00 | RI
Join us this Thursday, October 22 at 7pm for this season’s first Sonata Series event featuring Jesse Holstein, Lisa Sailer, and special guest Ivan Tan, plus interviews with the composers.
Click here for a direct link to the event!
Our popular Sonata Series event goes virtual this season with online premieres showcasing solo and duo performances, along with exclusive conversations shining a spotlight on the evening’s composers.

Sonata Series #1 features a duo performance by pianist Ivan Tan and violist Lisa Sailer performing J.S. Bach’s Sonata No. 1 in G Major for viola da gamba and harpsichord and Anthony R. Green’s …on top of a frosted hill… and violinist Jesse Holstein performing Dana Lyn’s a current took her away… and Jessie Montgomery’s Rhapsody No. 1.

MusicWorks Collective Season 24 Opener
2020-09-26 14:00 - 15:30 | Southside Cultural Center, 393 Broad Street, Providence, RI, 02907
Season 24 begins in the open air! Join us for a late summer safe-distanced gathering as the MusicWorks Collective and the CMW Fellows Quartet perform Fairouz, Beethoven, Grieg and more at the SouthLight Pavilion at the Southside Cultural Center.
Saturday, September 26 at 2pm
Space is limited and reservations are required:
Reserve seating here

CMW Delivers
2020-09-18 17:00 - 18:00 | RI
MusicWorks Collective musicians pop up in various businesses and residences around town performing solos and duos from the back of a trailer. During this multi-day Providence neighborhood tour, we’ll offer a few public events.

Grab your mask, come on down, and check us out:
Friday, September 18 at 5:00 pm
1326 Westminster Street in the West End.
Look for us in the vacant lot on the corner of Westminster and Dexter Streets (the future home of CMW)
Map here

We’ll practice safe-distancing with chairs set up for a small group. Wear a mask!
Please note: the performance will be canceled in the event of rain; email lcox@communitymusicworks.org for weather-status information.

Thank you to Trinity Repertory Theater for the use of their trailer!

CMW Delivers
2020-09-15 13:00 - 14:00 | RI
MusicWorks Collective musicians pop up in various businesses and residences around town performing solos and duos from the back of a trailer. During this Providence neighborhood tour, we’ll offer a few public events.
Grab your mask, come on down and check us out!

Tuesday, September 15 at 1:00 pm
Look for us at 1326 Westminster Street: the vacant lot on the corner of Westminster and Dexter Streets (the future home of CMW)
Map here

We’ll practice safe-distancing with chairs set up for a small group. Wear a mask!
Please note: Performances will be canceled with rain; email lcox@communitymusicworks.org for weather status information.

Thank you to Trinity Repertory Theater for the use of their trailer.

CMW Delivers
2020-09-15 11:00 - 12:00 | RI
MusicWorks Collective musicians pop up in various businesses and residences around town performing solos and duos from the back of a trailer. During this Providence neighborhood tour, we’ll offer a few public events.
Grab your mask, come on down and check us out:

Tuesday, September 15 at 11:00 am
Look for us at the 10,000 Suns sunflower fields by the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge
Map here

We’ll practice safe-distancing with chairs set up for a small group. Wear a mask!
Please note: the performance will be canceled in the event of rain; email lcox@communitymusicworks.org for weather-status information.

Thank you to Trinity Repertory Theater for the use of their trailer.

CMW Fellows Quartet Live Premiere Event
2020-06-19 18:00 - 19:00 | RI
Solo Quartet: Fellows Quartet Live Premiere Online Event
How does a string quartet make music in isolation?
This Friday, June 19 at 6pm EST, join us for a live premiere YouTube event as the CMW Fellows Quartet presents Solo Quartet, a virtual concert experience reimagined for and reflective of this time when many are separated and alone. In this presentation, our four Fellows share solo performances in an wide-ranging mix embracing classical, pop, improvisational, vocal, and Gamelan forms, and pair for insightful conversations that draw us deeper into their musical sources of comfort and inspiration.
Click here for your direct link to the event!

Live Premiere Event: Our Senior Gala
2020-06-03 18:00 - 19:00 | RI
In solidarity with our students’ wishes on this #BlackOutTuesday, we have decided to postpone our Senior Gala for 24 hours, from Tuesday, June 2 to Wednesday, June 3 at 6pm.
Join us on Wednesday, June 3 at 6pm on CMW’s YouTube channel for a live premiere event as Community MusicWorks celebrates our graduating seniors with an hour of performances, tributes, live chat, and *special* musical guests!
CMW has been eagerly looking forward to shining a spotlight on our seniors this evening. As our country grapples with ongoing episodes of violence and racial injustice this week, however, we recognize the importance of pausing our normal operations to reflect, be in community, and be in dialogue about the pernicious and persistent history of systemic racism in this country that continues to perpetuate violence and harm. While CMW doesn’t consider ourselves part of the commercial music industry which initiated #BlackOutTuesday, we support and wish to stand in solidarity with the larger significance this day has taken on. Our student board members, both of whom are seniors, felt that postponing our Gala by a day would allow them and our larger community to take this day to pause and reflect. We will be excited to shine a well-deserved spotlight on our young musicians tomorrow instead. Please join us.
Click here to join the celebration!
We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

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Traces
2020-05-30 16:00 - 18:00 | RI
Due to the ongoing health crisis, this event has been postponed. We will update calendar information as we reimagine and/or reschedule this and other CMW spring events.
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CMW Fellows Quartet
2020-05-03 14:00 - 17:00 | RI
Due to the ongoing health crisis, this event has been canceled. We will update calendar information as we reimagine and/or reschedule this and other CMW spring events.
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Youth Salon
2020-04-25 15:00 - 17:00 | RI
Due to the ongoing health crisis, this event has been canceled. We will update calendar information as we reimagine and/or reschedule this and other CMW spring events.
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This interactive event, hosted by our teen student group, Phase II, includes activities and conversations led by Phase II members, a community dinner, and student performances, all revolving around societal issues chosen by the students, including gun violence, climate change, and mental health.
Youth Salon

MusicWorks Collective at Dorcas International's Spring Festival
2020-03-22 15:00 - 16:30 | RI
MusicWorks Collective at Dorcas International’s Spring Festival
**THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED**
Dear friends,

It goes without saying that the well-being of our community is important to us. So, in heeding recommendations to limit public gatherings to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus and in careful consideration of the health of those who planned to attend our March events, we have decided to postpone these concerts:

Sunday, March 22: Dorcas International’s Spring Festival
Saturday, March 28: Annual Fred Kelley Scholarship Concert

We will continue to monitor the situation and will be in touch with updates when rescheduled dates have been determined.

best,
The CMW Staff

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Dorcas International Institute of Rhode Island presents a Spring Festival community gathering featuring dancing, food, and music by the MusicWorks Collective and musician/composers Kareem Roustom and Kinan Azmeh.
2:00pm: Food, Dancing, and Presentations
3:00pm: Music
CityArts, 891 Broad St.
Admission is free
Click here to make reservations
Sponsored in part by the Rhode Island Community Grants Program

Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation: A Pre-Concert Event
2020-01-29 18:00 - 20:00 | RI
A pre-concert discussion led by CMW Resident Musician Jesse Holstein on the topic of “Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation” in anticipation of the Saturday, February 1 concert at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.
The line between cultural appropriation and appreciation in music can sometimes be difficult to navigate and distinguish. When does a cultural reference in a piece of music go beyond respectfully honoring another culture or heritage and border into exoticism or spectacle? Can music be appropriative if the composer is referencing their own culture?
Please join us as we discuss these challenging topics while looking at three works for string quartet that are inspired or influenced by indigenous folk music. Excerpts from works by Debussy, Bartók, and Zhou Long will be performed by the MusicWorks Collective.
Cultural Appropriation vs. Appreciation
Wednesday, January 29
6pm reception, 6:30pm discussion/performance
Providence Public Library
150 Empire Street
Admission is free*
*Seating for this event is full. Email lcox@communitymusicworks.org to place your name on the waiting list.

Bach and Friends
2019-10-27 16:00 - 18:00 | RI
Join us on Sunday, October 27 at 4pm for an afternoon of baroque music performed by the MusicWorks Collective and guests at the dazzling new Pavilion space at Grace Episcopal Church. The program offers a glimpse into the world of 17th century weddings, parties, and battles with Bach’s “Wedding Cantata” (BWV 202), featuring the brilliant soprano Kristen Watson, the rousing “Battalia” by Heinrich Biber, a harpsichord concerto by Bach contemporary Wilhelmina of Prussia featuring harpsichordist Michael Bahmann, and the ever-popular Brandenburg Concerto no. 3.
Bach and Friends
Sunday, October 27, 4pm
The Pavilion at Grace Episcopal Church
300 Westminster Street
Providence, RI 02903
Directions
A wine and hors d’oeuvres reception following the concert.
Suggested donation of $20
Patron Seating $100
Email Thano@chaltas.com to make your reservation.
