Ten Years of Transformation

On Sunday afternoon, CMW celebrated "Ten Years of Transformation" in true CMW style: music and food! Jonathan Biss and his mother Miriam Fried generously donated an all-Beethoven recital for the annual spring fundraising event at the Regent Avenue School Building.

An audience member’s account: "That was an amazing event. I would’ve written sooner, but if you are familiar with the habits of the boa constrictor you will know that after the boa constrictor has consumed a meal that is bigger than its own circumference, it goes into a bit of a coma for a period of time. So, having eaten like a boa constrictor on Sunday, yesterday I was in a coma – and while at first I thought it was terrible to have missed all those hours of mental accomplishment, I then realized that it was actually a small price to pay, since I now won’t have to take up any time eating again until late June.

Thank you so much for inviting me. It was a stellar afternoon and evening, I truly commend you. I have been describing it to people since as having an amazing and very unusual combination of qualities: it was beautiful and elegant, and yet completely heartfelt and generous. It’s hard to achieve both. I can’t imagine the work that went into it – but anyway, it was a huge success, at least from the perspective of an attendee. I hope that everyone else rounded off the evening by writing you huge checks."

You can read Channing Gray’s articles about CMW’s ten years in Providence ("Mozart for Many") and the violin project in Sunday’s Providence Journal here and here. We’ll soon have all this up on our website if you’d prefer not to subscribe.

-Heath Marlow, CMW staff