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Community MusicWorks in The New Yorker

"Community MusicWorks...is a revolutionary organization in which the distinction between performing and teaching disappears."

"Ruth dislikes the word 'outreach,' which makes it sound as if he and the other musicians were extending their hands to unlucky souls drowning at sea. 'We are already living in the place that other people reach out to'..."

Alex Ross has written an excellent article on the importance (and viability) of music education to our American society. You may download a pdf version of the entire article by clicking here or access an online version here.

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Type "New Yorker" in the dedication line of the online donation form, and to say thank you, we will send you a live recording of the Providence String Quartet and Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Jonathan Biss performing the Brahms Piano Quintet in F Minor at The Rhode Island School of Design Museum on November 4, 2004.*

*for donations of at least $50

Listen to the Providence String Quartet performing "Menuetto: Allegretto all zingarese" from Haydn's String Quartet in D, Opus 20, No. 4. (not included on CD)