Newport String Quartet at the Cato Vernon Freedom Library, an enhanced listening experience
Oct 30, 5:30-7:30pm
Middle Schoolers and up
FREE
About Newport String Quartet at The Cato Vernon Freedom Library
Join the Newport String Quartet at the Cato Vernon Freedom Library for an evening of music that bookends a group viewing of the exhibit. Join us at 5:30pm to hear the quartet perform Jessie Montgomery's Source Code which takes inspiration from the choreography of Alvin Ailey, poetry of Langston Hughes and Rita Dove and the music of Ella Fitzgerald and Black spirituals. With enhanced listening, travel through the exhibit together, ending with a final performance of Carlos Simon's Warmth of Other Suns who describes his work as an expression of the duality of wanting to find rest, yet never being able to call a place a home.
As artists-in-residence at the Newport String Project, the Newport String Quartet presents a dynamic concert series each season and provides free lessons each week to 40 students in violin, viola, and cello. Each of the Quartet’s concerts features works by celebrated composers alongside masterworks by underrepresented composers in traditional and alternative venues around Newport. The free weekly lessons and youth mentoring initiatives are funded by the Newport String Project through individual donations and foundation support—making chamber music accessible for all throughout the greater Newport RI community.
Now in its fourteenth season, the Newport String Project’s distinctive quartet-in-residence model is dedicated to building long-term relationships with students, families, and audiences of all backgrounds.