CMW Short Story: MWC Around Town
In April 2024, the MusicWorks Collective formed a quartet to perform a series of pop-up concerts around Providence. The musicians appeared in a range of community settings, including the John Hope Settlement House, the Providence Athenaeum, the HopeHealth Hulitar Hospice Center, the Providence Children’s Museum, and Sin Bakery. Audience members across the city welcomed their music with enthusiasm, and Atomic Clock was there to capture the magic.
Lovely, Dark and Lonely One: Nicholas Phan & Palaver Strings
Lovely, Dark and Lonely One · Palaver Strings · Nicholas Phan · Harry T. Burleigh · Langston Hughes Lovely, Dark and Lonely One ℗ 2024 Azica Released on: 2024-05-03 Composer: Harry T. Burleigh Lyricist: Langston Hughes Arranger: Ian Gottleib
Palaver Strings | Theofanidis Visions and Miracles
This one-hour program brings together music that is transcendent in nature, drawing inspiration from dreams, medieval chant, renaissance polyphony, spirituality, and the power of silence. Anchored by Christopher Theofanidis’ otherworldy composition of the same name, Visions and Miracles takes us on a journey through the gentle sound worlds of Arvo Part, Max Richter, and Caroline Shaw, interspersed with excerpts of Mendelssohn’s Sinfonia No. 1.
Palaver Strings Anthem
Palaver Strings is a musician-led string ensemble and nonprofit organization based in Portland, ME. Our mission is to strengthen and inspire community through music. In our musician-led model, Palaver’s musicians share artistic and administrative leadership, guided by a passion for engaging new audiences, addressing social justice issues, and amplifying underrepresented voices. Equally committed to performance and education, Palaver presents a full season of live concerts and serves hundreds of students each year at the Palaver Music Center in Portland, ME
Palaver Strings | Elements ft. Kinan Azmeh + Brian Adler
Featuring award-winning clarinetist Kinan Azmeh and percussionist Brian Shankar Adler, this program explores the fluid space between improvisation and composition, drawing on classical, jazz, Syrian folk elements, and original compositions by the featured soloists, including a world premiere of Kinan Azmeh’s Syrian Dances for String Orchestra.
Julius Eastman: Holy Presense Joan d'Arc’
Eastman’s music speaks now even more than it did during his lifetime. Before the canonization of minimalism, he saw beyond it, making the style’s repetitive patterns a platform for other musical and programmatic ideas.
THe Telling:BY Daniel Benard Roumain Twin Stars: Diamond Variations for Dae’Anna
Featured artists: Becky Bass, Shura Baryshnikov, Melvin Chen, MusicWorks Collective, Daniel Bernard Roumain, Albert Rudolph Lee, Jay Breen and Victoria L. Awkward.
Palaver Strings: Holberg Suite - Edvard Grieg
Palaver Strings Perform Holberg Suite by Edvard Grieg. Live Mechanics Hall, in Portland ME, April 2023
CAROLINE SHAW: ENTR'ACTE
The CMW Fellows Quartet presents a program of works by Leoš Janáček, Caroline Shaw, and William Grant Still
Bach & Poetry ft.Damont “Orange” Combs"
CelloKam and Mr.Orange Live perform original poetry and solo Bach
Bach & Solo Modern Dance FT. Johanna Kepler
Dancer & Choreographer Johanna Kepler: Identity through the Performing Arts
PVD CEllo Fest: 2023 Highlight Reel
PVD Cello Fest aims to build new connections within the community and foster curiosity about what is possible on the cello.
Palaver Strings performing Strauss's Metamorphosen
Metamorphosis explores the beauty of pain and transformation through the lens of two monumental works for string orchestra. Strauss’s Metamorphosen looks back on what once was, bearing witness to the trauma and destruction of World War II. Schoenberg’s Verklartke Nacht, meanwhile, looks inward, towards the possibility of redemption through love.
AFFIRMATION: WARP TRIO + PALAVER STRINGS
This program centers music and stories that have been suppressed or misrepresented in mainstream media narratives. At the heart of the project is Affirmation, a new concerto grosso for piano trio, percussion, electronics, and strings. Written by Warp Trio’s own Josh Henderson. Affirmation is a reflection on selected poems by Assata Shakur.