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Providence String Quartet to perform at Connecticut College Feb. 27

The Providence String Quartet

February 25, 2008

NEW LONDON, Conn. - Community MusicWorks´ The Providence String Quartet will perform a free concert at Connecticut College Wednesday, Feb. 27, at 4:30 p.m. in the Harkness Chapel. The concert is open to the public and children are encouraged to attend.

The quartet, featuring violinists Jesse Holstein and Jessie Montgomery, violist Sebastian Ruth and cellist Sara Stalnaker, will perform "Dvorak in America," with works by Czech composer Antonin Dvorak.

As the quartet-in-residence for Community MusicWorks, the Providence String Quartet provides free after-school music education and performance programming to youth in Providence´s most underserved neighborhoods. In tandem with these activities, the Providence String Quartet fills the role of the City´s resident professional string quartet by performing throughout Providence and across the state.

This concert is sponsored by Connecticut College´s Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

Among the most selective private liberal arts colleges in the nation, Connecticut College enrolls 1,900 men and women from 41 states, the District of Columbia and 42 countries. The college is known for putting the liberal arts into action through interdisciplinary studies, international programs, funded internships, student-faculty research and service learning. Founded in 1911, the college operates under an 86-year-old honor code. The college is located at 270 Mohegan Ave, New London, about two hours by car from Boston and New York. The 750-acre campus is an arboretum overlooking Long Island Sound. For more information, visit www.connecticutcollege.edu.

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For more information contact: Amy Sullivan (860) 439-2526; amy.sullivan@conncoll.edu