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Rhode Island Wind Ensemble presents “Young at Heart”
The concert begins with a madcap musical setting of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham, starring sopranos Isabelle Zeladon and Jacquelyn Van Patten. The musical setting of this timeless story of prejudice, persistence, and gratitude was composed by Robert Kapilow in 1995, and the Boston Globe named it “the most popular children's piece since Peter and the Wolf.” A brief and engaging pre-performance interactive session between the conductor and children in the audience will “set the stage” for the performance that follows.
Other highlights include Percy Grainger’s Children’s March, Alan Menken’s hit songs from everyone’s favorite Disney movies, and Johan DeMeij’s light-hearted suite The Wind in the Willows, based on characters from Kenneth Grahame’s classic of children’s fiction. “We’re so honored to be invited to perform at Temple Sinai once again this year,” remarked conductor Robert Franzblau. “This concert celebrates the diversity of music that has been written for and about young people, from Disney to J. S. Bach, and the comfortable and informal setting at Temple Sinai make this a perfect venue to welcome concert-goers of all ages!”
About RIWE: Founded in 1969, the Rhode Island Wind Ensemble is a modern wind band of fifty skilled professional and avocational musicians of all ages and from all walks of life, who believe that live music helps build community. RIWE provides a performance forum for this diverse volunteer membership to share their love of music with people of the Providence metropolitan area. The ensemble performs a wide variety of music at a high level: transcriptions from light orchestral and operatic repertoire; traditional, ethnic, and contemporary band repertoire; and jazz, Broadway musicals, and movie scores.
The ensemble has considerable experience playing in concert halls and at outdoor venues, with monthly concerts scheduled throughout Rhode Island and nearby Massachusetts. We have collaborated with choral, instrumental, community and school groups, including Mount Pleasant High School (Providence), East Providence High School, Blackstone-Millville High School, Scituate High School, and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble. Our concerts often feature instrumental and vocal soloists drawn from our group and from the professional community.
In response to changing needs, RIWE has recently expanded its scope beyond concert presentation to include public-school-based community service initiatives, including our long-term partnership with the Music Pathways Program at Mount Pleasant High School in Providence and the Band Instrument Renewal Drive, which pays for the cleaning and repair of donated used band instruments which are then redistributed to public school music programs in the greater Providence area where families cannot afford to purchase or rent an instrument.
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