Under the banner of FirstWorksProv, Aurea Ensemble and composer Paul Phillips will be presenting a Burgess mini-festival on Oct 5, 6, 13 & 14 (see AUREA ENSEMBLE at http://www.firstworksprov.org/main.php?id=prov&pg=schedule and http://

www.arttixri.com/performance_info.cfm?PID=729 for details). On the 13th & 14th, Aurea and Phillips will present 9 compositions by Burgess, including several world & US premieres; the first US performance of “Hommage to A.B.”, a BBC radio play by the novelist William Boyd; music by Britten, Stravinsky; and the premiere of Phillips’ new composition “A/B: A 90th-birthday commemoration of Anthony Burgess in words and music.” (Funded in Part by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts). On Oct 5 & 6, Phillips will give a talk on Burgess’s music (”The Postmodernist Always Swings Nice”) and two films will be screened, A CLOCKWORK ORANGE and THE BURGESS VARIATIONS, a BBC tv documentary that has never been shown before in this country. http://brown.edu/Departments/Music/sites/orchestra/conductor.html

Shrines, Rituals  & Commemorative Art:An art exhibition of work by Providence Public High School Students
 FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC