More richly deserved attention is falling on Community MusicWorks, the passionately innovative music-education initiative that I wrote about in 2006. Last month, Sebastian Ruth, the founder of the organization, received a MacArthur Fellowship. Today, at the White House, Michelle Obama will present members of Community MusicWorks with a National Arts and Humanities Youth Programs Award; on Friday, the group will celebrate with a musical block party outside its storefront headquarters, in Providence, Rhode Island. Geoff Edgers, of the Boston Globe, has the story. There will be live updates on the MusicWorks blog. For more on the program, see Chapter 14 of Listen to This.
