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Music for Food Benefit Concert Supports Arm In Arm

Enjoy beautiful music while fighting hunger at Music for Food, a benefit concert supporting Arm In Arm, on Saturday, January 31 from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton (UUCP), 50 Cherry Hill Road.

Admission is by donation, and all proceeds go to Arm In Arm. Presented by UUCP’s Caring for Our Neighbors Ministry and local violinist Sunghae Anna Lim, this special evening will feature live chamber music Inspired by  musicforfood.net and performed by Lim and fellow professional musicians.

Lim, a Princeton resident, is a violinist with the Manhattan String Quartet, on the faculty and artistic advisor of the Maine Chamber Music Seminar, and performance music faculty at Princeton University. Additional musicians are Hannah Burnett on viola, Joshua Halpern on cello, and Marija Stroke on piano.

The concert features Mozart’s B-flat major violin sonata; Schumann’s piano quartet, and Bruce Adolphe’s Einstein’s Light, inspired by the life of Einstein. Adolphe will talk about his composition for violin and piano, which was written in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Einstein’s theory of general relativity and is inspired by the physicist’s life and love of music.

Admission is free, with a suggested donation of $40 ($15 for students). Donate through arminarm.org/music-for-food.

UUCP has a weekly Food Collection for Arm In Arm (Formerly Crisis Ministry of Mercer County), and members are encouraged to donate food staples, personal care items, disposable diapers, and McCaffrey’s grocery receipts in a Crisis Ministry bin located by the front door every week. The church is one of 60 interfaith partners of Arm In Arm, which for more than 40 years has partnered with the community to achieve stability for neighbors in need.

From its Trenton and Princeton locations, it serves people from more than 1,400 households each month through its hunger and homelessness prevention initiatives and welcomes more than 6,000 families to its food pantries.

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