Saturday • April 18th, 2026 • 7:30pm

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Arlington County's 9th Street Quartet has spent the past several years creating a musical home for young people in their 9th Street Chamber Music string quartet program. The inclusive and welcoming program, which fundraises to cover tuition expenses so that ability for a student to pay is never an issue, brings youth in grades 8 to 12 together each week to rehearse, be coached, and eventually perform in quartets. This sense of creating a home has informed their programming choices for their Little City Concerts event, and their nonprofit partner: the central work in their program will be Kevin Puts' stunning Home, which was composed as a meditation on the 2019 European refugee crisis. 

The nonprofit partner for this event will be Second Story, an Fairfax County-based organization that serves youth experiencing homelessness or another crisis, and young mothers and their children. Second Story transforms the lives of children, youth and their families by providing safe havens and opportunities for them to grow and thrive. Their programs provide support at critical turning points in their lives.