Culture and Education
The Scandinavian Cultural Center presents: The Pact
Scandinavian Cultural Center 206 Waltham St, Newton, MA, United StatesSCREENING: THE PACT (2021) presented in conjunction with the Scandinavian Library It’s 1948 and sixty-three-year-old OUT OF AFRICA author Karen Blixen (pen name: Isak Dinesen) is a lonely literary sensation devastated by syphilis and mourning her lost love until she meets talented thirty-year-old poet Thorkild Bjørnvig. She offers him a Faustian bargain and promises him…
Newton Free Library presents: Jellyfish: How to Pastel Paint with Greg Maichack
Newton Free Library 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, United StatesJoin Gregory Maichack, award-winning artist, and two times Mass. Cultural Council Gold Star Award Program nominee, for a hands-on zoom session. Materials will be provided for this fun, two-hour “Take and Make” workshop. Greg will guide everyone in producing their very own original pastel of a stunning jellyfish as he teaches us how to create the special…
Pro Arte’s Salon Series – Salon 4
The Allen Center 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, United StatesPro Arte's unique cooperative is comprised of musicians equally at home as soloists and chamber musicians as they are within the chamber orchestra. The Salon Series presents an opportunity for members of the cooperative to showcase their craft in various chamber groups performing a variety of exciting works. Salon 4's program will feature members of…
Canceled-Commonwealth Chorale presents: Country Sounds
Church of the Holy Name 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury, MA, United StatesClassical or bluegrass? In our second concert of the season, no need to choose. Composer Carol Barnett has combined the two styles in her bluegrass Mass, The World Beloved. In her unusual approach Barnett has written what she calls “cheery sacred music,” blending the usual solemnity of a Mass with down-home energy and rhythms of…
Zamir Chorale of Boston presents: A Choral Rainbow Part 3
Part III - Monday, April 4,7:30 pm EST, REGISTER HERE. This season, in response to the alarming rise in racism, antisemitism, and other forms of prejudice, we are even more committed to using our resources to expose our audiences (and ourselves) to music representing different cultures, ethnicities, and ways of thinking. With that in mind,…
Amherst Early Music Classes
Join us for new AEM ONLINE CLASSES in April! April 9, 10, 30, and May 1st! Class times here are Eastern Time Saturday, April 9 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Lully: Chaconnes and Dances with Frances Blaker, recorder Sunday, April 10 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Tips and Tricks: Solutions for the Traverso Player with Immanuel Davis, flute…
Amherst Early Music Classes
Join us for new AEM ONLINE CLASSES in April! April 9, 10, 30, and May 1st! Class times here are Eastern Time Saturday, April 9 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Lully: Chaconnes and Dances with Frances Blaker, recorder Sunday, April 10 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Tips and Tricks: Solutions for the Traverso Player with Immanuel Davis, flute…
Pro Arte’s Salon Series – Salon 5
The Allen Center 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, United StatesPro Arte's unique cooperative is comprised of musicians equally at home as soloists and chamber musicians as they are within the chamber orchestra. The Salon Series presents an opportunity for members of the cooperative to showcase their craft in various chamber groups performing a variety of exciting works. Pro Arte's principal winds and principal horn…
Newton Art Association presents: Demo with Betsy Silverman | Collage
Working in a collage style that she calls “fragmented realism,” Betsy Silverman trains her eye upon discarded magazines – which she selects, cuts, and glues to a canvas, in order to transform the old images and text into unique, multidimensional portraits, still lifes, cityscapes, and representations of New England – especially the Boston area. A…
Pro Arte’s Ensemble Series – Ensemble 3
Pro Arte's full ensemble takes to the stage to present treasured works and brilliant contemporary compositions celebrating their forty-four year history as one of Boston's most vibrant orchestras. Paul Polivnik makes a return appearance in the spring to conduct Pro Arte in a powerful program of Ravel, Bernstein, and Mendelssohn. Read more about the program…