Newton Cultural Alliance

An online series on the history & nature of Jewish choral music
2020-09-26, 2020-09-27, 2020-09-28, 2020-09-29, 2020-09-30, 2020-10-01, 2020-10-02, 2020-10-03 and 1 more date | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
These audio and video podcasts, presented by Zamir Chorale of Boston, can serve as an introduction to the field of Jewish Choral Music. But caveat lector, these are not comprehensive; they provide only an introduction to the field. Readers may follow up with the many texts and websites that are listed elsewhere in this website: https://www.jewishchoralmusic.com/podcasts

Amherst Early Music online: Tantalizing Telemann Technicalities
2020-09-26 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for AEM ONLINE classes each weekend! Register for any number of sessions – classes are $25 per session. Registration opens each Monday for the weekend classes! Click here for more information.
Tantalizing Telemann Technicalities with Sarah Cantor
We will use the Telemann F Major duet as technical inspiration for this class. The high F’s give us opportunities to work on blowing and thumb position for high notes. The scale passages are perfect for finger coordination. The repeated sequences of 16th notes beg us to make tonguing syllable decisions. The long passages give us a chance to practice breath control. The cadential trills offer a chance to review trill fingerings and incorporate tasteful appoggiatura’s. Since technique should always serve the music and not the other way around, we will make music playing the duet together.
You can download the music and play the duet with Sarah on her music-minus-one video here.

All Newton Music School: Broadway Bound Online Class
2020-09-26 13:45 - 14:30, 2020-10-01 17:00 - 17:45, 2020-10-03 13:45 - 14:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Actors will spend the Semester creating and exploring imaginative characters, learning choreography, and proper singing technique with director, composer, and playwright Kelvyn Koning; an experienced musical theatre educator.
Broadway Bound will allow each actor to sing, dance, deliver lines, and be part of a virtual theatrical ensemble which builds presence and self-confidence.
Creative and engaging instructor Mr. Kelvyn will work with the young actors ideas to compose original music and scenes for each class as they prepare a virtual world premiere production!
Before filming, the student will be provided with a Broadway Bound “Backstage” Box with all the costume pieces and props needed to film their scenes, songs, and choreography with flair!
Click here for registration.
Ages 5-7 years
Sept. 12 to Jan. 16 – Saturdays: 1:00 – 1:45 pm
Ages 8-10 years
Sept. 10 to Jan. 7 – Thursday: 5:00 – 5:45 pm
Sept. 12 to Jan. 16 – Saturday: 1:45 – 2:30 pm

Amherst Early Music online: What Makes J.S. Bach 'BACH?'
2020-09-26 15:00 - 16:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for AEM ONLINE classes each weekend! Register for any number of sessions – classes are $25 per session. Registration opens each Monday for the weekend classes! Click here for more information.
What makes J.S. Bach ‘BACH?’ with Geoff Williams
An exploration of one of the pillars of western music and why his sacred vocal music is so well-known and revered today. Class will spend some time with the St. John and St. Matthew Passions, the Christmas Oratorio, and Church Cantatas. There will be some
opportunity to sing and play along with recordings, while muted.

Newton Free Library: Virtual Spring Fling (in the Fall)
2020-09-26 18:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Please join Newton Free Library for a virtual Spring Fling (in the Fall) on Saturday, September 26, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. This year money raised from the Spring Fling will be used to expand and refresh the library’s beloved Children’s Room. The library fully expects the Annual Gala to sell out. Individual sponsorships are available starting at $200. Individual tickets will be on sale for $150 per person. We also offer a Corporate Sponsorship program.
Please fill out the form here to purchase tickets for this year’s Spring Fling.

Amherst Early Music online: From the Bottom Up
2020-09-27 13:00 - 14:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for AEM ONLINE classes each weekend! Register for any number of sessions – classes are $25 per session. Registration opens each Monday for the weekend classes! Click here for more information.
From the Bottom Up with Alissa Duryee, harpsichord and Jerôme Huille, cello
An opportunity to view works from the standard recorder repertoire, as well as 18th century arrangements, from the perspective of the continuo part. The duo Dialogues (Alissa Duryee, harpsichord, and Jérôme Huille, cello) will guide participants through the noteworthy features of the pieces as seen from ‘down under’. Demonstrations of different possible continuo realizations, articulations, tempi, and bowings will be given.
There will be ample time for playing along with the continuo team. Every question you’ve never dared to ask a continuo player will be answered! Participants should prepare the first, third, and fourth movements of Handel’s Sonata in F major, Op. 1, # 11 on alto recorder, and the following arrangements of Scots tunes by Francesco Barsanti: 1. Waly, Waly 2. Johnnie Faa 3. O Dear Mother, What Shall I Do? #3 should be played on soprano or tenor recorder. Geared to: intermediate to upper intermediate treble instruments.

Amherst Early Music online: It's All About the Bass
2020-09-27 15:00 - 16:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for AEM ONLINE classes each weekend! Register for any number of sessions – classes are $25 per session. Registration opens each Monday for the weekend classes! Click here for more information.
It’s All About the Bass: Learn to add Drones and Chords to your Favorite Early Music Tunes with Tina Chancey
Whether you’re playing a 13th-century cantiga, a Renaissance dance tune by Arbeau, or one of D’Urfey’s Pills to Purge Melancholy, it always helps to fill out the piece by adding some chords and double stops. We viol players are lucky to have six strings, a rounded bridge, and and two and a half octave range—we’ve got lots of sounds at our disposal.
Each different era of music has its own accompaniment techniques. In this class you’ll learn to play sustained and rhythmic drones whether you play the tune yourself or accompany a singer; to find different versions of the most common chords on your instrument and how to decide what chords to use, to create arrangements with introductions and interludes that combine playing the tune and supporting chords, and to create obbligato bass parts from a simple ground bass.

New Art Center online: Beginning Drawing
2020-09-29 09:30 - 12:30 | Trio Newton, 243 Walnut Street, Unit 213, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
Learn basic drawing essentials! Students will sharpen their observation skills and learn to develop accurate and expressive drawings using a variety of materials. Learning to draw provides students with an excellent foundation for additional drawing, painting, and other art explorations. See website for materials list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Venue: Trio Newton

New Art Center online: Painting Beyond Foundations
2020-09-29 09:30 - 12:30 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
Intermediate and advanced students explore and develop personal themes while pushing their skills to the limit. Demos, group exercises, color theory, advanced painting techniques with regular critique and conversation support and extend creativity and competency. See website for materials list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Venue: Washington Park

New Art Center online: Ceramics - Intermediate/Advanced
2020-09-29 09:30 - 12:30 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
Students of all levels explore the creative possibilities of ceramics. Demonstrations and hands-on instruction cover wheel throwing, handbuilding, and surface treatment including glazing. Each semester includes one group project or technique and plenty of time to develop your distinctive voice. Tuition includes 25 lbs. of clay, firing and glazing. See website for supply list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 9:30AM – 12:30PM
Venue: Washington Park

New Art Center online: Monotype Printing with a Press
2020-09-29 13:00 - 16:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.
Build skills in monotype printmaking. Experiment with techniques using an etching press: additive and subtractive printing, chine colle, trace monotype, overprinting, stencils, and direct painting on a plate. Explore ways of creating texture and depth using natural and man-made objects: leaves, grasses, eggshells, mesh, foil, bubble wrap, etc. to make gorgeous prints! Excellent for all levels of experience. See website for materials list.
Dates: Sep 15 – Dec 1
Details: Tuesdays, 12 Sessions
Times: 1:00PM – 4:00PM
Venue: Washington Park

Newton Free Library presents: ELL Twentieth Century Women - Bridging Cultures/Breaking Barriers
2020-10-02 13:00 - 14:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
ELL Twentieth Century Women: Bridging Cultures/Breaking Barriers is a free conversation group on Zoom for high intermediate to advanced adult English learners. In this class, we will examine and discuss the lives of 20th (and 21st) century women who challenged societal barriers in their pursuit of careers in fields as varied as athletics, business, government and law, humanities, medicine, and the sciences.
The group meets on 8 Friday afternoons, beginning on October 2, 2020.
Limited to 8 students. Online registration (required) begins September 10 at 9:00 am.
When you register, you sign up for all 8 Friday afternoon sessions.
Click here to register.

New Art Center online: Drawing, Painting, Collage GR 6-8
2020-10-02 16:30 - 18:00 | Zoom
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.

Longer class! Explore techniques of drawing, painting and collage. The focus this semester will be on form and space – learning to make your work look 3-D and to show distance. Experiment with color, shape and composition, and learn how to use different art materials individually and together to create more sophisticated artworks. This class is excellent for all levels of experience.
Dates: Sep 25 – Dec 18
Details: Fridays, 10 Sessions
Times: 4:30PM – 6:00PM
Venue: Live Online Learning (Zoom)
Notes: No class 11/27

New Art Center online: “Sculpting” Your Watercolors
2020-10-03 12:30 - 16:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.

Explore a unique method of developing a watercolor painting by using contact paper to create a template. Starting with a loose and playful watercolor wash, we will use misting and tilting techniques to allow the colors to mix on the paper. Then we will develop the paintings using contact paper to facilitate various lifting methods, and employ glazing techniques with emphasis on creative modeling and developing lost and found edges. A variety of lifting techniques useful for any watercolor painting will be demonstrated. See materials list on website.

2020-10-03 13:00 - 14:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for AEM ONLINE classes each weekend! Register for any number of sessions – classes are $25 per session. Registration opens each Monday for the weekend classes! Click here for more information.
Renaissance Lute Duets with Douglas Freundlich
Class description coming soon.

Amherst Early Music online: Monica Madness - New Renaissance Lute Duets
2020-10-03 13:00 - 14:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for AEM ONLINE classes each weekend! Register for any number of sessions – classes are $25 per session. Registration opens each Monday for the weekend classes! Click here for more information.
Monica Madness: New Renaissance Lute Duets with Douglas Freundlich
We’ll focus on the Renaissance hit tune La Monica (aka Une Jeune Fillette), featuring polyphonic settings by Chardavoine, Charpentier, Du Caurroy, Byrd, and Bach. Also: an improvisation workout on the Monica tune and chord progression, with Doug’s gentle, time-tested exercises in memory, paraphrase, imitation, and quotation. With your mute button engaged, you are free from scrutiny, and there will be plenty of do-overs–an ideal environment for learning to trust your ears and take some risks. Open to: G-lutes, A=440. Materials in both tablature and staff notation will be provided in advance.

New Art Center online: Digital Photography Teen Workshop – Basics and Beyond
2020-10-03 13:00 - 16:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
New Art Live Online Learning – Weekly online class at designated class times. New Art faculty conduct a real-time class through Zoom video meetings.

This three-hour digital photography workshop is designed for teens to explore and have fun with digital photography. The workshop will focus on photography fundamentals, composition, the exposure triangle, and a fun photo project. Students will need to bring a digital camera (with controllable settings and dials preferred) and the manual or reference if available. If you have a laptop and a cable to download your photos in class, please bring to class. If not, the teacher will assist. Click here for more info.

Amherst Early Music online: Polyphonic Songs
2020-10-03 15:00 - 16:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for AEM ONLINE classes each weekend! Register for any number of sessions – classes are $25 per session. Registration opens each Monday for the weekend classes! Click here for more information.
Polyphonic Songs from ca. 1500 with Rotem and Adam Gilbert
Rotem and Adam Gilbert invite you to a session of polyphonic music with some of their favorite Ottaviano Petrucci settings from 1501-1504, including works from Odhecaton A, Motetti B, and Canti C. Adam will share an Ockeghem song that conceals a special secret. PDFs of the music in modern edition will be provided in advance along with a separate PDF of facsimiles for those who would like to read from Renaissance notation. Bring your Renaissance recorder along, or play any wind instrument you would like. Geared to: upper intermediate to advanced wind players, and auditors. Pitch: A=440.

Amherst Early Music online: Ex Tempore Playing - A Gateway to Early Medieval Improvisation
2020-10-04 13:00 - 14:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for AEM ONLINE classes each weekend! Register for any number of sessions – classes are $25 per session. Registration opens each Monday for the weekend classes! Click here for more information.
Ex Tempore Playing: A Gateway to Early Medieval Improvisation with Norbert Rodenkirchen
Surviving information about Medieval instrumental improvisation practice is rare and fragmentary. Based on a combination of intensive source studies and a personalized approach to Medieval monodic improvisation Norbert Rodenkirchen – Sequentia´s flautist – offers a practical workshop on „ad hoc“ modal invention. Besides presenting some easy new exercises Norbert will also introduce selected original didactical tools from Medieval cathedral schools. We will try out original modal patterns and memorization formulae from the 11th to 13th century to find a fresh and profound way to invent our own estampies and ductiae, just like students in Medieval times. All musical materials will be presented in easy, modern notation. The aim will be to explore our own melodic inventions deriving from these notes, not just to play what is written. Open to: all instrumentalists are invited to join the workshop, actively or as auditors. The content is geared toward players with a high level of facility on their instrument. Pitch: A = 440. Tuning: Norbert will be using Pythagorean tuning, which has wide thirds and pure fifths. Participants will be muted but may wish to adjust their tuning since they will hear Norbert while playing.

Amherst Early Music online: In Nomine - The Viol PLayer's Favorite Chant
2020-10-04 15:00 - 16:30 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Join us for AEM ONLINE classes each weekend! Register for any number of sessions – classes are $25 per session. Registration opens each Monday for the weekend classes! Click here for more information.
In Nomine: The Viol PLayer’s Favorite Chant with Rosamund Morley
The foundation of a uniquely English consort form is a beautiful chant melody hidden in the “Benedictus” movement of a 6-part Taverner mass. For 150 years, from Taverner to Purcell, many English composers wrote beautiful polyphonic music based on this chant. In this class, less experienced viol players will have a chance to use the lovely In Nomine chant tune as the basis for a series of exercises applicable to all sizes of viol, and, technology permitting, will experience the joys of playing the In Nomine line in a consort piece or two! Geared to: the fairly new viol player, but all viols are welcome to join! Pitch: A=415.
