Newton Cultural Alliance

Amherst Early Music online: It's All About the Bass
2020-09-27 15:00 - 16:30 (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.
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.

All Newton Music School: Broadway Bound Online Class
2020-10-01 17:00 - 17:45, 2020-10-03 13:00 - 13:45, 2020-10-03 13:45 - 14:30, 2020-10-08 17:00 - 17:45, 2020-10-10 13:00 - 13:45, 2020-10-10 13:45 - 14:30, 2020-10-15 17:00 - 17:45, 2020-10-17 13:00 - 13:45 and 6 more dates | 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

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.

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.

Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 2
2020-10-08 20:00 - 22:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.

Salon 2:

After playing an enjoyable summer salon together, Lisa Goddard, Colin Davis, Anne Black, and Steven Laven return with a new program. Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 95, known as the “Serioso” quartet, is a compact piece on the cusp of Beethoven’s late work, which pushes the boundaries of form and harmony further than ever before. William Grant Still’s Lyric Quartette is a musical portrait of three of the composer’s friends. Known as the “Dean of Afro-American Composers,” Still’s accomplishments include over 200 compositions, being the first African American to conduct a major orchestra (the L.A. Philharmonic), and collaborating with prominent literary and cultural figures in the Harlem Renaissance movement. The concert also includes James Lee III’s Abraham’s Sons (in Memoriam Trayvon Martin). Intense and dramatic, this piece is dedicated to the family of Trayvon Martin. Mr. Lee musically depicts the scope of suffering and mourning inferred by the title of this elegiac solo piece. From one of Pro Arte’s favorite living composers, Jessie Montgomery’s Rhapsody No. 1 is the first in a series of virtuosic pieces for various solo instruments, which she premiered herself on violin in 2014.

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in F minor, op. 95 “Quartetto Serioso”
William Grant STILL Lyric Quartette
James LEE Abraham’s Sons (In Memoriam: Trayvon Martin)
Jessie MONTGOMERY Rhapsody No. 1

MUSICIANS
Lisa Goddard, violin
Colin Davis, violin
Anne Black, viola
Steve Laven, cello

Amherst Early Music online:
2020-10-10 13:00 - 14:30, 2020-10-11 13:00 - 14:30, 2020-10-17 13:00 - 14:30, 2020-10-18 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.
SCHEDULE OCTOBER 10 & 11 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Saturday, October 10
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. The Quest for Freedom with Matthias Maute, recorder
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Bowing Technique in Action with Brent Wissick
Sunday, October 11
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Unlocking the Secrets of Playing Fantastic English Country Dance Music with Emily O’Brien, recorder, and Karen Axelrod, piano
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Sixteenth-Century Cathedral Instrumentalists in Spain: Duties and Abilities as seen through the Lerma Manuscript with Douglas Kirk
SCHEDULE OCTOBER 17 & 18 (Eastern Daylight Time)
Saturday, October 17
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Shifting Gears: From 2 to 3 and Back Again with Zoe Weiss
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. An Introduction to American Shapenote Music (with emphasis on The Sacred Harp) with Temmo Korisheli and Emily Eagen
Sunday, October 18
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Härpffen, Singen: Introduction to Harp Accompaniment for Medieval Song with Nancy Thym
3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Corrette & Co. with Sally Merriman, Baroque bassoon

Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 3
2020-10-22 20:00 - 22:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Fall Salon Series takes place entirely online. Each of these six concerts premieres at 8pm on Thursday night and will be available to watch through the following Sunday. On the night of the premiere, the performance will also be followed by a live Q&A session with that night’s musicians. Tickets for each performance are $20 for an individual or $35 for families. Click here to purchase tickets.
Salon 3:
Please join the principal winds of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra for a fabulous program of quintet music, all by American composers. We are so excited about this concert! We will travel through a couple of standards, the gorgeous Summer Music by Samuel Barber, the perfectly danceable Partita by Irving Fine, and also visit a couple of pieces that may be less familiar. Umoja, meaning unity, written by one of our top young American composers, Valerie Coleman, and is more timely than ever. We go back in time a bit with an arrangement of Summerland by the formidable and under performed William Grant Still, originally written for solo piano in 1936. And we couldn’t resist throwing in a nod to Paris with some Gershwin just for fun, because who doesn’t need some fun these days? We hope you’ll enjoy the journey as much as we will.

BARBER Summer Music, Op. 31
FINE Partita
Valerie COLEMAN Umoja
STILL Summerland
GERSHWIN An American in Paris

MUSICIANS
Ann Bobo, flute
Nancy Dimock, oboe
Ian Greitzer, clarinet
Ron Haroutunian, bassoon
Robert Marlatt, horn

Amherst Early Music presents: CityRecorder Global
2020-10-24, 2020-10-25 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
A 2-day online workshop for recorders, curated by Valerie Horst and Wendy Powers, with 3 classes per day and a concert on Saturday, and Music & Instrument Discussion with Eric Haas on Sunday. Join us from wherever you are in the world!
Click here to view the full schedule of events and sign up.

Suzuki School of Newton Parent Information Session
2020-10-28 19:00 - 20:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
The Suzuki School of Newton is holding a free parent information session on Wednesday October 28th at 7:00 PM for the music school to learn more about the programs offered for the 2020-21 school year. The mission of the Suzuki School of Newton is to instill a love and respect for music that will enrich its students throughout their lives, and to promote early childhood intellectual, cultural and character development through the teaching philosophy of Dr. Shinichi Suzuki that incorporates musical instrument instruction, parent involvement and community performances. Classes this year are primarily held over Zoom, with some hybrid learning being introduced. To RSVP, please contact email@suzukinewton.org

Delhi to Damascus-Transcending Borders One Note At A Time
2020-10-30 21:30 - 22:30 | https://www.sandeepdas.com/store, ChestnutHill, MA
Experience the magic of Delhi to Damascus- an album inspired by the spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam-the world is one family! The concert celebrates the shared history and culture between two ancient trading cities of the Silk Road-Delhi and Damascus.
The transformative power of arts is needed more than ever to catalyze positive social change and connect people. All proceeds will benefit the nonprofit organization Music for Food, a musician-led initiative for hunger relief in local communities.
After completing your purchase below, you will receive a confirmation email, and a private streaming and/or download link will be emailed to you on October 30. The concert will become available at 9:30pm ET / 6:30pm PT / 7:00am India.
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