Newton Cultural Alliance

Suzuki School of Newton presents: Fiddle Pal Camp from Home
2020-08-21 09:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
Suzuki School of Newton invites you to join their Fiddle Pal Camp for students age 9 and up. From August 17-21, there will be live online gatherings with prepared lessons and live instruction on AmericanFiddleMethod.com.
Our fantastic and fun fiddle camp that we put on with Brian Wicklund is still happening this summer with a five-day session in August. Fiddle Pal Camp From Home provides a fun environment for students to discover, learn, and play a diverse range of styles, including Bluegrass, Scottish, Jazz, Appalachian, Irish, and Blues. Campers will attend a live morning all-camp round-up before splitting off to work with prepared lessons taught by Fiddle Camp instructors. The camp culminates with a video recital and recording project.
For enrollment information, pricing, and more details, head on over to the American Fiddle Method site and registration page.

Pro Arte presents: Summer Salon Series
2020-08-27 19:00 | Facebook Live, United States
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston brings its Salon Series into the summer for the first time. These chamber music concerts will be live every other Thursday on our Facebook page at 7PM starting on July 2nd. Click here for Facebook link and donation page. (Suggested donation $25.)
On Thursday, August 27, the program will feature works by Mozart.
MUSICIANS:
Julia Cash, violin
Donna Jerome, viola
Jolene Kessler, cello

Newton Free Library presents: Celebrating Beethoven's 250th Birthday
2020-08-27 19:00 - 20:00 | Facebook Live, United States
On August 27th at 7:00PM, login here to attend this Facebook Live event where Paul-André Bempéchat will perform a selection of sonatas in honor of Beethoven’s 250th birthday. (You do not need to have a Facebook account to attend.)
Paul-André Bempéchat is Music Fellow at Harvard’s Cabot House. A Juilliard and Sorbonne graduate, he has enjoyed a forty-year performing and teaching career on both sides of the Atlantic, having performed at venues as prestigious as Berlin’s Konzerthaus, the Vienna Festival, Jordan Hall and Alice Tully Hall.

Amherst Early Music: Open Mic
2020-08-29 13:00 - 14:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
OPEN MIC!
Amherst Early Music will end the month with classes that will include an Open Mic event!
Join us for a FREE virtual recital! Saturday, August 29, at 1:00 pm ET. (The complete weekend schedule is TBA.)
You too can broadcast from your living room! We invite instrumentalists or singers to work up a short piece of music (5 minutes maximum) and play it for our supportive AEM community. Silent applause is guaranteed! You can perform a solo or a piece of chamber music with a recording. Limited to 10 performing spots. Send an email to: info@amherstearlymusic.org if interested!

Newton Free Library online: Jazz and Blues with Paul Speidel
2020-09-02 16:00 - 17:00 | United Kingdom
Join jazz/blues guitarist Paul Speidel as he brings his interpretations of the traditional styles to the virtual stage. Jazz and blues are simultaneously old and new styles of music. Every time a new generation discovers the language, styles, musical forms and rhythms of old, they add their voice to the chorus of those that preceded them. Click here for more info.

All Newton Music School: Broadway Bound Online Class
2020-09-10 17:00 - 17:45, 2020-09-12 13:00 - 13:45, 2020-09-12 13:45 - 14:30, 2020-09-17 17:00 - 17:45, 2020-09-19 13:00 - 13:45, 2020-09-19 13:45 - 14:30, 2020-09-24 17:00 - 17:45, 2020-09-26 13:00 - 13:45 and 4 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

Pro Arte presents: Summer Salon Series
2020-09-10 19:00 | Facebook Live, United States
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston brings its Salon Series into the summer for the first time. These chamber music concerts will be live every other Thursday on our Facebook page at 7PM starting on July 2nd. Click here for Facebook link and donation page. (Suggested donation $25.)
On Thursday, September 10th, the program will feature:
MOZART String Duo No. 2 in B-flat Major, K. 424
MILHAUD Duo for Two Violins, op. 258

GRAINGER Arrival Platform Humlet for solo viola
OWENS Soliloquy for solo viola

MUSICIANS:
Diane Pettipaw, violin
Anne Black, viola

Amherst Early Music online: The Curious Case of the Loeillet Recorder Duets
2020-09-19 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.
The Curious Case of the Loeillet Recorder Duets: What Makes a Duet Good? with Gwyn Roberts
Jean-Baptiste Loeillet de Gant published his Opus 1 around 1710 as a set of 12 sonatas for recorder and continuo. Shortly thereafter, those sonatas reappeared as recorder duets, with a new second recorder part quite different from the original continuo line.
We’ll sample both versions, consider what changed to make the duets work better, and tackle the pesky mystery of all of those composers named Loeillet.

Amherst Early Music online: A Cantus Firmus Connection
2020-09-19 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.
A Cantus Firmus Connection for Viols and Friends of Viols with John Mark Rozendaal
In the 16th century, viol-playing musicians cultivated improvisation (the fast method of composition), and composition (the slow approach to improvisation) by dividing the breves of a slow-moving cantus firmus into various rhythms, and using those rhythms to cast harmonizing melodies over and under the subject to create expressive rhetorical statements and impressive contrapuntal structures.
In this class we will look at two distinct repertoires that actually involve the same musical materials and techniques to create quite different affects: the Recercadas of Diego Ortiz based on La Spagna; and the English In nomine as practiced by William Byrd and his forebears. Ortiz’s compositions are offered as examples for students of improvisation. The In nomine was an exercise in composition. Both genres also served as exercises in performing musicianship, which is how we will be using them.

Amherst Early Music online: A Modal Almanac
2020-09-20 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
A Modal Almanac with Shira Kammen
Medieval and Traditional British Isles music pertaining to different seasons of the year, including compositions from the 13th c. Montpellier Manuscript, Guillaume Dufay, Francesco Landini, and more.

Amherst Early Music online: Performing the Bach Cello Suites
2020-09-20 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.
Performing the Bach Cello Suites: An Exploration of Sources, Slurs and Style with Sarah Freiberg
In this class we will delve into the context of the beloved Bach cello suites, seeing them for the ground-breaking works they were at the time, examining the sources, and what happens when slurs are unclear at best. We will discuss some of the many editions and talk about Baroque style, and Bach’s amazing understanding of harmony and resonance.

Parent Information Session - Suzuki School of Newton
2020-09-24 19:30 - 20:30 | ZOOM
Interested in enrolling in Suzuki School of Newton’s music program for the Fall 2020 semester? Join Suzuki on Tuesday, September 24 at 7:30 p.m. for a prospective family information session on Zoom! Suzuki offers instruction in violin, viola, cello, piano, flute, guitar, and harp. All music classes will be held online through December 31, 2020. This session will provide practical details about online classes for new students, as well as explain Suzuki’s program offerings and the Suzuki philosophy of education.

Please RSVP to email@suzukinewton.org to receive the Zoom meeting link.

Pro Arte's Fall Salon Series: Salon 1
2020-09-24 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 1:
Lyrical, tender, charming, warm, majestic… These are a just a few words that apply equally to Florence Price’s String Quartet in G Major and Beethoven’s Opus 127 Quartet in E Flat Major. Though separated by a century, each groundbreaking genius overcame adversity to create these two works which express profound humanity and beauty. Beethoven struggled to compose his Op. 127 through illness and complete deafness; Price (perhaps the most notable African American women composers of the early 20th Century) composed her gorgeous G Major Quartet despite enduring systemic racial disadvantages. Through these works, both artists show us a roadmap to beauty, triumph, and our better selves.

Florence PRICE, String Quartet in G Major

BEETHOVEN String Quartet in E-flat Major, op. 127

MUSICIANS
Liana Zaretsky, violin
Julia Cash, violin
Emily Rome, viola
Leo Eguchi, cello

Amherst Early Music online: Tantalizing Telemann Technicalities
2020-09-26 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.
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.

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.

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.

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.
