Newton Cultural Alliance

AEM presents Practical Musicianship and Music Theory for Early Musicians
2024-11-11 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | MA
with Shira Kammen – vielle, voice, harp

5:30 – 6:45 pm, 11 November 2024

Shira
Kammen **
Violin & Vielle

4 Monday sessions, November 11, 18, 25 & December 2, from 5:30 – 6:45 p.m. ET

Class Description

West Newton Cinema presents Behind the Screen: ANORA
2024-11-10 12:30 - 15:30 | West Newton Cinema, 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Join us at West Newton Cinema for a special screening of Sean Baker’s critically acclaimed film “Anora” followed by a panel discussion featuring Lisa Goldblatt Grace, Malcolm Turvey, and Ty Burr.
Anora* is a comedy-drama about a New York exotic dancer (Mikey Madison) whose involvement with the son of a Russian oligarch (Paul Weissman) leads to a farcical odyssey across Brooklyn and a hard reckoning. The film won the top prize at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival and is already being hailed as one of the year’s best movies—but is its portrait of sex work empathetic or exploitive, a clear-eyed acknowledgment of the realities or just another Hollywood fairy tale?
Panelists will include Lisa Goldblatt Grace, Co-Executive Director of My Life My Choice, a national organization fighting the commercial sexual exploitation of women and children, and Professor Malcolm Turvey, founding Director of Tufts University’s Film and Media Studies Program and a distinguished scholar of film theory and aesthetics. The event will be moderated by Ty Burr, the Boston Globe’s film critic from 2002 to 2021 and currently reviewing movies for The Washington Post and in the subscription newsletter Ty Burr’s Watch List.
*Content Note: Anora is an R-rated film, with rough language and scenes of nudity and graphic sexuality.

West Newton Cinema presents Gen X series: The Breakfast Club
2024-11-08 18:30 - 21:00 | West Newton Cinema, 1296 Washington Street, West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
This Friday, we invite you to step back, reconnect, and share a laugh together at our first Gen X Series film, THE BREAKFAST CLUB—the iconic story of five teens who, despite their differences, learn to find common ground.
Brad Abraham, seasoned screenwriter and creator of the comic series Mixtape, together with Susannah Gora, pop culture expert and author of “You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation”, will discuss the Brat Pack’s legacy and how these films shaped the Gen X view of friendship, romance, and success.
** Screening and Post-Film Discussion **
THE BREAKFAST CLUB (1985)
97 minutes | R | Comedy
A film by John Hughes
Starring: Molly Ringwald, Judd Nelson, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, and Emilio Estevez

Chamber Music for Your Cause…
2024-11-03 16:00 - 17:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Chamber Music for Your Cause…
Sunday, November 3, 4:00 pm
The Allen Center hosts a concert as part of the Chamber Music For Your Cause concert series. This event is organized by Paulette Bowes featuring Brahms’ dynamic Clarinet Quintet and benefitting Shelter Music Boston.

Bay Colony Brass presents: Space and Beyond
2024-11-02 19:30 - 21:00 | Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Music director Philip Sanborn leads Newton’s 20-member BAY COLONY BRASS in a wide-ranging concert including Richard Strauss’ Fanfare from “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust,” and selections from Gustav Holst’s monumental work, “The Planets.” This program is supported in part by a grant from the Newton Cultural Council, a local council that is supported by the Mass Cultural Council and the City of Newton.
FREE ADMISSION
Parking is available adjacent to the building at Second Church in Newton. Parking lots are accessible from either Highland Street or Chestnut Street.
Handicapped access is available immediately uphill from the sanctuary via the side driveway or drive-up entrance through the main doors to the sanctuary.
Learn more about Bay Colony Brass at www.baycolonybrass.org.

Susan Adler: A Life Seen, A Legacy Remembered
2024-11-02 18:30 - 21:00 | MA
The Allen Center will host a reception for their upcoming exhibit, “Susan Adler: A Life Seen, A Legacy Remembered” on Saturday, November 2 at 6:30pm in celebration of Susan Seidner Adler’s life and work. The exhibition of her figure paintings and soft figurines will be on display in The Allen Center gallery from November 2 – December 8, 2024. There will be light appetizers and refreshments served at the reception. Please register if you plan on attending.
Susan Seidner Adler (1935-2020) was a self-taught artist and psychotherapist known for her portraits of prominent figures, including her sister-in-law Renata Adler, and for her portrait of Sylvia Plath at Smith College. Susan Adler’s oil paintings and figurines capture more than a mere likeness of their subjects and reflect the elegance of the times.
Register.

Uncovering Your Home’s History
2024-11-02 10:00 - 12:00 | Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds, 286 Waverley Ave,, Newton, MA, 02458
Are you curious about the history of your home but don’t know where to start? In this workshop, learn from the lead researcher of our House Marker Program. We’ll guide you through using available resources and creating a matrix of information about a property, and you’ll leave with a toolkit for continuing your own research and a discount for a future Historic House Marker order.
This program is $50 per person. Register at https://events.humanitix.com/housemarkerworkshop.

Boston Baroque presents The X-tet
2024-11-01 19:30 - 21:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Join Boston Baroque for an intimate concert with the X-tet, Boston Baroque’s premier period chamber ensemble, in the Great Hall at The Allen Center in Newton, MA.
Prepare to be captivated by a diverse selection of works by many rarely-heard female composers of the 17th century. Featuring Soprano Sonja DuToit Tengblad.
This program will also include other notable 17th-century works by Biber, Castello, Marini, Uccellini, Buonamente, Strozzi, Bembo, and de la Guerre.

Historic Newton presents Trick-or-Treat at Durant-Kenrick
2024-10-31 17:00 - 20:00 | Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds, 286 Waverley Ave,, Newton, MA, 02458
Add Historic Newton to your trick-or-treating route! On Halloween night, stop by the Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds to fill your treat bag with candy, a coloring page, and a coupon for a free return visit to the museum.

Historic Newton presents Museum Makerdays: Toymaking
2024-10-29 11:00 - 15:00 | Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds, 286 Waverley Ave,, Newton, MA, 02458
The school day is over early, and the museum is open! On Newton Public School’s special early release days, stop by Durant-Kenrick House & Grounds to try out a handicraft and make something new to take home with you. This month’s theme is toymaking! Explore the history of the craft and make your own working toy to keep. In addition to the craft, you can explore the exhibits and gardens, build with legos, and play outdoor games.
$5 per person, kids 5 and under are free. Suitable for kids ages 5-15, younger and older siblings welcome. Registration not required; drop in any time during the event. Adults must remain onsite during the program. Let us know you’re interested at: https://form-usa.keela.co/2425EarlyRelease
This is a series, taking place each special early release day in school year 2024-2025, according to the Newton Public School calendar.

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra presents Treasures of Youth and Age
2024-10-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Pro Arte’s 47th season opens with Louisville-based conductor Gabriel Lefkowitz leading an expressive program for the strings, principal clarinetist Ian Greitzer, and principal bassoonist Ronald Haroutunian. In her Canyons, from 2018, Tanner Porter paints nature at its most jagged, imposing, and majestic. A work like no other, Richard Strauss’s vibrant Duett-Concertino features writing so organic, its solo clarinet and bassoon seem to become living, breathing characters. Although Josef Suk’s warm Serenade was a departure from his melancholy style, it won him early critical acclaim from Johannes Brahms and positioned him as the successor to his teacher Antonín Dvořák, and it brings this first concert to an elegant close.

Cherry Street Music Presents Toe-Tapping Snappy Hot Jazz.
2024-10-26 19:00 - 20:30 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
440- The Gypsy Jazz Quartet takes over the Allen Center with Toe-Tapping Snappy Hot Jazz. Led by “The Jazzy Violinist” Tomoko Iwamoto, with Jack Clark, clarinet; Jack Soref, guitar; and Gregory Toro, bass; 440 performs their own original tunes as well as those of their inspiration, Django Rheinhart. Join the fun for an evening that will transport you to an intimate nightclub where you’ll be tempted to dance the night away.
Tickets.

ANMS presents The Lovestruck Balladeers: Wolf Benefit Concert
2024-10-26 16:00 - 17:00 | All Newton Music School, 321 Chestnut St, West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Revel in a nostalgic musical journey with ANMS alumnus, Dennis Lichtman and his quintet, as they explore ragtime, jazz, and beautiful songs from around the world.

Oktoberfest: A Concert of Drinking Songs for Men’s Choir
2024-10-26 15:00 - 16:30 | Grace Episcopal Church, 76 Eldredge Street, Newton, MA, 02458, United States
On offer will be a selection of rousing drinking songs for men’s choir, spanning time, place, and genre including Mendelssohn’s Opus 50 song cycle.
With a special guest appearance by operatic baritone Junhan Choi who will join the men in Schubert’s Trinklied D. 75 and sing a set of themed arias. To add to the fun he has been persuaded to sing Rossini’s famous “Figaro” aria. The concert will be followed by a special beer garden reception courtesy of
The Highland Glee Club and the Mighty Squirrel. It’s going to be WICKED FUN. But also extremely classy.

Create The Vote: Candidate Forum
2024-10-10 18:30 - 19:30 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Create The Vote: Candidate Forum
Thursday, October 10th
On October 10th at 6:30 pm join arts supporters, advocates, and community change-makers for a candidate forum. Hosted at The Allen Center in partnership with the New Art Center and Newton Cultural Alliance in collaboration with MASSCreative, this forum brings together candidates from the 11th & 12th Middlesex State House Districts. This event is an opportunity to hear from candidates running to represent the 11th and 12th Middlesex Districts in the State Legislature, participate in discussions, and help ensure that the arts remain a vital part of the policy conversation. Light refreshments will be served.
Please fill out the form if you plan to attend.

Classical with a Twist - Champions for Change
2024-10-06 15:00 - 17:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
The Classical with a Twist series kicks off the 2024-25 season with a relevant and inspiring concert – Champions for Change. Featuring music honoring musical giant and staunch advocate of human rights, cellist Mstislav Rostropovich. This stirring concert will include music performed by Artist-in-Residence- Allison Eldredge, cello; with Max Levinson, piano; and Andres Guerra, guitar. Champions for Change includes music from Prokofiev (Sonata for Cello and Piano in C major, op. 119) who was said to have placed an epigraph on the first page which quoted Maxim Gorky: “Mankind—that has a proud sound.” The Sonata was written in the shadow of Stalinist Soviet Union for Rostropovich and pianist Max Richter. Other works by champion changemakers include Chopin, and film composers Maurice Jarre (Dr. Zhivago) and John Williams (Memoirs of a Geisha).

Historic Newton presents Hayfest
2024-10-06 12:00 - 16:00 | Jackson Homestead and Museum, 527 Washington St, Newton, MA, 02458, United States
Join us for a free, family-friendly day of fall fun! At Historic Newton’s Hayfest, travel back in time to 19th century Newton as you dip candles, press apples, churn butter, play games, and more. Learn more at www.newtonma.gov/hayfest
Interested in volunteering to help make Hayfest great? Sign up here: https://form-usa.keela.co/VolunteerHayfest2024

FUUSN presents Eleuthera Trio
2024-10-05 15:00 - 17:00 | First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton, 1326 Washington St, Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Eleuthera Trio to Perform Concert to Benefit the Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) Foundation – The Eleuthera Trio, a Newton-based piano trio (Lois Shapiro, piano, Francine Trester, violin & Julie Reimann, cello), will perform at 3 pm on Saturday October 5th, 2024, at First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton. The concert benefits the PKD Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to finding treatments and a cure for polycystic kidney disease (PKD), a genetic disorder that results in kidney failure requiring transplant for survival. This concert is in memory of Trio member Lois Shapiro’s brother Paul Steven Shapiro (1947-1981), who died from PKD. We hope you will join us for an afternoon of music and community.
Tickets and Details – The program includes the Poulenc Trio, Mozart Kegelstatt Trio, and Dvorak Dumky Trio. Admission is free, although donations to the PKD Foundation are gratefully accepted and can be made to reserve tickets online (https://support.pkdcure.org/fundraiser/5642935) or at the door.

Amherst Early Music Classes
2024-10-05 08:00 - 17:00 | ONLINE, United Kingdom, E16 2DQ
AEM ONLINE Oct. 5 & 6
Sign up now for classes with Sarah Jeffery, Arthur Haas, Martha McGaughey, Marilyn Boenau, and Na’ama Lion!
https://www.amherstearlymusic.org/news/aem-online-oct-5-6

Sheffield Chamber Players presents Open Arms, Open Hearts
2024-10-04 19:00 - 21:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Sheffield Chamber Players open Season 11 with two works—written almost 200 years apart and on different continents— that tap the deepest corners of your soul while lifting you out of the everyday and into the sublime. Shelley Washington’s 2019 String Quartet Middleground overlays rhythmic grooves with sweeping melodies passing between the four voices. Schubert’s transcendent cello quintet shares some compositional DNA with the Washington, particularly an incredible emotional sincerity, and the ability to lift the listener onto beautiful waves as though being carried through the twists and turns of life. Schubert wrote this work in the late summer and early fall of 1828, and it reflects the freedom and joy of summer, alongside autumnal melancholy that perhaps hints at Schubert’s all too short life coming to an end. ~ Sasha Callahan
Tickets Are Available Here

Cherry Street Music Presents Oded Tzúr
2024-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Monday, September 30 at 7:00 pm
New York saxophonist Oded Tzúr performs for one night only at The Allen Center. Tzúr is known for giving his instrument a whole new voice — one that is described by The Guardian as a “unique tenor sax whisper.” Get your tickets for an intimate performance with music from Oded Tzúr’s newly released album, My Prophet. Tickets are $25, available here.

Visual Art Exhibit: Bruce Hugh Wilson, Photographs
2024-09-26 18:30 - 20:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Visual Art Exhibit: Bruce Hugh Wilson, Photographs
Please join us for a very special event in honor of the photographer and friend, Bruce Huge Wilson. His photography work will be on display in our gallery from Sept 26- Oct 25th. There will be an opening Reception on Thursday, September 26th at 6:30 pm.
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Museum Makerdays
2024-09-26 11:00 - 15:00 | Durant-Kenrick House and Grounds, 286 Waverley Ave,, Newton, MA, 02458
The school day is over early, and the museum is open! On Newton Public School’s special early release days, stop by Durant-Kenrick House & Grounds to try out a handicraft and make something new to take home with you. This month’s theme is beadwork! Explore the history of the craft and make your own beaded keychain or bracelet to keep. In addition to the craft, you can explore the exhibits and gardens, build with Legos, and play outdoor games.
$5 per person, kids 5 and under are free. Suitable for kids ages 5-15, younger and older siblings welcome. Registration not required; drop in any time during the event. Adults must remain with their child during the program. Let us know you’re interested at: https://form-usa.keela.co/2425EarlyRelease
This is a series, taking place each special early release day in school year 2024-2025, according to the Newton Public School calendar.

Capella Clausura presents Songs that Enchant
2024-09-22 16:00 - 19:00, 2024-09-21 16:00 - 19:00 | Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street, Boston, MA, 02116, United States
Songs that Enchant
Join Capella Clausura for a concert-length ritual in music: Cappella Clausura’s first concert of the season presents music that transports the listener to a world that blurs the line between dreams and reality. In this magic world, mermaids lure innocent people to their deaths, people are haunted by the ghosts of their dead lovers, the wind carries countless messages, and the most interesting things happen at night. Let us be your guide through this dream-world, as you fall under this spell and emerge transformed by the end. World class pianist Lois Shapiro returns to join us in this magical program, reprising excerpts of Das Jahr, performing lieder with soloists from the choir, and more.
Featuring music by Clara Faisst, Alma Mahler, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Clara Schumann, and Julia Schwartz.
Buy Tickets: https://cappellaclausura.thundertix.com/

2024 Fall Village Concert Series
2024-09-22 15:00 - 16:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Newton Community Pride is pleased to announce our 2024 Fall Village Concert Series in Newtonville, Waban, and West Newton! The concerts will take place on three Sundays in September: September 8th, 15th, and 22nd.
All performances are free and accessible to all

ALEXANDER XHOJA TRIO
Alexander Xhoja is a recent Newton South High School graduate and currently attends Berklee College of Music. Alexander is a talented Jazz pianist and received a “Most Valuable Player” award by the Massachusetts Association of Jazz Education in 2023. He has won many state and regional awards for his musicianship and plans to continue developing his craft while studying at Berklee. Joining him for this concert are bassist Lucy Southan and drummer, Harshit Upadhyaya Register here

Songs that Enchant
2024-09-21 16:00 - 19:00 | Grace Episcopal Church, 76 Eldredge Street, Newton, MA, 02458, United States
Songs that Enchant
Join us for a concert-length ritual in music: Cappella Clausura’s first concert of the season presents music that transports the listener to a world that blurs the line between dreams and reality. In this magic world, mermaids lure innocent people to their deaths, people are haunted by the ghosts of their dead lovers, the wind carries countless messages, and the most interesting things happen at night. Let us be your guide through this dream-world, as you fall under this spell and emerge transformed by the end. World class pianist Lois Shapiro returns to join us in this magical program, reprising excerpts of Das Jahr, performing lieder with soloists from the choir, and more.
Featuring music by Clara Faisst, Alma Mahler, Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, Clara Schumann, and Julia Schwartz.
Buy Tickets: https://cappellaclausura.thundertix.com/

Newton Theatre Company Presents "The Guys"
2024-09-21 14:00 - 15:45, 2024-09-21 08:00 - 17:00, 2024-09-20 08:00 - 17:00 | St John’s Episcopal Church, Newton, MA, 297 Lowell Avenue, Newtonville, MA, 02460
“We all travel in our track… after 9/11, all over the city, people were jumping tracks”. In post 9/11 New York City, Nick, a fire captain, and Joan, a writer, share their experiences and lean on each other as they write eight eulogies for fallen firefighters. These two strangers navigate their grief through humor, compassion, the written word – and the power of human connection. “We have no idea what wonders lie hidden in the people around us.”
Based on a true story, The Guys follows two individuals less than two weeks after the September 11 attacks – New Yorkers are still in shock. One of them, an editor named Joan, receives an unexpected phone call on behalf of Nick, a fire captain who has lost most of his men in the attack. He’s looking for a writer to help him with the eulogies he must present at their memorial services. Nick and Joan spend a long afternoon together, recalling the fallen men through recounting their virtues and their foibles, and fashioning the stories into memorials of words. In the process, Nick and Joan discover the possibilities of friendship in each other and their shared love for the unconquerable spirit of the city. As they make their way through the emotional landscape of grief, they draw on humor, tango, the appreciation of craft in all its forms-and the enduring bonds of common humanity.
First performed in a hit off-off-Broadway production starring Sigourney Weaver and Bill Murray, The Guys is a timeless drama about the surprising truths people can discover in ordinary lives, and the connections we make with others and ourselves in times of tragedy.
Directed by Newton Public Schools Theatre Teacher Olivia Moriarty, these performances feature NPS Theatre Teachers Paige Perkinson (Joan) and Jeff Knoedler (Nick). Special ticket pricing is available for teachers and first responders.
