Newton Free Library presents Author Talk with Gish Jen on Thank You Mr. Nixon (Zoom)

This program is sponsored by the Wayland Free Public Library. Check back for registration information.   Join the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Resisters, Gish Jen, for a talk on her collection of short stories, Thank You Mr. Nixon. The book takes measure of the fifty years since the opening of China and its unexpected effects on…

NAA presents Garland of Hours, Gage Opdenbrouw, oil

ONLINE United Kingdom

“For many years now, I have found old family photos, from my family, as well as found photos, to be poignant and moving source material for a body of paintings I call ‘Garland of Hours’” says Gage Opdenbrouw. “The paintings are often torn apart and rebuilt, destroyed, and reconstructed again and again, in the course,…

New Art Center presents Stage Fright: Performance Workshop

New Art Center 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, United States

or the past three years you’ve been hard at work in your homes making music, writing poems, dancing in your kitchens, and so much more. Making by yourself can be therapeutic but maybe you miss the community, the adrenaline, and the conversation that happens around a performance. This is a space where you can workshop,…

Event Series Amherst Early Music Classes

Amherst Early Music Classes

Weekend Classes: October 15 & 16 Playing Music from the iPad with Tish Berlin 3:00 - 4:30 pm, 15 October 2022 Letitia Berlin recorder Exploring the GAMUT with Tabea Schwartz 1:00 - 2:30 pm, 16 October 2022 Vincenzo Ruffo's Capricci in musica with Rainer Beckmann 3:00 - 4:30 pm, 16 October 2022 Rainer Beckmann **…

Highland Glee Club

Newton City Hall Auditorium 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA, United States

Saturday, October 15, 2022, 3 PM: War Memorial Auditorium, Newton  Part-songs and drinking songs by Mendelssohn, Poulenc, and Elgar, along with a selection of Scottish folk songs

Songs of the Highlands

Newton City Hall Auditorium 1000 Commonwealth Ave, Newton, MA, United States

The Highland Glee Club, established in 1908, will be singing classical part songs, drinking songs, and a few kilty pleasures. Saturday, October 15, 3:00 pm at the Newton War Memorial Auditorium, 1000 Commonwealth Ave., Newton, MA, $20 adults; under 18 free.

$18 – $20

SCC presents Gunnar Widforss

GUNNAR WIDFORSS–PAINTER OF THE NATIONAL PARKS Through the Roaring Twenties and the first half of the Great Depression, the Swedish-born landscape painter Gunnar Widforss (1879-1934) focused his discerning eye and passionate energy on the national parks of the American West. Because of Widforss’ untimely death at only age 55, and because the rise of modernism…

Event Series Amherst Early Music Classes

Amherst Early Music Classes

Weekend Classes: October 15 & 16 Playing Music from the iPad with Tish Berlin 3:00 - 4:30 pm, 15 October 2022 Letitia Berlin recorder Exploring the GAMUT with Tabea Schwartz 1:00 - 2:30 pm, 16 October 2022 Vincenzo Ruffo's Capricci in musica with Rainer Beckmann 3:00 - 4:30 pm, 16 October 2022 Rainer Beckmann **…

Pro Arte presents a Benefit for Ukraine

Second Church in Newton 60 Highland St., West Newton, MA, United States

Pro Arte musicians come together to give a concert in benefit of those suffering in Ukraine. Multiple different groups of performers donate their services to perform a moving evening of music. This event is presented for a suggested donation of $50. All proceeds will be donated by Pro Arte to the Relief Fund for Ukrainian…

$50

Amherst Early Music presents Early Notation Classes with Annette Bauer!

Early Notation with Annette Bauer Pitch: 440, Open to all instrumentalists and singers “Machaut and the Ars Nova - I” Wednesdays 5:30-6:45pm EST: September 14, 21, 28 & October 5 The music of Guillaume Machaut (ca. 1300-1377) offers a wonderful opportunity to study the style, forms, and musical notation used in the ars nova in France.…