Newton Cultural Alliance

Newton Free Library: Spring Fling
2023-04-29 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Newton Free Library, 330 Homer St, Newton, MA, 02459, United States
The Board of Library Trustees invite the community to their annual Spring Fling Fundraising Gala on Saturday, April 29th 6:30pm at the Newton Free Library. This special in-person event will feature:

MISTRESS OF CEREMONIES & LIBRARY APPEAL
Christa Delcamp

HONORED GUEST AUTHORS
Tom Perrotta & Robert Waldinger, M.D.

Tickets on sale now! Buy here!

Food by Bakers’ Best Catering and beverages by Dion’s Fine Wine

Newton Open Studios
2023-04-30 11:00 - 17:00 | MA
Newton Open Studios 2023!
April 29 & 30
Saturday and Sunday, 11am to 5pm, indoor and outdoor locations.
Bring a mask to wear indoors as needed – many indoor locations will require them. Please honor artist preferences; follow any posted COVID precautions while you are guests in each location. Thank you!

All Newton Music School presents Borrowed Melodies
2023-04-30 14:00 - 15:00 | All Newton Music School, 321 Chestnut St, West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Title: Borrowed Melodies: An afternoon of piano music not written for piano.

Description: Piano Faculty, Alex Thomas, performs works by Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Bach and Stravinsky which have been adapted for piano. Explore the rich history of piano transcription and the colorful stories behind the music.

🎟️: FREE
🗓️: Sunday, April 30, 2023
Time: 2:00 PM

TICKETS/RSVP

PROGRAM:
Liszt/Mozart
“Lacrymosa” from Requiem in D minor
Liszt/Schubert
“Der Wanderer” from 12 Lieder von Franz Schubert
Liszt/Schumann
“Widmung” from Myrthen, Op. 25, No. 1

Bach/Busoni
“Chaconne” from Partita No. 2 in D minor

Thomas/Purcell
“Dido’s Lament” from Dido and Aeneas

Liszt/Wagner
“Isolde’s Liebestod” from Tristan and Isolde

Agosti/Stravinsky
The Firebird Suite

Danse infernale du roi Katchei

Bercueus

Finale

Spring Winds!
2023-04-30 15:00 - 16:30 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
The members of Pro Arte’s wind section perform a colorful, exciting program perfect for a spring day.
PROGRAM
György LIGETI Sechs Bagatellen für Bläserquintett
Karl GOEPFART Quartet, Op. 93
Louise FARRENC Sextett in c-moll, Op. 40
Ann Bobo, flute
Nancy Dimock, oboe
Ian Greitzer, clarinet
Robert Marlatt, horn
Ron Haroutunian, bassoon
Rebecca Plummer, piano

First Church in Chestnut Hill presents "On Broadway"
2023-05-04 19:00 - 21:00 | MA
First Church in Chestnut Hill presents “On Broadway”. Our professional pianist and quartet will perform selections from Rent, Hamilton, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables and more. The concert is free and open to the public. All are welcome to enjoy a night of broadway fun!

First Church in Chestnut Hill presents On Broadway
2023-05-04 19:00 - 21:00 | MA

Newton Piano Summit 2023
2023-05-06 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-05-07 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-05-13 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-05-14 13:00 - 15:00 | Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
The Newton Piano Summit 2023 season is on with 8 concerts running for two consecutive weekends in May. This season will feature Classical, Latin, Jazz, and more at Second Church in Newton. Admission is free and donations are welcome.

Andromeda Belly Dance presents The Spring Hafla
2023-05-06 19:00 | MA
Saturday, May 6, 7:00 pm
Andromeda Belly Dance presents The Spring Hafla (Arabic word for party), a bi-annual multicultural showcase of dance ranging from MENAHT (Middle Eastern, North African, Hellenic, Turkish) to Asian, Balkan, and Eastern European styles.

Paul Rishell & Annie Raines
2023-05-06 19:30 | MA
The Allen Center / Cherry Street Music presents a fabulous Americana duo!
For 30 years Paul Rishell & Annie Raines have been hailed as one of the world’s best blues duos. They have recorded 6 albums together including the W.C. Handy Award-winning Moving to the Country (2000), and received numerous award nominations from the Blues Foundation. They have performed and recorded with John Sebastian, Susan Tedeschi, Pinetop Perkins, and Rory Block. They have opened for Ray Charles, Dr. John, and Little Feat, and performed on international radio and TV shows including Late Night with Conan O’Brien and A Prairie Home Companion. They continue to perform American roots music and their own compositions at festivals, concert halls, and clubs all over the world.
Tickets are $25 in advance or $30 at the door.
Read more at https://paulandannie.com/

Newton Art Association: Opening Reception
2023-05-07 13:00 - 15:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States

Newton Family Singers Concert
2023-05-07 16:00 - 17:00 | MA
Spring 2023 Concert: Bruce Springsteen
Please join us Sunday, May 7, 4:00 pm for the next Newton Family Singers concert! This season we will be performing the music of one of the greatest songwriters of all time, iconic “rock ‘n’ roll poet”, Bruce Springsteen!
More details coming soon, but for now save-the-date!

Cappella Clausura presents Three Women
2023-05-07 16:00 - 17:00 | MA
Three Women, Historic Season Finale!

For the final program of our 2022-2023 season, we are honored to present a 20th-anniversary celebration of the Boston Women’s Memorial.
Join us for this landmark event as we present world-premiere compositions inspired by the memorial’s subjects and learn about the history of the sculpture from the artists and activists who made it happen!

WORLD PREMIERE MUSIC BY
MELIKA FITZHUGH, EMILY LAU, & INES VELASCO

PRESENTATIONS BY
MEREDITH BERGMANN, SCULPTOR
& SUSAN WILSON, PUBLIC HISTORIAN

Presented by Cappella Clausura, with Suffrage100MA, Boston Women’s Heritage Trail, Sculptor Meredith Bergmann, and Historian Susan Wilson

All Newton Music School presents Music in May
2023-05-08 09:00 - 15:00 | All Newton Music School, 321 Chestnut St, West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Music in May
Saturday, May 21, 9:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Each May, All Newton Music School students are given an opportunity to perform in front of their families, friends, and community members at this annual music festival. For over 30 years, ANMS has held Music in May, an event that brings the ANMS community together to participate in classical music performances, musical theater shows, outdoor rock band concerts, and more.

Class: Capturing Your Voice with Podcasting
2023-05-13 13:00 - 15:00 | NewTV, 23 Needham St, Newton, MA, 02461, United States
Next up in NewTV’s in-person class schedule is Capturing Your Voice with Podcasting!
In this course taught by Lena Chehaiber, students will learn how to set up, edit, and submit their very own podcast. We will review podcasting techniques, as well as fundamentals of the ins-and-outs of running your own podcast show.
Join us on Saturday, May 13th at 1:00PM for this class. There are only 7 seats available per class session, so don’t wait!
Classes are free and open to all NewTV Members. Not a member? Not a problem! Visit https://newtv.org/join to learn about all the perks of an affordable NewTV membership.

Suzuki School of Newton Multicultural Festival and Open House
2023-05-13 15:00 - 18:00 | Suzuki School of Newton, 1615 Beacon St, Waban, MA, 02468, United States
The Suzuki School of Newton at 1615 Beacon Street invites you to join us for our 2023 Multicultural Festival and Open House on Saturday, May 13th from 3:00pm-6:00pm featuring outdoor interactive performances from Grooversity Brazilian Beats and Boston Bhangra. As part of the festivities we will enjoy an international potluck, present our Suzuki Preschool Art Show, and display a new exhibit with representatives from the Newton Watercolor Society. Please visit www.suzukinewton.org for the most up-to-date information. See you there!

Newton Community Chorus presents Brahms German Requiem
2023-05-13 20:00 - 21:00 | Eliot Church of Newton, 474 Centre St, Newton, MA, 02458, United States
Brahms German Requiem
Saturday, May 13, 8:00 pm
Newton Community Chorus performs Brahms’ German Requiem at the Eliot Church of Newton. Featuring the full orchestra with guest soloists Adriana Repetto, Soprano, and Paul Soper, Baritone.

Commonwealth Chorale Concert presents Celebrating Harmony in Troubled Times
2023-05-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Church of the Holy Name, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury, MA, 02132, United States
Celebrating Harmony in Troubled Times
John Rutter (b. 1945): Requiem
Florence Price (1887-1953): Praise the Lord and selections from Communion Service in F
With organ and professional orchestra
For our final concert, we celebrate harmony with John Rutter’s belovedRequiem and selections from works by Florence Price. We are delighted to bring you Rutter’s modern Requiem which incorporates parts of the Latin Requiem with added psalms and biblical verses in English. An undeservedly overlooked and significant American composer, Florence Price’s beautifully written Praise the Lord and selections from the Communion Service in F are settings of familiar texts that reflect both her European influenced training at New England Conservatory and her Southern roots. Price was the first African-American woman to be recognized as a symphonic composer. Commonwealth Chorale is pleased and excited to introduce our audience to music by this talented composer.

Suzuki Showcase Recitals
2023-05-14 17:00 - 18:00, 2023-05-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Union Church in Waban, 14 Collins Rd, Waban, MA, 02468, United States
Suzuki Showcase Recitals
Sun 5/14, Sat 5/20, and Sun 6/4 at 5-6 pm. Free. The Union Church, Waban.
Suzuki School of Newton will showcase its most advanced students in a series of three recitals. “Suzuki Showcase Recitals” is a unique opportunity for the general public to enjoy a music event open to all generations of audience members, featuring specially selected top students of the school. Held in the Union Church in the heart of Waban, this venue is fully accessible and in close proximity to the MBTA Waban station. In-person event and online viewing also available via Facebook livestream.

All Newton Music School presents Music in May
2023-05-20 09:00 - 15:00 | All Newton Music School, 321 Chestnut St, West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
*On Saturday, May 20th from 9:00 pm – 3:00 pm, All Newton Music School students are given an opportunity to perform in front of their families, friends, and community members at this annual music festival. For over 30 years, ANMS has held Music in May, an event that brings the ANMS community together to participate in classical music performances, musical theater shows, outdoor rock band concerts, and more. You May visit the website for more musical info.

Historic Newton House Tour
2023-05-21 12:00 - 17:00 | MA
2023 Newton House Tour
Saturday, May 21, 12:00 – 5:00 pmHistoric Newton’s annual Newton House Tour is back in person for its 40th year. Tourgoers are invited to look inside remarkable historic properties not usually open to the public. Each was carefully selected to show historic preservation and creative adaptations.

New Phil presents Classics III
2023-05-21 15:00 - 17:00 | MA
New Phil Reawakens!
2022 – 2023 | 28th season
All programs are subject to change.
May there be Peace
May 21st, 3-5 PM
William Grant Still: Mother and Child for String Orchestra
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E Minor – Julianne Lee, violin
Tchaikovsky: Symphony #5

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Venue Information
Brown Middle School
125 Meadowbrook Road
Newton Centre, MA 02459

Pro Arte presents Dancing Through the Centuries
2023-05-21 15:00 - 17:00 | Second Church in Newton, 60 Highland St., West Newton, MA, 02465, United States
Dancing through the Centuries
Sunday, May 21, 2023 3pm
Earl Lee, conductor
Pro Arte and Earl Lee, Assistant Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, have crafted a fascinating program based on music and movement stretching back six hundred years. Béla Bartók wrote that he would raise the folk music in and around his native Hungary “to the level of art song.” His popular Romanian Folk Dances are evocative arrangements of traditional Transylvanian fiddle tunes. The soulful songs of Southern chain gangs inspired Kenji Bunch’s powerful Supermaximum. Battalia, by Baroque composer Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, is a bracing depiction of a battle that requires unconventional techniques from its string players. As the first Black woman to be widely recognized as a symphonic composer, Florence Price was a pioneer in American music. Her Andante moderato is a luminous arrangement of the slow movement from one of her string quartets. In music, La Follia—Italian for “folly”—refers to a frenzied peasant dance from fifteenth-century Portugal. The dance’s catchy chord progression later spread throughout Europe, forming the basis for countless compositions, including a set of variations for solo violin by Arcangelo Corelli, which was later arranged by his pupil Francesco Geminiani for string orchestra. In her La Follia Variations, contemporary composer Michi Wiancko takes this a step further, reflecting Geminiani’s Baroque concerto grosso in a dreamy twenty-first-century mirror.
PROGRAM
Béla Bartók Romanian Dances
Kenji Bunch Supermaximum
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber Battalia
Florence Price Andante moderato
Arcangelo Corelli/Francesco Geminiani, Arr. Michi Wiankco La Follia Variations

New Art Center presents Over the Rainbow
2023-05-25 08:00 - 17:00, 2023-05-26 08:00 - 17:00 | MA
Over the Rainbow will celebrate pride in our intergenerational connections— expressing from a queer perspective what is safe for us and for our youth. Including individual and collaborative work from children to elders of our beautiful community, our goal is to encourage sharing resources between young people with energy and fresh ideas and the experiences and developed thoughts of our older generation. In tracing our queer lineage, we are resisting our history being pushed to the back of the closet.
Free and open to the public
Opening Reception
Thursday, May 25, 2023
6:00 – 8:00 PM

Newton Cultural Alliance and Newton Art Association present the Allen Center Spring Show
2023-05-25 12:00 - 14:00 | The Allen Center, 35 Webster St, WEST NEWTON, MA, 02465, United States
Allen Center Spring Show
The Newton Art Association presents a spring group show at the Allen Center Gallery now through June 3rd. This exhibition will have opening hours on Thursday, June 1st from 12:00-2:00 pm.

New Art Center presents Over the Rainbow
2023-05-25 18:00 - 20:00 | New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newton, MA, 02460, United States
Over the Rainbow will celebrate pride in our intergenerational connections— expressing from a queer perspective what is safe for us and for our youth. Including individual and collaborative work from children to elders of our beautiful community, our goal is to encourage sharing resources between young people with energy and fresh ideas and the experiences and developed thoughts of our older generation. In tracing our queer lineage, we are resisting our history being pushed to the back of the closet.
Free and open to the public
