Join the New Art Center for its 2024 POPpin’ at the Factory Gala on April 27, 7PM-11PM at Garage B (1420 Soldiers Field Road, Brighton) for a night of art, drinks, dancing, and delicious food — a gala inspired by the iconic Warhol Factory. POPpin’ at the Factory is a…
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Cappella Clausura will collaborate with Handel & Hayden Society’s Youth Choruses to perform Vespers by Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, in a concert performed twice: Vespers is a piece performed by Cappella Clausura when the group was first formed, and these performances of it will be Amelia LeClair’s final performances as Artistic…
How does the revolutionary become the standard, the rule not the exception? Curated by artist and musician Terry Jenoure, Visions of Trane, highlights the history, experimentation, and improvisation of John Coltrane as a marriage of contemporary art and music. Through the lens of Coltrane’s modal jazz classic, “Naima,” the New…
The West Newton Cinema Foundation will present two free events — a panel discussion and a lecture — at the West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street, West Newton). Behind the Screen: One Life: April 25, 8PM-9PM. Free panel discussion about the film. Reserve here. One Life is a biographical drama…
Music Mondays will offer a concert on April 29, 2PM-3PM — both in-person at the Scandinavian Center and live streamed via Zoom. The concert will feature early 20th century gems for flute, violin, and piano by Mel Bonis, Harry Thacker Burleigh, Henri Rabaud, Philippe Gaubert, and Bohuslav Martinu, performed by…
The Highland Glee Club will present an elegant evening of Old World Charm and sophistication on Saturday, April 27 at 8PM at the Newton Highlands Congregational Church (54 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands). This will be an entire evening of the works of the great master Franz Schubert. Music sung by this men’s…
Songs for the Earth, FUUSN’s annual Folk Music Sunday, is on April 28 at 10:15AM at the First Unitarian Society in Newton (1326 Washington Street, West Newton). The service includes familiar music (“Mercy Mercy Me,” “River”) and newer songs that call us to action for climate change. Demie Stathoplos will speak on The Web…
The First Church in Chestnut Hill will host an evening of Broadway music — Best of Broadway! — on Thursday, May 2 at 7PM, featuring its professional Quartet and Music Director performing selections from Rogers and Hammerstein II, Sondheim, Lerner, Lowe, and many more. The concert is free and open…
Newton Baroque will perform these concerts in Newton: Saturday, March 30, 7:30PM — at the Nathanial Allen House, 35 Webster Street, Newton The Freitags Akademie: Chamber Music by Johann Gottlieb Janitsch and His Closest Colleagues. In 1736, with permission from Frederick the Great, the violist Johann Gottlieb Janitsch founded the…
Bay Colony Brass will present a free concert, Latino Latón, on May 4 at 7:30PM at Second Church in Newton (60 Highland Street, West Newton). Music director Philip Sanborn will lead Newton’s 20-member Bay Colony Brass a concert including Augustín Lara’s Granada, George Gershwin’s Cuban Overture, and Chick Corea’s Spain. Students from the Boston…
New Philharmonia Orchestra will present Classics III – Feelings & Expression in two concerts — on May 4 at 7:30PM and on May 5 at 3PM — at Grace Episcopal Church (76 Eldredge Street, Newton Corner). Tickets are available online at newphil.org/concerts/tickets. Pay what you can. Suggested: $35, Minimum: $5. Program:
Join Newton Family Singers on Sunday, May 5 at 4PM at Temple Beth Avodah (45 Puddingstone Lane, Newton) to celebrate the music of Creedence Clearwater Revival and John Fogerty. Fogerty’s songs present a common man’s view of life in America, with anthems like Fortunate Son and Have You Ever Seen…