Newton Community Chorus will present its Winter Concert with guest soloists and full orchestra under the direction of Richard Travers, Music Director. The concert, featuring Dvorak’s Stabat Mater, will be on Saturday, January 20, 2024 at 8PM at Grace Episcopal Church (76 Eldridge Street, Newton Corner).Tickets are $20 ($10 for…
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Temple Emanuel (385 Ward Street, Newton Centre) is hosting a series of free concerts of chamber music. On January 21 at 3PM, Jan Müller-Szeraws (cello) and Randall Hodgkinson (piano) will perform works by Schumann, Bernstein, and Bloch. Jan, a soloist with a degree from Boston University, has performed with many U.S. and world orchestras…
Dressed as sheep, shepherds, the three magi, innkeepers, angels and the Holy Family, multigenerational actors performed the traditional Nativity play at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton (FUUSN) in West Newton — the first of three Christmas Eve services on December 24. In between scenes of the story…
Could there have been better timing for the Walnut Street Minyan‘s Soulful Shabbat/Shabbaton with Jacob’s Ladder Jewish Bluegrass Band than November 2023? If ever a Jewish community needed to come together, it was then. Exactly four weeks before, Israel had experienced the worst attack on the country since its 1948…
The Newton Watercolor Society is hosting its 8th Annual All Member Show at the Newton City Hall Gallery through December. The response to call for art to its members was received with great enthusiasm, and the talent is visible in each of the paintings on display. The gallery is open Monday –…
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Newton will host its Annual Holiday Fair on Saturday, December 2, 9:30AM to 2PM at 1326 Washington Street, West Newton. Holiday Shopping with Heart! Stalls and tables spill forth with treasures, new and old. Items include handmade items, toys, books, jewelry, gifts and collectables, jams and jellies,…
The Celebrate Newton! Holiday Craft Fair will celebrate its 20th anniversary on Sunday, December 3, 10AM-4PM at Newton South High School (140 Brandeis Road). It features live music and over 50 local artists and vendors — including new ones this year — selling jewelry, scarves, mugs, and unique gifts. Admission is $7,…
The Newton Family Singers will celebrate the music of an Americana superstar with their concert, Keep Your Heart Young: The Songs of Brandi Carlile, on December 3 at 4PM in the Eleanor Welch Casey Theatre at Regis College (235 Wellesley Street, Weston). Tickets are on sale at a discount ($15 for…
The Waban Improvement Society invites all to its Waban Lights and Family Sing-Along event on Sunday, December 3 at 4:45PM the grounds of the Waban Library Center (1608 Beacon Street, Waban). Before lighting up the beloved Waban Library Center building and surrounding grounds — creating a wonderland of light throughout…
Fredrik Wanger will offer a program of piano music of Mozart, Brahms, Chopin and Gershwin on Sunday, November 26, 2PM-3:30PM in the Druker Auditorium of the Newton Free Library. Admission is free. Fredrik Wanger was educated at Oberlin College, Peabody Conservatory, the Vienna Academy (as a Fulbright scholar), and Boston…