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…
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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:
On May 8, 7PM-8:30PM, the West Newton Cinema Foundation will host a free community meeting at the Cinema (1296 Washington Street, West Newton) to present and discuss its plans for fundraising and renovating the Cinema. Registration is required. (See Fig City News article about the recent $5.2 million gift received by…
Newton Community Pride is hosting the Linda Plaut Newton Festival of the Arts with music performances in three venues across Newton, May 17-19. All performances will be free, accessible, and open to all.
The Boston Festival of New Jewish Music (BFNJM) is hosting an event – Newton Highlands Klezmer Dance – with dancing to original klezmer music. It will take place on May 11, 6PM at the Hyde Community Center (90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands). It’s free, and RSVP is optional.
Temple Emanuel (385 Ward Street, West Newton) is hosting a series of free concerts of chamber music. On May 12 at 3PM, the Chamber Concert will feature finalists of the Metropolitan Opera Laffont Competition for the New England Region, designed to find and assist promising young singers in their career…