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…
Posts published in April 2024
Chestnut Hill Square is hosting a towel donation drive to benefit Welcome Home, a local home goods pantry based in Newton, MA. Welcome Home provides families experiencing hardship with the basic household items they need to live with dignity. Now through April 30, donations of new towels can be dropped…
Boy Scouts of America (BSA) Troop 355 will be hosting an open house with hands-on opportunities to learn about scouting. It will take place on April 30, 7:15PM at Our Lady Help of Christians Parish (573 Washington St, Nonantum) on the lower level of the church. For more information, contact…
Newton Community Farm is offering fun, unpaid internship to high school students seeking the experience of working on a small vegetable farm under the supervision of experienced farmers. 8AM-Noon on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays for four weeks (either July 1 – August 1 or August 6-29). Students entering Grades 9-12 in…
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…
Experience has demonstrated that the Zoom meetings format for virtual and hybrid City meetings is far superior to the webinar format currently in use for many Newton meetings. This webinar format does not allow one to see fellow citizens who are in attendance, nor does it allow one to see…
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 Newton Senior Center will present a discussion — Coping with Ambiguous Loss — on April 30, 1PM-2PM, at the Hyde Community Center (90 Lincoln Street, Newton Highlands). It will be led by Betsy Englander, Mental Health and Wellness Engagement Manager at Jewish Family and Children’s Service. Ambiguous loss is…
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…