All Newton Music School is hosting Memory Café, a safe and informal listening and social space for people with dementia and other cognitive changes and their care partners. Guests are welcome regardless of diagnosis and at any stage in a disease progression. It will take place on Wednesday, August 28,…
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The music program at the First Unitarian Universalist Society in Newton is offering a music reading class in August. Beginners and more experienced singers are welcome. The course is free. There are two sessions — come to one or both, your choice. The two classes will be 7PM-9PM on Thursdays, August 22…
You don’t need to travel to Newport, Rhode Island, the Coachella Valley, California, or Austin, Texas, to see a variety of talented musicians perform. All you need to do is be in Newton during May 17-19, and attend Newton Community Pride’s 9th annual Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts. Another…
Approximately 165 people turned out on May 8 for the West Newton Cinema Foundation‘s (WNCF) update on the status of its effort to save the theater from the wrecking ball. The event at the theater included presentations followed by a Q&A session and a reception. Board President Elizabeth Heilig walked the audience…
An anonymous benefactor has donated $5.2 million toward the West Newton Cinema Foundation’s capital campaign to Save West Newton Cinema. The clock to save the historic,1937 Art Deco theater has been ticking since August 2022, when Mark Development purchased the West Newton Cinema for $5.6 million from the Bramante family,…
There will be a complimentary screening of the documentary Inundation District at West Newton Cinema (1296 Washington Street, West Newton) on Sunday, April 28 at 3:30PM. After the 79-minute film, there will be a discussion/Q&A with producer/director and Boston Globe environmental reporter David Abel, moderated by Charles River Watershed Association…
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…
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…
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…
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.