The duo of Wellington Cardoso, flute and Ivana Pinho, piano will return to the Library for a concert of music by Bach and Brazilian composers Villa-Lobos, Santoro, Lacerda and Pixinguinha on Sunday, April 18, 2:00PM.
The duo has been performing eclectic programs which successfully blend traditional and contemporary repertoire in the Boston area for the past four years. They recently recorded a CD, Music by Brazilian and French composers.
Cardoso has performed in the major cities of Brazil and appeared as soloist with the orchestra of Brasilia. He is currently a faculty member at Boston University Medical Center.
Pinho, an active musician, has performed several solo and chamber music recitals, including appearances with the orchestra of Bahia. A music educator and scholar, she has made presentations at international music conferences and currently serves on the faculties of Lasell and Mount Ida colleges.

The American Double Piano/Violin Duo to Perform

Just back from a Hungarian tour of performances and masterclasses, the musicians of The American Double, violinist Philip Ficsor and pianist Constantin Finehouse, will reprise their concert repertoire of Bolcom, Ravel and Brahms at the Library, Sunday, April 25, 2:00PM.
Ficsor’s elegant style of playing and strong musical personality have received critical acclaim throughout the U. S. and Europe. He recently appeared as a member of the Boston Philharmonic at Symphony Hall and Carnegie Hall and has performed locally as Assistant Concertmaster of the Civic Symphony Orchestra and Substitute Concertmaster of Boston Virtuosi. Together with Finehouse, he is working with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom to make the premiere recording of his complete works for violin and piano. Currently, Ficsor is finishing a Ph.D. in Violin Performance at Boston University.
Finehouse has been featured as a soloist in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center and Symphony Hall. He has played the concertos of Prokofiev, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich with the orchestras of Concord, Wellesley and Newton. This June, he will perform Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy with the Newton Community Chorus and Orchestra. He teaches and freelances in the greater Boston area.

Phyllis Moss to Play All-Chopin Concert

Pianist Phyllis Moss will return to the Library with an All-Chopin concert on Sunday, May 2, 2:00PM.
Moss has toured Europe extensively and played concertos with many of the major symphony orchestras. Her background includes recitals at Lincoln Center, many solo programs on public radio, "Prelude Concerts" of the Boston Symphony and chamber music at Tanglewood. A Newton resident, she teaches privately and has recorded seven compact discs for Centaur Records.

Annual Evening of Poetry Presents Robert Johnson, Barbara Helfgott Hyett & Regie Gibson

“When you perform, you are supersonic and in the stratosphere….
Regie, you sing and chant for all of us.
Nobody gets left out. — Kurt Vonnegut on Regie Gibson

 In honor of National Poetry Month and in anticipation of National Library Week April 18 - 24, the Library will present its 31st Annual Evening of Poetry, sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Robert K. Johnson, Barbara Helfgott Hyett and Regie Gibson will read their latest poetry on Tuesday, April 13, 7:00PM. Refreshments will be served. This festival and the year-long series are coordinated by Doug Holder.
Johnson is the former host of the Library’s Poetry Series. Now retired, he was a professor of English at Suffolk University for more than thirty years. He is the author of critical studies of Neil Simon and Francis Ford Coppola, and is currently the submissions editor of the Ibbetson Street Press. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, he has had more than 150 poems published in anthologies and journals as well as a number of poetry collections, the most recent The Latest News.
A poet of social and historical concerns, Hyett is the founder of the highly respected Workshop for Publishing Poets in Brookline. Her own poetry collections (four) have been praised by such notables as: Elie Weisel, Ruth Whitman, C.K. Williams and others. She teaches at area universities as part of Teachers as Scholars (TAS), with works widely published in journals and anthologies. Two more collections are forthcoming.
Gibson is the 1998 National Poetry Slam Champion. Poet, songwriter, author, workshop facilitator and educator, he has performed, taught and lectured at schools, universities, theaters and various other venues in seven countries. Regularly featured on NPR, he has appeared in the movie “love jones” reciting his poetry and is widely published in anthologies, magazines and journals. His first full-length book of poetry, Storms Beneath The Skin, was released in 2001.

Elinor Lipman Makes Appearance

Best-selling author Elinor Lipman will speak at the Library on her latest book, The Pursuit of Alice Thrift, on Tuesday, April 27, 7:30PM, followed by a booksigning, with books from New England Mobile Book Fair.
Meet poor Alice Thrift, surgical intern in a Boston hospital, with a high I.Q. and a low in social graces. She doesn’t mean to be acerbic, clinical or painfully precise, but seems to have missed the concept of Bedside Manner 101. Into her workaholic and romantically-challenged life comes Ray Russo, a purveyor of fairground fudge, in need of rhinoplasty and well-heeled companionship, not necessarily in that order. Is he a con man or a sincere suitor? His well-engineered cruise into carnal waters introduces Alice to the new and baffling concept of chemistry - and not of the organic kind. Is it possible for a woman of science to cure her own loneliness in the unsuitable arms of a parental nightmare? and compelling….A total treat.”
Lipman is the author of seven books including The Dearly Departed, The Ladies’ Man, The Inn at Lake Devine, Isabel’s Bed and a collection of stories. Her essays have appeared in the Boston Globe Magazine, Gourmet, Chicago Tribune and The New York Times’ Writers on Writing series. She received the New England Booksellers’ 2001 fiction award for a body of work.

Walter Ford Carter will speak on his new book, co-written with Terry Golway, No Greater Sacrifice, No Greater Love: A Son’s Journey to Normandy, at the Library on Thursday, April 22, 7:30PM.
Carter grew up knowing little about his father except that as a battalion surgeon he died in France 11 days after his D-day landing on Omaha Beach while running to help another soldier. For half a century, his mother never spoke of her husband. On her recent death, Carter found his life transformed as he discovered a journal and 150 letters his father had written to his wife and young sons in the weeks before his death.
This is also the story of a son’s midlife self-discovery as he learns of the extraordinary love his parents shared and finally begins to know the father he never had. His journey leads him to the man his father saved, and together they travel to Normandy to find the place where his father gave his life to help another.
Newton resident Carter is a former economist and currently a trombonist with the Newton Symphony Orchestra. He is a board member of Normandy Allies, Inc. No Greater Sacrifice will be part of the Smithsonian Institu-tion’s exhibit at the dedication of the WWII Memorial in Washington, DC, this May.

Meet...Tim Russert!

Tim Russert of "Meet the Press" and "The Today Show" will speak at a Library fundraiser on Sunday, May 23, at 5:00PM. Russert has recently written Big Russ and Me, a tribute to his father. Best-selling author William Novak, who worked closely with Russert on the book, will introduce him. Admission is $50 which includes a signed copy of the book. For more information, call 617-796-1407. Look for more details in the May newsletter.

Volunteers Needed

Volunteers are needed to help with a new project re-barcoding the book collection. Please call Volunteer Coordinator Bev Spencer at 617-796-1400 if you can spare some time.

Newton History Talk

On Thursday, April 1, at 7:00PM, Alderman Brian Yates will speak on Mary Immaculate of Lourdes Parish as part of the Newton History Series co-sponsored by the Library and the Newton History Museum at the Jackson Homestead. Yates, a fourth generation member of the parish, will present its history and describe the church’s beautiful stained glass windows.

Computer Classes

The Library offers free computer classes in PC Basics, Internet and many other subjects.
Call 617-796-1380 or drop by a Reference Desk to register.

"Bosnia's Long Road to Peace"

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Award-winning photojournalist Sara Terry will give a slide lecture at the Library on “Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace” on Monday, May 3, 7:00PM, sponsored by Newton Dialogues on Peace and War.
This powerful slide show explores the human costs and consequences of war. Bosnia’s bitter war ended in 1995, yet the country is still deep in the throes of a struggle to rebuild a
civil society. Since the summer of 2000, Terry has been documenting the social, political and economic upheavals that have been part of Bosnia’s rebuilding effort. "Although photojournalists provided remarkable images for the world of that war, I believe they did not tell the whole story - that the media must also be responsible for documenting what happens after the guns and bombs and the madness of
violence have finally been stilled. War is only half the story. It does not teach us about peace," says Terry.
Terry has worked as an international reporter and photographer for more than 25 years with a focus on social issues and cultural critiquing. For more than ten years she wrote for the Christian Science Monitor. She was selected as one of the top ten female journalists in the U.S. in the book, “Women on Deadline: A Collection of America’s Best” for her series "Children in Darkness." Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Fast Company, Rolling Stone and the Boston Globe Magazine, among others.

Book & Author Luncheon

This year’s Book & Author Luncheon, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, will feature Margo Howard, author of A Life in Letters: Ann Landers’ Letters to her Only Child and William Martin, author of Harvard Yard. The luncheon will be held on Friday, April 2, at noon at the Newton Marriott. The authors’ books will be available for purchase at the luncheon. Tickets are $30. Please call 969-4443 for further information.

Legal Series Talk on Privacy, Freedom of Information & Safety

The Library Legal Series continues with a program on “Privacy, Freedom of Information & Safety: Can We Have it All?” presented by law librarian Marnie Warner and Jeffrey J. Pyle, Esq. on Wednesday, April 7, 7:15PM.
Over the last few years, Federal laws and cases such as the U.S.A. Patriot Act, the affirmation of the Child Internet Protection Act and the Homeland Security Act have challenged libraries and society to make choices about the need for privacy, access to information and whether communities should forego federal funding in order to maintain traditional principles such as freedom to read. The program will address how libraries comply with the law as well as strive to protect citizens’ privacy.
Warner is Co-Chair, Massachusetts Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee, and Law Coordinator, Massachusetts Trial Court Law Libraries, an association of 17 law libraries which serve the bench, legal community and the public. Constitutional law attorney Pyle is an Associate at Prince, Lobel, Glovsky & Tye, LLP in Boston.

Please be considerate of the performer today as well as your fellow audience members and refrain from leaving the auditorium during a piece of music. If you have small children with you, please sit in the back rows. If you leave the auditorium between pieces, please close the door quietly behind you and wait to re-enter after a musical piece. Also, if you have a cellphone, please shut if off. Thank you.

PLEASE DON'T SAVE SEATS!

When attending a Sunday after-noon concert, please do not save more than one seat as this deprives others of attending the concert. The rule is first come, first served.

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