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Monday to Thursday 9:00 am to 9:00 pm
Friday 9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Saturday 9:00 am to 5:00pm
Sunday Noon to 5:00 pm
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| ART EXHIBITION INFORMATION
Are you interested in exhibiting your artwork at the Library? The
Newton Free Library presents monthly exhibits by regional artists
in the Gallery and Main Hall of the main library, a state-of-the-art
facility which 11,000 people visit weekly. Please click
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| GALLERY/ NOVEMBER |
Robert Baart:
Points of View
November 3 - 29 |
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Muddy River |
Baart's sensuous oils, oil pastels and acrylics immerse the viewer in a landscape of color, light and texture. "I consider my recent abstract paintings to be implicit landscapes," he says - not pretty, tidy landscapes, but rather an impression of the time and season. Although earlier works kept a horizon line, these are looser and more dreamlike as the perspective might be looking down into a body of water, across a field or up at the sky. His structures seem delicate with fields and smudges of colors nestling against or bleeding into each other while black squiggles of paint drip vertically, suggesting rippling water or reflections. This is a mysterious, elusive world, he says, one best expressed without reference to tangible things.
Baart has exhibited nationwide and is held in the collections of the Rose Art Museum, DeCordova Museum and many private and corporate collections. A former member of the Bromfield Gallery, he has shown there many times. He serves on the painting faculty of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
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Walter Krawczyk
Photography:
The Poetry of Light Here and There
November 2 - 29
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Sneeze and I'm Gone |
Krawczyk's photographs cover a wide range of subjects in many different styles. From Newton to Washington, DC to Italy, he brings his camera with him "to capture any nuance of beauty seen on his daily journeys," he says. Sometimes it's the intricate design of a spider web against a dark background that catches his eye in the close-up "Aqueous String of Pearls," at others the wide open sky at sunset, colored in deep pinks and corals. His sepia toned series of bare-branched trees above the lagoon in the Boston Public Garden is especially lovely, photographed in the soft fog. Library patrons will also enjoy the images of Newton from Echo Bridge to Crystal Lake.
Krawczyk has exhibited at various libraries, galleries, universities and hospitals. Of 136 artists in the 2003 Ava Gallery and Art Center's Juried Summer Exhibition in New Hampshire, he was one of three who received a Juror's Recognition Award. His photos have also won Boston Globe photography competitions. A dentist by trade, Krawczyk teaches currently at Harvard University School of Dental Medicine. He lives in Newton and New Hampshire.
There will be a reception for the artist on November 8th at 7:30pm.
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| Clubs |
Library
groups meet at the Newton Free Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton Centre,
unless otherwise noted. All meetings are free and open to the public.
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African
Literatures Discussion Group |
Led by Anne Serafin, this group explores the rich variety of writings from Africa. The group meets on the third Wednesday of the month at 7:30PM in Meeting Room A. Meeting Date: November 17: New Francophone Stories, in English translation, edited by Adele King. For further information, call 527-1072.
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Children's
Book Writers Group |
Meetings are usually held on the first Monday or on the fourth Wednesday of the month at 7:00PM. This group is for writers who have work in progress. Pre-registration required. Please call Jacqueline Davies at 781-455-8334 or Karen Day at 244-4830 for more information. Meeting Dates: Monday, November 1 in Meeting Room A, or Wednesday, November 17, this month in the Cafe.
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Contemporary
Books Discussion Group |
Meetings are held the first Wednesday of the month, 7:30PM, in Meeting Room A. Participants should read works in advance. Group coordinator: Marilyn Miller. Meeting Dates: November 3: Songs of the Kings by Barry Unsworth; December 1: Embers by Sandor Marai.
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New! Graphic Novels Discussion Group |
| Participants discuss new graphic novels, related fiction/non-fiction, movies, what's new in the Library's holdings and what's the best way to find materials using the online catalog. Leader is Daniel Dern, who has reviewed graphic novels and sat on a number of graphic novel/comic book related panels at conventions. The group meets on the third Tuesday of the month at 7:30PM in Meeting Room A. Meeting Date: November 16. Bring a favorite recently-published graphic novel to share.
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Great
Books Discussion Group |
Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of the month at 7:15PM in Meeting Room A. Members read books from the Great Books Foundation (available at the Library). Meeting Date: November 9: "How an Aristocracy May be Created by Industry" by Alexis de Tocqueville. |
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Newton
Camera Club |
Meetings are held at 7:30PM on the second and fourth Mondays of the month at the Nonantum branch. Group coordinator: John Pruente: (603) 315-9735, www.newtoncameraclub.org. Meeting Dates: November 8: How to Address the Digital Revolution; November 22: “People” competition. |
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Women Tell Our Stories Group |
In this women’s workshop, participants read, discuss and write about literature by women. The group meets the second Wednesday of each month from 10 - 11:30AM in Meeting Room A. Leader: Robin Mayer Stein. Meeting Date: November 10. |
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Short
Fiction Writing Group |
This workshop provides an atmosphere of expert support to polish short fiction. It is geared for published writers as well as those who are actively pursuing publication. Leader is Michael Kaufman. Pre-registration is required: call coordinator Cynthia Hurley at 617-965-4251. The group usually meets the first Tuesday of the month, 7:00PM. Meeting Date: November 9, this month in the Cafe.
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Short
Story Discussion Group |
Meetings are usually held on the second Monday of the month at 7:30PM in Meeting Room A. Group co-leaders are Mary Lanigan and Barbara McGinley. For further information, call 527-1505. Meeting Date: November 22: “Burn Your Maps” by Robyn Joy-Leff and “The Writer in the Family” by E.L. Doctorow. |
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Singing
Group |
This group is for singers of all levels who enjoy singing classical and popular music. Led by librarian Nien Lung Tai, it meets monthly on Saturday afternoons, Noon – 1:30PM in Druker Auditorium. Meeting Date: November 20. Call coordinator Miriam Simen at 617-244-6705 for more information. |
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The
Writer's Voice Group |
This writing group combines support and time for practice, reading samples and receiving feedback. Led by Tom Yee, the group meets on the third Saturday of the month, 10:30 – Noon in Meeting Room A. Pre-registration required: Call 630-0742. Meeting Date: November 20. |
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| Concerts |
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concerts are free and open to the public. For directions to the Library,
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Pianist Constantine Finehouse Plays Schumann, Scriabin and more |
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Pianist Constantine Finehouse will return to the Library to perform music by Schumann, Scriabin, Mozart and Prokofiev on Sunday, November 7, at 2:00PM.
Praised by Allgemeine Zeitung, Rein Main Presse for his “interpretations of depth and maturity,” Finehouse has performed extensively in the U.S. and abroad, notably on the stages of Symphony Hall, New York’s Alice Tully Hall and St. Louis Symphony Hall. Last spring his made a two-week concert tour of Hungary with violinist Philip Ficsor. As American Double, they are currently recording Bolcom’s complete works for violin and piano and recently released the recording “Sonatas: Ravel, Beethoven, Brahms.”
Finehouse has played with numerous orchestras in the Boston area, most recently in an acclaimed performance with the Newton Community Chorus and Orchestra. His recent awards include a 2004 St. Botolph Club Foundation Grant. He teaches privately in the Boston area. |
 Guitar Duo of Muratore & Clemente to Perform
Two of New England's leading classical guitar soloists, Peter Clemente and John Muratore, will return to the Library for a "World Tour for Two Guitars" on Sunday, November 14, at 2:00PM. The concert features classical as well as Latin and jazz duets from many parts of the world by Fernando Carulli (Italy), Ralph Vaughan Williams (England), Celso Machado (Brazil), Chick Corea (America), traditional Klezmer tunes and Spanish music by Albeniz, Granados and de Falla. This concert kicks off the annual All Newton Music School (ANMS) series held at the Library.
These two award-winning performers display their varied musical interests, keen sense of style and seemingly effortless ensemble in programs they have presented at concert halls, libraries, coffeehouses and schools over the past five years.
Muratore performs regularly as a soloist and chamber musician and as a concert soloist throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and the former Soviet Union. He has appeared with leading ensembles including Boston Musica Viva, Alea III and the Boston Composer's String Quartet and can often be heard on WGBH's "Classical Performances." He serves on the faculties of Dartmouth College, Boston University and ANMS.
Clemente was the First Prize winner of the Guitar Foundation of America's International Solo Competition. He has performed solo and chamber music throughout New England, at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and has toured California and the Southwest. He teaches at Assumption College.
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The Majesty of
Grand Opera
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Experience the majesty of grand opera when Ana Maria Ugarte performs some of the most beautiful music in the mezzo-soprano operatic repertoire on Sunday, November 21, 2:00PM. Guest sopranos Anya Volvovsky and Linda Croskey and pianist Scott Nicholas will join Ugarte to perform Richard Strauss’ famed “Der Rosenkavalier” trio, the Three Ladies Act One trio from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute,” and “La Barcarolle” duet from Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann.” This journey through the late 18th and 19th century masterpieces will also include works by Bizet, Verdi, Cilea and Saint-Saëns.
Ugarte’s rich tones are brilliantly combined with an innate dramatic ability. As a soloist she has performed in many of the great oratorio and orchestral works by Vivaldi, Handel and others. An innovative concert recitalist she has appeared throughout the U.S. and last year made her international debut in Guatemala as a guest artist at the Festival Mosaico. She recently returned from concertizing in San Salvador where she was invited to perform by the First Lady of El Salvador. Her dramatic talents have also taken her to various opera stages with leading roles in works by Puccini, Mozart and others. As a member of both the Latino and blind communities, she not only specializes in Spanish and Latin American literature, but has also been able to bring much needed funds and attention to the many political and social issues of blindness. |
Croskey is an accomplished concert recitalist with a natural dramatic style who has performed on both the East and West coasts. Russian-born Volvovsky primarily performs operatic and chamber music repertoire, although she has premiered contemporary works, as well, and often presents Russian romances and art songs. Nicholas has collaborated in recitals throughout Europe, Central America and the U.S. |
Newton Symphony Youth Competition |
Several outstanding Newton elementary, middle and high school musicians will compete for the Newton Symphony Orchestra's Henry and Gertrude Lasker Young Soloist Award on Tuesday, November 23, from 3 - 8:00PM at the Library. The public is invited to watch the competition, where each musician will perform an audition piece. The winners will be featured as soloists at the orchestra's annual youth concert in February.
Those interested in auditioning, should call the NSO at 617-965-2555 to receive an application.
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Tenor Thomas Gregg Gives Salon Concert |
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Tenor Thomas Gregg will perform a salon style concert of British and American art songs with the theme of “Morning, Noon and Night” at the Library, Sunday, November 28, 2PM. Gregg will accompany himself at the piano and present some background information on each piece, in an intimate presentation. Songs will include Ned Rorem’s “Early in the Morning,” Samuel Barber’s “Sure on This Shining Night” and traditional music such as “Beautiful Dreamer” and “All Through the Night.”
Gregg has enjoyed a wide-ranging career, including performance in early music, opera, oratorio, ensemble, recital and chamber music. He is well known to local audiences through his appearances with the King’s Chapel Choir, Handel & Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, Trinity Choir, the early American music ensemble Columbia’s Musick, and his performances as soloist with ensembles at Harvard University. He teaches at Boston Conservatory and Tufts University. |
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The Job Search Series, sponsored by the Library and Employment and Training Resources in Newton, will repeat its popular "Starting Your Own Business" workshop on Tuesday,
November 9, at 9:30AM at the Library. The 3-hour program will again be led by Karen Sutherland, a Management Counselor with UMass, Boston, Small Business Development Center (MSBDC).
Starting a business is not always a smooth process. An "entrepreneurial spirit" will improve one's chances of success with good planning, preparation and insight. This seminar will define the personal qualities and characteristics that constitute this spirit. It also will address business plan development, finance, cash flow management, human resources and marketing.
Employment and Training Resources is a one-stop career center offering workshops, job fairs and other resources including a resource room with access to computers, job listings and employment literature and knowledgeable staff to offer job search assistance.
The MSBDC provides free and confidential management assistance to prospective small business owners in the Greater Boston area.
To register for this free program, please call the Employment and Training Resources Career Center at 617-928-0530. Walk-ins are welcome, too.
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Poetry Series Presents Betty Buchsbaum, Joanna Nealon and Anne Fowler
The Library's Poetry Reading Series, coordinated by Doug Holder, continues with readings by Betty Buchsbaum, Joanna Nealon and Anne Fowler on Tuesday, November 9, at 7:00PM.
The winner of a New England Poetry Club prize, Buchsbaum has published poetry in Women's Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, The Spoon River Poetry Review and in two anthologies, among other publications. Her new collection is The Love Word. She is Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts College of Art.
Nealon is the author of Living It as well as several previous poetry collections. She has been a long time member of Stone Soup Poets and Tapestry of Voices and has read extensively in the Boston area. Poems have appeared in Ibbetson Street, Concrete Wolf, Out of the Blue Writers Unite (anthology) and many others.
Fowler is rector of St. John's Church in Jamaica Plain and the former director of the Chapter and Verse series there. Her poetry has appeared in The Literary Review, Kansas Quarterly and other journals.
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Talk on Robert Barnet, Extravaganza King
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Anne Alison Barnet will speak on the life and times of her once-famous great-grandfather recounted in her new book Extravaganza King: Robert Barnet and Boston Musical Theatre on Monday, November 15, 7:30PM, followed by a booksigning at the Library.
This entertaining book traces the story of Robert Barnet (1853 – 1933), a prosperous Boston sugar merchant, and the wildly popular musical theatricals he wrote and produced for the First Corps of Cadets, a volunteer militia of young upper-class Boston businessmen who sought money to build an armory as protection against feared immigrant uprisings. Barnet was a middle-aged father of five when he was hired to stage fund-raisers to erect the armory, known today as the Park Plaza Castle. He almost single-handedly managed the lavish musical farces, held from 1891 – 1906. The male cadets played all the roles, donning dresses and wigs for the female parts, and Barnet himself starred as Queen Isabella of Spain in “1492,” his most famous work. Many of the elaborate productions later toured the country and ran on Broadway. |
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Extravaganza King reclaims the little known history of the Cadet Theatricals and illuminates Barnet’s significant contribution to the rich heritage of American musicals.
Alison Barnet is a writer, researcher and public speaker. She lives in the South End where she frequently lectures on the neighborhood’s history and on her great-grandfather’s career.
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Long-Term Care Planning: Legal Series Talk |
Attorney Harry S. Margolis, founder of ElderLaw Services, will return to the Library to speak on “Protect Your Assets: Long-Term Care Planning in Light of Recent MassHealth Changes” in the next Legal Series program on Wednesday, November 17, 7:15PM.
Learn about affordable long-term care, alternatives to nursing home care, placement in nursing homes/ residents' rights and alternatives to Medicaid coverage. Margolis will also share important information on Massachusetts legislation which gives the Division of Medical Assistance the power to recover its Medicaid expenditures from the non-probate estates of beneficiaries after they die, putting at risk life estates, jointly-owned property and some trusts.
Margolis is the founder and managing partner of Margolis &Associates, the editor of The ElderLaw Report, the leading newsletter for elder law attorneys nationwide, a Fellow of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and founding President of NAELA's Massachusetts chapter. The author of Looking Ahead: Estate and Long-Term Care Planning for You and Your Family, he is also the founder and president of ElderLawAnswers, the leading web site on elder law issues.
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Two-time Newbery Medal winner Lois Lowry will speak on Messenger, the much-anticipated companion to The Giver and Gathering Blue, at the Library on Thursday, November 18, 7:00PM, followed by a booksigning with books from New England Mobile Book Fair. The event is appropriate for adults and children 10+. Lowry, a preeminent voice in contemporary children’s literature, has a canon of more than thirty books beloved by adults and older children, alike.
Continuing the compelling stories of Jonas, Kira and Matty, Messenger is a powerful and provocative tale set in Village. Once a utopian community that prided itself on its welcome to strangers, Village will soon be closed to all outsiders. As one of the only people able to travel safely through the dangerous Forest, young Matty must deliver the message of Village’s closing and try to persuade his guardian’s daughter Kira to return with him before it is too late. But Forest has become hostile to Matty and he must risk everything to fight his way through it, armed only with an emerging power he cannot yet explain or understand.
Lowry first won the Newbery Medal in 1990 for Number the Stars, an account of how the Christian citizens of Denmark saved the Jewish population from the Nazis. |
Her second award was for The Giver, a gripping story set in an idealized community, that asks penetrating questions about how we live as a society. This book has been adopted by several community-reading projects and yet is also one of the most widely banned books in America. Lowry is the 2003 U.S. nominee for the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the highest international distinction given to an author or illustrator of children’s books. She lives in Cambridge and Maine.
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Father Drinan to Speak on Religious Freedom & International Law |
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Robert Drinan – priest, scholar, lawyer, politician, ethicist and activist - has spent his life working to strengthen human rights. In his new book, Can God and Caesar Coexist: Balancing Religious Freedom and International Law, he explores the state of religious freedom worldwide, arguing that international law and legal institutions have not gone far enough to protect this basic right. The relative silence of international law on this issue, Drinan warns, allows nations to continue to punish those who practice faiths viewed unfavorably by their governments.
At a time when religion is at the center of so much world conflict, Drinan’s voice adds a perceptive and humane perspective to the discussion.
Drinan will speak on Tuesday, November 30, at 7:00PM, preceded by a 6:00PM reception and booksigning, with books from New England Mobile Book Fair. The talk and reception are sponsored by the Newton Democratic City Committee. Professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, Drinan has had a long and distinguished career. He served as dean of Boston College Law School and was a U.S. Congressman for five terms representing Newton and the rest of Massachusetts’ 4th Congressional District from 1971 - 81. |
An international human rights advocate, he has served on public and privately sponsored delegations and human rights missions to many countries. Drinan has received numerous awards, including the 2003 Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute’s Freedom of Worship medal and the American Bar Association’s highest honor this past summer. His twelve highly regarded books include The Mobilization of Shame: A World View of Human Rights, on which he spoke previously at the Library. |
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Puppet Sale
Thinking ahead to the holidays... stop by the Library's Puppet Sale sponsored by the Friends on Monday, November 29, 10:00AM - 7:00PM. Fred Reidy will bring a huge assortment of puppets of every size for children of all ages to Druker Auditorium.
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| Booksale
Mark your calendar now for the Friends' next Booksale, Saturday, December 4, 10AM - 3PM and Sunday, December 5, Noon - 3PM. It's a great place to pick up books or videos for friends and family (children, too) on your holiday gift list. |
Computer Classes
The Library offers one-session computer classes in PC Basics, Internet, Search Engines and more. Sign up at a Reference Desk or call 617-796-1380.
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Booklists
Available
Looking
for a good book to read or conducting research in a particular area?
The Reference Department has compiled many booklists in a variety of
subjects: African Americans in American Life, College Admissions, Books
for Modern Parents, Buddhism, Day Trips, Gardening Guides, Rise and
Fall of Saddam Hussein, Retirement and much more. Ask a Reference librarian
at the YA Desk on the second floor for help in locating a list. |
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City Cafe, Too!
The cafe we've all been waiting for has arrived at the Library in its
cheerful location off the art gallery. Stop by for a muffin or a great
cup of coffee in the morning or a satisfying lunch later in the day.
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| Morning Programs at the Library |
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Julie Smith to Present Travelog
Join veteran traveler Julie Smith
as she returns to the Library for a travelog on Wednesday, November 17, 10:30AM. Cruise the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and explore the Daintree Rainforest in this virtual slide trip. |
| Waban Book Group
The Waban book group will meet again in January. |
Newton Corner Book Group
Newton Corner's book group will discuss A True Story Based on Lies by Jennifer Clement on Friday, November 26, 10:30AM at Evans Park in Newton Corner. |
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| For Your Information |
Consider
a Gift to the Library
Please help supplement our municipal funding and contribute towards
the purchase of books, audio/visual materials or equipment. Send your
check, payable to the Trustees, to: Development Office, Newton Free
Library, 330 Homer Street, Newton, MA 02459. For further information,
call 796-1400. Thank you.
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To Our Concert Goers:
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
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DON'T SAVE SEATS!
When attending a Sunday afternoon 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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