Calendar of Events
Paul Carlson Performs
Ives, Debussy and More |
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Pianist Paul Carlson's concert programs strike a careful balance between the familiarity of great music of the standard repertoire and the exciting discovery of new or neglected works. During his doctoral work at Boston University he studied the piano performance style of Claude Debussy, including extensive analyses of early sound recordings made by pianists close to the composer, as well as by the composer himself. Since then Dr. Carlson has expanded his research to include pianists active during the two or three decades before World War I. These studies inform and influence his own playing; his recitals often feature music from this period, as well as seldom-heard but deserving music from the early 20th-Century. Music of living composers also forms a strong component of many of Carlson’s performances, as was shown by recent premiers of works by Hayg Boyadjian, John McDonald and Marti Epstein.
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Dr. Carlson’s teachers have included Tong-Il Han, Maria Clodes-Jaguaribe and Boris Berman. He has taught at Gordon College, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute and the Lexington Music School. He also serves as President of the Chromatic Club of Boston, a 120-year-old club dedicated to providing performance opportunities to some of the most talented emerging musicians in the Boston area. Join him at the Newton Free Library on Tuesday, July 8 at 7:00 pm for a program which will include Charles Ives: First Piano Sonata, Claude Debussy: Images, book 1 and other works.
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Joe Reid Trio Plays
Jazz Standards |
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Joe Reid has played professionally for over thirty years and maintains a busy schedule performing in jazz clubs, with classical chamber ensembles, dance troupes and numerous theatre groups. He is a frequent vocal accompanist at Boston Conservatory, the Longy School of Music and the New School of Music in Cambridge. Join Joe and Boston jazz veterans Larry Kukers on bass and Miki Matsuki on drums for a cool evening of jazz standards and more on Thursday, July 17, 7:30 pm in the Newton Free Library’s s air conditioned Druker Auditorium. |
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New Jazz Echo, a greater Boston jazz quintet, strives to realize the spontaneous improvisatory musical conversations that are the heart of classic jazz quintets. They will perform pieces by Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins, Thelonius Monk, Kenny Barron and others at the Newton Free Library on Thursday July 24 at 7:00 pm.
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Pianist Bryan Cetlin is a graduate of the Berklee School of Music in Piano Performance. Bryan¹s song arrangements and his sensitive and multi-hued chord textures are a key part of the sound of New Jazz Echo.
Dave Kantor, drums, has played with numerous well known bands including the Roy Scott Big Band, Herb's Herd and Rave. He was a founding member of the Brandeis Jazz Ensemble.
Gary Bohan, special guest on trumpet, has recorded and toured throughout North America, Europe and Australia. He also recorded and toured with Itzhak Perlman on his In the Fiddler's House project which resulted in a PBS documentary and best-selling recording.
Berklee-schooled bassist Bob Abruzese has appeared with countless groups including The Shirley Lewis Experience, Boston Baked Blues, and Amyl Justin, and has toured throughout the US and Europe.
Barry Levine has played with numerous bands including the MIT Festival Jazz Band, the Wildewood Jazz Quartet, and the Sleepless Knights which was voted "Best Worcester Jazz Act for 2005 and 2006" by Worcester Magazine. Barry's composition "Ballad for Ray" has reached the Broadjam Top Ten 17 times; including 5 times in the North American Top Ten.
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NewTV's Red channel: Mon-Sun 5:00 pm
Be sure to watch Books and Beyond, the library's cable access TV show produced in conjunction with NewTV. Each month the program features interesting and informative interviews related to library events and happenings. The show is produced by Ellen Meyers, the library's Director of Programs and Communications.
For Newton residents Books and Beyond can be viewed on NewTV's Red channel on Comcast Ch.9, RCN Ch.13 and Verizon Ch. 33 Mon-Sun 5:00 pm.
NewTV also airs taped versions of many of the library's public programs including author talks, lectures and high quality concerts. For more information visit NewTV's web site
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 off. Thank you.
Please 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.
All concerts are free and open to the public; parking is free, handicap accessible. For directions to the Library, please click here.
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