Temple Shalom 175 Temple Street, Newton MA 02465 From Route 128 (I-95) heading northbound From Route 128 (I-95) heading southbound From Mass Turnpike heading westbound lifetime Take Exit 23–24–25 (Mass. Turnpike and Route 30). On Take Exit 24–Route 30 immediately after the Mass. Take Exit 16. Bear right toward Wellesley (you’ll the ramp you will have several choices; take Exit 24– Turnpike exit. Turn right onto Route 30 East, and follow be on Route 16). At intersection with Route 30 Route 30, and turn right onto Route 30 East. (Continue directions from * at left. (Commonwealth Avenue), turn left. Take your 4th learning directions from * just below.) left from Commonwealth Avenue onto Temple Street From Mass. Turnpike heading eastbound (opposite the sign for Brae Burn Country Club). Temple *Route 30 is Commonwealth Avenue. Go east for 1.8 Take Exit 14 (Route 128, I-95). Head toward a sign that Shalom is on the left, opposite the Peirce School. The miles to Temple Street; on the right is a sign for Brae says I-95 North–NH–Maine. 100 yards later you’ll see a parking lot is just before the temple. Burn Country Club. Turn left onto Temple Street. Temple sign for Route 30. Follow the winding off-ramp to Route Shalom is on the left, opposite the Peirce School. The 30. Turn right onto Route 30 East, and follow directions If you’re familiar with Newton parking lot is just before the temple. from * at left. Take Commonwealth Avenue 1.4 miles west of the Walnut Street intersection (Newton City Hall), or 0.5 miles west of Join fellow senior citizens for mornings of Ample parking is available on the street as well as in the temple lot, the Chestnut Street intersection. Turn right onto Temple inquiry, entertainment, and community Highlights Fall 2018 where many handicapped spots are also available. Street. Temple Shalom is on the left, opposite the Peirce School. The parking lot is just before the temple. Lifetime Learning is 40 years old and we’re still going strong! Our program of inspirational courses, engaging speakers, and classical lifetime music performances by local professional musicians returns this learning Non-Profit Org U.S. Postage Fall at the beautiful Temple Shalom in West Newton. In addition to PAID ample space for classes and a big, bright performance/lecture hall, we Newton Community Education Boston, MA will offer coffee and tea to enjoy before and between events. We look Permit No. 54826 457 Walnut Street forward to welcoming new students and seeing old friends. Newton, MA 02460 SIX MONDAYS VENUE October 15 — November 19 Temple Shalom, 175 Temple Street, 10am — 12:30pm West Newton, MA 02465

Newton couple Allison Eldredge and Max Lifetime Learning Staff A lifetime of Lifetime Learning Levinson perform Richard Strauss’s romantic LIFETIME LEARNING FALL 2018 Karen O’Neill Lifetime Learning was founded in 1978 by a group Sonata for Cello and Piano and Michael NCE Director Daugherty’s Tales of Hemingway. of intellectually curious senior citizens. Beginning Brenda April with meetings in private homes, it quickly outgrew REGISTRATION INFORMATION Program Coordinator Clara Chan those venues and went on to run at several local Course ID T105-F18 $100 + $6 reg fee Music Coordinator institutions. The first of those was Temple Shalom, • To register, call NCE at 617-559-6999 or visit www.newtoncommunityed.org Jessica Lipnack to which it returns this fall. • Mail in registration: Complete form, include a check for $100 + $6 reg fee payable to Lifetime Learning, and mail to: Speakers Coordinator Lifetime Learning, Newton Community Education, 457 Walnut Street, Newton, MA 02460 Ed Hauben Thanks • Walk-in registration (cash or check only): Monday, October 15, starting at 9:30am Program Volunteer Lifetime Learning would not exist without our Jan Hauben Name Date Program Volunteer speakers and teachers, many of whom have volun- teered their time. We also wish to thank Temple Address Zip Shalom for providing rental space for our program. Email Address Phone

SESSION 1 SESSION 2 About NCE Mondays 10am–11am (pick one) Mondays 11:30am–12:30pm (pick one) Dr. Sanjiv Gupta asks the question “Is Success Newton Community Education is dedicated to your lifelong learning. We offer programs the Key to Happiness or Is Happiness the Key Music Performance Series Poetry Workshop Distinguished Speaker Series Sharpen Your Internet Skills for everyone eager to explore—from toddlers to seniors—from Newton and beyond. We to Success?” are a self-sustaining arm of the Newton Public Schools. We aim to inspire or nurture your Chair Yoga World Religions Conquer Your Clutter Two Theban Plays passion with quality programs provided at a reasonable cost. The Seventies Dark Lives of De Kooning, Rothko, & Pollock Session 1 • 10:00am–11:00am Session 2 • 11:30am–12:30pm

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10/15: TALES OF HEMINGWAY THE SEVENTIES: A PIVOTAL DECADE 10/15: IS SUCCESS KEY TO HAPPINESS OR IS SHARPEN YOUR INTERNET SKILLS Newton couple Allison Eldredge (cello) and Max Levinson (piano) perform Where were you, or better yet, who were you as you lived through the HAPPINESS KEY TO SUCCESS? Get more Internet savvy. We’ll go over the basics of how to keep you and Richard Strauss’s romantic Sonata for Cello and Piano and Michael decade of the 70s? We’ll revisit the end of the Vietnam War and the Sanjiv Chopra, M.D. explores the philosophy, psychology, and scientific your computer safe on the Internet. We’ll explore browsers and some Daugherty’s sweepingly dramatic and poetic Tales of Hemingway, which drama of Watergate and Nixon. We’ll examine the decade of “All In research on happiness. Is happiness the sum of happy moments? Or does it essential settings and learn how to shop safely on the Internet. Learn premiered in 2015. The Family”, stagflation, long gas lines, the Equal Rights Amendment, arise from finding one’s purpose? Ten-time author, Dr. Chopra is co-director of loads of search tips and tricks and how to refine search terms so you get Roe v. Wade, pet rocks, Wounded Knee, and more. This was the “Me Beth Israel Deaconess’s Continuing Medical Education Division and a Brigham the results you want. Find out all you can do from Google search and 10/22: HIDDEN GEMS OF THE PIANO TRIO Generation” ... or was it? You’ll gain insight into today’s political and and Women’s Master Clinician Educator. become familiar with other Google services such as Maps, Play, Google+ Omar Chen Guey (violin), Rafael Popper-Keizer (cello), and Melinda Lee social environment with the world’s best history teacher, Dan Kunitz. and Google Drive. We’ll also survey various social media websites and Masur (piano) perform music of Haydn, Chopin, and Jalbert, giving a 10/22: CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT WE CAN DO what they offer. With Howard Loewinger, IT Professional. Optional: bring taste of the beauty and breadth of the piano trio repertoire. The Haydn is WORLD RELIGIONS: AN EXPLORATION ABOUT IT AND WHY WE MUST your fully charged laptop or tablet. richly sonorous and harmonically adventurous, the Jalbert both dynamic OF AGE-OLD DEBATES Climate change’s devastating potential is increasingly evident, yet most of us and meditative, and the Chopin reflects the composer’s love and intimate Join us for thought-provoking discussions on major controversies do little to address it. Organizational leadership experts and Harvard Ph.D.s CONQUER YOUR CLUTTER knowledge of the piano in world religions. We’ll look at the concept of Judaism, “the chosen Grady McGonagill and Michael Sales, Massachusetts Chapter of Elders Climate If you’re like most of us, you have an outdated filing system, too many people” and “the promised land”; Christianity and the death of Action leaders, will engage a positive conversation and offer seven actions clothes and books, and find yourself saying, “I may need this some day ” 10/29: SOUNDS OF THE RENAISSANCE Jesus; Islam, Mohammed the “final messenger” and jihad; Buddhism steps, grounded in hope, that you can take to mitigate the threat. too often. Have the rubber bands in your junk drawer shriveled beyond Known for their deeply researched programs and illuminating “emptiness” and nirvana; and Hinduism’s maya, or illusion, and the recognition? Learn from someone who can help you strategize. Rae Mintz, performances exquisitely attuned to text and structure, the singers of oneness amidst polytheism. With Larry Lowenthal, Ph.D., New York 10/29: GALÁPAGOS—ENCHANTED ISLANDS M.Ed., of Order in the House, has been organizing her clients’ files, clothes, Convivium Musicum will perform a cappella works exploring the sacred University. OF THE PACIFIC books and junk drawers for nearly 25 years. Come join her class for a lively and secular polyphony from the Renaissance, before modern systems of The Galápagos Islands, home to tortoises, iguana lizards, sea lions, and discussion of ways you can conquer your clutter! evenly tempered scales came to dominate musical production in Europe. CHAIR YOGA exceptional birds may inspire you to think differently about the world. This Yoga is for everyone! Chair Yoga is safe, gentle, and particularly suitable pristine showcase of biodiversity, which inspired Charles Darwin’s theory of THE DARK LIVES OF DE KOONING, ROTHKO, 11/5: A FANCIFUL FEAST for beginners. Learn traditional yoga postures while supported in a evolution, is 600 miles west of Ecuador’s Pacific coast. Lecturer/photojournalist, AND POLLOCK: ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISTS Carol Cybulska (soprano), Anne Smith (mezzo-soprano), Michael Tabak chair. You’ll work your muscles and joints from head to toe, reaping the Barry Pell presents this splendid, fragile ecosystem through photos and lecture. AND MOOD DISORDERS (flute), Sachiko Murata (oboe), Shu Satoh (bassoon), Dawn MacGarveym physical benefits of increased range of motion and strength, as well as We’ll delve into the lives of Willlem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and (piano), and Caroline Mellott (harp) will present vocal and chamber music the mental benefits of a calm mind and spirit. Barbara Perlo, Certified 11/5: AGING WITH WISDOM: EXPLORING LIFE’S Jackson Pollock in an attempt to uncover the roots of their alcoholism ranging from baroque and classical arias to beautiful pieces from the 19th Yoga Instructor, will leave you with a renewed vitality, and enhanced MOST HEROIC PHASE and depression that led to their ground-breaking work we know so well and 20th centuries. strength, balance and levity. Barbara teaches with light-hearted wit How do we find beauty and meaning and cultivate a resilient inner life that today. A 1990 Harvard study suggested “depression inevitably leads to a and compassion. handles the vicissitudes of older age, a time rich with opportunity for reflection, turning inward and to the painful reexamination of the purpose of living 11/12: TRIchrO JAZZ WITH OBOE growth, and resolution? Mind/body medicine pioneer, psychologist, and and the possibility of dying…[it] may have put these artists in touch with Eriko Yamaki Mercure (piano), Mark Fairweather (drums), David Mercure POETRY WORKSHOP Buddhist practitioner Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle offers new perspectives drawn the inexplicable mystery that lies at the heart of the tragic and timeless (bass), and special guest, Joel Bard (oboe), will perform original jazz Aspiring poets, share your words with us in this engaging and from her book, Aging with Wisdom: Reflections, Stories & Teachings. art that the Abstract Expressionists aspired to produce.” We’ll also expose compositions of Mercure, spotlighting each of the performers and entertaining class. All writers’ work will be critiqued non-judgmentally, signs that led to the eventual suicides by Pollock and Rothko, and we’ll at showing the influences of Latin, swing, ballad, classical, and modern jazz. with the goal of turning your self-expression into art. We’ll discuss the 11/12: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: WE’RE NOT look how de Kooning chose a different path to avoid a similar gruesome craft of poetry, work on generating new ideas, and review the work of THE ONLY SMART THINGS ON THE PLANET! end. With artist and art historian Robert Solomon. 11/19: SLAVIC MASTERPIECES contemporary poets. For the first class, bring six copies of an original Artificial Intelligence has been hailed as the breakthrough that will change FOR PIANO TRIO poem (if you have one), and paper and pencil, or your laptop if that’s everything. Now it’s true thanks to technology innovations – from hardware TWO THEBAN PLAYS: ANTIGONE AND Needham’s Orion Ensemble, consisting of Peter Zazofsky (violin), Ronald how you prefer to write. Our instructor guarantees a few laughs along and software to conceptual designs – resulting in real “Machine Learning.” John OEDIPUS AT COLONUS Lowry (cello), and Randall Hodgkinson (piano), will perform two the way. With Matthew Sisson, author and poet. Landry, Boston’s long-time tech visionary and angel investor, explores the future Antigone and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles continue the story of the masterworks of the piano trio literature– Dmitri Shostakovich’s elegiac of super intelligence where computers behave increasingly like humans. ruling family of Thebes after King Oedipus finds out the terrible truth and haunting Piano Trio in E minor and Antonin Dvorak’s profound yet about himself: the oracle foretold that Oedipus would murder his father lyrical Piano Trio in F Minor. 11/19: THE MOST FORMIDABLE KENNEDY? and marry his own mother. We’ll focus on Antigone, a child of this unholy In Eunice, the Kennedy Who Changed the World, Brandeis University Journalism union, a young tragic hero, and her relationships with her father, sister Program Director Eileen McNamara contends we should remember Joseph and Ismene, and twin brothers Eteocles and Polyneices. What is the nature of Rose’s fifth child as the architect of one of the 20th centuryís great civil rights Antigone’s strength and courage? Come explore Sophocles’ tragic vision movements, on behalf of people with intellectual disabilities. Former Boston with Linda Levitan, Ph.D. Globe columnist and Pulitzer Prize-winner, McNamara covered, among other subjects, the Catholic Church clergy sex abuse scandal.