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Overleaf.Januaryfebruarymarch15 Newsletter of the Hewlett- Woodmere Public Library I I OverlJANUARY FEBRUARY MARCHe 2015 VOLUaME 50, NUMf BER 3 WHAT’S INSIDE LET’S HEAR IT FOR OVER LEAF JR. REMOVABLE INSERT THE SILENT FILMS! Events & Performances Pages 2-3 With Ben Model, Films Pages 3, 6 Live Piano Accompanist Great Books Page 7 and Phil Harwood, H-W PL Readers Page 7 Film Historian Lectures & Courses Pages 4 -5 The Freshman (1925) SCORE Workshop Page 4 Starring Harold Lloyd Jobyna Ralson, Special Author Visit Page 3 Brooks Benedict Teens Page 6 Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, NR , 76 min. (Comedy) H-WPL NEWS I Sunday, March 1, 2015, 2 pm One of Harold Lloyd’s best feature-length comedies ,The Freshman features Learn How Harold Lamb, a naïve young man who heads off to college believing campus life will to Use the be just as it is in the movies. Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that HWPL he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning Digital a special way of introducing himself that he saw in a movie. However, Harold soon discovers that real life isn’t all that much like the pictures, and he quickly becomes Librar y the laughing stock of the university. Along the way, Harold also tries to woo a Day and lovely coed, Peggy (Jobyna Ralston). Evening District residents & Friends of the Library may pick up tickets beginning Wed., February 18, Sessions 10 am & 7 pm. I Thursday, January 8, 2 pm Co-Sponsored by the Friends of the Library I Tuesday, February 24, 7 pm A JOHN S. AND FLORENCE G. LAWRENCE CONCERT Staff members will assist you in nav - A YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT: igating the library’s new website. Staff Music and Feelings, featuring Peter and the Wolf will also be on hand to assist you in by Sergei Prokofiev learning how to download eBooks and eAudiobooks using Overdrive , help in With Host, Dr. Paul Shelden and using Zinio for digital magazines, using Members of the Northwinds Symphonic Band I databases, reserving and renewing Sunday, March 15, 2:30 pm books, and more. Back by popular demand, Handouts will be provided. members of the Northwinds Symphonic Band will perform BOARD OF TRUSTEES their 4th annual Young People’s Benjamin A. Eilbott, President Concert under the direction of Shari H. Braverman, Vice President their conductor, Mrs. Helen David A. Adler Bauer. Professor Paul Shelden will Donald A. Davidson again bring his talent to the stage Frank Zaret, Treasurer as the concert host and co-con - William Ferro, Director ductor. The featured work will be Nadine Connors, Editor and Programs the classic composition for chil - dren, Peter and the Wolf with BOARD OF TRUSTEES’ MEETINGS narrator. Other works will include (Open Budget Meetings 7:15 pm) Let it Go from the popular animated film, Frozen , and other exciting selections Monday, January 12 7:45 pm familiar to children of all ages. Children selected from the audience will have the Monday, February 9 7:45 pm opportunity to actually conduct the band! Monday, March 9 7:45 pm District residents may pick up tickets in the Children’s Room beginning Wed., March 4, 10 am & 7 pm. SPECIAL EVENTS & PERFORMANCES New Talent/New Ideas — Where Concert Going begins! TWO MUSIC PROGRAMS With Dr. Mel Haber MOVING MUSIC” A Trip Down Memory Lane: This series will focus on the theme Moving Music . Each concert will show - Popular Singers of the 20s and 30s I case what the artists’ interpretation of Wednesday, February 18, 1 pm what Moving Music means to them. Well-known singers of the 20s and Does it mean emotionally moving, 30s and some not as well-known will be music to move, run, dance to, moving discussed in this lecture. Using video on, train or car music, speed? Audience and CD recordings, singers such as Louis members will be invited to write on a white board in the Gallery what Armstrong, Cliff Edwards, Gene Austin, “moving music” they heard. Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Ruth Etting, and the Boswell Sisters come to life again. FEELIN’ GROOVY Music of the 60s and 70s The Kennedys I Thursday, February 19, 7:30 pm Laura Metcalf, Cello Folkrock team Pete and Maura Words & Music Matei Varga, Piano Kennedy return with a whole new by Cole Porter I show. Pete Kennedy will demonstrate I Sunday, January 25, 2:30 pm guitar virtuosity you have never seen Wednesday, March 18, 1 pm Cellist Laura Metcalf is active in NYC before. Maura’s beautiful clear voice is Born in Peru, Indiana, in 1891, Cole and beyond as a soloist, chamber musi - not easily forgotten. Porter wrote words and music for many cian, orchestral musician, and teacher. District residents and Friends of the Library Broadway and Hollywood musicals. She is on the faculty of Opus 118 may pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, Videos of famous singers such as Frank Harlem and maintains a private teach - February 4, 10 am & 7 pm. Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald performing ing studio. She received her Master of Co-sponsored by the Friends of the Library his songs such as Begin the Beguine, Music from Mannes College of Music and Night and Day , and many more will be graduated Summa cum Laude in 2004 Gili Sharett part of this lecture. from Boston University’s College of & Friends Dr. Haber taught business writing Fine Arts. Pianist Matei Varga is from workshops for adults for over 30 years. Gili Sharett, Romania. He has won numerous piano His passion and knowledge of popular Bassoon, competitions around the world . He music and opera has led him to Miho Zaitsu, holds degrees from Romanian National presenting these fun, wonderful music Cello, Arielle University of Music and Mannes College programs at libraries and other venues. Levioff, Piano of Music. I Sunday, Tickets may be picked up beginning ÌF GREAT DECISIONS 2015 Wednesday, January 14, 10 am & 7 pm. February 22, 2:30 pm Ì Gili Sharett was born in Israel. She Foreign Policy Association With F Highlights in Jazz presents has been playing bassoon since age 16. Prof. Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra University Singing and Swinging She plays a variety of music and can often be heard in the Broadway pit Wednesdays at 7:30 pm With Tony Middleton, Vocals; orchestras as well as with the American January 28 Syrian Refugees Joe Alterman, Piano; Symphony. Miho Zaitsu began her music James Cammack, Bass, studies as a singer but switched to cello February 25 Privacy And Cybersecurity Kenny Hassler, Drums at age 16. She has performed around I Thursday, January 29, 7:30 pm the globe. Arielle Levioff began to March 25 Russia And Its Neighbors Veteran blues and jazz vocalist Tony study the piano at age 5. She studied at Registration begins Wednesday, December Middleton performing with all-star jazz Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music and 10, 2014, 10 am. There is no charge for the trio. received her Masters degree from the booklet. Booklets should arrive the first week of January 2015. Exact titles and District residents and Friends of the Library Manhattan School of Music. order of discussion topics and dates may be pick up tickets beginning Wednesday, January Tickets may be picked up beginning subject to change. 14, 10 am & 7 pm. Wednesday, February 11, 10 am & 7 pm. 2 SPECIAL EVENTS & LECTURES THE BIG SCREEN SPECIAL AUTHOR VISIT They were great movies when we saw them first on the big screen in a movie house, decades before DVD players. Join us in Gold Hall for the big screen experience! The films we are showing this quarter are great films by great directors (Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra) but somehow these films are not as well known as their other blockbusters. You Can’t Take It with You (1938) I Sunday, January 11, 2 pm Starring Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore Directed by Frank Capra, Rated G, 126 min. This film focuses on the zany Sycamore household. At the Sycamores, everyone does just what he or she pleases.The one normal member of the household, Alice Sycamore, is in love with Tony Kirby. Naturally, when the stuffy Kirbys come to the Sycamores for dinner, the event is a disaster. Ì Tetro (2009) F Pepper, Silk & Ivory I Sunday, February 1, 2 pm Starring Vincent Gallo, Alden Enrenreich, Maribel Verdú Amazing Stories Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Rated R, 127 min. About Jews and Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola directs this the Far East semi-autobiographical family drama concerning an artistic family of immigrants whose fierce rivalries By Rabbi Marvin Tokayer and span several generations. Ellen Rodman, Ph.D. Bennie (Alden Enrenreich) travels to Buenos With Rabbi Marvin Tokayer Aires to find his long-missing older brother, a once-promising writer who is now a I Tuesday, March 17, 7 pm remnant of his former self. Bennie’s discovery of his brother’s near-finished play might hold the answer to understanding their shared past and renewing their bond. Pepper ,Silk & Ivory reveals a missing page in Jewish history; the amazing Sweet and Lowdown (1999) stories of Jews who both benefited from and contributed to the Far East. I Sunday, March 29, 2 pm Here you will read about the juvenile Starring Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Woody delinquent who later became known as Allen, Uma Thurman, Gretchen Mol, Brad the uncrowned Jewish king of China; Garrett, Vince Giordano, Constance Shulman the woman who refused to give up until Written and directed by Woody Allen, PG-13, 95 min.
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