Session 1 • 10:00am–11:00am Session 2 • 11:30am–12:30pm

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4/6: SONGS BY SCHUMANN, SHUBERT, MANAGING YOUR MUSE 4/6: PARTY CRASHER: A BEHIND THE SCENES MASTERPIECES OF FRENCH LITERATURE AND BRAHMS Discover your unique voice. Get inspired creatively, and polish your LOOK WITH A NEWTON NATIVE WHO BUILT Enjoy reading and lively discussions of French Masterpieces, with Ingrid Laurie Stewart Otten of Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and Alice Wilkinson writing skills in a supportive environment. This writing workshop is A POLITICAL CHANGE MOVEMENT Evan Falchuk is the Kisliuk, PhD., author, scholar, and teacher at Tufts and Boston College. This of Longy School of Music, present Romantic soprano-piano duos. based on The Amherst Writers & Artists Method, with Kathleen Olesky, founder, and a 2014 gubernatorial candidate. session we will examine The First Man by Albert Camus (translated by David MA, MFA, published writer and certifed AWA leader. Limited to 10. Hapgood, Vintage Books, 1996) and The Life Before Us, by Romain Gary 4/13: OFF THE BEATEN PATH— 4/13: CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING (translated by Ralph Manheim, New Direction Books, 1986). This is a 5 class FOLKTUNES, SONG, AND DANCE THE FIFTIES RIGHT NOW Using Henry David Thoreau’s records from Concord, session. No class May 11. Classes run from 11:15-12:30. 15 year old cellist Zlatomir Fung, and pianist Sayuri Miyamoto, perform Sometimes called the “Nifty Fifties”, sometimes called the “Age of Boston University professor Richard Primack shows how a warming beautiful yet rarely heard music by Tsintsadze and Poulenc. Anxiety” — we’ll discuss the events of the Fifties: the McCarthy climate is already afecting our wildfowers and birds. OPERA, THE FIRST BROADWAY hearings, the Korean War and all the fun and music that started to Learn about opera and its composers through video and audio. We will open 4/27: NEW SONGS OF MIDLIFE “rock”. We were the “Silent Generation” with much background noise. 4/27: A BEAUTIFUL MIND REVISITED: THE NEW with the famous and beloved Madama Butterfy, by Puccini, followed by Singer/songwriter Laurie Gould and pianist/conductor/teacher Richard With Dan Kunitz, wonderful longtime teacher. Limited to 24. BRAIN RESEARCH AND JOHN NASH’S GENIUS Verdi’s frst success Nabucco. Then we will look at Jules Massenet’s Manon, Travers present Gould’s humorous new songs for soprano and piano. with Sylvia Nasar, author of the best-selling book, Columbia University Bellini’s bel canto opera I Puritani, and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. We FIVE WESTERN journalism professor, and former Times economics reporter. will end the session on a light comic note with The Mikado by Gilbert and 5/4: THE SUBLIME NON-SEQUITUR: GUNSLINGERS Sullivan. With New England Opera Club President, John Tischio. This class PIANO TRIOS OF HAYDN AND SCHUMANN Learn the unvarnished truth, ascertained 5/4: SCIENCE IN THE K-12 SCHOOLS: runs from 11:15 –12:45. The award-winning Trio Cleonice performs Haydn’s Piano Trio in C major from historical records, about the life OH, MY…DO WE HAVE IT WRONG! with Ioannis Miaoulis, Hob.XV:27 and Schumann’s Piano Trio in F major, Op.80. Ari Isaacman- and times of fve Western Gunslingers of president and director, Museum of Science, Boston, and founding director OLIVE KITTERIDGE Beck, violin; Gwen Krosnick, cello; Emely Phelps, piano. the late 19th century: Wild Bill Hickok, of the Museum’s National Center for Technological Literacy®. New York Times bestselling author, Elizabeth Strout, binds together Bufalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, and more. 13 complex, luminous narratives into one novel, through Olive, an 5/11: EINS, ZWEI, DREI: With Daniel Seligman, BSc, MPhil, & PhD 5/11: TRANSFORMING DYING ONE CONVERSATION unforgettable, larger than life character. With Rhona Swartz, BA and MA WHY BACH COULDN’T COUNT degrees in physics from Yale. AT A TIME Rev. Rosemary Lloyd, Advisor to the Faith-Based Community from Boston University, and long-time teacher. Limited to 10. for The Conversation Project, discusses how to transform dying by learning to Husband and wife team, BSO oboist Mark McEwen and talk about it around the kitchen table—not in the ICU. BLO Principal Flute Linda Toote , present baroque duos. MINDFULNESS Mindfulness helps us tap into our inner resources to increase focus, manage 5/18: LIFE IN A JAR: THE IRENE SENDLER 5/18: CHAMBER MUSIC OF BRAHMS ET AL stress, and stay healthy. We’ll explore various mindful techniques to use in PROJECT Jack Mayer, MD, MPH, a pediatrician, talks about Piano trio Noam Elkies, piano; Isaac Krauss, violin; and Duke Roth, cello our daily lives for better health and happiness. This class is underwritten by the Polish heroine, Irene Sendler, who, with her network, saved 2500 Jewish Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, with psychologist and founding member of the present Brahms Piano Trio Op. 101, with improvisations by Elkies, children during the Holocaust, and the Kansas teenagers who discovered her. and more. Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy, Paul R. Fulton, Ed.D., who has studied and practiced mindfulness for 45 years.

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1 Register online @ Cut out and fll in this form. Mail it with a check for $90 per person to: www.newtoncommunityed.org Lifetime Learning, Newton Community Education, 457 Walnut Street, Newton, MA 02460

Space is limited. 2 Call NCE to register: (617) 559-6999 Name Date Please register early. 3 Mail in registration: Complete form, include check payable to Lifetime Learning, and mail to: Address Zip Lifetime Learning, Newton Community Education, Email Address Phone 457 Walnut Street, Newton, MA 02460 Monday 10am–11am (pick one) Monday 11:30am–12:30pm (pick one) 4 Walk-in registration (cash or check only): SESSION 1 SESSION 2 Monday, April 6, starting at 9:30am Music Performance Series Distinguished Speaker Series Wilson Chapel, Andover Newton Theological Managing Your Muse French Literature The Fifties Opera School, 234 Herrick Road, Newton Centre, MA Five Western Gunslingers Olive Kitteridge Mindfulness