UPCOMING EVENTS
Program Highlights
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I Heard a Voice: Gallery Talk
Friday, October 1, noon
Museum’s deputy
director, Joelle RyanCook, shares insights
into the Lesley Dill
exhibition. FREE.
Meditation Sessions in the Galleries
Thursdays, October 7 – January 13, 9 a.m.
Join instructor, Kelsang Nyema, for
45 minutes of peaceful meditation in
the exhibition galleries. Nyema teaches
Dharma in a way that is practical, easy to
apply to daily life, easy to understand, and
suitable for everyone. $7 per session / free
for members. Reservation required.
Baker & Baker Foundation presents
Art of Music
Jacqueline Schwab: Mark Twain’s
America – A Portrait in Music
Sunday, October 17, 3 p.m.
Celebrated pianist and
composer, Jacqueline
Schwab recreates
the sounds of 19thcentury American parlor
music, including work
featured in the popular PBS Ken Burns’
documentaries “Civil War,” “Baseball” and
“Mark Twain.” $7 / free for members.
Wadsworth Chamber Music Series
Presented by Edward Arron & Friends
Thursday, November 4, 7 p.m.
Marya Martin, ?ute; Jesse
Mills, violin; Theodore
Arm, violin and viola;
Edward Arron, cello
perform works by Haydn,
Bartok, Beethoven, Giya
Kancheli, Villa-Lobos and Mozart.
Season passes: $150/$125 for members.
Single concert: $35/ $30 for members/
$5 students.
Wadsworth Chamber Music Series
Presented by Edward Arron & Friends
Wednesday, December 8, 7 p.m.
Charles Wadsworth,
piano; Jeewon Park,
piano; Yosuke
Kawasaki, violin;
Edward Arron, cello
perform works by Beethoven, Schubert,
Bartok, Schubert and Smetana.
Season passes: $150/$125 for members
Single concert: $35/ $30 for members/
$5 students.
Cabaret Performance:
The Language of Love
Tuesday, November 9
Doors open at 7 p.m. /Concert at 8 p.m.
Columbia musical theatre
favorites Kevin Bush and
Vicky Saye Henderson,
with music director
and pianist Tom Beard,
navigate the complexities
of the human connection in a song cycle
inspired by the work of Lesley Dill. This
eclectic selection of contemporary songs
bridges the worlds of folk, rock, jazz and
broadway, backed by the incomparable
musicianship of bassist Terry Trentham
and guitarist Don Russo. $10 / $8
members / $5 students.
1920s Silent Film Screening of “Red
Heroine” (Hong Xia) featuring an
original soundtrack performed live by
the Devil Music Ensemble
Friday, January 7
Doors open at 7 p.m./Screening at 8 p.m.
Baker & Baker Foundation presents
Art of Music
Richard Marriott: Divide Light
Sunday, November 28, 3 p.m.
Composer Richard
Marriott discusses his
collaboration with Lesley
Dill, illustrated by excerpts
from her 2008 opera. The
work, “Divide Light”
follows a dramatic and emotional contour,
exploring a range of emotions from joy,
ecstasy and fear, to vulnerability and
exhilaration. $7 / free for members.
Made at the height of the martial arts craze
in 1920s Shanghai, this lively tale about
the rise of a woman warrior features the
genre’s characteristic blend of pulp and
mystical derring-do. Boston’s Devil Music
Ensemble is comprised of classically
trained musicians, Tim Nylander (drums,
percussion and analog synthesizer),
Brendon Wood (guitars, lap steel and
synthesizer) and Jonah Rapino (electric
violin, vibraphone and synthesizer),
who produce a truly unique sound to
accompany the silent ?lm. Join or renew
your membership that night and get in
free! $10 / $8 members / $5 students.
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