A Free Family Landmarks Halloween Concert at Kennedy Library

OK, now this looks really fun folks - just the place for us parents to bring our little monsters (in monster costumes of course). Thanks to Joyce Linehan for the heads up...

The Boo-ston Landmarks Orchestra, Charles Ansbacher conductor, performs a free concert at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Columbia Point, Dorchester, on Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 10:30 a.m. and 12:00 noon. The 45-minute concert will feature Halloween-appropriate music suitable for goblins of all ages. Prizes awarded for the best costume.

Program:Robert McBride: Pumpkin Eater’s Little Fugue
Modest Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
Hector Berlioz: “Rakoczy March” from La Damnation de Faust
John Williams and Patrick Doyle: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Richard Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
Edvard Grieg:“In the Hall of the Mountain King” from Peer Gynt Suite

The concert is free and open to the public, though reservations are required. Call the Kennedy Presidential Library at 617-514-1646 or email jfkcelebrate@nara.gov. The Kennedy Presidential Library is handicapped accessible. This concert, made possible by a grant from The Boston Globe Foundation, is part of the Kennedy Library's Celebrate!, a free performing arts series for families.

The Boston Landmarks Orchestra is a non-profit organization that receives generous support from The Music Performance Fund, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Bank of America, and individual contributors, as well as WCVB-TV 5, and The Boston Parents Paper. For more information, call 617-520-2200 or visit www.LandmarksOrchestra.org.

Benefit Concert for The Boston Home at UMass 11/9

Dorchester residents - please come to The Boston Home's 125th Anniversary Celebration Benefit Concert featuring Livingston Taylor, Katani & Friends, and Master of Ceremonies Liz Walker. This benefit supports the Boston Home's Campaign for Care of adults with advanced Multiple Sclerosis and other progressive neurological diseases.

WHEN: Thursday, November 9th at 7 p.m. A VIP reception with the artists will start at 5:30.

WHERE: The Campus Center at UMass Boston

HOW MUCH: $125 for reception + concert; $85 for concert and birthday cake

HOW: Buy your tickets online at The Boston Home, call Florence Rawls at 617-326-4310 or email frawls@thebostonhome.org.

WHY: Because you care

The Boston Home is a Dorchester-based gem, world-renowned for its care of adults with Multiple Sclerosis and other progressive neurological diseases. Recently they started a day program so they could help more people and also a Research Institute to share their best practices. The Boston Home is the only facility of its kind in New England and is geared towards helping its residents maintain their independence through innovative technology and design.

Sadly, around the world most of the young and middle-aged people with advanced MS (average age 52) end up in facilities geared towards elderly residents that are unable to adequately address the needs of these intellectually able, but physically disabled adults. The Boston Home Institute will help care providers evolve their services, and provides regular training on improving care to adults with neurological diseases.

The Boston Home is the big campus you see on the right as you head down Dot Ave to Lower Mills -- the land once belonged to John Codman of Codman Square fame (the minister who started the Second Church in Dorchester). The Boston Home is also always looking for volunteers to participate in activities and help residents with their correspondence, reading, and so forth. Visit www.thebostonhome.org for more information.

Classical Piano/Clarinet Duo Performs 10/29/06 at 3, First Parish Church

Gabriella Sanna & Emil Lancea Live in Concert

• Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 3 p.m.
• Parish Hall, The First Parish Church in Dorchester, 10 Parish St., Meetinghouse Hill (enter at right side), Dorchester, MA 02124
• Handicapped accessible
• Questions? 617-436-0527 or www.firstparish.com

The Sunday at Three concert series is delighted to present Steinway Society Piano Competition artistic director and pianist Gabriella Sanna and renowned clarinetist Emil Lancea performing a program of music by Mozart, Poulenc, Schumann, and Martinu. Spend a relaxing afternoon in a beautiful space with outstanding performances. The concert will be followed by a reception with the artists.

The concert is free, however donations are appreciated and producers are currently being sought for the 6th season – contact Ana Popa at (617) 642-9622.

Please feel free to forward this to others you think would be interested in attending -- and bring your friends!

Program:

• W. A. Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A major
• R. Schumann Fantasiestucke Op. 73
• B. Martinu Sonatina
• F. Poulenc Sonata

About the Artists:

An active pianist and pedagogue both in the United States and overseas, Gabriella Sanna has been the recipient of top prizes in national and international competitions and a soloist with numerous symphony and chamber orchestras. Sanna is one of the founders and the artistic director of the Steinway Society Piano Competition of Boston.

Emil Lancea’s extensive orchestral experience includes performances in Vienna, Munich, Salzburg and Budapest with the Transylvanian Symphony Orchestra. He also held the position of principal clarinetist with the Radio Bucharest Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Music Orchestra (Bucharest), Virtuosi Orchestra (Bucharest) and the Timisoara Philharmonic Orchestra (Romania).

About the Sunday at Three Concert Series

Now in its sixth season, the Sunday at Three classical music concert series takes place in the sunny and historic Parish Hall at the First Parish Church in Dorchester (Unitarian-Universalist).

The series presents a venue for up and coming and established professional musicians in the Boston area, as well as an annual performance by the winner of the Steinway Piano Competition. Pianist and scholar Ana Sorina Popa is the series' Artistic Director.

About The Site

High atop Meetinghouse Hill, First Parish Church is a Dorchester landmark whose lit steeple can be seen for miles and is known as the Dorchester Beacon. The steeple will be removed for restoration in the fall of 2006. Founded in March of 1630 by Puritans from England, First Parish is the oldest religious organization in present-day Boston and Dorchester's only surviving Unitarian-Universalist congregation. Services are led by the Rev. Arthur Lavoie on Sundays at 11 a.m. For more information, visit www.firstparish.com.

About the Piano

The Parish Hall concert stage features a stunning warm-toned 6’3’’ Estonia large grand piano purchased through a generous donation from the late Elisabeth Hough.