Join us as we celebrate Valentine’s Day with a party at the Loring Greenough House from 1-4pm on Sunday, February 12! The festivities are free and open to the pubic.

A great afternoon for families and kids, we’ll have a valentines’ card making table, a roving violinist, and sweet treats, in addition to fascinating house tours, and delicious refreshments for all!

Suggested donation $10 + $1 preservation fee. Doors 7:30, Concert 8:00 Reservations – notlobreservations at gmail dot com

Pastries from Fiore’s Coffee from JP Licks

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Julie’s first notloB performance was on 4/11/09, with the Folk Arts Quartet. She since performed with Mariel Vandersteel (Blue Moose and the Unbuttoned Zippers) on 12/4/10. Andy has performed for notloB three times, twice with Blue Moose and the Unbuttoned Zippers (5/23/09 & 1/23/10) and once with BMUZ mate Stash Wyslouch (2/5/11).

Fiddler Julie Metcalf began as a classical violinist in Worcester, MA. Coming from a family of musicians, she was encouraged to make music from an early age; Julie picked up the violin for the first time when she was 4 years old and has been playing ever since. When she was twelve, Julie discovered fiddle music and jazz through PBS and country radio, and began learning Celtic tunes on her own.

Julie studied classical violin at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. Recently, she has immersed herself in the study of both traditional folk and contemporary styles of music, including Celtic, Appalachian, bluegrass, jazz, and Latin music. She is a graduate of Berklee College of Music with a degree in Violin Performance.

Julie plays viola in the Paper Star Trio, formerly the Folk Arts Quartet. The Paper Star Trio is a grooving chamber-folk string ensemble that plays contemporary arrangements of world fiddle music. She can also be spotted playing violin with Mariachi Palenque.

Andy Reiner grew up in a musical family in Lexington, Massachusetts. He began playing at age 5, learning fiddle from his father, (award-winning and Mel Bay Published Author) Dave Reiner, as well as taking classical violin lessons. Just when the young Andy was struggling with the issues of whether playing the fiddle was “cool”, attending Mark O’Connor’s Fiddle Camp in Tennessee in ’97 and ’98 changed his life forever.

On February 5, 2012, the Duo SopraVoce – Annegret Klaua, violin and Orlando Cela, flute – will present a concert of original music for flute and violin that spans 300 years, including music specifically written for the duo, at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain MA, as part of the Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House parlor concert series.  Selections from the Baroque to the contemporary will enliven your afternoon, interspersed with three world premieres by composers from France, Australia and Israel.

Meet Orlando and Annegret at afternoon tea following the program.

The Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House series recreates the atmosphere of 18th and 19th century “musical afternoons” in the 1760 Loring-Greenough House, twice monthly, October to May. Tickets are available at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students and JPTC members). Space is limited; reservations are suggested—call 617-524-3158 or email lghouseconcerts@aim.com.

Violinist Annegret Klaua is a freelance musician and teacher in the Boston, MA area. She performs with the Boston Classical Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Alea III, and the Boston Lyric Opera. She has taught at Bridgewater State College, Brevard Music Center, Governor’s School of North Carolina, was a teaching and research assistant at Indiana and Brandeis University, and is currently on the faculty of the Winchester Community Music School. Ms. Klaua has participated in the Aspen, Sarasota, Spoleto/Italy, and Verbier Festivals and has given many recitals in her native Germany, in Poland, Austria, Switzerland, the US, and Taiwan.

Orlando Cela started playing flute at a very early age in his native Venezuela. He pursued flute studies at DePauw University, in Vienna Hochschule for Musik und Darstellende Kunst, and at the New England Conservatory. Orlando is the music director of Willow Flute Ensemble and many other chamber ensembles. He has served as faculty in UMass Dartmouth, SUNY Fredonia and College of the Holy Cross. Orlando’s recordings can be found in iTunes, CDBaby and Amazon, and include music from all genres and time periods.

. . . → Read More: Duo SopraVoce (Sunday, February 5)]]> Duo SopraVoce presents original music for flute and violin on February 5, 2012 at 3pm.

On February 5, 2012, the Duo SopraVoce – Annegret Klaua, violin and Orlando Cela, flute – will present a concert of original music for flute and violin that spans 300 years, including music specifically written for the duo, at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain MA, as part of the Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House parlor concert series.  Selections from the Baroque to the contemporary will enliven your afternoon, interspersed with three world premieres by composers from France, Australia and Israel.

Meet Orlando and Annegret at afternoon tea following the program.

The Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House series recreates the atmosphere of 18th and 19th century “musical afternoons” in the 1760 Loring-Greenough House, twice monthly, October to May. Tickets are available at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students and JPTC members). Space is limited; reservations are suggested—call 617-524-3158 or email lghouseconcerts@aim.com.

Violinist Annegret Klaua is a freelance musician and teacher in the Boston, MA area. She performs with the Boston Classical Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Alea III, and the Boston Lyric Opera. She has taught at Bridgewater State College, Brevard Music Center, Governor’s School of North Carolina, was a teaching and research assistant at Indiana and Brandeis University, and is currently on the faculty of the Winchester Community Music School. Ms. Klaua has participated in the Aspen, Sarasota, Spoleto/Italy, and Verbier Festivals and has given many recitals in her native Germany, in Poland, Austria, Switzerland, the US, and Taiwan.

Orlando Cela started playing flute at a very early age in his native Venezuela. He pursued flute studies at DePauw University, in Vienna Hochschule for Musik und Darstellende Kunst, and at the New England Conservatory. Orlando is the music director of Willow Flute Ensemble and many other chamber ensembles. He has served as faculty in UMass Dartmouth, SUNY Fredonia and College of the Holy Cross. Orlando’s recordings can be found in iTunes, CDBaby and Amazon, and include music from all genres and time periods.

Upcoming concerts in this series:
Sunday, March 4: Libella: Women’s choral quartet
Sunday, March 18: Universal Village. Recorder ensemble presents World Music
Sunday, April 1: Pentimento: Eric Haas, recorders, Olav Chris Hendriksen, archlute

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OVER 65

Rarely screened in the U.S., this charming documentary follows a group of seniors as they learn to perform modern dance. Uplifting and candid, we watch non-professionals as they struggle with the rigors of training, reflect on the realities of aging, and courageously take on new challenges.

They could all have been sitting at home enjoying their pensions, but instead they answered a small ad: “Wanted: Ladies and Gentlemen over 65”. The renowned Wuppertal choreographer, Pina Bausch, was putting on a new production of her dance piece “Kontakthof”. This time with elderly amateurs. The film accompanies these people with a full professional life behind them. They must use their energy and life experience to cross boundaries and break conventions.

German Film Critics award for “Best Documentary” in 2004

Directed by Lilo Mangelsdorff Germany 2002, 70 min, English subtitles Cinetrix GmbH/NDR/ARTE production

A review by RONNIE SCHEIB (Variety 3/1/2004):

In 1998, an ad appeared in the Wuppertal, Germany, newspaper inviting seniors with no previous acting or dancing experience to audition for parts in Pina Bausch’s revival of her 1978 performance-piece “Contact Zone.” What happened to the 26 people who responded to the ad and were ultimately chosen to participate is the subject of “Ladies and Gentlemen Over 65,” Lilo Mangelsdorff’s expertly crafted docu. (…)

Although Mangelsdorff and her crew arrived on the scene some two years after the play had been mounted, she deftly retraces the process of putting the production together. Bausch’s avant-garde choreography, involving sequences of oddball calisthenics, creates a jolt of surprise when the parts finally come together, the tramp of feet and adjustment of camera-angle transforming the simple gestures into an arcane and somehow provocative language.

Bausch has directed several of her pieces on video, and her Wuppertal Dance Theater (which nearly obliterates the line between “dance” and “theater”) is the subject of numerous documentaries, including one by Chantal Akerman (“One Day, Pina Asked for…”). Her most famous appearance is undoubtedly . . . → Read More: Film Night: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OVER 65 (Tuesday, January 24)]]> Tuesday Club Film Night
January 24, 2012 at 7 pm
at the Loring Greenough House
12 South St, Jamaica Plain

presents

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OVER 65

Rarely screened in the U.S., this charming documentary follows a group of seniors as they learn to perform modern dance. Uplifting and candid, we watch non-professionals as they struggle with the rigors of training, reflect on the realities of aging, and courageously take on new challenges.

They could all have been sitting at home enjoying their pensions, but instead they answered a small ad: “Wanted: Ladies and Gentlemen over 65”. The renowned Wuppertal choreographer, Pina Bausch, was putting on a new production of her dance piece “Kontakthof”. This time with elderly amateurs. The film accompanies these people with a full professional life behind them. They must use their energy and life experience to cross boundaries and break conventions.

German Film Critics award for “Best Documentary” in 2004

Directed by Lilo Mangelsdorff
Germany 2002, 70 min, English subtitles
Cinetrix GmbH/NDR/ARTE production

A review by RONNIE SCHEIB (Variety 3/1/2004):

In 1998, an ad appeared in the Wuppertal, Germany, newspaper inviting seniors with no previous acting or dancing experience to audition for parts in Pina Bausch’s revival of her 1978 performance-piece “Contact Zone.” What happened to the 26 people who responded to the ad and were ultimately chosen to participate is the subject of “Ladies and Gentlemen Over 65,” Lilo Mangelsdorff’s expertly crafted docu. (…)

Although Mangelsdorff and her crew arrived on the scene some two years after the play had been mounted, she deftly retraces the process of putting the production together. Bausch’s avant-garde choreography, involving sequences of oddball calisthenics, creates a jolt of surprise when the parts finally come together, the tramp of feet and adjustment of camera-angle transforming the simple gestures into an arcane and somehow provocative language.

Bausch has directed several of her pieces on video, and her Wuppertal Dance Theater (which nearly obliterates the line between “dance” and “theater”) is the subject of numerous documentaries, including one by Chantal Akerman (“One Day, Pina Asked for…”).
Her most famous appearance is undoubtedly in Pedro Almodovar’s “Talk to Me” which opens and closes on two of her works (Bausch herself dancing in the “Cafe Muller” curtain-raiser).

Bausch never appears in “Ladies and Gentlemen,” as members of her original 1978 troupe preside over the rehearsals, putting the newly inducted senior citizens through their paces.

Though the fictional story of “Contact Zone” features old men and women enacting childish, primitive male/female behavior patterns in an old ballroom, it was first performed by relatively young professionals, and the choreography makes no allowances for 60-plus- and 70-plus-year-old bodies. There is something both sinister and liberating in the presence of the age appropriate.

Septuagenarian actor/dancers recount being suddenly thrust into a wholly unfamiliar discipline, learning complicated, physically demanding dance routines on top of a lot of truly strenuous structured running around (the play clocks in at three hours).

At first, the work jeopardizes people’s self-images: Ex-heads of companies are forced to swallow non-stop criticism.

But relatively quickly, interviewees speak of the empowerment they feel as they start to inhabit their roles. All kinds of permutations on the male/female dance are simultaneously emotionally validated and savagely parodied.

The sense of accomplishment and camaraderie among the 26 members of the troupe is extraordinary, as they articulately tell of reinventing themselves in undreamt-of ways, the variously passive or aggressive, peaceful or angry movements of the dance providing an unexpectedly creative outlet for lifetimes of experience.

Tech credits are uniformly excellent, particularly Sophie Maintigneux’s lensing which works brilliantly with Bausch’s choreography.

 

Camera (color, DV), Sophie Maintigneux; editors, Eva Voosen, Mangelsdorff; sound, Annegret Fricke. Reviewed at Dance on Camera Festival, New York, Jan. 16, 2004.

Trium, literally “of three,” is a trio of superb sopranos who have dedicated themselves to the exploration and performance of music of three equal voices. On January 22, 2012, they will present Portraits in Miniature.  In the tradition of the Renaissance miniature portrait, a tiny detailed devotion to a beloved subject, Trium will explore, luxuriate and celebrate bite-size portions of a variety of periods and styles, from the Notre Dame school in medieval Paris to the sixteenth century Flemish motet, to the English Madrigal style, with a soupcon of turn of the century and contemporary.

The concert will take place at the historic Loring-Greenough House, 12 South Street, Jamaica Plain MA, as part of the Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House parlor concert series.  Meet Trium at afternoon tea following the program.

The Sunday Afternoon at the ‘Greenough House series recreates the atmosphere of 18th and 19th century “musical afternoons” in the 1760 Loring-Greenough House, twice monthly, October to May. Tickets are available at the door: donation $15 ($10 seniors, students and JPTC members). Space is limited; reservations are suggested—call 617-524-3158 or email lghouseconcerts@aim.com.

Upcoming concerts in this series: Sunday, February 5: Duo SopraVoce: Orlando Cela, flute and Annegret Klaua, Violin. Sunday, March 4: Libella: Women’s choral quartet Sunday, March 18: Universal Village. Recorder ensemble presents World Music