Tuesday, May 14, 2013
All ages can attend this 5:30 p.m. concert at the Beech Street Center.
The award-winning Belmont High School Wind Ensemble will perform a free, all-ages concert at the Beech Street Center today at 5:30 p.m. This wide ranging, hour-long program will feature selections by Gustav Holst and John Philip Sousa, contemporary works by Samuel Hazo and Eric Whitacre, and lighter "Pop" selections from Henry Mancini and Camille Saint-Saens. The concert is free and open to the public. The program will be appropriate in content and in length for an audience of all ages; families with young children are encouraged to attend. After the concert, there will be refreshments with the performers and their families. For more information, please contact Arto Asadoorian, director of Fine & Performing Arts, at aasadoorian@belmont.k12…
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Belmont Council on Aging
266 Beech St, Belmont, MA
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Belmont High School
221 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Train schedule nixes the opportunity to see a bit a Hollywood come to Belmont.
No Robert Downey Jr. No Robert Duval. No award-winning cinematographer. Not even a lowly extra will be coming to Belmont this summer. What appeared to be summer days of celebrity sightings, hoards of autograph hounds roaming the streets and an army of trucks and trailers invading the streets of Belmont has vanished as quickly as a Penn and Teller card trick as the production team seeking to film scenes for a 2014 Downey Jr. movie at the former Municipal Light Department building decided to pull out of the "Town of Homes" rather than compete against the roar of the commuter rail line that passes just yards by the site. "It was the trains that was the deal breaker," said the town's Building Services manager, Kevin Looney, Monday morning, …
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Belmont Country Club
181 Winter St, Belmont, MA
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Both the Chenery Middle School and High School ensembles will perform tonight.
The Belmont School District's Department of Fine & Performing Arts is presenting its annual Jazz Night tonight, Tuesday, May 7 at 7 p.m. in the Belmont High School auditorium. Sponsored by the Belmont Savings Bank, the evening will feature performances by the High School and Chenery Middle School jazz ensembles, directed by Arto Asadoorian and Sharon Phipps, respectively. The audience can look forward to hearing a wide variety of selections spanning decades of jazz history; from the early swing sounds of Benny Goodman, to 1950s bebop, to contemporary jazz, Latin and funk. Special guest artist, Walt Bostian – who is currently performing with one of Broadway in Boston’s musicals and is one of the most sought-after trombonists in the Boston …
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Belmont High School
221 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Monday, May 6, 2013
Reception for the artists, both from Belmont and around the region who tacked their art to the walls.
It was a (thumb) "tack"y reception Friday, May 3, artists, supporters and the staff of the Belmont Gallery of Art celebrated the closing reception of the springtime show, Green/Yellow/Blue, a non-traditional exhibit that included the use of one of more of the colors green, yellow and blue and are hung simply with either thumbtacks or clips; no frames or mats were allowed.
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Belmont Gallery of Art
19 Moore St, Belmont, MA
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Saturday, May 4, 2013
Events over the weekend in Belmont.
• The Belmont Public Library's "Music on Saturday" concert series presents "Sliding Through the Ages" with the Solstice Sackbuts, a trombone tour-de-force performing music from the the medieval and Renaissance age to modern classical, pop and jazz. David Lindsey, Alan Johnson and Leslie Havens play soprano, alto, tenor and bass trombones in a concert filled with interesting anecdotes about the composers and times and history of the trombone. All are welcome to attend this free concert that will take place in the Assembly Room from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 4. Sponsored by the Friends of the Belmont Public Library. • Saturday, May 4 at 7 p.m. is the final performance of "Once Upon a Mattress" begin performed by the students of the …
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The First Church in Belmont, Unitarian Universalist
404 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Payson Park Church
365 Belmont St, Belmont, MA
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Belmont Public Library
336 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Friday, May 3, 2013
Annual short form works to be performed tonight at 7 p.m. at Belmont High School.
The shorter the play, the sweeter the results. And the small auditorium at Belmont High School will be like a candy shop and the High School's Performing Arts Company presents the 2013 student-directed One-Act Festival. The four plays, produced by Chris Brindley, include: • "Will's Women," a comical, feminist perspective on Shakespeare’s female characters and their representation in his works. • "The Fidelity Farce," a philandering businessman in town for an fling hasn't counted his wife, her sister (with whom he is also having an affair), and another woman from his past showing up. • "Fixing Fifi," is three short stories that have nothing to do with each other, but they have one thing in common, the script. Each of the scenes has …
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Belmont High School
221 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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Performances are tonight and Saturday, May 4, at the Chenery Middle School.
On February 4, the stage at Belmont's Chenery Middle School was empty and the approximately 120 students were about to have "Mr. Haywood" tell them about a musical they were "hoping" to stage. After four and five rehearsals a week that involved countless hours of learning songs, acting and remembering dance routines, this week those same students are back on the stage, now as an ensemble ready to perform the classic musical, "Once Upon a Mattress." The final two productions of the Mary Rogers adaptation of the fairy tale will take place tonight, Friday, May 3 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, May 4, also at 7 p.m. at the Chenery Middle School's auditorium. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for students and can be purchased at the door or online. "…
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W. L. Chenery Middle School
95 Washington St, Belmont, MA
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Tonight from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Belmont Gallery of Art at the Town Hall complex.
What's blue, yellow and green and needs a thumbtack? That would be the latest installation at the Belmont Gallery of Art: Green/Yellow/Blue. And today, Friday, May 3, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. come join the join the artist's and the staff and supporters of the Belmont Gallery for refreshments and music in celebration the closing reception of this springtime exhibit, which showcased the work of Belmont and regional artists as well as an interactive installation put on by the BGA. All the works included in this non-traditional exhibit include the use of one of more of the colors green, yellow and blue and are hung simply with either thumbtacks or clips; no frames or mats were allowed. The Belmont Gallery of Art is located on the third floor in …
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Belmont Gallery of Art
19 Moore St, Belmont, MA
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013
"The Judge" with Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duval propose to use the former Municipal Light Building for two days in July.
It may be the long-closed Municipal Light Department building to Belmont residents – although each month someone attempts to pay their electric bill there – but to a Hollywood movie team, the town-owned structure will be a prime location to shot a big-time film come this July. Those are the proposed plans from the production company filming "The Judge," a 2014 release starring Robert Downey Jr. (who is also producing) and Robert Duval after the town received a "letter of intent" to film for two days in July, according to Kevin Looney, the town's Building Services manager. Part of the agreement is for daytime filming as well as finding space for 30 trailers and trucks required by the crew and cast. It will now be up to the Belmont Board of…
Friday, April 26, 2013
“Agatha Christie Made Me Do It" playing Friday through Sunday at Belmont Town Hall.
The Belmont Dramatic Club, the nation's second oldest continuously operating and performing community theatre group, presents “Agatha Christie Made Me Do It,” a funny three-act audience participation mystery-play by Eddie Cope. Performances are at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 26 and Saturday, April 27 with a matinee at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 28 at Belmont Town Hall, at the corner of Concord Avenue and Pleasant Street. Directed by Francine Davis, the spoof of murder-mysteries follows Police Officer Hootspah who, tired of being a cop, decides that the quickest way to riches and a life of ease is to write a murder-mystery play. Using Agatha Christie’s methods as his model, he starts out. Despite his ineptness for the task at hand and the fact that …
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Belmont Town Hall
455 Concord Ave, Belmont, MA
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