[VIDEO] Rehearsing on a Summer Night

Belmont's Nathaniel Meyer prepares second edition of Summer Music Festival this weekend.

"Eight from C," said Nathaniel Meyer to the 50 members of the Belmont Summer Music Festival Orchestra, tell them where in the score of Dvorak's Eighth Symphony he wants to go over once again. "Like it is in nature," he tells the musicians, many – if not most – who are personal friends, musical colleagues of his in middle school and high school and now college. He makes a few gestures to the cellos, glances towards to woodwinds and then a downbeat. The last movement of the 8th begins to sweep over the Beech Street Center on Friday night, the final of three night rehearsals of the symphony and Dvorak's Cello Concerto by this group of mostly young musicians.  For the second time, the 20-year-old Yale sophomore brings to his home town a music …

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Summer Music Festival this Weekend at Beech Street

Events and presentations taking place at the Belmont Council on Aging's Beech Street Center.

Belmont Summer Music Festival Saturday, Aug. 13 & Sunday, Aug. 14, at 2 p.m. The Belmont Summer Music Festival returns to the Beech Street Center this August with works by Dvorak! Come for a thrilling afternoon of symphonic masterpieces performed by an orchestra of talented college students from the Boston area. Concerts are at 2 p.m. on Aug. 13 and 14, free admission. Please note that seating is limited. Please call for reservations 617-993-2970. Iced Tea and Cards on the Patio Friday, Aug. 12, at 1 p.m. Come enjoy an afternoon on our patio sipping iced tea and playing cards. We have enough room to accommodate groups playing up to five different games (bridge, poker, etc.) Space is limited so please sign up in advance. Event will be held …

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Second Time Around: Meyer Brings Music Festival Back to Belmont

Nathaniel Meyer and Belmont Summer Music Festival returns this weekend with Dvorak.

It's been a busy year for Nathaniel Meyer since he stepped off the podium after leading the wildly successful inaugural Belmont Summer Music Festival a year ago. Meyer returned for his sophomore year at Yale, selected a major – not in music but there's a reason for that – conducted a "very quietly promoted" concert this past winter in Belmont (appropriately Wagner's "Seigfried's Idyll" was on the bill) spent part of the summer in a conductors master class in London with his mentor, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra's Music Director Benjamin Zander, and then off to Bulgaria for even more conducting.  "I really didn't know how busy I was until I got back from Europe," Meyer said. With all that under his belt, one couldn't begrudge the 20-year-…

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