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“60 Going on 25”

Young Again: Discovering Creativity Over 60

Monoprints, Portraits, Still Life, and Landscapes

In Acrylic, Water Color, & Ink

Artists

Liliya S., Mariam V., Mila R., Natasha D.,

Olga G., Polina M., & Yelena S.

Opening Reception with the Artists

Sunday, September 12, 2010

5 – 7 p.m.

Refreshments Served

Gallery Exhibition

September 12, 2010 – November 12, 2010

Monday – Thursday 9:30am – 2:00 pm

Call for best viewing times

The Muddy River Gallery at Peterborough

Peterborough Senior Center 

Between 100 – 108 Jersey Street, Boston, MA

(Enter through the alley)

Telephone – (617) 536-7154

SEIJI OZAWA FANS CAN SEND A BIRTHDAY GREETING TO MR. OZAWA AT THE BSO’S FACEBOOK PAGE: http://www.facebook.com/bostonsymphony

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO MUSIC FROM ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR RECORDINGS BY OZAWA AND THE BSO: “O FORTUNA” FROM ORFF’S CARMINA BURANA:

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Please join the BSO in marking Seiji Ozawa’s 75^th birthday on Wednesday, September 1, 2010. Those who would like to wish Mr. Ozawa happy birthday can send a personal message through the BSO’s Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/bostonsymphony. Seiji Ozawa, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1973-2002, currently holds the title of Music Director Laureate of the BSO.

Seiji Ozawa is one of the most acclaimed conductors in BSO history, leading the orchestra from 1973 to 2002. Through his many recordings, television appearances, awards, and worldwide touring, he is an internationally recognized celebrity. Since 2002, Ozawa has been the music director of the Vienna State Opera and a favored guest of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

He is also the Artistic Director and Founder of the Saito Kinen Festival and Saito Kinen Orchestra (SKO), the preeminent music and opera festival of Japan, as well as a new festival of opera, symphony concerts and chamber music called “Tokyo no Mori,” which had its first annual season in February 2005 in Tokyo.

Born in 1935 in Shenyang, China, Seiji Ozawa studied music from an early age, graduating with first prizes in both composition and conducting from Tokyo’s Toho School of Music. His relationship to Tanglewood dates back to 1960, when then-BSO conductor Charles Munch invited him to the festival after Ozawa won first prize at the International Competition of Orchestra Conductors.

While working with Herbert von Karajan in West Berlin, Ozawa came to the attention of Leonard Bernstein, who appointed him assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic for the 1961-62 season. Other appointments have included music directorships of the San Francisco Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, and the Ravinia Festival. Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall, inaugurated in 1994, recognizes the conductor’s extraordinary achievement in the arts.

An comprehensive Ozawa/BSO discography is available at http://www.bso.org/images/pressreleases/OzawaBSOrecordings.pdf. Select Seiji Ozawa recordings with the BSO, as well as a wide selection of other BSO and Boston Pops recordings, are available at the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s online store at www.bso.org/shop or for download at www.bostonpops.org/digital. A wide selection of current and archival BSO recordings can also be found online at iTunes, Amazon.com, and CD Baby, and at the Symphony Shop at Symphony Hall in Boston.

Mr. Ozawa is currently working at the Saito Kinen Festival in Masumoto, Japan, where he will lead the Saito Kinen Festival Orchestra in the first movement of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for String Orchestra in C, on September 5,6,8, and 9. Due to some back pain caused by sciatica, Mr. Ozawa has had to curtail his originally scheduled program at the 2010 Saito Kinen Festival (www.saito-kinen.com).

In the 2010-11 season, Seiji Ozawa will act as Artistic Director of Carnegie Hall’s JapanNYC, a citywide festival in New York, which will explore the Japan of today, where newfound artistic sensibilities continue to transform and revitalize the cultural landscape. The cornerstones to the festival are provided by Maestro Ozawa himself, as he leads performances by the Saito Kinen Orchestra and the Seiji Ozawa Ongaku-juku (Seiji Ozawa Music Academy Orchestra). The festival will take place in December 2010, and continue in March and April 2011. Mr. Ozawa underwent treatment for esophageal cancer this past year.

Image – Chorus, and audience sang Happy Birthday to Seiji Ozawa in honor of his 75th birthday on Wednesday September 1 (Hilary Scott)

[If we hadn't been so intent on getting the September issue ready to go to press, this announcement would have been posted yesterday - ed]

Walking into the Foster Gallery, the viewer is taken into Avedon’s world starting at 1944 and ending in 2000. The exhibit displays his impressive black and white photos, as well as his “In Memory of the late Mr. & Mrs. Comfort” color photo series published in the New Yorker in 1995. The series pairs German model, Nadja Auermann, with a skeleton figure that represents her deceased husband. The photos are vivid, sensual, and show the realms of human emotion. Avedon flawlessly brings together the world of high fashion and the afterlife.

Avedon once said “You cannot separate fashion from the world…fashion is the way we live.”     He turned models into icons with the click of his camera. From Veruschka to Twiggy, Avedon helped these women become forces in the fashion industry.

In the 1950s, Avedon brought glamour and energy back to haute couture when he photographed the “New Look of Dior” in Paris. The “New Look” created a female silhouette that was both feminine and refined. The 1955 image, Dovima with Elephants, is the penultimate example of Avedon’s eye for detail. Dovima, who is dressed in a sleek evening gown, curves her body to imitate the movements of the elephants.

Avedon used the human body to create lines and geometric shapes. He captured human movement in a ground breaking way. The 1958 image, Homage to Munkacsi, Avedon captures model, Carmen Dell’Orefice, midair as she is stepping off the sidewalk with her umbrella open. The tilted umbrella, pointed toes, and hand in her front pocket pops out at the viewer.

Looking at the photos decade by decade, the viewer is able to see how the modern woman has evolved. From Brigitte Bardot to Kate Moss, Avedon captured not only their beauty but their power. His photos demonstrate that women are more than objects of beauty, they are forces of nature.

So whether you are a fashion devout, photographer lover, or simply enjoy going to museums, the Avedon exhibit is a must see.

For more information on the Avedon exhibit visit: http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/sub.asp?key=15&subkey=10331

An original production

Sponsored by Code A –Peer Education Project of

Friday, August 20, 2010,  Performance begins at 7:00

Hosted by Peoples Baptist Church,  Youth & Family Ministry

830 Tremont Street,  Boston, MA

For information: Call Healthy Futures – 617-929-1037 or Minister Kinds at 774 219-9756

A 25-year-old man died early yesterday after shards from a broken glass cut his neck during a late-night confrontation at a Lansdowne Street bar, according to police.

Just after midnight yesterday, two groups were fighting in The Lansdowne pub when Hector Guardiola, 25, of Boston, allegedly threw a glass or a bottle that shattered and sliced the victim’s neck, police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said. The victim was taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he later died. His name was being withheld pending notification of relatives, police said.

A 22-year-old man and 23-year-old woman also struck by the broken glass were treated at Brigham and Women’s for nonlife-threatening injuries.

Driscoll could not say whether the three victims were involved in the fight. Guardiola has been charged with manslaughter and two counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon. He is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow in Roxbury District Court.

Three people who were in the pub said yesterday that it quickly transformed from a loud, crowded club with a live rock band to a crime scene.

Fans were ready for this house party – Thousands turn out for local rock legends
By Sean Teehan and Stephen Smith – Globe Correspondent | Globe Staff / August 15, 2010

Their music was the summer soundtrack for millions during the ’70s and ’80s, their bad boy ways capturing the public’s imagination and fueling record-setting album sales (yes, they were still called albums in those days)

Last night, for the first time, the two legendary bands born and bred in New England — Aerosmith and the J. Geils Band — shared a stage, choosing sacred home turf for a sold-out show: Fenway Park.

These boys of summer drew a throng 38,000 strong, a crowd that reflected the transgenerational appeal of musicians whose careers were born in the crucible of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll.

There were mothers and sons like 51-year-old Lori Guerra and 18-year-old Zack, who had traveled from Merrimack, N.H. Mom figured she had been to an Aerosmith concert 30 years ago. For Zack, this would be his Aerosmith baptism.

“Aerosmith has been talking about it their whole tour, coming to Fenway,’’ Zack said.

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Herald coverage

Partners reports $5m loss – Declining investments push numbers down despite operating gain
By Robert Weisman – Globe Staff / August 14, 2010

Partners HealthCare Systems Inc. yesterday posted a narrow loss for the three months ending June 30 as operating gains at its chain of leading Boston area hospitals could not offset declines in investments.

The overall third-quarter loss for the state’s largest health care system was about $5 million, Partners reported. It recorded $56 million in operating income, but a nonoperating loss of $61 million due to tumbling financial markets and a drop in interest rates. In the same quarter last year, it recorded an overall gain of $133.4 million.

“It just shows you the volatility you can have on the investment side,’’ said Peter K. Markell, Partners vice president of finance.

An erosion of its stock portfolio was not the only investment problem for Partners during the April-to-June period. The company was also stung by a drop in the value of financial instruments called fixed interest rate swaps. Partners bought the swaps to hedge against the risk from 30-year variable rate bonds it uses to finance capital projects.

Markell said the swaps would prove to be a long-term liability for Partners only if they were sold. Over time, he said, the investment is likely to improve as the instruments’ variable rate adjusts to a higher level than the fixed-rate bonds. “We plan to hold them to maturity,’’ he said.

Partners, which owns Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, two Boston academic medical centers, reported an overall income gain of $134.7 million for the first nine months of its 2010 fiscal year. That compared with a loss of $17.5 million for the same period in the last fiscal year.

For him, excitement was in fashion – Energy, artistry meet in Avedon’s stylish photos
By Mark Feeney – Globe Staff / August 15, 2010

Ideally, the name would be spelled Avidon.

There was an avidity to Richard Avedon’s eye, a hungry taking in of what was going on around him and an even hungrier desire to arrange and record it. That avidity is everywhere present in “Avedon Fashion 1944-2000,’’ which opened last week at the Museum of Fine Arts and runs through Jan. 17.

Fashion, though, was only one of the realms in which Avedon’s avidity operated. He was very nearly as famous for his portraits as for his photo shoots for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. What’s a fashion photograph, anyway, but a portrait of features and figure and attire? There are also Avedon’s celebrated visual essays: a Louisiana mental hospital; his dying father; the landmark issue of Rolling Stone, “The Family,’’ devoted to political power in the United States; his book “In the American West.’’

Herald coverage

1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, in an event later seen as marking the birth of stadium rock.  More anniversaries.

Nearly three years after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology fraternity prank caused an explosion that severely injured two environmental cleanup volunteers, a six-figure settlement has been reached, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said yesterday.

Insurance carriers for both the Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity and one of its members, Bhaskar Mookerji, have agreed to pay an undisclosed amount to compensate Thomas Soisson and Kate Nardin for their medical expenses and emotional trauma, the victims’ lawyer, John J. Barton, said.

“No settlement can fully compensate individuals like Tom and Kate for all that they have been through, but they are pleased with this result,’’ Barton wrote in an e-mail.

Barton disclosed that the settlement amounted to six figures but he declined to give a specific amount.

Longwood Towers’ rental revival – Plans for condos at the Brookline complex are put on hold, with renovated units offered for lease
By Jenifer B. McKim – Globe Staff / August 10, 2010

BROOKLINE — It is back to the future at Longwood Towers.

Five years after a developer purchased the stately apartment complex for about $110 million, with plans to sell the 277 apartments in three buildings as condos, a new owner has temporarily scrapped plans to complete the final phase and instead put newly renovated units up for rent.

The historic complex, a towering symbol of Old World style that is steps from the Longwood Medical Area, has gone through a tortured evolution of ownership and complications since an Atlanta developer, Radco Cos. and its investment partner Arcapita Inc. launched an ambitious $30 million renovation project in 2005, just as the housing market began to decline.

Zoom in on ‘Avedon Fashion’ at MFA
By Jill Radsken / Boston Herald – August 10, 2010

Call it curator chic.

“Avedon Fashion: 1944 to 2000,” hit the walls of the Museum of Fine Arts yesterday, the first of several upcoming exhibits and events there dedicated to all things style.

The legendary lensman’s work, showcasing more than 100 pictures culled from his decades as a fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue, is just the beginning of the MFA’s heavy fashion phase. Next month, fashion couturier Arnold Scaasi (Jacqueline Kennedy, Barbra Streisand among his devotees) gets the runway treatment in a dedicated MFA show followed by a monthlong celebration that includes makeup bars, fashion shows and appearances by Matthew Weiner (creator of “Mad Men”) and tattoo collector Don Ed Hardy.

610 – Laylat al-Qadr: Muhammad begins to receive the Qur’an (traditional date).  More anniversaries.

 Spoken-word In Motion is a year-around poetry program offered through the non-profit ARTOVOTION that helps youth deal with personal issues through offering free poetry courses to youth at local community centers.  The organization founded by Ashley Rose Salomon and Maloney Martinez uses the arts to inspire participants to find unity, peace, expression and balance within themselves and the community.  Both founders agree that is was through the arts offered at the Archdale Community Center that they learned to appreciate the balance art provides. By utilizing the urban arts ARTOVOTION hopes to enables individuals to transform everyday obstacles such as poverty, violence, depression, and alienation into positive forms of expression such as poetry and step.

      Under the guidance of poet and instructor Ashley Rose, The Spoken-word In Motion (also known as SWIM) poets showcased their talents on August 6, 2010 at the Starlight Movie premier in the Fenway. Ashley Rose set the tone with her powerful piece Detroit Collapse of a Kingdom that addressed the issues currently plaguing Detroit.  The young poets followed suit and  tackled various issues in their performances including poverty and survival that earned them a standing ovation for their first show ever.

       Nathalie Fabulas showed that she could over come with her energized piece I am the Rose from Concrete. Silblings Edwin and Nayita Cadet encouraged the crowd to push on past obstacles with their pieces Survival and Life’s Opportunities. Jayliah Lockett’s poem Unknown Path shared the struggles of a teen age girl who refused to give up.

      But it was Dacia White’s Father of Five and Reggie Dennis’s ‘Fatherless” that brought tears to eyes of adults at the premiere. “Father of Five moved me. To hear young children say it like it is in regards to the absence of the fathers was touching” said GBos a well known figure in Boston’s entertainment scene. Dacia White said she felt good that other people could relate to her work. “Poetry allows me to express myself in a good way”.

       The young poets accredited their conscious poetry to being exposed to mentor- poets through their program.  ” After participating in Ms. Ashley Rose’s course over the last year we learned how to write about real stuff . I got to meet  other real poets  like  Andre Sparrow, Wendy Sanchez and Toussaint.  SWIM shows me that I am more than just a rapper, I am poet”.  Reggie Dennis aka Atrell goes on to say that he was so inspired by the ARTOVOTION program that he has decided to release his own conscious mix tape this fall that has all conscious tracks.

        The best thing about the ARTOVOTION Spoken-word In Motion program is that it is FREE for youth. If you would like to know more about the program please feel free to contact the Archdale Community Center at 617-635-5256 or email the Director Ashley Rose at ashleyrosesalomon@gmail.com  Ashley Rose.  Photo’s by Valarie Seabrook 

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IRVINE, Calif. — Backstage before an Aerosmith show, a sort of happy chaos reigns.

Bassist Tom Hamilton is gabbing with Liv Tyler, the actress daughter of frontman Steven. A calm and collected Brad Whitford talks about being pumped for the show as he sidles by the catering table. A set list from the last gig the band played in the area — the Hollywood Bowl in 2006 — is taped to the wall to remind the band to change up the song selection. Guitarist Joe Perry chats amiably while warming up in his dressing room, strumming an unplugged guitar. All the while, as openers Cheap Trick blare in the background, minions and managers and photographers and techs race around, and the clock counts down to showtime.
Then a new wrinkle to the evening’s preparation arrives with the breaking news that Tyler is rumored to be in the running for a judging spot on “American Idol.’’

When asked about the rumor, Hamilton, drummer Joey Kramer, Perry, and their manager (who remains separate from Tyler’s management) all profess ignorance, and you get the sense this is not the first time they’re hearing potential Tyler news from a third party. Perry tries to choose his words about the speculation carefully. “How shall we put this?’’ he says. “It’s an interesting rumor.’’

As the lights go down, four members of Aerosmith huddle together while Tyler preps elsewhere.

When the lights come up, it’s a whole different story.

Leak case spotlights an MIT divide – A defense research giant, with a long tradition of defiance
By Tracy Jan – Globe Staff / August 8, 2010

It was once called the Pentagon on the Charles, a campus of imposing limestone structures connected by long corridors where some of the nation’s most significant military advancements were hatched.

Here, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, scientists developed radar used to help track and direct fire at German cruise missiles during World War II. During the Cold War, university researchers designed the nation’s air defense and missile guidance systems. More recently, its professors and graduate students have been working with the Army on nanotechnologies to protect soldiers on the battlefield.

But MIT, which has received billions in military funding over the past six decades, has also been home to some of the Defense Department’s most notorious antagonists. Daniel Ellsberg, the former Marine officer famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers, spent a year there as a research fellow prior to the 1971 publication of the secret history of US involvement in Vietnam. Noam Chomsky, the MIT linguist-turned-antiwar activist, landed on President Nixon’s enemies list. In 2000, physics professor Theodore Postol began a decade-long battle with the university, accusing MIT officials of covering up fraud in missile defense testing in order to maintain lucrative military contracts.

And just a week ago, the university’s name became intertwined with another act of Defense Department defiance when several MIT students and graduates were linked to an Army private accused of funneling thousands of pages of classified war records to the whistleblower website WikiLeaks.

John Williams on parade – Celebrating 30 years of music and friendship with the Boston Pops conductor
By Caroline Taylor / Boston Globe – August 8, 2010

IT WAS a frigid night in January, 1980.

John Williams, who had recently been appointed the long-awaited successor to Boston Pops maestro Arthur Fiedler, had just conducted a triumphant concert at Carnegie Hall. I had been dispatched by my new boss at the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Peter Gelb, to stand guard at the Russian Tea Room.

Like John Williams, I had been recently hired, although our stations could not have been more different. So there I stood, a lone sentry in an unheated corridor, watching steaming samovars on gleaming silver trays pass by, desperately trying to look as tall and as menacing as I could to ward off would-be party crashers.

After what seemed like an eternity, Gelb and other esteemed guests swooped in as I maintained my lookout. I borrowed a chair and sat down, my new and only pair of high heels killing me.

I felt a tap on my shoulder and looking up, saw the outstretched hand of John Williams.

“Hello,’’ he offered. “We haven’t met.’’
From Universal Hub:  Before there was a library in Copley Square

1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his resignation, effective the next day.  More anniversaries.